dotfiles/setup/ubuntu-user-config.md

# Ubuntu User Configuration

This document includes configuration that is per user and remembered in the home
directory.

## Terminal

- Set font size in Terminal to 16 and initial column count to 85
- Set Alacritty as the terminal command in GNOME Settings -> Shortcuts
```
chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
git clone https://git.duckduckwhale.com/DuckDuckWhale/dotfiles && cd dotfiles/auto && ./auto
cd ../manual/rust && ./rust
cd ../helix && ./helix
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts ~/.config/nautilus
cat > ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/terminal << 'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
alacritty
EOF
chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/terminal
echo 'F4 terminal' >> ~/.config/nautilus/scripts-accels
nautilus -q
```

## Settings

- Go to `Appearance` and choose dark mode
- Go to `Date & Time` and use am/pm
- Go to `Displays` and enable night light
- Go to `Power` and change `Power Button Action` to `Suspend`.
- Go to `Privacy -> File History & Trash` and auto delete everything in 30 days
- Go to `Multitasking` and choose `Workspaces on all displays` and `Hot Corner`
	- Application switching?

## Gnome Tweaks

- Swap capslock and ESC in `Keyboard & Mouse` -> `Additional Layout Options`
  -> `Caps Lock behavior`
- Change `Mouse Click Emulation` to `Area`
- Turn on weekdays and battery percentage in `Top Bar`
- Flat mouse acceleration profile
- Turn off suspend when closing lid

## Gnome Extensions

- Turn on:
	- `Applications menu`
	- `Places status indicator`
	- `Windownavigator`
	- `Workspace Indicator`
- Note: to manually install Gnome extensions, unzip it and copy the `uuid`
  field in `metadata.json` and rename the directory to this name, then move
  to `~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions` and logout and login.
- GSConnect
	- Uncheck SFTP auto mount
	- Add commands:
		- `Lock`: `loginctl lock-session`
		- `Quack`: `ffplay -v quiet -nodisp -autoexit ~/Music/'.Not
		  Music'/Ringtones/Quack.mp3`

## Firefox

- Check open previous windows and tabs
- Setup Multi-Account Containers
	- Change shortcuts to `Ctrl`+<#>
- Change default zoom to 120%
- Enable HTTPS only
- Enable DNS over HTTPS
- Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5
- In `about:config` set `browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo` to 10.

## Gnome Calendar

- Add Google accounts in online accounts
- On older versions of Ubuntu < 22.04, not tested for 22.04:
- Wait for a bit, it's kinda buggy but it will work at the end (wait for ~2
  days)

## VS Codium

- `flatpak override --user --env=FLATPAK_ISOLATE_PACKAGES=0
  com.vscodium.codium`
- Reason:
  `https://github.com/flathub/ide-flatpak-wrapper/blob/master/vscode.sh`

## OBS Basic Settings

- Video: 1440p HVENC HEVC
- Audio: 320k Opus
- Container: Matroska

## OBS record audio per app (may need adjustment > 22.04)

```
# configure pulse audio with obs-sink and loop it back to speakers
cat >> ~/.config/pulse/default.pa << 'EOF'
# include system default
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
# sink that discard all input
load-module module-null-sink sink_name=obs-sink
# update human readable description in property list
update-sink-proplist obs-sink device.description="OBS Sink"
# replace <name> with name in first output of `pacmd list-sinks` inside angle
# brackets
# sink must be set, otherwise would be default and cause echoing
# latency_msec must be set, the lowest possible is 1 and default is 200
load-module module-loopback sink=<name> latency_msec=1
EOF

# restart pulse audio
pulseaudio -k

# to configure output per app to different devices
sudo apt install pavucontrol
```

Source: <https://miyacogbf.github.io/mlgb/only-game-sound/>

## [Golden Dict](https://einverne.github.io/post/2018/08/goldendict.html)

- Import dictionaries in `~/.software/goldendict/stardict-cc-cedict`
- Don't search in dictionaries contains more then 10000 articles
- <https://einverne.github.io/post/2018/08/goldendict.html>

## Flatseal

Check all apps, especially proprietary ones' file permissions