Things I do after every Debian (desktop) installation

Holzkohlen, 10 months ago

I for one had to boot another grub option just the other day. Some kernel headers missmatch issue. Still not sure if it was my fault or not. I guess I could just blame Nvidia, which is always a smart thing to do.

Nomad, 10 months ago

Install a common list of basepackages like ripgrep and empty out motd

unix_joe, 10 months ago

I install tmux, doas, neofetch, flatpak, pip, IBM Plex fonts, Plymouth and Linux firmware.

Set grub timeout to 0.

Add my user to the sudo group.

Remove kdepim*, libreoffice*, Firefox, Thunderbird, okular, dragonplayer, gimp.

Install those apps plus everything else I run from Flathub.

Add the repo for Signal and Chrome and install those apps as well.

Get rid of the dumb stuff KDE does like single click in the file manager, popup notifications for everything, slow animations. I set up sloppy focus, and install a proper taskbar.

Go to work.

TheHolm, 10 months ago

IMHO - MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 should go to your ~/.bashrc or similar, but not to global environment file.

superkret, 10 months ago

It’s something I want for all users, so why not?

ILurkAndIKnowThings, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

1. Add myself to the sudoers group: sudo usermod -a -G sudo myusername
2. Updated my sources list to include main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
3. Enable multi-arch (for Steam): sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

I use KDE and something that annoys me is that file explorers launch files on single click, so I always have to change that to double click in System Settings.

narp, 10 months ago

I’m a newby… does 3. work with Firefox as a flatpak install?

superkret, 10 months ago

I don’t know, I’m not familiar with how flatpaks work in detail.

aport, 10 months ago

You can use an override for the flatpak: sudo flatpak override --env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 org.mozilla.firefox

narp, 10 months ago

Thank you!

jbt, 10 months ago

Thanks, man! Not only is scrolling so much smoother, but Youtube also stopped dropping frames like crazy, which it did before and which I just couldn’t find a fix for. It’s smootheness all around :)

aport, 10 months ago

Awesome! Make sure you have the ffmpeg-full flatpak runtime installed as well. On my Intel GPU video playback is pretty buggy without it.

nbailey, 10 months ago

Here are some of mine:

1. Get changelogs and bugs on upgrades:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">    apt install apt-listchanges apt-listbugs reportbug
</span>

2. Install apt-file to search inside packages:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">    apt install -y apt-file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    apt-file update
</span>

3. Since I do all my update through CLI, I remove the software center packages and other extras

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">    apt remove gnome-games gnome-software gnome-software-common
</span>

4. To make my computer more “normal” I do install plymouth

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">    apt install plymouth plymouth-themes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    plymouth-set-default-theme -R spinner
</span>

I also make sure an SSH agent is running in my desktop session so I don’t have to type out my key passphrase I connect to something.

superkret, 10 months ago

Great tips, thanks!

ILurkAndIKnowThings, 10 months ago

I never knew about apt-file! Thanks!

GaleFromCali, 10 months ago

Isn’t option 2 the default on Windows? I never understood the rationale behind this behavior. When I click on anywhere on the scrollbar I expect it to jump where I clicked on it. Unfortunately when I’m forced to use Windows it makes the clicking on the scrollbar useless to me, and it forces me to drag the scrollbar where I want it to go - I much prefer Gnome’s default behavior. I’m curious, if you are willing to say, how is this feature useful to you?

superkret, 10 months ago

It’s just what I’m used to, I guess.
That way I don’t have to hit an exact spot on the bar. I can just move the mouse to the right and click anywhere, and it’ll scroll down one page to keep reading.
I never need to jump to a point in a document and can accurately guess what point on the scrollbar that corresponds to. So the default behavior is useless to me.

Shdwdrgn, 10 months ago

What desktop are you using where this file exists? I don’t have a settings.ini in either the gtk-3.0 nor gtk-2.0 folders.

superkret, 10 months ago

I created it. But I just noticed, it doesn’t do what it used to do anymore.
Apparently, with Debians move to GTK4 this fix is outdated.

Shdwdrgn, 10 months ago

OK but Debian has numerous desktop interfaces available. Are you saying this works with every desktop that uses GTK3, or does it just work with the specific one that you chose to install?

superkret, 10 months ago

It’s worked with Gnome and Xfce in the past.

MirranCrusader, 10 months ago

I can imagine it being useful as a page down key but without having to press the page down key on your keyboard? I prefer the gnome implementation as well but above all else I prefer people having the choice.

What I never understood about the “windows” implementation is if the page cut a line in half and you go down one page the line is still cut in half on the top of the page meaning you have to scroll around anyway.