my personal dotfiles, tested and used on Ubuntu 24 & 22 (Zorin OS)

• My Dots ⚙️ for Productivity
• Table Of Contents
• Components overview
• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • What install.sh installs
  • Desktop configuration
• How Wallpapers work
• Font used
• Cursor
• Inspirations

• GNU stow to create symlinks to actual user directories
• Terminal: kitty
• Shell: zsh
  • Oh My Zsh for theming and plugins
  • spaceship prompt
  • fzf (fuzzy file utility)
  • bat (better cat)
  • fastfetch on launch
  • eza for a better ls with icons & colors
  • zoxide for smarter cd
• File manager: Thunar file manager with Kitty integration
• Launcher: albert launcher with search engines like Duden, YouTube, Google Maps etc.
  • themed with a matugen-generated Material You palette (see below Wallpapers section)
• matugen
  • generates themes based on wallpaper (see below Wallpapers section)
• git config for local ignores and aliases
• pywalfox to use the material colors in Firefox
• fd for better find
• $EDITOR/$VISUAL set to jetedit (zsh/.local/bin/jetedit), a wrapper that opens whatever JetBrains Toolbox IDE is installed in LightEdit mode
• Material Bibata Cursor - See Cursors

• git
• stow
• zsh
• kitty
• oh-my-zsh

git clone https://github.com/jgoedde/dotfiles ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./install.sh

install.sh is doing three things:

1. stowing the config dirs
2. installing the zsh plugins and spaceship prompt
3. setting up the wallpaper change timer

It does not download any other dependencies that are listed in Components section. Install them yourself.

After installing kitty, set it as default terminal.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec kitty

After installing Thunar, set it as default application for files.

xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory

Walls are expected to live in $HOME/Pictures/walls A systemd timer is set up every hour to change to a random wallpaper from the dir. Then, matugen is used to generate themes for following apps:

• kitty colors
• bat
• gtk (v3 and v4)
• obsidian
• pywalfox
• fzf
• alberts widgetsboxmodel theme (restarts albert to apply, via albert restart)

The generated kitty/bat/fzf color configs are committed to the repo (and marked skip-worktree locally) so a fresh clone has working colors before matugen ever runs.

Hack Nerd Font, used in kitty/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

Matugen is wired up with Material Bibata Cursor. That setup changes the cursor colors based on the wallpaper colors. It requires the cursor pack to live under ~/.icons. One directory in there for each cursor. Something like

.icons
├── Bibata-Material-Apricot
├── Bibata-Material-Beige
├── Bibata-Material-Blush
├── Bibata-Material-Brown
├── Bibata-Material-Charcoal
├── ...etc
└── default

When Matugen is run, it detects the according pre-existing Material Design themed cursor and applies that for either GNOME & GTK Applications, Hyprland compositor or XCursor fallback

• Stefan Raabe, https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles
• rockyzhang24, https://github.com/rockyzhang24/dotfiles