(Note: this page is under construction.)
This page describes the setup I have on blueberry and raspberry. The configuration files and scripts (i.e. the text in pre environments), as well as the bnoise.png image below, are placed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license.
| Name, link to homepage | Debian package(s) |
|---|---|
| Debian | N/A |
| debootstrap | debootstrap |
| Fcitx | fcitx5 |
| fish | fish |
| i3 | i3-wm |
| Limine | N/A |
| Neovim | neovim |
| xinit | xinit |
| XTerm | xterm |
I use the unstable distribution of Debian. On both blueberry and raspberry, Debian was installed with the debootstrap script.
On both, I have an EFI system partition, which is not ordinarily mounted (during system upgrades I mount it at /root/real-boot); btrfs partitions mounted at / and /home/benji; and a tmpfs pseudo-filesystem mounted at /tmp. On raspberry, I have a btrfs partition mounted at /home/benji/.local/share/Steam.
I use the Limine bootloader. I have /boot symlinked to /root/real-boot/kernels/debian (see the Partitioning section) and I manually update my Limine configuration whenever there is a kernel upgrade to point to the new kernel.
limine.cfg on raspberry at the time of writing:
TERM_FONT_SCALE=2x2 TERM_BACKGROUND=3f000000 TERM_WALLPAPER=boot:///bg/bnoise.png TERM_WALLPAPER_STYLE=tiled TIMEOUT=2 :Debian PROTOCOL=linux KERNEL_PATH=boot:///kernels/debian/vmlinuz-6.7.9-amd64 MODULE_PATH=boot:///kernels/debian/initrd.img-6.7.9-amd64 CMDLINE=root=/dev/nvme0n1p6 ro quiet
/dev/nvme0n1p6 in there is the root partition, and bnoise.png is the following image (click on it to see it tiled at full size).
That image was created by me early into experimenting with adapting the void-and-cluster algorithm for blue noise generation to contexts other than square grids (in this case, the Voronoi diagram of some points independently placed uniformly randomly onto a flat torus).
On blueberry, I have Limine configured to load straight into Linux with no delay. On raspberry, I used to have multiple operating systems installed, sharing the same /home/benji partition but different root partitions, but now I only use the Debian install. There isn't really any reason to keep the bootloader screen on raspberry, aside from the fact that I like looking at the bnoise.png texture.
I log in on a tty. For tty1, the i3 window manager is started when I log in.
I use the fish shell, and ~/.config/fish/config.fish contains the following:
if test "$(tty)" = /dev/tty1 exec startx end set -gx EDITOR nvim
The first three lines (and xinit) are responsible for starting i3 when I log into tty1, and the last line makes my default text editor Neovim.
~/.xinitrc contains the following:
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session i3
~/.config/i3/config contains the following (click to expand):
set $mod Mod4
set $term xterm
set $scripts ~/scripts
font pango: Source Code Pro 14px
exec gnome-keyring-daemon -r
exec $scripts/set-res
exec xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
exec xset s off
exec xset -dpms
#exec setxkbmap -layout 'us,us(intl)' -option grp:shifts_toggle
exec fcitx5
floating_modifier $mod
workspace_layout tabbed
default_border pixel 3
hide_edge_borders smart
#class border backg text indic child
client.focused #bfbfbf #bfbfbf #000000 #bfbfbf #bfbfbf
client.focused_inactive #000000 #000000 #7f7f7f #000000 #000000
client.unfocused #000000 #000000 #7f7f7f #000000 #000000
bindsym --release $mod+a exec $scripts/sshot
bindsym --release $mod+q exec $scripts/sshot-full
bindsym $mod+l exec $scripts/lock
bindsym $mod+b exec $scripts/battery
bindsym $mod+w exec $scripts/workspace
bindsym $mod+t exec $term
bindsym $mod+s exec $term -e pulsemixer
mode "run" {
bindsym a exec anki; mode "default"
bindsym d exec discord --no-sandbox; mode "default"
bindsym s exec steam; mode "default"
bindsym Escape mode "default"
} bindsym $mod+o mode "run"
mode "games" {
bindsym m exec mc; mode "default"
bindsym Escape mode "default"
} bindsym $mod+g mode "games"
mode "firefox" {
bindsym space exec firefox -new-window; mode "default"
bindsym u exec firefox -new-window uncc.instructure.com; mode "default"
bindsym Escape mode "default"
} bindsym $mod+f mode "firefox"
bindsym $mod+Shift+Tab kill
bindsym $mod+Left focus left
bindsym $mod+Down focus down
bindsym $mod+Up focus up
bindsym $mod+Right focus right
bindsym $mod+Tab focus next
bindsym $mod+comma focus parent
bindsym $mod+period focus child
bindsym $mod+Shift+Left move left
bindsym $mod+Shift+Down move down
bindsym $mod+Shift+Up move up
bindsym $mod+Shift+Right move right
bindsym $mod+Return fullscreen toggle
bindsym $mod+z split h
bindsym $mod+c split v
bindsym $mod+x layout toggle split
bindsym $mod+v layout tabbed
bindsym $mod+grave workspace next
bindsym $mod+Shift+a workspace a; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+b workspace b; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+c workspace c; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+d workspace d; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+e workspace e; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+f workspace f; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+g workspace g; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+h workspace h; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+i workspace i; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+j workspace j; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+k workspace k; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+l workspace l; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+m workspace m; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+n workspace n; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+o workspace o; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+p workspace p; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+q workspace q; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+r workspace r; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+s workspace s; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+t workspace t; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+u workspace u; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+v workspace v; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+w workspace w; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+x workspace x; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+y workspace y; mode "default"
bindsym $mod+Shift+z workspace z; mode "default"
mode "move" {
bindsym Left move workspace to output left; mode "default"
bindsym Right move workspace to output right; mode "default"
bindsym a move container to workspace a; workspace a; mode "default"
bindsym b move container to workspace b; workspace b; mode "default"
bindsym c move container to workspace c; workspace c; mode "default"
bindsym d move container to workspace d; workspace d; mode "default"
bindsym e move container to workspace e; workspace e; mode "default"
bindsym f move container to workspace f; workspace f; mode "default"
bindsym g move container to workspace g; workspace g; mode "default"
bindsym h move container to workspace h; workspace h; mode "default"
bindsym i move container to workspace i; workspace i; mode "default"
bindsym j move container to workspace j; workspace j; mode "default"
bindsym k move container to workspace k; workspace k; mode "default"
bindsym l move container to workspace l; workspace l; mode "default"
bindsym m move container to workspace m; workspace m; mode "default"
bindsym n move container to workspace n; workspace n; mode "default"
bindsym o move container to workspace o; workspace o; mode "default"
bindsym p move container to workspace p; workspace p; mode "default"
bindsym q move container to workspace q; workspace q; mode "default"
bindsym r move container to workspace r; workspace r; mode "default"
bindsym s move container to workspace s; workspace s; mode "default"
bindsym t move container to workspace t; workspace t; mode "default"
bindsym u move container to workspace u; workspace u; mode "default"
bindsym v move container to workspace v; workspace v; mode "default"
bindsym w move container to workspace w; workspace w; mode "default"
bindsym x move container to workspace x; workspace x; mode "default"
bindsym y move container to workspace y; workspace y; mode "default"
bindsym z move container to workspace z; workspace z; mode "default"
bindsym Escape mode "default"
} bindsym $mod+m mode "move"
mode "resize" {
bindsym Left resize shrink width 50
bindsym Right resize grow width 50
bindsym Up resize grow height 50
bindsym Down resize shrink height 50
bindsym Shift+Left resize shrink width 10
bindsym Shift+Right resize grow width 10
bindsym Shift+Up resize grow height 10
bindsym Shift+Down resize shrink height 10
bindsym Return mode "default"
} bindsym $mod+r mode "resize"
Some of the programs and scripts in there will be described later.
I use XTerm with the following in ~/.Xresources (loaded by i3):
xterm*borderWidth: 0 *VT100*foreground: #e6e6e6 *VT100*background: #000000 *VT100*color0: #000000 *VT100*color1: #8c0000 *VT100*color2: #008c00 *VT100*color3: #8c8c00 *VT100*color4: #00558c *VT100*color5: #8c558c *VT100*color6: #008c8c *VT100*color7: #8c8c8c *VT100*color8: #333333 *VT100*color9: #e63333 *VT100*color10: #33e633 *VT100*color11: #e6e633 *VT100*color12: #338ce6 *VT100*color13: #e68ce6 *VT100*color14: #33e6e6 *VT100*color15: #e6e6e6 *VT100*faceName: Source Code Pro:pixelsize=14 xterm*decTerminalID: vt340 xterm*termName: xterm-256color
Those colors look like this:
as text on #000000 background | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#000000 |
#8c0000 |
#8c8c00 |
#008c00 |
#008c8c |
#00558c |
#8c558c |
#8c8c8c |
#333333 |
#e63333 |
#e6e633 |
#33e633 |
#33e6e6 |
#338ce6 |
#e68ce6 |
#e6e6e6 |
as text on #e6e6e6 background | |||||||
#000000 |
#8c0000 |
#8c8c00 |
#008c00 |
#008c8c |
#00558c |
#8c558c |
#8c8c8c |
#333333 |
#e63333 |
#e6e633 |
#33e633 |
#33e6e6 |
#338ce6 |
#e68ce6 |
#e6e6e6 |
as background for #000000 text | |||||||
#000000 |
#8c0000 |
#8c8c00 |
#008c00 |
#008c8c |
#00558c |
#8c558c |
#8c8c8c |
#333333 |
#e63333 |
#e6e633 |
#33e633 |
#33e6e6 |
#338ce6 |
#e68ce6 |
#e6e6e6 |
as background for #e6e6e6 text | |||||||
#000000 |
#8c0000 |
#8c8c00 |
#008c00 |
#008c8c |
#00558c |
#8c558c |
#8c8c8c |
#333333 |
#e63333 |
#e6e633 |
#33e633 |
#33e6e6 |
#338ce6 |
#e68ce6 |
#e6e6e6 |