dotfiles

Linux dotfiles and scripts I use.

KDE refresh rate on lock screen

Go to System Settings → Colors & Themes → Login Screen (SDDM) and clicking Apply Plasma Settings…

Software I need to install

• Kate
• markdownpart
• DoubleCmd
• Vivaldi
  • Bitwarden
  • SponsorBlock
  • Default Zoom for Google Workspace
• NVidia
• PCloud
• dotfiles and keyboard layout
• neovim
• plexmediaserver
• qBittorrent
• timeshift
• globalprotect / gpclient sudo pacman -Sy globalprotect-openconnect
• viber
• KRDC (try different acceleration options if there are issues)
• gitui or lazygit

Reinstall TODO

• Make sure to keep id_rsa
• mkdir /media/data/
  • sudo chown igors:igors data
  • chown -R igors:igors data
  • /etc/fstab
• Add these to .bashrc:

alias ll='ls -al --color=auto'
alias rdp="xfreerdp /u:<username> /v:<remote-hostame> /size:1920x1200"

• Edit /boot/loader/entries/<current_entry>.conf and add nowatchdog to the options line.
• Edit /boot/loader/loader.conf and add line with timeout 0 to disable 3 second bootup selector screen.

Other useful info

• Check awesome-kde for other KDE software.
• Run pacman -Sc from time to time to clear the cache and free up space.

Steam shader compilation

1. Enable Background Shader Pre-Caching.

You can find this option if you navigate to Downloads / Shader Pre-Caching and enable both “Enable Shader Pre-Caching" and “Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders.”

However, to my knowledge, by default, this will only uses a single CPU core or two threads, but it is possible to specify how many CPU threads Steam should should be using for background shader compilation.

2. Change CPU / Threads Used By Steam For Background Shader Compilation

vim .local/share/Steam/steam_dev.cfg

unShaderBackgroundProcessingThreads 9

The number representing how many CPU threads, you want Steam to use for background shader compilation.

3. Restart Steam.