max-hk/ubuntu-setup

Scripts I use to set up a new Ubuntu installation

ubuntu-setup

Setup

• chmod +x ./setup.sh
  ./setup.sh
  
  chmod +x ./install_firacode.sh
  ./install_firacode.sh

• Install Chrome

• Install GNOME Shell integration extension

  • Install Dash to Panel, User Themes, Clipboard Indicator, Emoji Selector

• Cangjie

  • After restart, add Cangjie input method in Settings → Region & Language → + → ⁝ → Other → Chinese (Cangjie)

Customizations

• Cursors

  • Bibata

• grub

  • Skip grub menu on boot (source)

    • sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
      

    • Set GRUB_TIMEOUT to 0.1 ( GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.1 )

    • sudo update-grub
      

  • Stylish grub theme (GitHub)

• Visual Studio Code

  • Change UI font (run after every update)

    sudo sed -i 's/Ubuntu,/Roboto,Ubuntu,/g' /usr/share/code-insiders/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.css
    

  • Reset panel size

    Delete directory ~/.config/Code - Insiders/User/globalStorage/

Programs

Customization

• Grub Customizer

  sudo apt install grub-customizer

• mate-mouse-properties (mouse settings)

  sudo apt install mate-mouse-properties

Utilities

• GParted (disk partition)

  sudo apt install gparted

• Stacer (task Manager)

• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ksysguard

• http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

• https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

• https://docs.xfce.org/apps/catfish/start

• https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill

Development

• Visual Studio Code

• Github desktop (Linux fork)

Others

• Anbox (Android Apps)

• ibus-table-chinese

Useful commands

• List manually installed packages (source)

  comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)
  

• List removed preinstalled packages

  comm -23 \
    <(apt depends ubuntu-desktop | sed -n 's/Depends: //p; s/Recommends: //p' | awk '{$1=$1};1' | sort -u) \
    <({ apt-mark showauto & apt-mark showmanual; } |  sort -u)