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

• 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