Ansible Role: X Desktop

Role to install and configure the Gnome desktop to my preference.

Requirements

• Ansible Core >= 2.12

• Linux Distribution

  • Ubuntu

    • Jammy (22.04)

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# The position of the dockbar
xdesktop_dock_position: LEFT

# Nerd Font version number
xdesktop_nerd_font_version: '3.0.2'

# The SHA256 of the Nerd Font redistributable package
xdesktop_nerd_font_redis_sha256sum: '4991258b7c97071238a7459f0d3bf81a893ae7b0c849dbc47ad52833a8db7f55'

# Directory to store files downloaded
xdesktop_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}"

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.xdesktop

More Roles From GantSign

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Development & Testing

This project uses the following tooling:

• Molecule for orchestrating test scenarios
• Testinfra for testing the changes on the remote
• pytest the testing framework
• Tox manages Python virtual environments for linting and testing
• pip-tools for managing dependencies

A Visual Studio Code Dev Container is provided for developing and testing this role.

License

MIT

Author Information

John Freeman

GantSign Ltd. Company No. 06109112 (registered in England)