What’s your way to migrate your data/prefs to a new desktop?

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  • jumpapp

    A run-or-raise application switcher for any X11 desktop

  • One of the more tedious tasks is having to define shortcuts manually, so I recently started used Xbindkeys which allows defining shortcuts in a .xbindkeysrc file, which works mostly well. For example, for jumpapp to open Firefox by pressing Super+F:

  • dotfiles

    Dotfiles and stuff (by xxc3nsoredxx)

  • I keep dotfiles in a git repo so that I can just git push when I make changes and git pull when I want to update dotfiles on another machine. I've set up an install script which makes it easy to pick and choose what dotfiles are controlled by the git repo.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Home Manager using Nix

    Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

  • If you are happy to use nix, there's home-manager (https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager).

  • dotfiles

    My dotfiles for herbstluftwm, tmux, zsh, Vim, and other applications... (by ssh0)

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