Aaron's Dotfiles

To install or re-install dotfiles just run install.sh. It installs every configuration file from this repo as a symlink from ~/, creating subdirectories as necessary.

Debian Stretch with Xfce4

Packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install accountsservice arandr blueman build-essential ca-certificates coreutils curl feh fonts-droid-fallback fonts-inconsolata fonts-ubuntu-title magic-wormhole ntp pulseaudio-module-bluetooth python-pip redshift-gtk rsync rxvt-unicode silversearcher-ag software-properties-common suckless-tools tree ttf-dejavu virtualenvwrapper wireless-tools wpasupplicant xbindkeys xmonad zsh

• Slack https://slack.com/downloads/instructions/ubuntu
• Google Chrome https://www.google.com/chrome/
• Docker CE https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/debian/
• Spotify https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/
• Autorandr https://github.com/wertarbyte/autorandr

Use Slock instead of other lockers

sudo apt-get install slock
sudo mv /usr/bin/xflock4{,.bak}
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/slock /usr/bin/xflock4

Disable system beep

echo "blacklist pcspkr" > /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf

Keyboard settings

Edit /etc/default/keyboard and use one of these:

XKBOPTIONS="compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps"
XKBOPTIONS="compose:prsc,ctrl:nocaps"

Wireless 7260 on Lenovo T440s with kernel 3.14

You may need to add non-free apt repos, but then do this:

sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

To fix connecting to certain routers, disabling IPv6 is necessary. Add these lines to /etc/sysctl.conf then run sysctl -p:

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.disable_ipv6 = 1

PulseAudio automatic switch output device on plug-in

Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and add this line to the bottom:

load-module module-switch-on-connect

Configuring Docker

To make docker use a different directory for the graph, just create a symlink from /var/lib/docker to wherever you have space.