System‐configuration

Workstation

Applications

• Dotfiles: chezmoi
• Notes: Obsidian
• Screenshot: maim
• Display Management: autorandr and xrander
• Power Management: TLP
• Music: Spotify
• Browser: FireFox
• Shell: zsh Became slow
  • moved to fish
    • wrapper: oh my fish
    • fisher
    • plugins
      • jorgebucaran/fisher
      • patrickf1/fzf.fish
      • meaningful-ooo/sponge
      • franciscolourenco/done
      • ilancosman/tide@v6 Note: To use work-related shell variables create extra rc file called .extraZshRc in the same folder and source it in .zshrc
  • font: powerline fonts
• font used in vs code is fir code
  • https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions
  • Also currently using JetBrains Mono everywhere
  • font awesome 6
    • move fonts to ~/.fonts or /usr/local/share/fonts/. for installation and run fc-cache -fv to refresh font cache
• Theme used in gtk
  • https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3
  • sudo apt install arc-theme
    • https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme
  • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150853/how-to-set-gtk-icon-theme-in-i3
• Display manager: Light Dm
  • with Slick-Greeter
• video editing : kdenlive
• window manager: i3
  • i3-status-bar : i3-status-rust
    • upower for battery monitoring
    • fonts can be added with Unicode also, see this
• Input method: ibus
  • Malayalam input method : varnam project
  • Emojis: uni-emoji
    • also need sudo apt install python-levenshtein
sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji
• Phone connectivity: KDE connect
  • sudo apt install kdeconnect fam qt5-qmltooling-plugins voikko-fi phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer hspell
• Wallpaper Manager: feh
• Menu: Rofi
  • sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme
  • clipboard can be managed in rofi green clip, save this in the /usr/bin
  • themes can be found here https://github.com/lr-tech/rofi-themes-collection
• Speed test: librespeed
• Clipboard utility: copyq
• File search fzf
• Man pages tldr
• Terminal profiles collection gogh
• Terminal kitty
  • make kitty available in all update-alternatives x-terminal-emulator sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /home/prinzpiuz/.local/bin/kitty 100
  • setting theme in kitty kitty +kitten themes
  • enable image viewing in the terminal kitty +kitten icat image.jpeg kitten icat image.jpeg
• Notification-daemon dunst
• Screensaver manager: Xscreensaver
  • current screensaver Gluqlo: Fliqlo for Linux
• Antivirus clamAV
  • Documentation
  • Archwiki
• Disk Health, Checking S.M.R.T
• Finance Management
  • Ledger-CLI
  • H-Ledger
  • Dashboard: paisa
• Version Control
  • git
  • git extras
• Extra package managers
  • Homebrew on Linux
• File changes monitoring:
  • inotify
  • inotify-tools
• Bluetooth Battery:
  • Bluetooth_Headset_Battery_Level
  • Dependant packages:
    • bluez
    • pybluez see set-up section below also
  • Headset Inputs
• VPN:
  • Mullvpn
  • Tailscale
• Password Manager
  • BitWarden
  • BitWardenCLI
    • npm install -g @bitwarden/cli
    • `go install github.com/omegion/ssh-manager@latest
      • bw-ssh-manager get --name personal_ssh --read-only --pretty --provider bw
• Python
  • UV, https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
• System Backup
  • Restic
  • ResticProfile

How To Set up

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/148932/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-all-repositories-and-ppas-from-the-command-line-into-an

• https://superuser.com/questions/6338/how-do-you-track-which-packages-were-installed-on-ubuntu-linux/6932#6932

• https://superuser.com/questions/434939/match-a-line-until-a-but-without-the-when-parsing-a-file-with-a-regex

• To set USB microphone as default one

  • set set-default-source in /etc/pulse/default.pa
  • Noise Suppressor used is NoiseTorch

• sources can be listed with this command

  • pacmd list-sources | grep -e device.string -e 'name:'

• Lid closing

  • cat /etc/systemd/logind.conf

  https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5629/how-to-prevent-sleep-on-laptop-lid-close/index.html

• external monitor

  https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5312/how-to-toggle-onoff-external-and-internal-monitors.1.html

• startup scripts

  start up scripts are managed by rc.local executable in /etc/rc.local

  • create rc.local file nano /etc/rc.local sample script:

    #!/bin/sh -e
    
    # input auto start script here
    echo date -R >> /var/log/sys-start.log
    
    # to run as normal user
    su $USER -c `<path to script>`
    
    exit 0
    

  • make it executable chmod +x /etc/rc.local

  • enable script at startup systemctl enable rc-local

  • start rc.local service systemctl start rc-local.service

• This wiki automatically pushed to wiki of dotfiles

  • script used is wiki_auto_push.sh
  • And running on rc.local

• Bluetooth Headset Battery Level

  • package using is Bluetooth_Headset_Battery_Level
  • there was an installation error before for pybluez
    • which can be resolved by this

Issues faced

• sound issue in ThinkPad E14 gen 2
  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/1243369/sound-card-not-detected-ubuntu-20-04-sof-audio-pci