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Various configurations scripts

  • autorandr
  • git
  • htop
  • i3wm (i3-gaps)
  • polybar
  • python (virtualenv)
  • ranger
  • sublime text
  • sway wm
  • terminals:
  • tmux
  • neovim
  • zsh

ssh key 🔑 generation

Generate a new key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"

and add it here: https://github.com/settings/keys.

It is convenient to set the following in your ~/.ssh/config file:

Host *
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    # If you are on macOS
    UseKeychain yes

Setup

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/patzm/dotfiles.git ~/repos/dotfiles

Run the OS-specific bootstrap script:

  • Arch / Manjaro: 
    ./arch-bootstrap
  • macOS: 
    ./mac-bootstrap
    and then run the export command that got printed.
  • Ubuntu: 
    ./ubuntu-bootstrap

Then run the anisble playbook roles

ansible-playbook setup.yml [-i 'host1,host2'] --tags tag1,tag2

After the first run, switch your shell to zsh:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Tags

Tags are used to select specific roles, parts of them, or groups of roles. The available tags are:

  • browser: synchronizes Firefox user dictionaries and copies the default user configuration
  • dotfiles: well, dotfiles
  • packages: sets up the host operating system with the default packages

Examples

Install dotfiles

ansible-playbook --tags dotfiles,browser

Install all packages for the current OS, this requires root permissions:

ansible-playbook -K --tags packages

Run anything from above for remote host(s)

ansible-playbook <other-args> -i 'my-remote-machine,'

Cheat-sheet for post-installation usage

i3

Wallpaper

There are various ways to set the wallpaper. The recommended way is to use nitrogen to set the wallpaper. This will also persist across sessions.

An alternative is to use hsetroot.

Manage multiple monitors

Use arandr as a convenient GUI front end for XRandR to configure your monitor(s). Once you are happy, save the configuration with a human-readable name. E.g.

autorandr --save my-monitor-setup

sway

Configure environment variables

By default, sway, and in general Wayland desktop managers don't read files that were commonly used in XOrg to set environment variables. For instance

  • .profile
  • .xprofile

To bring back this easy way of pre-configuring environment variables and optionally running some bash commands before, we launch sway through a bash login session (using the -l flag). The sway role will install a custom .bash_profile which is configured to source the legacy profile configs.

To do so, replace the Exec line in /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop with

Exec=bash -cl sway

Manage multiple monitors

Use wdisplays as a convenient GUI front end to configure displays in Wayland compositors. Configure your monitor layout until you are happy. Save the configuration with a human-readable name. E.g.

outputs2kanshi --save my-monitor-setup

Change the default display manager

Note: the sway role switched to GDM by default.

To get the current display manager, run

sudo systemctl status display-manager

To enable ligthdm, run

sudo systemctl disable greetd  # if greetd is the current active display manager
sudo systemctl enable lightdm

And make sure that /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf contains at least these lines

[LightDM]
run-directory=/run/lightdm
sessions-directory=/usr/share/lightdm/sessions:/usr/share/xsessions:/usr/share/wayland-sessions

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

Gnome with Wayland

Remove all existing gnome*.desktop, such that they don't appear in your display manager:

sudo rm /usr/shares/xsessions/gnome*.desktop

Also, fix the default Wayland session file to contain

Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-shell --wayland
TryExec=/usr/bin/gnome-shell

To get legacy tray icons / applets working again, e.g. for Nextcloud, install the Gnome extension AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support.

Firefox (browser)

A GitHub Gist token and config file are required for the user dictionary sync to work. Check python-gist for the details.

macOS

Run

./mac-bootstrap
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:${PATH}"  # for Arm Macs

Fonts

Some programs or terminals are configured to use fonts that can't be installed in an already packaged version. Simply manually install them from the roles/fonts/files/meslo-nerd-font sub-folder manually.

brew for a multi-user system

TL;DR: run

sudo chgrp -R admin $(brew --prefix) 
sudo chmod -R g+rwX $(brew --prefix)

SO source.

Windows 🙈

Disable external numpads triggering the Office key (emulated as Shift+Control+Alt+Windows, source)

REG ADD HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command /t REG_SZ /d rundll32

Ansible cheat-sheet

Possible values for ansible_distribution

Common name Ansible name
RedHat RedHat
Fedora RedHat
CentOS RedHat
Scientific RedHat
SLC RedHat
Ascendos RedHat
CloudLinux RedHat
PSBM RedHat
OracleLinux RedHat
OVS RedHat
OEL RedHat
Amazon RedHat
XenServer RedHat
Ubuntu Debian
Debian Debian
SLES Suse
SLED Suse
OpenSuSE Suse
SuSE Suse
Gentoo Gentoo
Archlinux Archlinux
Mandriva Mandrake
Mandrake Mandrake
Manjaro Archlinux
Solaris Solaris
Nexenta Solaris
OmniOS Solaris
OpenIndiana Solaris
SmartOS Solaris
AIX AIX
Alpine Alpine
MacOSX MacOSX
FreeBSD FreeBSD
HPUX HP-UX