My Dotfiles

This is not my full setup, I'm slowly adding the bigger files. Free for anyone to use. Questions can be sent to tsunset@proton.me.

Usage

Coming soon. Going to write a simple script to use these via symlink. It's far cleaner than actually moving physical files to your dotfile locations, and it'll allow a lot more flexibility for testing out other people's configs.

TODO

• Slowly add other stuff like i3gaps and full nvim/vim (with plugins) configs
• Create install.sh
• Write about bitmap fonts & using them on Ubuntu
• Update README with list of files
• Rewrite installation scripts

HomeBrew

What is Brew?

Homebrew, a Mac package manager, see here. The brew/casks directory here are all of the Brew packages I have installed, and the brew/leaves directory are all (some) of the Bash utilities I have installed. Running dump.sh will dump the packages you have installed in the same format if you're on a Mac.

Why did you remove brew?

While I did want to show people the packages that are handy for me in brew, giving someone a package listing of my laptop just feels like awful security practice. I might bring this back at a later time if I can find a better way of doing it.

Bitmap fonts

What are bitmap fonts?

There are three formats of computer fonts:

• Vector - Use parametric curves and formulae to outline a symbol, which is then created in real time. This makes them scalable to any size.
• Stroke - Size and shape are defined using metadata specifications which create the font/symbol.
• Bitmap - Pixels are arranged in a literal bitmap (array of binary data which represents pixel values) for a given size. This means they are not scalable and a separate file must be present for each font at a given size.

Here's an example of the Terminus bitmap font on Ubuntu:

I don't care - I just want it

This will differ by distribution. For now I'm only posting about Ubuntu 20.04, because it's what I use. This should work for any Ubuntu version past 11.10, but perform at your own risk.

Ubuntu disables support for bitmap fonts by default, so you have to manually enable it. Also, fonts have to be in OTB format.

Enable them by removing 70-no-bitmaps.conf and re-linking 70-force-bitmaps.conf in /etc/fonts/conf.d. Then reconfigure fontconfig with dpkg. This will go something like:

$ rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
$ ln -s ../conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d
$ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
$ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

I only have a BDF/PCF font...

If all you have a BDF font files they will need to be converted. PCF files cannot be converted to OTB without ending up with some wierd sizing and rendering issues. In that scenario see if you can find an OTB or BDF alternative.

You can use fonttosfnt to convert the files. On Ubuntu 20.04 specifically fonttosfnt is weirdly buggy, so I'd install it straight from the xorg source. See here for source.

You can convert with:

./fonttosfnt -b -c -g 2 -m 2 -o new_font.otb old_font.bdf

Once it's in .otb format move it to /usr/local/share/fonts and use dpkg to reconfigure fontconfig-config.

This would look something like:

$ cp new_font.otb /usr/local/share/fonts
$ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
$ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
$ fc-cache -fv

Terminus via Installer

There's another way to do this as well. The nice people making Terminus have an installer. You can find it on their page (linked above), or directly from SourceForge.

Install from source by extracting the tarball and make then make install in the build directory. This installer should provide accomodating options for differing file formats too.