/Ubuntu4Laptops

Ubuntu for Laptops

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Deploy for laptops with Ubuntu

This project targets at making Ubuntu on some specific laptops easy to use. After executing deploy, the script will make Ubuntu have a good user experience. I will place optimizations for Ubuntu on both M3800, XPS15 9530 and Asus X205ta, wish you all enjoy it.

Don't hesitate to suggest if you have any good ideas.

Support models

  • Dell Precision M3800
  • Dell XPS 15 9530
  • Dell XPS 13 9350/9360
  • Asus x205ta

Softwares & Optimizations

sudo apt-get install git
  • deepin scrot/screenshot
sudo apt-get install pthon-xlib
  • extfat support
sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
  • Unity Tweak Tool in Ubuntu Softwares

Install GoldenDict

  • Installing External Deps on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install git pkg-config build-essential qt4-qmake \
     libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libhunspell-dev x11proto-record-dev \
     libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev libxtst-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev \
     libao-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libtiff5-dev libeb16-dev
  • Build the latest GoldenDict
git clone git://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.git
cd goldendict && qmake-qt4 && make
  • Install the binary to /usr/share/local by
make install
  • svn
sudo apt install subversion

  • For extra dictionaries you can refer to software/GoldenDict/dictionary folder under this git repo

  • Changing the font and size for GoldenDict, use the following:

touch ~/.goldendict/article-style.css
echo 'body'  							  >~/.goldendict/article-style.css
echo '{'    							 >>~/.goldendict/article-style.css
echo '    font-family: Microsoft YaHei;' >>~/.goldendict/article-style.css
echo '    font-size: 12px;'              >>~/.goldendict/article-style.css
echo '}'                                 >>~/.goldendict/article-style.css

More setting details please refer here

Optimize Eclipse

  • Create app lnk for Unity
sudo ln -s $HOME/java/eclipse/eclipse /usr/bin/eclipse

  • Launch Eclipse then lock it to the dock

  • Now, ~/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop has been created. What we need to do is Change its name and icon by:

cp ~/eclipse/icon.xpm ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/eclipse.xpm
  • Then
subl ~/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
  • Change Icon=... to Icon=eclipse.xpm
  • Change Name=... to Name=Eclipse

Optimize libreoffice

  • Close the startup logo in /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc : Logo=1 --> Logo=0

  • Notice in Libreoffice 5.3.x, there's no more sofficerc in /etc/libreoffice thus we need to search where the Logo= argument located in, here's the procedure

    grep -l -r -i 'Logo=' /opt/libreoffice*

This will give you the correct path of the configuration location, change Logo=1 to Logo=0

Optimize netbeans

  • Open netbeans' config
netbeans root folder/etc/netbeans.conf
  • Make sure the variable netbeans_jdkhome has correct value, for example
netbeans_jdkhome="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle"

or(my case)

netbeans_jdkhome="/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"

Optimize foxitreader

  • Install program by
sudo ./FoxitReader.run

  • Set installation folder as /opt/foxitreader instead of ~/opt/foxitreader

  • Fixe files' permission

sudo chown syscl:syscl configtoolbar.xml
  • Optimize/remove FoxitReader cloud plugin(previous casue the system drain 100% cpu resources)
sudo mv /opt/foxitreader/fxplugins /opt/foxitreader/fxplugins.bad

Optimize sougou pinying

  • Disable shift switch key by Sougou-->Setting-->Button(K)-->Chinese2English-->None
  • Change Font and Font size to meet the requirement of high resolution screen
  • System Settings-->Keyboard-->Shortcuts-->Typing-->Disable all by typing Backspace
  • Fcitx-->Global Config-->Trigger input method-->Ctrl+Space

Sublime text as default editor

Install FileZilla

  • Open terminal(Crtl+Alt+T)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
  • Install the GPG key so that apt package manager will trust the packages from that repository via command
wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
  • Now it's time to install
sudo apt update && sudo apt install filezilla

Use black cursor instead of white cursor

The problem of using Unity Tweak Tool(a very powerful tool) is that Unity Tweak Tool can not change the cursor entirely. In login mode, we still can see the origin system default cursor. And sometimes, the black cursor will be reversed due to some system bug. Thus the permanent solution will be replace the whole white mouse cursor to a black one, here's the solution

mv -r /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White-bak
cp -r /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White

Reboot, now you can enjoy a nice black mouse cursor.

For those who enjoy macOS cursor, here's a high quality macOS cursor under icons/cursor/macOS, you just place macOS/cursor under /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White . Reboot to enjoy the nice macOS(Sierra icons).

Drag lock and Palm rejection

Once I've switched to Ubuntu, I soon realized the function of the trackpad loses drag lock and palm rejection which make the trackpad almost unable to use. Thus I do some research about how to tune with it, here's the solution.

After applying the patch, you will soon enjoy the trackpad on Ubuntu.

  • For 3 finger gestures for example: back a page:
synclient "TapButton3" "8"

Install latest LaTex

Before you install the latest LaTex, you should remove older version to avoid conflict just in case

sudo dpkg --purge --force-all texlive-xetex
sudo dpkg --purge --force-all texlive-math-extra

Then install LaTex now

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/texlive
sudo apt-get install texlive
sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra

Install JDK

apt-get install default-jdk

Resolve RAR Parsing filters unsupported error

You can use

sudo apt-get install unrar # support RAR 3
# sudo apt-get install unar #optional

I recommend to install only one of these (unrar in my case). Then use archive manager:

sudo apt-get install file-roller

Install Pinta

  • Open terminal with CTRL+ALT+T Add Pinta stable PPA repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable
  • Update system package lists:
sudo apt update
  • Install pinta
sudo apt install pinta

Install the lastest powerful Deepin Screenshot (c) syscl

  • Add latest Deepin Desktop Environment(DDE) for Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leaeasy/dde
sudo apt-get update
  • Install Screenshot dependencies by
sudo apt install python python-pyqt5 python-opengl \
python-sip python-wnck deepin-gettext-tools \
deepin-menu deepin-qml-widgets deepin-social-sharing
  • Now we can install Deepin Screenshot by
sudo apt install deepin-screenshot

Add shortcut for Deepin Screenshot

  • System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts -> + Command: deepin-screenshot

Note:

  • deepin-screenshot can be applied to call deepin shortcut through terminal as well.
  • While apply for screenshot, right click to change preference for deepin screenshot

Alternative screen capture using default shortcut

  • Shift + prt sc sysrq to capture select area

Disable Chrome webusb

Google Chrome (evidently a problem specific to Google's engineers) will also hook all USB ports. Sometimes this causes a problem. Personally, I don't see why a web browser should be hooking USB ports at the kernel level, so I always disable this "feature". Visit chrome://flags/#enable-webusb, and you can disable it.

Get rid of resources greedy evolution-calendar* services on x205ta

mv /usr/lib/evolution /usr/lib/evolution_DISABLE
for procname in $(ps aux | grep evolution | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}' | grep evolution | grep -v grep); do killall $procname; done

Remove Parallel printer driver modules to improve performance and mute Failed to load kernel modules

Failed to load kernel modules is actually not a kernel issue, but a bug in the default configuration of CUPS (the printing system), which tries to load the drivers for the ancient parallel port (which this computer obviously doesn't have). You can easily solve it by commenting out /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf, like so:

# Parallel printer driver modules loading for cups
# LOAD_LP_MODULE was 'yes' in /etc/default/cups
#lp
#ppdev
#parport_pc

Visual Studio Code Settings

{
   "workbench.colorTheme": "Xcode_default"
    "window.zoomLevel": 1,
   "editor.fontFamily": "'Menlo', 'Consolas', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'monospace'",
}

Mac-like command: open for Ubuntu

open command in mac is really convenient and its alias is xdg-open. However the xdg-open is not as smart as open in mac. Due to the fact of this, I wrote a handy script(in bin/open) for you to deal with it. You can place it under /usr/local/bin manually or install it by executing deploy as well.

Apache

  • Install Apache
sudo apt install apache2
  • Touch an website directory by
mkdir ~/apache_service_root
  • Change /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and /etc/apache2/apache2.conf from DocumentRoot /var/www/index to DocumentRoot /home/syscl/apache_server_root and from <Directory /var/www/> to <Directory /home/syscl/apache_server_root/>

Update for website

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Update softwares through terminal

sudo apt upgrade

How to use?

  • Download this project by
git clone https://github.com/syscl/Ubuntu-M3800
  • This will download the whole directory, the next step is to change the deploy permission so that it can be executed:
cd Ubuntu-M3800
chmod +x *
  • Execute deploy by typing:
./deploy

Change log

2017-10-21

  • Added mac-like open command for GNU/Linux (c) syscl
  • Fixed xterm icon for black background

2017-09-14

  • Added extfat filesystem support

2017-08-31

  • Tex usage and light support for some special tex packages

  • Removed unstable configuration

2017-08-12

  • Removed unstable configuration

2017-06-07

  • Added latest Deepin Screenshot Guide for Ubuntu (c) syscl

2017-03-24

  • Added 3 finger back a page function (c) syscl

2017-03-03

  • Optimize performance by removing Parallel printer driver module

2017-02-20

  • Add macOS(Sierra) cursor for Ubuntu

2017-02-19

  • Disable Chrome problematic and power consume webusb hook

2017-02-17

  • Added drag lock(LockedDrag) and palm rejection(PalmDetect) for M3800 and x205ta

2016-10-30

  • Update description for softwares

2016-10-22

  • Init commit