Dotfiles

Purpose

• To keep all my configuration files under version control

My list of applications

Selection criteria

This is the list of programs I use to get things done quickly. Like my good friend Mandla, I tend to select programs that:

1. Do one thing, and only one thing

2. Do that one thing well and fast

3. Don’t drag my system down

4. Do it in style

I prefer CLI over GUI. I like to enable Vim keybindings accross all programs.

You can find below my programs loosely grouped in the following categories: Internet, Multimedia, Utilities, Documents, Security and Science.

Internet

• Network manager: netcl

• Web browser: firefox, chrome, vimb(?)

• Add-ons web browser: pentadactyl, todoist

• Youtube downloader: youtube-dl

• Bit torrent client: transmission

• Email client: gmail

• Instant messaging: pidgin ?,

• IRC client: irssi

• Tunneling reverse proxy: ngrok

• Text editor: Vim

• Display manager: XMonad

• Task manager: Todoist, Task

• Screen saver: xscreensaver

• Softphone: skype, hangout

• News aggregator: newsbeuter ?

• Blog: jekyll ?

• Twitter client: ?

• Pastebin client: gist

• xdotools ?

• taskwarrior

• file explorer: ranger, vifm

• terminal:

Multimedia

• Image viewer: feh

• Raster editor: gimp, imagemagick

• Poster printing: posterazor

• Vector graphics: dia, inkscape,

• 3D modeling/rendering: blender

• Screen capture: scrot

• Audio player: mpd, cmus

• Video player: vlc

• Volume manager: ?

• CD ripping: ?

• Sound editing:

• Mobile phone manager: gnokii

• Video editor:

• Screencast: ?

• Collection manager: xbmc

• Graph visualization: graphviz

• Digital graphics: Processing

• Video/DVD ripper and encoder: transcode

• AVI joiner: transcode with avimerge

• Radio service: rpd

Development

• programming language: ruby

• Web framework: rails

• Ruby version management: rbenv

• Version control system: git

• CSS front-end framework: bootstrap

• Source file indexer: ctags

• Headless Webkit: phantomjs

• Code-searching tool: the_silver_searcher

Utilities

1. Partition tools:

2. Shell: zsh

3. cd command alternative: autojump (experimental)

4. Terminal emulator: urxvt, Termite (oneday?), tilda

5. Comparison: vimdiff

6. Disk usage: filelight ?, ncdu ?

7. Clock synchronization: ntpd

8. System monitoring: conky?, htop,

9. System information viewer: alsi?,

10. Clipboard manager: xclip

11. Wallpaper setter: feh

12. Package management: pacman, packer

13. Terminal multiplexer: tmux

14. Window manager: xmonad

15. Notification daemon: dunst

16. application launcher: dmenu

17. finance: gnucash

18. Time management: taskwarrior, wyrd (oneday)

19. Login manager: slim, gdm

Documents

• Office suite: libreoffice, google docs

• Document markup language: asciidoc, pandoc

• Spreadsheets: libreoffice calc

• Scientific documents: latex

• Text editor: vim

• E-book reader: calibre

• Pdf/Djvu/postscript/comicbook viewer: zathura

• Comic book viewer: zathura, mcomix?, qcomicBook ?

• Terminal pagers: less, vimpager

• Chm: chmsee

• OCR software: ?

• Note taking organizers: org-mode ?

• Flash card: Anki

Security

• Security scanner: nmap

• Network intrusion prevention and detection system: snort

• Network protocol analyzer: wireshark

• Vulnerability scanner: nessus

• Intrusion detection system: tripwire

• Backup program: #TODO

• Screen locker: xscreensaver

• Hash checker: md5sum

• Encryption: gnupg, pgp ?

• Router simulator: gns

System

• Operating system: Arch Linux

• Virtual server: virtualbox

• System and service manager: systemd

• Job scheduler: systemd/cron

• Self-monitoring, analysis and reporting: smartmontools

• File manager: vifm, ranger(?)

Science

• Calculator: bc

• Numerical computation: octave?

• Statistic: R

• Data evaluation: gnuplot

To do

• Extend the dotfiles for other applications.

• Create a Rake script for the creation of the symlinks.