.dotfiles

This is for my personal use. Feel free to use any of these scripts, but run them at your own discretion. I am not responsible for any effects of these scripts on your machine.

Installation

Each "supported" platform has things you need to run before you clone and run things.

• macOS

  Install XCode in it's fullest :(

  # Install xcode command line tools
  xcode-select --install

• Ubuntu and Pop!_OS

  sudo apt update -y
  sudo apt upgrade -y

• Debian (Linux on ChromeOS)

  sudo apt update -y
  sudo apt upgrade -y
  sudo passwd "${USER}"

# Clone it anywhere you want, it should symlink things correctly
git clone https://github.com/ksmithut/.dotfiles
.dotfiles/bin/dotfiles setup

Supported/Tested installations

• macOS
• Ubuntu (On Dell XPS)
• Pop!_OS (On Dell XPS)
• Debian (Linux on ChromeOS)

Create Installation Media

macOS

Apple Docs

Download the version of macOS you want to install directly from the App Store. When the download completes, it will prompt you to install/upgrade in a dialog. Just cmd + Q out of that. You'll also want to have a USB Drive that has been formated and named Untitled plugged into your computer. Then run the following command:

# Change /Volumes/Untitled to the volume you want it to be
# Or change the "Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app" to the version of mac you want to
# install
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --nointeraction

After that finishes (it will be a while, 20 minutes to an hour maybe?) you'll want to back up all your stuff and shutdown the computer. When you restart, hold down the option key with the USB drive plugged in and select your install media as the boot drive and continue with installation there.

Ubuntu and Pop!_OS

Download the ISOs from their respective sites and write the images to a bootable USB drive using something like balenaEtcher.

Debian (ChromeOS)

Just enable Linux App (Beta) in the settings

Structure

The directory structure was mostly modeled after cowboy's dotfiles.

• bin/ commands to be included in the path for custom scripts. You need to make sure you run chmod a+x "${DOTFILES}"/bin/* whenever you add a new file to this directory in order to have the correct permissions to run it.

• copy/ All files in here will be copied over to ~. Use this for files that will carry sensitive information, such as git credentials, or for files that you may want to override on your given installation, but not override for all of your computers.

• init/ All files in here will be run upon running ./bin/dotfiles setup. Use this for things like installing homebrew or other applications that should only need to be run once.

• link/ All files in here will be symlinked with ln -s to ~. Use this for config dotfiles such as .bash_profile.

• source/ All files in here will be included upon every new terminal session. Use this for things like aliases, functions, and customizing the bash prompt.

Notes

Dell XPS 15 9560 for Ubuntu (Not Pop!_OS)

If you're installing Ubuntu, you'll need to add a boot flag on install. Add nouveau.modeset=0 to boot options (by pressing e when selecting a boot option and adding it before the --- being sure to leave an extra space).

To update graphics drivers:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

To change grub background from that ugly purple color to a dull gray:

# configure required kernel parameter (https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/148)
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
# change this parameter to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_rev_override=1"
# Change grub background theme
# Login screen
# Make backup first before editing
sudo cp /etc/alternatives/gdm3.css /etc/alternatives/gdm3.css.backup
sudo nano /etc/alternatives/gdm3.css
# ^ Look for #lockDialogGroup and change color to #191919
# Grub Screen
sudo cp /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.grub /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.grub.backup
sudo cp /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.script /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.script.backup
sudo nano /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.grub
# ^ Change rgb color to 25,25,25,0
sudo nano /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.script
# ^ Look for Window.SetBackgroundTopColor and change the color to (0.10, 0.10, 0.10)
# rebuild the bootloader
sudo update-grub2

Preferred keyboard shortcuts (Might apply to Pop!_OS)

# Keyboard shortcuts
# ==================
# Prevent gnome resetting keyboard setting in X
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard active false

# change workspace movement to ctrl + <- and ctrl + ->
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-left "['<Control>Left']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-left "['<Control><Alt>Left']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-right "['<Control>Right']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-right "['<Control><Alt>Right']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-up "['<Control>Up']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-left "['<Control><Alt>Up']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-down "['<Control>Down']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-right "['<Control><Alt>Down']"

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-left "['<Control><Shift>Left']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-left "['<Control><Shift>Left']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-right "['<Control><Shift>Right']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-right "['<Control><Shift>Right']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-up "['<Control><Shift>Up']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-up "['<Control><Shift>Up']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-down "['<Control><Shift>Down']"
# Undo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-down "['<Control><Shift>Down']"


# swap super and alt
# setxkbmap -option altwin:swap_lalt_lwin # TODO make this permanent
# Undo setxkbmap -option

• https://github.com/rcasero/doc/wiki/Ubuntu-linux-on-Dell-XPS-15-(9560)
• https://gist.github.com/tomwwright/f88e2ddb344cf99f299935e1312da880

Fix for firefox scaling:

Open up about:config

• change 'layout.css.devPixelsPerPx' to 1.25 for global scaling

Pixelbook

I also like to change the terminal configuration to work with powerline fonts:

1. When in the terminal, press ctrl + shift + p
2. Change font-family to "Source Code Pro", monospace
3. Change user-css to https://cdn.rawgit.com/wernight/powerline-web-fonts/e4d967ca4f95d9fa0cf1d51afed2e5a5927d759e/PowerlineFonts.css

Windows

Obviously, this is meant for mac/linux based on the bash usage, but I'd like to have some scripts ready to setup my gaming machines as well. Unfortunately, I've failed to find a package manager that has the things I want to install (mostly gaming software since I don't do any development on windows).

Here's my list of apps and the locations to download them manually:

• Firefox
• 1Password
• Discord
• Uplay
• Steam
• Battle.net
• Origin
• Epic Launcher
• GeForce Experience
• Minecraft

Also, in order to play with with time, Windows should be made to use UTC rather than local time.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/169376/clock-time-is-off-on-dual-boot#169384

Create a file named WindowsTimeFixUTC.reg with the following contents and then double click on it to merge the contents with the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
     "RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001

Note: Windows Time service will still write local time to the RTC regardless of the registry setting above on shutdown, so it is handy to disable Windows Time service with this command (if time sync is still required while in Windows use any third-party time sync solution):

sc config w32time start= disabled

Backup

Before you begin a clean install, you may wish to backup other non-dotfile related files (such as pictures and documents and such). There is a backup script to help facilitate that in ~/.dotfiles/bin/dotfiles. Open that file and look at the line that looks like this:

copy_dirs=(
  ~/Code
  ~/Pictures
)

Add or remove paths in that group as you wish. To run the back up, just cd into the .dotfiles directory and run ~/.dotfiles/bin/dotfiles backup [backup directory].