.dotfiles VS starship

I've been content with my sway configs (dpgraham4401/.dotfiles) for about 2 years, but maybe it's time to see what else is out there. I'm looking for tips/programs/widgets/anything that you've added to your sway setup that you use all the time and has either made your setup more productive or more enjoyable. open floor, links to configs welcome.

my dotfiles

Info and picture in dotfiles repo README

Not the best example but If you look at my waybar configs, at the very bottom, there's a Waybar power button that uses swaynag. You can substitute those flags (number of buttons, text, colors) for variables.

Look at other people's dotfiles and cherry pick what you like :)

I've got a power button that brings up swaynag in my top right corner of you'd like to see my configs https://github.com/dpgraham4401/dotfiles-sway

my dotfiles

If using font-awesome as an icon, I don't believe you can make the icon bigger without making the text bigger. https://github.com/dpgraham4401/dotfiles-sway/tree/master/.config/waybar

Agreed, I use this in conjunction with Starship [1], both initialized specifically for Fish in the config. I love this shell so much.

[1] - https://starship.rs/

starship is the new spaceship, yo

https://starship.rs/

It seems like the Rust community is quite happy to support alternative shells. I’ve seen couple of projects, now, that support way more esoteric shells than I would expect, like ’xonsh’. Starship (https://starship.rs/) immediately comes to mind.

Until now I have been using bash on Windows with Starship as the prompt. The only reason I went with Starship, is that it was easy to setup and at the time I did not have much free time to devout to the shell/prompt configuration.

I'm staying on BitstromWera Nerd Font. Works great with Starship.

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

https://starship.rs

I use conditional includes for this, but I also add a single letter describing which Git identity I'm currently using to my PS1 so that it appears before $ in my shell prompt. This prevents me from committing code with the wrong identity, in case I'm using a git checkout that's anywhere not covered by the conditional include rules.

I use Starship (https://starship.rs) to manage my prompt, and wrote a short script that only runs if I'm somewhere in a git repo, and if so finds my Git user's email and looks up the corresponding letter in an associative array declared in my ~/.config/starship-zsh/.zshenv:

    git_email=$(git config --get user.email | perl -pe 'chomp if eof')