An elegant computing environment with emacs

• Elegant using poet theme and iosevka font
• Fast, robust and customizable
• Tested with emacs 26.1 with GNU/Debian
• Emacs vanilla key bindings

Checklist

• Emacs 26.1 is strongly recommended
• GNU/Debian is recommended, should work with other destros also but not tested. Feel free to raise a issue in case of problem
• Make sure you install use-package through apt

apt-get install elpa-use-package

• You need iosevka font for good look and feel

wget https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/files/2162978/fonts.tar.gz
tar -xf fonts.tar.gz
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/iosevka
mv fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/iosevka
cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/iosevka
mkfontscale
mkfontdir
fc-cache
xset fp rehash

• Optional: You need scrot for taking screenshots

apt-get install scrot

• Optional: You need mplayer for playing medias using emms

apt-get install mplayer

• Optional: You need xss-lock slock for screensaver

apt-get install xss-lock slock

Packages used in this setup

• exwm
• poet
• dashboard
• smart-mode-line
• symon
• all-the-icons
• all-the-icons-dired
• org-pretty-tags
• org-bullets
• olivetti
• emms
• debbugs

Installation

Method 1 - Simple

• Clone the repository and move the directory to emacs.d
• Just use below script in xinitrc, so emacs will start when you run startx

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session emacs -f exwm-enable

Method 2 - Starting emacs as daemon and then starting emacsclient

• Clone the repository and move the directory to emacs.d
• Just use below script in xinitrc, so emacs will start when you run startx

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session emacs --daemon -f exwm-enable
emacsclient -c

Method 3 - If you prefer emacs daemon through systemd

• Clone the repository and move the directory to emacs.d
• Use systemd to run emacs as daemon script is in .config/systemd/user/emacs.service. If you don’t want to use window manager you need to remove flag -f exwm-enable in service file

# Move Create directory for systemd like below
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
# Move emacs.service to above directory
cp .config/systemd/user/emacs.service ~/.config/systemd/user/emacs.service
# Enable the service
systemctl enable --user emacs
# Start the service 
systemctl start --user emacs

• Use below snippet in your .xinitrc to make emacs as window manager

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session emacsclient -c

Customization (There are three main variable you can customize for different use cases)

• mine-appearance you can choose either elegant or default
• mine-window-manager you can enable or disable window manager
• mine-second-brain-location you can change to desired directory for org-mode

Work in progress

• [-] Configuring newsticker
  • [X] Basic configuration
  • [ ] Adding more URLS
• [X] Configuring gnus
• [ ] Integrating with github workflow for CI
• [X] Configure emacs as daemon using systemd
• [X] Configuring the screensaver using slock
• [-] Configuring grammar
  • [X] Configuring flyspell
  • [ ] Configuring stardict using sdcv
• [ ] Starting ssh-agent on startup