Dotfiles

This project contains my personal dotfiles, managed by chezmoi. It sets up a consistent development environment across multiple machines.

Installation

All tooling lives in pixi-global.toml and is installed with pixi global.

1. Install pixi:

   curl -fsSL https://pixi.sh/install.sh | sh

   Install zsh with your system package manager before setting the login shell below. On Debian, Ubuntu, or Raspberry Pi OS that is sudo apt install -y zsh.

2. Move the age key to the new machine:

   rsync -aP ~/key.age machine:~/.config/chezmoi/

3. Install the toolbox:

   export PIXI_HOME="$HOME/.pixi/$(uname -m)"
   mkdir -p "$PIXI_HOME/manifests"
   curl -fsSLo "$PIXI_HOME/manifests/pixi-global.toml" \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pedrexus/dotfiles/main/pixi-global.toml
   pixi global sync

   This installs every CLI declared in pixi-global.toml (chezmoi, age, tmux, nvim, and friends) into the shared global env at $PIXI_HOME. After editing the manifest, copy it back into $PIXI_HOME/manifests/ and run pixi global sync again.

4. Initialize chezmoi:

   chezmoi init Pedrexus/dotfiles.git

5. Set zsh as the default login shell:

   sudo chsh -s "$(awk '/^\/(usr\/)?bin\/zsh$/ { print; exit }' /etc/shells)" "$USER"

   This selects the registered system zsh from /etc/shells.

6. Install Claude Code:

   curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

   The native installer puts claude in ~/.local/bin, already first on PATH.

First Usage

After installation, you can start using your new shell and tools:

1. Start Zsh:

   zsh

2. Start Tmux:

   tmux

   Inside tmux, press Ctrl+A then I to install tmux plugin dependencies.

Technologies Installed

• chezmoi: Manages the dotfiles.
• zsh: A powerful shell.
• tmux: A terminal multiplexer.
• LazyVim: A Neovim setup.
• pixi: Installs every CLI from one manifest, no sudo needed.

Troubleshooting

compilation failed happens due to GCC not loaded

In HPC clusters, start running module purge and module load {packages} to add the necessary dependencies.