lcook/freebsd

Repository of my current FreeBSD setup as of June 2018 to present

• Preface
• Workflow
  • Keybindings
  • Screenshots
• Prerequisites
  • Setup and installation
  • Suckless

Preface

This repository is my current FreeBSD setup as of June 2018 to present.

Workflow

Granted, this work-flow helps various mundane tasks less insufferable (for me personally) and much more time efficient if you know how to use it correctly; adapt the setup to your heart's content so under no circumstances am I guaranteeing this is for you specifically. If there's anything to improve and/or critique I'm open to suggestions, simply create a pull request or issue and I'll take a look into it when I have the time to.

I'd like to heavily emphasize on the fact this repo contains configuration files specific to me and myself only, you'll have to manually edit them to suit your needs - by no means is this repo for other than to keep track of my setup and my setup alone.

Keybindings

All of the key bindings for dwm are found here. The default modkey is set to the Windows metakey.

Keybinding	Action
Mod + j	Focus to next client
Mod + k	Focus to previous client
Mod + Shift + j	Move client stack forward
Mod + Shift + k	Move client stack backward
Mod + Enter	Open terminal
Mod + Shift + prnt	Take a screenshot
Mod + Shift + s	SSH Host launcher
Mod + Shift + m	FreeBSD docs launcher
Mod + Space	Program launcher
Mod + t	Tiling layout mode
Mod + f	Floating layout mode

Screenshots

Prerequisites

There isn't much prerequisites as the bootstrap script makes it for the most part autonomous. Before you continue running the setup you need to meet the following conditions:

• Freshly installed FreeBSD system;
• Git and doas installed pkg install git-lite doas;
• User added to the doas config file with 'nopass' enabled for that user (makes life much easier, run this command on the root account): echo "permit nopass YOUR_USER as root" | tee -a /usr/local/etc/doas.conf. This isn't a good practice allowing non-privileged users running doas as root without root password. However security isn't a number one priority in this type of environment, it's simply for the sake of convenience;
• Everything else is pulled in by the setup script. Nothing else required - only a brain and common sense.

Setup and installation

There's not much to it (given you've met the prerequisites). Now for the fun part:

• Clone this repo git clone https://gitlab.com/lcook/freebsd change to that given directory;
• From there you'll find a setup script that you can run by typing ./bootstrap and everything else is done for you;
• The default shell is changed to fish, as well as configuration files copied to the home directory;
• There's different phases of the bootstrapping process that have a set of given tasks, feel free to peek into the script;
• Once these phases have completed, proceed to suckless installation. After installed it's suggested your reboot your computer;
• Note: the x11-fonts/nerd-fonts package is fairly large, give it time to download and extract (be patient).

Suckless

As of this commit the Suckless tools (dwm, dmenu and st) have been moved to the suckless branch—independent of the master branch. Once you've cloned the suckless branch to another location, to install the applications, run the following:

• doas make clean install -C dmenu
• doas make clean install -C dwm
• doas make clean install -C st