Dotfiles

A minimal catppuccin setup. Dotfiles are managed using stow.

Dependencies

1. A terminal supports 256-color such as iTerm2
2. Using zsh
3. A nerd font (I personally use JetBrainsMono Nerd Font)
4. Homebrew and required packages

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install git
brew install stow

Installation

git clone git@github.com:chenxin-yan/dotfiles.git ~/
cd ~/dotfiles
stow .

Setup & configuration

1. install Plugin manager: zinit
2. install prompt theme engine: Oh My Posh
3. install fuzzy finder: fzf
   • install fd to replace find
   • install ripgrep
4. install session manager: tmux
   • install tpm
   • use <prefix>I to install plugins
5. install git CLI: lazygit
6. (Optional) install karabiner for key motification
7. install editor: neovim
   • download my nvim config and follow setup instructions
   • (optional) download neovide as nvim GUI: neovide
8. install better ls: Eza
9. install better cd: Zoxicde
10. install better cat: Bat
11. Install tiling window manager: Yabai
    • Install skhd for window management shortcuts
12. install sketchybar
    • install SF Symbals for macos native symbals
    • install sketchybar-app-font
13. install terminal file explorer: yazi
14. install file converter: pandoc
    • template for pdf generation: Eisvogel
    • install BasicTex
    • install Better BibTex for Zotero
    • install wkhtmltopdf
15. (Optional) Install system info fetcher: macchina

Setup SSH Server/client

Follow this guide

• setup tailscale
• setup mosh follow this guide.