Setup for my Ubuntu installation

This repo contains Ansible playbooks to configure your system as a development machine upon a clean install. The playbooks should run in Debian based system with minor modifications but was only tested with Ubuntu 24.04.

🔧 How to use

Prerequisites:

• Ansible: sudo apt install ansible

Steps:

• Step 1 Clone the repo:

  git clone https://github.com/dm432/linux-setup.git && cd linux-setup

• Step 2 Select what you want to install:
  1. cp inventory.ini inventory_local.ini
  2. Open the inventory_local.ini file with your favorite edior and change the boolean flags.
• Step 3: Run the playbooks using the setup.sh script:

  chmod +x setup.sh
  ./setup.sh

• Please Note: The playbooks may overwrite your existing files! Make sure to back them up.

Manual Steps that may be required:

• zsh as default shell: You may have to set default shell shell yourself to /usr/bin/zsh for example if you are using distributed authentication.
• terminal font (only needed if you dont use WezTerm): You have to set your terminal font to any Nerd Font.
• Vivaldi Catppuccin theme: Goto Settings -> Themes -> Open Theme... and select the Catppuccin.Mocha.Mauve.zip file located at ~/.vivaldi/themes.
• KDE Plasma theme: To apply the theme, login to kde plasma and run the following script: /usr/local/bin/plasma_theme_init.sh.

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📖 Wiki

Usefull scripts that are added by the playbooks:

• discord_update.sh: Checks for a newer version and updates the discord app if needed. Is run after each reboot, but can also be run manually.
• plasma_theme_init.sh: Applies the kde plasma theme (only works when logged in to kde plasma).
• ck: Switches to a coding keyboard layout. Remaps: ö -> {, Ö -> [, ä -> }, Ä -> ], ü -> \, Ü -> ~. You can press AltGr + <umlaut> to get the default umlaut.
• nk: Switches back to the normal keyboard layout.

Neovim Key Bindings: All remapped key bindings (and some default ones that I tend to forget)

IntelliJ Note: The playbook will create the .ideavimrc file in the users home directory to use with IntelliJ's IdeaVim plugin. See below for supported keybindings.

Action	Key	IdeaVim
Exit insert mode	jk	✅
Vertical split	Leader + i	✅
Horizontal split	Leader + u	✅
Move half page screen up	Ctrl + u	✅
Move half page screen down	Ctrl + d	✅
Copy to system clipboard ("+ register)*	Space + y	✅
Paste from system clipboard ("+ register)*	Space + p	✅
Delete to void register (delete without cutting)	Space + d	✅
Clear Search Highlight	Space + c	✅
Project View: Open	Space + pv	✅ (NerdTree plugin)
Project View: Create file/folder	a	❌
Project View: Delete file/folder	d	❌
Project View: Cut file/folder	c	❌
Project View: Copy file/folder	c	❌
Project View: Paste file/folder	p	❌
Project View: Copy absolute file path	g + y	❌
Find file in project (Project Find)	Space + pf	✅
Find file in git repository	Ctrl + p	❌
Search for word under cursor in project files	Space + pws	❌
Search for Word under cursor in project files	Space + pWs	❌
Search text in project files (Project Search)	Space + ps	✅
Search for neovim help tags (Vim Help)	Space + vh	❌
Autocomplete: Open	Ctrl + Space	✅
Autocomplete: Previous	Ctrl + p	❌
Autocomplete: Next	Ctrl + n	❌
Autocomplete: Confirm	Ctrl + y	❌
Undo Tree: Toggle menu	Space + r	❌
Harpoon: Toggle quick menu	Space + h	❌
Harpoon: Add file	Space + a	❌
Harpoon: Jump to file 1	Ctrl + 1	❌
Harpoon: Jump to file 2	Ctrl + 2	❌
Harpoon: Jump to file 3	Ctrl + 3	❌
Harpoon: Jump to file 4	Ctrl + 4	❌
Fugitive: Git status	Space + g	⚠️ (version control tool window)
lsp: Goto Definition	gd	✅
lsp: Open hover window	K	✅
lsp: Rename	Space + lrn	✅
lsp: Code action	Space + lca	⚠️ (Intention actions window)
lsp: Open references	Space + lor	✅
lsp: Open floating window (warnings/errors)	Space + lof	✅
List buffers	Space + b	❌
Next buffer	Ctrl + n	✅
Previous buffer	Ctrl + m	✅
Jump to buffer	Meta + number	✅
Conform: Trigger formatting	Space + l	✅
Open Mason menu	:Mason	❌
LaTex: Start compiler	Space + ltc	❌
LaTex: Open PDF view	Space + ltv	❌

*: Make sure have a working clipboard provider. See :help clipboard and :checkhealth clipboard.

Other Keybindings:

Action	Key
WezTerm: Toogle fullscreen	Ctrl + f
WezTerm: Open Emoji picker	Ctrl + U
Tmux: Leader key	Ctrl + Space
Tmux: Vertical split	Leader + i
Tmux: Horizontal split	Leader + u
Tmux/Neovim: Navigate between windows	Ctrl + h/j/k/l
Tmux: Create window	Leader + c
Tmux: Next window	Leader + n
Tmux: Previous window	Leader + m
fzf: Paste file/folder to cmd line	Ctrl + t
fzf: Paste from history to cmd line	Ctrl + r
fzf: Cd into selected directory	Alt + c