They're managed using GNU stow.

The legend goes that dot-files arose from a bug in the earliest days of UNIX: in an effort to avoid listing the . and .. entries of a directory, the ls command skipped files that began with the '.' character. As a result, any file with a name beginning with '.' was not reported by ls, i.e. it was a "hidden" file. A user's home directory was a convenient place to put user-specific configuration files, but such files were also an eyesore; one popular solution to this problem was to make those configuration files hidden so that they wouldn't annoy the user. Thus, the tradition of dot-files was born. From Quora

"Rice" is a word that is commonly used to refer to making visual improvements and customizations on one's desktop. It was inherited from the practice of customizing cheap Asian import cars to make them appear to be faster than they actually were - which was also known as "ricing". From /r/unixporn

1. Install GNU Stow: GNU Stow is available for all GNU+Linux distros and most other unix-like distributions via your package manager.

   Ubuntu: sudo apt install stow Arch: sudo pacman -S stow Mac: brew install stow

2. Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/tfarina/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles && cd ~/dotfiles

3. Symlink with GNU Stow the folder(s) you want to your home: To install most of my dotfiles you execute stow with the folder name as the only argument. For example, to install my sxhkd and my zshrc config use the command:

$ stow -v -t ~/ -S sxhkd
$ stow -v -t ~/ -S zsh
$ stow -v -t ~/ -S whatever-dotfile-you-want

This will symlink files to ~/.config/sxhkd/, ~/.zshrc, etc.