This dotfiles repository provides a modern, productive, and visually appealing development environment for macOS. It brings together:

• aerospace an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
• Sketchybar (macOS) for a highly customizable status bar, and Aerospace for advanced window management.
• Zsh as the main shell, with Starship prompt using the Pastel Powerline preset for a fast, informative, and beautiful command line experience.
• Tmux for terminal multiplexing, session management, and efficient workflows.
• Neovim & LazyVim as a pre-configured, extensible Neovim setup for powerful code editing.
• Ghostty as the terminal emulator (macOS), with custom themes and settings.
• Hiddenbar and Stats (macOS) for menu bar and system monitoring enhancements.
• Sensible defaults, backup and symlink management, and easy setup for new machines.

Example: Starship prompt (Pastel Powerline), Ghostty terminal, and Sketchybar on macOS.

The install script backs up existing configuration files, but read below before running it! Requirements:

• git
• brew (on MacOS)

git clone https://github.com/mehd-io/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./install.sh         # Installs core tools, symlinks configs, sets up Ghostty & Starship, Hiddenbar, Stats, and LazyVim
./install_sketchybar.sh   # Installs Sketchybar and dependencies, sets up config
./install_aerospace.sh    # Installs Aerospace and sets up config

• Installs required packages depending on OS (neovim, tmux, tree, wget, zsh, curl, starship, etc.)
• Symlinks tmux.conf, .zshrc, .zprofile, and other dotfiles
• Symlinks Ghostty config to ~/.config/ghostty/config
• Symlinks Starship config (Pastel Powerline preset) to ~/.config/starship.toml
• Installs Ghostty terminal (MacOS)
• Installs Hiddenbar and Stats (MacOS)
• Installs LazyVim (clones https://github.com/LazyVim/starter to ~/.config/nvim, removes .git folder)
• Sets default shell to zsh

• Installs Sketchybar and its dependencies (sf-symbols, jq, gh)
• Downloads and installs the Sketchybar app font
• Backs up existing Sketchybar config and moves new config into place
• Restarts Sketchybar service

• Installs Aerospace (MacOS window manager)
• Backs up existing Aerospace config and moves new config into place

I did a video for a deep dive on this tiling window manager, check this here :

This setup uses Starship with the Pastel Powerline preset for a modern, colorful, and informative shell prompt.

command key remapped from ctrl+b to ctrl+a Using theme from : https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux