dotfiles

Dotfiles for my WSL, Ubuntu.

Instructions

1. Create a new SSH key following the instructions in generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent.

   ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "my-email@example.com"

   eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

   ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

2. Clone this repository.

   git clone git@github.com:lwschan/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

3. Update ./dotfiles/git/.gitconfig and ./dotfiles/ssh/allowed_signers with the new SSH key.

4. Initialize the submodules for the repository.

   git submodule update --init --recursive

5. Make git ignore executable file changes.

   git config core.filemode false

6. Make all scripts executable.

   chmod +x **/*.sh

7. Execute the start.sh script.

   . ./start.sh

8. Execute the install.sh script.

   . ./install.sh

9. Execute the stow.sh script.

   . ./stow.sh

Windows Terminal changes:

1. Change the starting directory to home \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\{linux_username}
2. Change colour scheme to One Half Dark
3. Change font face to Roboto Mono

Cursor Misalignment

If you encounter a cursor position misalignment, generate the locale again using the following commands.

sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales