the_isz's Arch Linux Blog

Wow, what a title for a blog entry… I hope the entry itself can live up to the generated expectations So, what I want to talk about is how to use the same configuration files for programs I use everyday – such as bash, vim or ssh, just to name a few – in different places:

• My PC at home
• My laptop
• My girlfriend’s PC (also running Arch, of course) on which I regularly need to do administrative work
• The Arch live system on a USB stick
• My PC at work

Now, in each of these work places, I regularly modify configurations or even add new ones. What has always bugged me is that I have a hard time synchronizing these changes. So I thought: How about employing a revisioning system to do the work for me?

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Today I finalized a PKGBUILD for Xappe‘s Arch Linux xdm theme, which I find really nice. For those who don’t know, xdm is a very minimal (and usually ugly) graphical login manager for the X window system. It has very few dependencies and low hardware requirements, making it a good choice for low-end environments or minimalism freaks like myself…

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