dotdrop VS dotfiles

Oh! You should also check out dotdrop too! 😂

I use dotdrop

I am currently using AstroNvim config and I like it. I use dotdrop for backing up my dotfiles. I would like to backup my AstroNvim config to my dotfiles. Here is the current directory structure of my ~/.config/nvim:

dotdrop – Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

There are so many solutions to this problem. dotdrop works really well. GNU Stow is a thing too. I use dotdrop because it supports the concept of profiles for different machines, and you can use Jinja2 template logic in your configs.

I use Dotdrop, it fits for me, but there are a lot of different options. At Chezmoi site there is a good comparison table.

Nice! For dotfiles and stuff, I use a helpful program called dotdrop, which allows you to create configs for different machines and all your dotfiles will just be magically symlinked to where you want them.

I like dotdrop. Mainly because I have multiple machines and dotdrop can do templating, so I can more granularly control what goes into each of my machines.

Create some systemd units with what you want to happen before and after unlocking your session. Here are the units I use. gdmflex.service is what takes you to GDM and lock-sway.service locks the session before getting to the GDM screen. The latter is a MUST! To lock the session I use loginctl lock-session.

I have created a lock.target and an unlock.target. When lock.target starts, it starts swaylock.

If you want to copy-paste my config, at least my current one, you will need sessionctl in your path and executable. I made this, because having those commands in my config, didn't give me the flexibility I wanted.

I wrote this one today (you can find the code here, but it wasn't really a pleasant experience. I don't want any extra dependencies for small scripts like this, but there must be an easier way to create something like this in a few minutes.

check out my config files for i3 https://github.com/ispanos/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/i3