dt-cli

Scopes

A group's scope decides the priority of its items. When multiple groups contain a same item, only the group with the highest priority will do sync that specific item. This mechanism minimizes total number of filesystem I/O operations, which makes dt-cli to appear faster, and achieves finer control over what to sync with dt-cli without having to picking out each application's config files from your dotfile library.

TIP

This feature is meant to be used with dt-cli's command-line argument, see the Background subsection of this feature's introduction for more details.

Examples

Dropin

On Arch Linux, package fontconfig provides a file /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf, which works for most monitors. A drop-in group can be defined as:

[[local]]
scope = "Dropin"
name = "fontconfig-system"
base = "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/"
sources = [
  # Pixel Alignment.  Test monitor's subpixel layout at
  # <http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/subpixel.php>, reference:
  # <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration#Pixel_alignment>
  "10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf",
  # Enable lcdfilter.  Reference:
  # <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-bad-font-rendering-in-firefox-and-other-programs/13430/3>
  "11-lcdfilter-default.conf",
]
target = "~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d"

App

For example, a group of GUI applications under the wayland protocol could be defined as:

[[local]]
scope = "General"
name = "gui"
base = "/path/to/your/dotfiles/library/root"
sources = [
  ".gtkrc-2.0",
  ".local/share/icons",
  ".local/share/fcitx5",
  ".config/sway",
  ".config/swaylock",
  ".config/waybar",
  ".config/dunst",
  ".config/gtk-*.0",
]
target = "~"

General

This scope is mostly used in the fallback groups, for example:

[[local]]
scope = "General"
name = "xdg_config_home"
base = "/path/to/your/dotfiles/library/root/.config"
sources = [
  "*",
]
target = "~/.config"
[[local]]
scope = "General"
name = "misc"
base = "/path/to/your/dotfiles/library/root"
sources = [
  ".[!.]*",
  "..?*",
]
target = "~"