Linux desktop setup

Consider

• alternative package manager https://brew.sh/

Currently using kali

Autologin using mingetty mingetty: in /etc/inittab, c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty –autologin jack tty1 linux

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet resume=/dev/sda1 nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1”

install both linux-headers-amd64 and linux-image-amd64 nvidia-kernel-dkms may need to be updated as well

Allow unprivileged users to create namespaces, for AppImage to work echo ‘kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1’ > /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf

dev

• rustup

files

• ncdu to find large folders

Terminal

• rxvt, then kitty
• alternatives: wezterm, alacritty
• Ctrl-[ is equivalent to Esc

Terminal multiplexer

• screen, then tmux

PDF annotation/signing

• xournal, but difficult to sign with mouse

QR code generation

• qrencode “text” -o out.png

mpv

• shift-q to quit and save the current position
• –cache=yes to enable cache

Universal Media Server

downloads

• uget
• wget
  • –mirror –convert-links –adjust-extension –page-requisites –no-parent
  • equivalent to -mkEpnp, used to mirror a site locally

window manager

• openbox

font

• fonts-jetbrains-mono

source control

• git, tig

editor

• neovim
  • remap capslock to escape
  • setxkbmap -option caps:escape
• ipe

launcher

• dmenu from suckless-tools

lockscreen

• xtrlock

shell

• zsh

viewer

• feh
• mupdf
• foliate, epub reader

install

• wajig
• chrome
• universal-ctags
• nvidia-driver nvidia-settings
• mplayer mencoder
• pavucontrol
• libreoffice
• postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1 postgis pgadmin3
• parallel
• xclip
• ttf-mscorefonts-installer
• texlive-latex-recommended
• ledger

install steam

• dpkg –add-architecture i386
• aptitude update
• aptitude install steam
• aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

install chinese input

• ibus-pinyin ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3
• preferences -> startup applications -> add “/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -drx”

remove

• mdm (login manager)
• mint-mdm-themes

edit

• /etc/default/grub to remove slient splash, add nomodeset
• sudo update-grub
• /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
• add testing to sources.list.d and preferences.d

setup config files

• .emacs -> bin/.emacs
• .emacs-after-init -> bin/.emacs-after-init
• .fonts.conf -> /home/melvin/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
• .mailcap -> /home/melvin/bin/.mailcap