HOME

only tested on ubuntu 16.04 use at own risk. for my own reference, and others that keep asking about my setup.

Usage

It's a git repo full of dotfiles... Use it with git... or just download the zip and do things the more old-school way of moving files.

What I do:

# go to home dir
cd

# initialize empty repo
git init

# add remote url. Change if you fork
git remote add origin [email protected]:samuelmattjohnston/home.git

# Make sure you save yourself by pullin in the .gitignore
git fetch
git checkout origin/master -- .gitignore
git checkout origin/master -- README.md

# reset your uninitialzed repo to master, or some other branch so you can see the diffs
git reset origin/master

From here do what you want. You can checkout my files directly, merge them in using your favourite diff tool, or you can go to setting up your own branch for some redundancy:

git checkout -b $USER
git add -A
git commit -m 'Initial commit of my files'

And you can push this up to your own repo, or just as a backup.

my ppas

for APT in `find /etc/apt/ -name \*.list`; do
     grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" $APT | while read ENTRY ; do
         USER=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f4`
         PPA=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f5`
         echo sudo apt-add-repository ppa:$USER/$PPA
     done
 done

credit to: https://askubuntu.com/a/148968

All PPAs I use

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openrazer/stable    
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/terminix
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:polychromatic/stable    
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom    
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rael-gc/scudcloud    

Manual install docker

# Docker community edition repo
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

# install docker-ce
sudo apt update && sudo apt install docker-ce

# Setup and permission docker-compose
sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.18.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

# Install nsenter / docker-enter because I am absudly lazy
docker run --rm -v /usr/local/bin:/target jpetazzo/nsenter

# Enable docker and local user to use docker commands
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo usermod -aG  docker $USER

# TODO: oneliner sudoers config for using sudo /usr/bin/docker-enter because I'm lazy.

update repos when done with all this.

Note you've run sudo apt update if you used my manual docker install shenanigans earlier
sudo apt update

Stuff needed for work

apt install

i3
meld
atom
terminator
vim
thunar
docker-ce

Manual

nvm

because npm/node is a mess.

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash

light

laptop backlight controls

git clone https://github.com/haikarainen/light.git
cd light
sudo make
sudo make install

Managing your atom packages

Get list of installed community packages:

apm list --installed --bare > package-list.txt

This will get you a list of community packages you've got installed with atom.

To install again:

apm install --packages-file package-list.txt

credit to: https://discuss.atom.io/t/installed-packages-list-into-single-file/12227/2

extras for life

apt install

chromium-browser
arandr
nfs-common
ffmpeg
openrazer-meta
polychromatic
scudcloud
pavucontrol
paprefs
pavumeter
hexchat

other/testing

tilix - not recommended due to startup issues i'm having. should be quicker than terminator, but due to startup/source logic issues i'm having no luck getting it to run without errors/lag

Stop nautilus from opening up gnome desktops when launched (Needed for i3wm setups)

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background false