bash-settings

To make rclone work, copy rclone.conf to ~/.config/rclone/ — this is what you need to enable the mount to Google Drive.

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Neovim

setup-new-host.sh handles the whole thing, so on a new machine:

git clone <this repo> ~/bash-settings
cd ~/bash-settings && git submodule update --init   # vim/nvim plugins
./setup-new-host.sh

What it sets up:

Thing	Where
nvim binary	~/.local/opt/nvim-<version>/, symlinked to ~/.local/bin/nvim
config	~/.config/nvim → bash-settings/nvim
plugins	reused from bash-settings/vim/ (pathogen bundles + pack/)
pynvim (python3 provider, needed by YouCompleteMe)	~/.local/opt/nvim-venv/

There is only one config. nvim/init.lua adds vim/ to the runtimepath and then sources vimrc, so vim and nvim share settings, keymaps and plugins — edit vimrc and both change. Anything nvim-only goes at the bottom of nvim/init.lua.

Neovim comes from the official tarball rather than apt, because Ubuntu ships a version several releases behind. To upgrade, bump NVIM_VERSION in setup-new-host.sh and re-run it (it is idempotent, and old versions stay in ~/.local/opt so you can roll back by re-pointing the symlink).

Sanity check after install: nvim --version and nvim +checkhealth.

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Setting up GitHub Light Terminal Profile (GNOME Terminal)

You can import a GitHub Light colour scheme for GNOME Terminal to make it easier to visually distinguish environments (e.g. staging).

1. Generate a UUID for the new profile

uuid=$(uuidgen)
echo $uuid

Save this value — you’ll use it in the following steps.

2. Create the profile list (if none exists yet)

dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/list "['$uuid']"

If a list already exists, append your new UUID manually:

dconf read /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/list

Update it so it looks like:

['existing-uuid', 'new-uuid']

Then write it back:

dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/list "['existing-uuid', '$uuid']"

3. Set the profile’s visible name

dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$uuid/visible-name "'GitHub Light'"

4. Load the colour scheme

Make sure you have github-light.dconf in your current directory, then run:

dconf load /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$uuid/ < github-light.dconf

5. Switch profile

Open GNOME Terminal → Preferences → select GitHub Light. You can set it as default or switch manually when connecting to staging.

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This will give you a terminal with a pure white background and GitHub-inspired colours, which works well with tmux’s staging overrides.