- Prerequisites
- Install
- Mappings
- Shell
- Aliases
- Scripts
- Fonts
- Git
- NodeJS
- Keyboard
- Cool utilities
- Stay Updated
- Troubleshooting
- Pok3r mech keyboard
- Git (2.0+ recommended)
- Neovim
When setting up a new computer, if you have a working one at hand, it's worth enabling passwordless ssh access to the new machine first and do the setup through SSH.
ssh-copy-id <user>@<host>sudo apt install \
git \
ssh \
apt-transport-https \
ca-certificates \
curl \
gnupg \
build-essential
tree \
htop \
xsel \
tmux \
fonts-firacode \
rcm \
zsh \
jq \
gawk \
ripgrepsudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neovimbrew install \
git \
neovim \
git-delta \
rcm \
nodenv \
pyenv \
tree \
ripgrep \
luarocks \
tmux \
z \
fzf \
eza \
# some more generic packages Mac lacks
gpg \
gsed \
jq \The ssh key is needed to get this dotfiles from Github so it's inevitably the first step.
If I have access to another working machine, it's easier to copy the ~/.ssh through scp.
Alternatively, I can get all key pairs from 1password, the personal and the work ones.
These dotfiles are installed with thoughtbot's rcm. A suite of tools to manage dotfiles directories.
Check out whether everything will work fine:
lsrc
Install your dotfiles symlinking them into your home directory:
rcup -v
My Neovim configuration, based on LazyVim, is found in config/nvim/. Installing all dotfiles will also symlink it to ~/.config/nvim. Then, open neovim, which will automatically install all plugins and LSP servers, and run :LazyHealth to check everything is working correctly.
Note Copilot will require calling :Copilot auth in any new device.
Run source ~/.dotfiles/install/set-gnome-theme.sh to install my own Gnome theme customizations.
Fira Code is an awesome font perfectly suited for my console usage and Nvchad need for a Nerd Font. Go install it from their website.
Despite NvChad's suggestion to use Fira Code patched with icons, it's best to install a standalone symbols package to get icon support from Kitty. Install the Symbols Nerd Font Mono from Nerd Fonts releases page. The kitty.conf file will pick it up automatically. More details: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#kitty-is-not-able-to-use-my-favorite-font.
FZF is an awesome fuzzy-finder I use from the terminal an as vim plugin. Make sure you read https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/README-VIM.md as well. You should also read the vim plugin's README.
Since Zsh comes installed with Mac, you just need to install Oh My Zsh by running the following command, although check their website for up to date installation instructions:
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
Environment variables and custom settings are organized in config/ohmyzsh/config.zsh to avoid modifying the main .zshrc file. This approach allows pulling dotfiles updates without losing personal configurations like PATH modifications, version manager setups, and system-specific settings. The .zshrc only sets ZSH_CUSTOM=~/.config/ohmyzsh to load all custom configurations from the config directory.
Beyond installing Tmux we also need to install tpm, the package manager.
Z is an awesome utility to move around the file system based on "frecency" which makes me move much faster.
By typing a fo I cd to ~/dev/openfoodnetwork.
There is no manual step required to install since I use its oh my zsh plugin.
I've included some handy git script additions as well as configution changes. Have a look at .gitconfig to see various aliases and settings.
Node is needed for things like Neovim and many other tools.
Use Nodenv to install manage multiple node versions. Follow its installation steps at https://github.com/nodenv/nodenv#installation.
Oftentimes, projects define a .node_version up to the minor version leaving room for patch upgrades without having to constantly update the version.
To support this, you have to install nodenv-aliases. So you can alias versions like
nodenv alias 20.11 20.11.1
To map Ctrl key to Caps lock:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
gnome-tweak-tool > Keyboard & Mouse > Additional Layout Options > Ctrl key positionsp is a Spotify cli client that allows you to play, pause, get the current song, etc. from the command line. Just what I was looking for. Install it as follows
$ sudo curl -fLo /usr/local/bin/sp \
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/wandernauta/6800547/raw/2c2ad0f3849b1b1cd1116b80718d986f1c1e7966/sp
$ sudo chmod ag+x /usr/local/bin/spNow, with the Spotify app open you can do sp current or sp play. Awesome!
Run the sync again!
rcup -v
You can find how to program the pok3r in [guide] How-to: Program your Pok3r -- Programming Layers and Dipswitch 4 from the MechanicalKeyboards subreddit.
I couldn't an external monitor connected to my brand new Thinkpad P1 through HDMI until I updated the propietary Nvidia drivers and disabled Kernel mode setting on the Nvidia kernel module.
Keep in mind the HDMI port is wired to the Nvidia graphics card so you'll first have to switch to it either using Nvidia X Server Settings or the prime-select command line tool. I guess the latter gets installed with the nvidia-prime package but I haven't checked. Do not forget to log out and log in again for the changes to take effect.
In order to get the latest Nvidia drivers available I added the graphics-drivers PPA repository as follows
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
Because of this, now ubuntu-drivers devices (you can find a nice explanation of this command here) listed a couple more options
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001CBBsv000017AAsd00002267bc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GP107GLM [Quadro P1000 Mobile]
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-418 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-396 - third-party free
driver : nvidia-driver-415 - third-party free
driver : nvidia-driver-430 - third-party free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
Particularly nvidia-driver-430 did not show up before. Unfortunately, the command sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430 reported an unmet depedencies error so I went the GUI way. You can do so by opening the "Software & Updates" app, choosing the "Additional Drivers" tab. Then, choose "nvidia-driver-430" and "Apply Changes". This took a while.
But it turns out this wasn't enough, even after restarting the system. Finally, I found the solution in https://www.dell.com/community/Precision-Mobile-Workstations/External-Monitor-not-working-Ubuntu-nvidia/m-p/7286631#M1634. Apparently the problem is with the kernel mode setting, which needs to be disabled to work.
Editing the file /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf to options nvidia-drm modeset=0 fixed the problem after a reboot 🎉️.
After blindly applying the last firmware upgrade Grub was gone and there was no way to boot anything other than Windows 10. Disabling secure boot and enabling legacy boot didn't help either.
First of all, https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/475245 shed some light on this giving some clues that led me to the solution. First kind of understood what UEFI is about and what a EFI system partition is, then I run
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi
from Window's command prompt as admin, as detailed in https://itsfoss.com/no-grub-windows-linux/. Then reading [BCD System Store Settings for UEFI](BCD System Store Settings for UEFI) from Microsoft's Hardware Dev Center made me understand we basically told the Windows Boot Manager that it should boot grub's EFI application instead.
Sorry, I don't remember all the things I did to make Pipewire work with Wireplumber but https://pipewire-debian.github.io/pipewire-debian/ seems to be the best reference, togheter with https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire, to understand and troubleshoot this.