dotfiles

stow

I use GNU Stow to manage dotfiles in the stow directory. Examples below:

Track .file in dir (typically ~):

$ mkdir program
$ touch program/.file
$ stow --adopt -nvt dir program  # verify command is safe and symlinks .file
$ stow --adopt -vt dir program

Untrack zsh files:

$ stow -Dvt ~ zsh

manual

dconf-cinnamon.ini is exported via dconf dump /org/cinnamon/ > file.ini and can be loaded with dconf load / < file.ini This is because ~/.config/dconf isn't plaintext. See here for more details.