What Are Linux Users Putting In Their Config Files? 

You can alias monospace to whatever font family you want, we use it to avoid having to changes fonts all over the place, you just change your fontconfig alias.

I can't remember another video where I have gotten so many tips for my PC. TNX

Nerd tree is handy for developers that need it to manage a project, not just for aesthetics, when they are not using an IDE or emacs.

9:25 No, that’s not actually a literal “$”, it’s actually “\$”. According to the bash docs, “\$” is expanded to a “$” for a non-root user, or “#” for a root user.

This is actually a pretty good reddit post for new Linux users.

I've customized my OSes since DOS and windows, and I'm old now. Here's what I've learned about that: try to NOT overly customize things, especially commands that are already provided. This follows a rule of diminishing returns. The more you do things like create bash aliases for commands like "ls -al" then the poorer you are at operating stock Linux. This goes for passwords too. If you don't use cheaters then your memory will be sharper and you won't need cheaters.

All modern projects using javascript use NPM to pull in packages from npmjs. This allows adding and updating Javascript packages with a single command. NPM creates a package.json file to describe the project and the Javascript files used. NPM can also "build" node and other Javascript based projects for use in production. This includes processing import and require statements and creating minimized output. NVM allows switching between different versions of NPM so one can work on both modern and legacy projects.

24:28 Interesting. That works because all these different players understand a common protocol called MPRIS, implemented over D-Bus.

Gruvbox have the most complete syntax highlight. The other laks all in some aspects. Try too look the code and you will understand what I mean. Great video😉

Just an explanation for all the people with 15px gaps - they're probably rocking a 4k monitor, so 15px gaps would be like 7.5px gap on a 1080p monitor, which is quite reasonable

I watched your video on the small screen of my tablet. I had to grab my glasses to read „dracula“ and „solarized“ while „gruvbox“ was instantly readable.

I don't have my dotfiles posted, but I fall in to many of these :D. When I started using bspwm about 2 years ago it wasn't nearly as popular as it is now. Really cool to see it grow!

@22:20 Icons communicate information, which makes it absolutely a productivity tool, not just aesthetics.

I've set EDITOR to vim and now I don't know how to quit...

Shout out to thinking GruvBox is hideous. I have no idea how that scheme took off, but if people dig it more power to them. Same with Solarized, just not for me. Ocean Dark, Nord, Oceanic Next are definitely my sweet spot. The brown in GruvBox... hoo nelly, heavens no.

Think those aliases that were first mentioned are installed by default with Ubuntu (at least) for bash. Here's what was in mine on a fresh install: alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias l='ls -CF' alias la='ls -A' alias ll='ls -alF' alias ls='ls --color=auto'

A lot of people seem to think it's ugly, akin to Comic Sans even, but I like Monofur as my terminal font

Openbox is one of three *very* similar WM's (OpenBox, BlackBox and FluxBox) that AFAIK were all originally written to be standalone WM's, and are still mostly used that way. I've also seen some sminimalized distros offer something like openbox + something, not any DE that exists separate from that distro but it combines applications into their own special WM. Interestingly blackbox even had a windows port - and I don't know how much you have to change in even the simplest X WM to make it a working Windows explorer.exe replacement - but bb4win did make the windows desktop work like you were in blackbox - only the right-click menu was automatically created based on Start-menu of windows. I don't know if the version I used would run under anything above Windows XP and I don't know if it's been updated. I used it back in late naughts at school when we had to use windows (we had our own removable hard disks and could do as we pleased with our windows (and linux - it's just that we mostly used windows) setup, and I made mine close as possible to Linux - and back then I was still using Fluxbox so the look was very similar. But .xinitrc is a problem for counting any WM users - in most distros today when you install a WM from the distributions repositories you will automatically get a login manager configuration installed, even if you don't use one. I have more than one WM/DE installed on some machines, and using a login manager makes it very easy to switch between them. It wasn't hard before, but I don't see reason to not just boot straight into GUI environment, as I will be using it mostly in X anyway - if something goes wonky and I can't get X to work correctly, I know how to boot into console, but that's the only reason I have to not boot into GDM, LightDM or other login manager. That alert alias made me chuckle - I've become very accustomed to seeing it on my Mint installs. Setting the value of TERM seems funny to me. That's supposed to be set by the terminal, not the shell. Instead I have conditional black of alias commands to add coloring for ls, grep, gccc etc. if the value of TERM matches awith set of patterns (like xterm*|rxvt*|screen). Most terminal emulators seem to default to setting TERM to xterm-256color, because it's relatively compatible and apparently it isn't considered a rquirement to do anything more than that - even if your terminal supports escape codes that xterm hasn't even heard of, like konsole's truecolor foreground and background color codes. I actually have TERM=xterm256color in konsole's configuration - don't remember what it defaulted to, maybe I just wanted to make sure it works. But you don't want to set TERM in .bashrc if you ever use a terminal that's not compatible with xterm - like linux console. Instead it's correctly used in .bashrc to decide stuff. What really cought my attention was the listing of other commands in .xinitrc file was "done &" - I mean, done is a reserved sword in bash, you could only run a cexacutable named 'done' by pointing to it's path. Relative or absolute. done is used for loop constructs, and I wonder how much there's need for that iinside .xinitrc anyway, but the real mystery is that it's followed by & - if I'm correct that would run the loop in a subshell on the background while the rest of the script continued. Really weird, and I didn't see you comment that at all :) About the autocd - long long ago I considered it, but it's not something I find useful.... back when I switched to Linux from DOS/Win95, I was already a power user of CLI and used 4DOS shell replacement for DOS to extend it's capabilities (some have argued beyond even bash, but while I still have lave for it I say hogwash), I was however used to weird way DOS handled built-in shell commands, like CD - you could just type cd.. without a space in between, and when I was starting with linux I did briefly consider aliasing cd.. to 'cd ..'. That's one thing that used to become a hard to unlearn habit for DOS users ;) Great video, if only for nerd value :D

From la to the grep aliases, they are provided in Ubuntu out of the box, they were useful enough to me that i noted them down and gave them to my acquaintancees Took them with me in arch

28:43 But interesting that you have some people launching KDE Plasma this way, but none doing so with GNOME.

Hi, I use 'desert' color scheme which is a bit dimmed and ambient. Try 'map ; :' it opens another world in vim. But the mistaken version 'map : ;' in vimrc will cause you lot of trouble :).

Hell no, I love tabs. They can be whatever size you want. I hate when people use spaces instead, but I can live with it. What I can't live is my tabs being converted to spaces :)

interesting point about export PATH - you dont need it you often see: PATH=$PATH:/another/directory export PATH BUT export does not export a value of a variable - it marks the variable as having the export attribute, ond once it has it, it keeps it. And PATH had the exported attribute even before you change it. so you don't need to export PATH (set PATH's export attribute) again, even if you change PATH's value.

In Z Shell you can define global aliases - so i put this in my .zshrc: alias -g nu='2>/dev/null' (german for dev/zero). Find it very helpful, because sometimes have to redirect stderr, so I don't see any error messages - especially when using find an searching in the root filesystem.

I've got a little script to cd up X directories, one to find orphans, another to remove them, and one for sudo pacman -Syu . Aliases are neat indeed.

Hey DT, I saw you are using bare repo to manage dotfiles in home directory. What about general configs file, for example in /etc directory. What approach you are using?

28:24 Interesting to see Emacs used as a window manager, but none of the Vims?

Zoomer starter pack: fish, alacritty and neovim :D

I think rofi makes some sense, since a lot of people probably came to bspwm from r/unixporn, where rofi is commonly used for the extra bling

Vim is alien technology for me, learning Linux do be hard

Very useful! Thanks!

the monospace font thing isnt that weird. if you use a paid font, you dont want to give it away in your dot files, and you also dont want programs to get hung up looking for a font that isnt there.

Says spaces over tabs then insults gruvbox - I'm sad.

Can you do a video on BSD?

You want bash aliases? I’ll give you some of mine: export PAGER='less -iX -x4' alias more="$PAGER" because less is way more capable than more. Also a handy one for opening any file in the Emacs instance I always have running, just by typing “e «file»”: alias e='emacsclient -n' And something to ensure my custom ~/.XCompose is recognized by the major GUI toolkits: export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim export QT_IM_MODULE=xim What, you don’t know about the Compose key? wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey

admittedly your desktop does look pretty slick

that exec emacs in xinit. I love emacs but wow

Openbix alone is very very good choice. I dont want DE, because so bloat. Tilling WM is not good on 15" notebook. Openbox without login manager is so minimalustic, good configuration, and easy use. I love it! Arch+Openbox+polybar+rofi

DT: I'm not a programmer Also DT: here's a bash script off the top of my head

I'm in that 2 pixel border, no gap gang, koolin

So you're using vi mode for normal mode command line editing, however, use Emacs bindings ("C-p" and "C-n") for history navigation? Why not the proper vi commands "j" and "k"?

Why do so many people use the expandtab setting in vim? Tabs are tabs and spaces are spaces. Why do we need to mix the two?

Awesome video! 👏

Anyone else remember not knowing how to get out of ps2 as a noob?

F man! I edited my bashrc and lost my ls colours. Like the blue hightlithing of folders. Adding the alias ls="ls --color=auto" in my bash_aliases fixed it :D even the ll / l / la aliases for ls now have colour. epic ;)

Most people are probably just setting a font for their system monospace (like hack) and just setting monospace everywhere else so it is easy to change.

I think if you are posting to github then you would have a higher than average level of technical skill. That would effect the results of this, like having vim. I would suspect nano would be more popular for average users, does Ubuntu have nano as default?

I'm a gruvbox guy lol. I don't remember which plugin complained about my color scheme and what feature didn't work due to that. Its GitHub page said that gruvbox worked just fine. I think it was coc.

11:34 You didn’t mention PS0. Yes, that exists as well.

Thanks DT!

3rd i installing archstrike as i am watching this video its been 20 days we are in full lockdown

My main export varible is.. export PS1='$ ' so, my terminal is not bloated with texts and keep my terminal tidy .. :) Thank you and keep safe.

When ever you open new terminal screen, I see some nice colored art, how can we do that?

People don't like tabs in vim ? IMO it's easier to work with tabs cause you can see indention easily when white space characters are shown (I have show white space enabled by default). Spaces I have to count each individual one ....For example: I know that function has 4 tabs because of the > > > > VS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Is mplayer works in tty or anyway to watch video in tty?

Also can we talk real quick about the people launch emacs as their initrc? Like, I know the joke is emacs is an OS, but I think that's taking it a little too far. Jokes aside, I assume just to get the daemon running?

man your channel is awesome. I now have two channels to go through. Lukes and yours. Wonderful content you both put out; making the world a better place from disgusting companies such as microsoft google and apple.

20:59 high contrast

I'm surprised I didn't see 2/2 for window gap/border width

what is the difference between exporting and just writing the variable (export EDITOR=vim vs EDITOR=vim)

is "~/../../usr/bin" absolute or relative path?

I am confused between .xprofile and .xinitrc where can I get info on various dotefiles

NVM why ... n is so much better and you can install it with npm and it just works on both mac and linux

12 pixel gaps are not big at all on small hidpi screens like laptops. i have 26 pixel gaps on 15 inch 1440p display and it's fine

I have a lot of lag with GPU accelerated terminals like alacritty and kitty. I'm guessing it's a compositor/gpu setting that messes it up, but I have no idea how to debug something like this. Sticking with urxvt for now...

A pity that FVWM is not in the list

Most of those things just look like defaults in various distros.

24:08 I run Firefox, but I don’t feel the need for a hotkey for it. I just start it once after booting/logging in, and then leave it running all the time.

ls --color=auto and grep --color=auto are DE defaults I think

ViM makes backup files? You aren't talking about swap files are you?

man awesome wm is one of the most frustrating wm to use i used i3 dwm bspwm and i was capable of configuring them but once i touched awesome i was lost completly

Sorry, but those 'ls' aliases are already shipped with many distributions. No wonder, they are that popular.

Aren't you uploading your videos to LBRY anymore?

we want a video on sowm

Man, that's tragic, I watched this vid, and now I want to clean my PATH using Luke's technics and investigate on how and which suckless tiling WM to use…

thanks Chad

Xmonad not popular at all and it's great.

I use Ubuntu Mono 14px for my terminal.

Aren't you using 12px gaps this days in your videos?

19:26 “Sometimes”?

I use monospace cuz I uninstalled all monospace fonts, except the one I use

12 pixel in a 4k 55 inch screen with high ppi is not gigantic at all.

alias suicide='sudo rm -rf /--no-preserve-root'

sup

For the youngin' among the crowd the PATH environment variable goes back to the old MS-DOS and PC-DOS days.

use zsh

I am not installing other fonts

my bspwm gap is 20px LOL

fish.config

I don't understand why do people uses gaps. You come into tiling WMs to get efficiency and maximum screen estate... and then you set a gaps... wtf? Like... for what? For that fancy BG image which actually distracts you? I don't blame anybody. I just do not understand the actual reasoning behind that. About the Gruvbox... i tried many schemes in period of several years... i get tired of them pretty quickly until i discovered Gruvbox. I just deleted every single other scheme. It is not aggressive and yet quite attractive. If you will take a look at coolors.co/palettes/trending you will see that top palette is quite close to Gruvbox... there is some biology related to this scheme. IMO. And when you re coding all the time 12/24... you are not looking for "nice looking" scheme. You are looking for "comfy" scheme.

Good video but tabs are superior.

Your out of touch. Solarized is one of the most hated on color schemes. I could care less but this is something I've read in many forums and heard on many RU-vid videos.

I use Gnome. What's a dotfile and why would I want it?

pixel gap elitism is in

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Yes i find it fascinating thank you.

Interesting. People set expandtab and then install a plugin to replace what something like `set listchars=tab:▸\ ,trail:·,nbsp:_' would do for them if they just used tabs.