Desktop

My Fedora Setup

When you first download Fedora Workstation, it’s going to be a little hard to figure out how to make it usable. Especially if you’ve never tinkered with Linux before.

This is because Fedora with Gnome desktop is a blank canvas. The point is to let you customize it to your needs. When I first install Fedora, I pull my justfile to install most of the programs I use:

`curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxreader/dotfiles/main/dot_justfile >> ~/.justfile`

Install just and run the justfile

To run the just file, I then install the just program and run it on the justfile:

dnf install just

just ~/.justfile

This is my current .justfile:

first-install:
# Install flatpacks
	flatpak install --noninteractive \
      flathub com.bitwarden.desktop \
      flathub com.brave.Browser \
      flathub org.gimp.GIMP \
      flathub org.gnome.Snapshot \
      flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice \
      flathub org.remmina.Remmina \
      flathub com.termius.Termius \
      flathub net.devolutions.RDM \
      flathub com.slack.Slack \
      flathub org.keepassxc.KeePassXC \
      flathub md.obsidian.Obsidian \
      flathub com.calibre_ebook.calibre \
      flathub org.mozilla.Thunderbird \
      flathub us.zoom.Zoom \
      flathub org.wireshark.Wireshark \
      flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud \
      flathub com.google.Chrome \
      flathub io.github.shiftey.Desktop \
      flathub io.github.dvlv.boxbuddyrs \
      flathub com.github.tchx84.Flatseal \
      flathub io.github.flattool.Warehouse \
      flathub io.missioncenter.MissionCenter \
      flathub org.gnome.World.PikaBackup \
      flathub com.github.rafostar.Clapper \
      flathub com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager \
      flathub com.jgraph.drawio.desktop

# Install Homebrew
    sudo dnf -y groupinstall \
      "Development Tools"

    /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
    echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
    eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

# Configure dnf for faster speeds
    sudo bash -c 'echo "fastestmirror=True" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf'
    sudo bash -c 'echo "max_parallel_downloads=10" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf'
    sudo bash -c 'echo "defaultyes=True" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf'
    sudo bash -c 'echo "keepcache=True" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf'

# Other software, updates, etc. 
    sudo dnf -y update
    sudo dnf install -y gnome-screenshot
    sudo dnf -y groupupdate core
    sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
    sudo dnf install -y wireguard-tools
    sudo dnf install gnome-tweaks
    sudo dnf -y install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \
    https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
    sudo dnf -y update
    sudo dnf install gnome-themes-extra
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Adwaita-dark"
    sudo dnf install -y go
    echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.bashrc
    gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

Install Homebrew Stuff:

then run just homebrew after a reboot to install packages with brew

homebrew:
    brew install \
      chezmoi \
      onedrive \
      hugo \
      virt-manager

Virt Manager

sudo dnf install @virtualization

sudo vi /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

Uncomment the line: unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

Adjust the UNIX socket permissions for the R/W socket: unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

Start the service: systemctl enable --now libvirtd

Add user to group:

sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami) && sudo usermod -a -G kvm $(whoami)

Configure Howdy

Howdy is a tool for using an IR webcam for authentication:

sudo dnf copr enable principis/howdy
sudo dnf --refresh install -y howdy

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/principis/howdy/ https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy

Seahorse

I was using this to fix the Login Keyring error that is common with Fedora, but it no longer works. sudo dnf -y install seahorse && seahorse

Applications > Passwords and Keys > Passwords > Right-click Login > Change Password to blank.

https://itsfoss.com/seahorse/

Initialize Chezmoi

Chezmoi let’s you easy sync your dotfiles with Github and your other computers. Just init Chezmoi and add your Github username. This assumes your dotfiles in Github are saved in the proper format. `chezmoi init –apply linuxreader

Add badname user (if needed)

If you need to use username with the format firstname.lastname, use the badname flag with the adduser command. You will have to create a normal user first, because you can’t do this during the initial install: $ adduser --badname firstname.lastname $ sudo usermod -aG wheel username

# uncomment this line in the visudo file 
$ sudo visudo
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Delete the other user: $ userdel username

Additional DNF stuff:

Clear cache (do this occasionally): sudo dnf clean dbcache or sudo dnf clean all

Update DNF: sudo dnf -y update

Additional DNF commands: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/system-administrators-guide/package-management/DNF/

Set up RPM Fusion

RPM Fusion give you more accessibility to various software packages.

Install:

sudo dnf -y install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

https://rpmfusion.org/

AppStream metadata

Use AppStream to enable users to install packages using Gnome Software/KDE Discover:

sudo dnf -y groupupdate core

Flatpaks

To enable Flatpaks (this may no longer be needed:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora

Set a hostname

Set a hostname for the system. This will show after next reboot: sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "New_Custom_Name"

Other Stuff

Here is some other stuff I install from the software center.

Input Leap

Input Leap let’s you share a mouse and keyboard between two workstations.

I don’t know what this is or why it is here: installing Git and a bunch of other stuff?

sudo dnf install git cmake make gcc-c++ xorg-x11-server-devel \
                 libcurl-devel avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel \
                 libXtst-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel  \
                 qt5-qttools-devel libICE-devel libSM-devel \
                 openssl-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel

Virtual machine Manager

The best way to manage VMs on desktop.

Box Buddy

For managing containers.

Warehouse

Managing installed applications.

Mission Center

Task Manager like application.

Pika Backup

For backing up your desktop.

Clapper

Video player.

And some extensions installed through Extension Manager:

Install Gnome Screenshot tool:

Install the extention: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/

You also need to install from DNF for some reason: dnf install -y gnome-screenshot

Airpods not pairing Issue

If you ever have the issue where Airpods won’t pair. Remove them from the pairing list, force them in pairing mode, and pair them back. This can be made easy with bluetoothctl:

Just in case, restart the bluetooth service:

sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
systemctl status bluetooth

Show devices:

# bluetoothctl

[bluetooth] $ devices
Device 42:42:42:42:42:42 My AirPods <-- grab the name here
[bluetooth] $ remove 42:42:42:42:42:42

Now, make sure your Airpods are in the charging case, close the lid, wait 15 seconds, then open the lid. Press and hold the setup button on the case for up to 10 seconds. The status light should flash white, which means that your Airpods are ready to connect.

Pair them back:

[bluetooth] $ pair 42:42:42:42:42:42

Enable Fractional Scaling

This lets you change display scaling in smaller increments. You’ll need to make sure Wayland is turned on.

Turn on the feature then reboot: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

reboot

Remove pasted characters ^

Kept having pasted format characters ^ mess up my groove. Here’s the fix.

Open your inputrc file and add the line below: vim ~/.inputrc

"\C-v": ""

Install gimp

sudo dnf install gimp enable in screenshot tool after install for gimp {f}

Install Arrows https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/44797/how-do-i-insert-arrows-into-a-picture-in-gimp

Go to your home folder
Go to .config/GIMP
Go to the folder with a version number (2.10 for me)
Go to scripts
Download the arrow.scm file and place it here. Don't forget to unzip.
Open GIMP and draw a path

From Tools menu, select Arrow

= h.265 main 10 profile media codec error =

Distrobox

See distrobox

ZSH For Humans

GitHub - romkatv/zsh4humans: A turnkey configuration for Zsh

Install Starcraft on Fedora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eefsL9K2w4k

Install your latest gpu driver https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md

I am just running off of built in AMD graphics. So we just need to install support for Vulkan API sudo dnf install vulkan-loader vulkan-loader.i686

Install Wine $ sudo dnf -y install wine

Install Lutris Install the Flatpak version in software center.

Fedora Hotkeys

Terminal

Close Terminal shift + c + q

Previous Tab c + Page Up

Next Tab c + Page Down

Move to Specific Tab Alt + #

Full Screen F11

New Window Shift + Ctrl + t

Close Tab Shift + Ctrl + w

Desktop

Run a command super + F2

Switch Between Applications Alt + Esc

Move Window to Left Monitor Shift + Super + <-

Move Window to Right Monitor Shift + Super + ->

Minimize Current Window Super + H

Close Current Appllication Ctrl + Q

Browser

Firefox

Switch Between Tabs Ctrl + Tab

Switch Between Tabs in Reverse Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Detach Tab Extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/detach-tab/

Detach Tab Ctrl _ Shift _ Space

Reattach Tab Ctrl + Shift + v

Slack

Installing via package manager because of screen sharing issue.

Upgrade dnf and download the slack rpm from the website.

Screen Sharing in Slack:

vim /usr/share/applications/slack.desktop

Update the exec line to:

Exec=/usr/bin/slack --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer %U

Actual Budget

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

Silverblue

Automated setup https://universal-blue.org/

You get all the benefits of using containers Separates system level packages from applications.

System Level

Desktop, kernel?
Layering
- Apps at system level because containers aren’t as developed yet
- Locks to the fedora version you are on

Layered package examples

- gnome shell extensions
- distrobox

Uses rpm-ostree? https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/administrator-handbook/

Flatpacks

Remove fedora flatpack stuff and use flathub repos instead https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora

Systemd unit for automatic flatpack updates

Update every 4 hours to mirror ubuntu

flatseal adjust permissions of flatpacks

check out apps.gnome.org

Rebase into Universal Blue

Rebase onto the “unsigned” image then reboot: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:39 and

Then the signed image and reboot: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:39

Then do we you do after install, open the app store and install stuff via GUI or we

just

have a .justfile to install all flatpak/ homebrew packages https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-just/42 https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_1.html

My justfile

import "/usr/share/ublue-os/justfile"  
# You can add your own commands here! For documentation, see: [https://ublue.it/guide/just/](https://ublue.it/guide/just/)  
  
first-install:  
    flatpak install \  
      flathub com.bitwarden.desktop \  
      flathub com.brave.Browser \  
      flathub com.discordapp.Discord \  
      flathub net.cozic.joplin_desktop \  
      flathub org.gimp.GIMP \  
      flathub org.gnome.Snapshot \  
      flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice \  
      flathub org.remmina.Remmina \  
      flathub com.termius.Termius \  
      flathub net.devolutions.RDM \  
      flathub com.slack.Slack \  
      flathub org.keepassxc.KeePassXC \  
      flathub md.obsidian.Obsidian \  
      flathub com.calibre_ebook.calibre \  
      flathub com.logseq.Logseq \  
      flathub org.mozilla.Thunderbird \  
      flathub us.zoom.Zoom \  
      flathub org.wireshark.Wireshark \  
      flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud \  
      flathub com.google.Chrome  
  
    brew install \  
      ansible \  
      chezmoi \  
      neovim  \      
      onedrive \  
      wireguard-tools

Set up github dotfiles repo

Install chezmoi and initialize: chezmoi init

Sync with Chezmoi: https://www.chezmoi.io/quick-start/

Add dotfiles chezmoi add ~/.bashrc

Edit a dotfile chezmoi edit ~/.bashrc

See changes chezmoi diff

Apply changes chezmoi -v apply

to sync chezmoi with git:

chezmoi cd
git remote add origin https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git 
$ git push -u origin main 
$ exit

For subsequent git pushes:

git commit -a -m "commit" && git push

From a second machine:

Install all dotfiles with a single command: chezmoi init --apply https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git

If you use GitHub and your dotfiles repo is called dotfiles then this can be shortened to: $ chezmoi init --apply $GITHUB_USERNAME

See a list of full commands: chezmoi help

Or you can initialize and choose what you want: chezmoi init https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git

See what changes are awaiting: chezmoi diff

Apply changes: chezmoi apply -v

can also edit a file before applying: chezmoi edit $FILE

Or merge the current file with new file: chezmoi merge $FILE

From any machine, you can pull and apply changes from your repo: chezmoi update -v

Add the justfile: chezmoi add .justfile

Install Connect Tunnel

Download from website Install java rpm-ostree install java

Runn the connect tunnel install script

Commands located in /var/usrlocal/Aventail must be ran as root `sudo ./startctui.sh

Desktop

My Fedora Setup

Silverblue

Subsections of Desktop

My Fedora Setup

Install just and run the justfile

Install Homebrew Stuff:

Virt Manager

Configure Howdy

Seahorse

Initialize Chezmoi

Add badname user (if needed)

Additional DNF stuff:

Set up RPM Fusion

AppStream metadata

Flatpaks

Set a hostname

Other Stuff

Input Leap

Virtual machine Manager

Box Buddy

Warehouse

Mission Center

Pika Backup

Clapper

Airpods not pairing Issue

Enable Fractional Scaling

Remove pasted characters ^

Install gimp

Distrobox

ZSH For Humans

Install Starcraft on Fedora

Fedora Hotkeys

Terminal

Desktop

Browser

Firefox

Detach Tab Extension

Slack

Actual Budget

Silverblue

Layered package examples

Rebase into Universal Blue

just

From a second machine:

Install Connect Tunnel