- OS: Ubuntu
- Desktop environment: Gnome
- Terminal emulator: kitty
- Terminal shell: zsh with Oh My Zsh
- Text editor: Neovim
Tutorial for installing Gnome shell extensions here.
- Blur my Shell: Adds a blur look to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash, and overview.
- Rounded Window Corners: Add rounded corners for all windows
- Unite: Makes a few layout tweaks to the top panel and removes window decorations to make it look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.
Installation instructions here.
My configuration files can be found here (.config/kitty).
- Colour theme: Based on Tokyo Night, with some minor changes
- Font: Caskaydia Cove (patched font for Cascadia Code)
The keyboard shortcuts are mostly based on the default Gnome Terminal shortcuts, with a few changes. The configuration file can be found here (.config/kitty/shortcuts.conf).
Copy/paste
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Copy to clipboard | ctrl + shift + c |
| Paste from clipboard | ctrl + shift + v |
Debugging
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Open debug config | ctrl + shift + f6 |
Layouts
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Rotate to next layout | ctrl + shift + r |
Miscellaneous
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Show kitty documentation | ctrl + shift + f1 |
| Edit kitty config file | ctrl + shift + f2 |
| (Re)load kitty config file | ctrl + shift + f5 |
Tab Management
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Switch to tab 1 | ctrl + alt + 1 |
| Switch to tab 2 | ctrl + alt + 2 |
| Switch to tab 3 | ctrl + alt + 3 |
| Switch to tab 4 | ctrl + alt + 4 |
| Switch to tab 5 | ctrl + alt + 5 |
| Switch to tab 6 | ctrl + alt + 6 |
| Switch to tab 7 | ctrl + alt + 7 |
| Switch to tab 8 | ctrl + alt + 8 |
| Switch to tab 9 | ctrl + alt + 9 |
| Switch to tab 10 | ctrl + alt + 0 |
| Close current tab | ctrl + shift + q |
| Move current tab backward | ctrl + shift + , |
| Move current tab forward | ctrl + shift + . |
| Open a new tab (in the current directory) | ctrl + shift + t |
| Switch to the next tab | ctrl + tab |
| Switch to the previous tab | ctrl + shift + tab |
Window Management
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Switch to window 1 | ctrl + shift + 1 |
| Switch to window 2 | ctrl + shift + 2 |
| Switch to window 3 | ctrl + shift + 3 |
| Switch to window 4 | ctrl + shift + 4 |
| Switch to window 5 | ctrl + shift + 5 |
| Switch to window 6 | ctrl + shift + 6 |
| Switch to window 7 | ctrl + shift + 7 |
| Switch to window 8 | ctrl + shift + 8 |
| Switch to window 9 | ctrl + shift + 9 |
| Switch to window 10 | ctrl + shift + 0 |
| Decrease font size for all windows | ctrl + shift + minus |
| Increase font size for all windows | ctrl + shift + plus |
| Move current window backward | ctrl + shift + b |
| Move current window forward | ctrl + shift + f |
| Move current window to top | ctrl + shift + ` |
| Switch to the next window | ctrl + shift + l |
| Switch to the previous window | ctrl + shift + h |
| Swap current window with another window (selected visually) | ctrl + shift + f8 |
| Close current window | ctrl + shift + w |
| Open a new window (in the current directory) | ctrl + shift + n |
| Toggle fullscreen | f11 |
| Make current window narrower | ctrl + shift + left |
| Make current window wider | ctrl + shift + right |
| Make current window taller | ctrl + shift + up |
| Make current window shorter | ctrl + shift + down |
| Reset window sizes to default | ctrl + shift + home |
- To make kitty the default terminal on Ubuntu (which lets you use
ctrl + alt + ton Ubuntu to open kitty), run the following commands:and select kitty. Note that this assumessudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator `which kitty` 50 sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulatorkittyis on your$PATH. If you installed a pre-built binary ofkittyusing the default command,kittyis installed to~/.local/kitty.appon Linux, and you can add it to your path by e.g. adding a symlink for it in/usr/local/bin, which is what I have done.
- Installation instructions for zsh here.
- Installation instructions for Oh My Zsh here. You'll need to have zsh installed first.
- Main config file for zsh is here (
.zshrc). - Custom Oh My Zsh config is here (I use
$ZSH_CUSTOM = ~/.oh-my-zsh-customfor my custom Oh My Zsh directory).
- Git: Provides some aliases and useful functions. Built-in to Oh My Zsh.
- zsh-autosuggestions: Suggests commands as you type based on history and completions.
- zsh-nvm: Set up nvm once and never touch it again. Has a lazy-load setting for nvm which is very useful.
- zsh-syntax-highlighting: Syntax highlighting for zsh.
- I use a custom theme with a pretty prompt that displays useful things like
- Git info (if in a Git repository)
- Conda environment (if one is active)
- Timestamp (I don't use this personally, but the option is there if you'd like to use it)
It can be found here (
/.oh-my-zsh-custom/themes/limao.zsh-theme). You can enable/disable parts of the prompt to your liking, or add more parts.
Installation instructions here.
My configuration files can be found here (.config/nvim). For compatibility's sake (and in the rare occasion where I do need to use regular vim), settings that are common to regular vim can be found in .vimrc, and my Neovim config is set up to first run everything that is in .vimrc.
- folke/lazy.nvim - A modern plugin manager for Neovim.
- averms/black-nvim - A Neovim plugin to format your code using Black.
- windwp/nvim-autopairs - autopairs for neovim written in lua
- lervag/vimtex - A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files.
- romgrk/barbar.nvim - The neovim tabline plugin.
- nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim - A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua.
- nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua.
- hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp - nvim-cmp source for neovim builtin LSP client.
- ray-x/lsp_signature.nvim - LSP signature hint as you type.
- VonHeikemen/lsp-zero.nvim - A starting point to setup some lsp related features in neovim.
- williamboman/mason.nvim - Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters.
- williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim - Extension to mason.nvim that makes it easier to use lspconfig with mason.nvim.
- folke/neodev.nvim - Neovim setup for init.lua and plugin development with full signature help, docs and completion for the nvim lua API.
- hrsh7th/nvim-cmp - A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.
- neovim/nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP.
- nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer.
- TokyoNight.nvim: Tokyo Night theme for Neovim.
- If you're using Wayland (like me), you might need to
apt install wl-clipboardto get copy/paste with the system clipboard working in Neovim.