Environment and .config directory setup

git clone git@github.com:tomfordweb/dotfiles.git ~/code/tomfordweb/dotfiles
cd dotfiles && git submodule update --init

Add the following your your ~/.bashrc or whatever.

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/code/tomfordweb/dotfiles/config"
export PATH=/$HOME/code/tomfordweb/dotfiles/bin:$PATH

Source it.

source ~/.bashrc

Arch linux

On Arch - You also have to add the env var to pam.

sudo vim /etc/security/pam_env.conf
...
XDG_CONFIG_HOME DEFAULT=@{HOME}/xdg-base/config

Mac

I have had a hard time getting ghostty to read my config file after having a nonstandard XDG_CONFIG_HOME on a mac.

This however can be amended by symlinking the config to one of the other places that ghostty looks.

ln -s $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ghostty/config $HOME/.config/ghostty/config

/etc/environment

Add system wide environment variables to /etc/environment.

EDITOR=nvim

Claude

Preferred settings are symlinked.

ln -s ~/code/tomfordweb/dotfiles/claude/settings.json ~/.claude/settings.json
ln -s ~/code/tomfordweb/dotfiles/claude/skills ~/.claude/skills

Ricing & Development

Most of my CSS is written with sass. You can run the script to watch supported files and write to their respective .css files with

./bin/rice.sh

Programs

• oh my bash
• yay
• pnpm

Arch Wiki

• t480 arch