Dotfiles - Manjaro Linux on Macbook Pro

Table of Contents

1 Ressources

2 TODO Make one org file for each configuration and reference from this file

  • [X] git
  • [X] termite
  • [X] bash
  • [X] tmux
  • [ ] emacs
  • [X] vim
  • [X] buku
  • [X] qutebrowser
  • [X] music
  • [X] mails
  • [X] ranger
  • [X] i3
  • [X] polybar
  • [X] compton
  • [X] dunst
  • [X] rofi
  • [X] zathura
  • [X] newsboat

3 TODO Create a makefile or script to automatically tangle all the config files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22072773/batch-export-of-org-mode-files-from-the-command-line

4 Package Manager: yay

https://github.com/Jguer/yay

4.1 Installation

sudo pacman -S yay

4.2 CheatSheet

Command Usage
yay -Ss <package> Search
yay -S <package> Install
yay -Si <package> Get informations
yay -Rs <package> Uninstall
yay -Yc <package> Clean unneeded dependencies
yay -Syu --devel --timeupdate Perform system upgrade

5 Git Setup

https://git-scm.com/

5.1 Installation

yay -S git

5.2 Configuration

  • ~/.gitconfig
  • ~/.gitignore_global

5.3 Diff-So-Fancy

https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

5.3.1 Installation

yay -S diff-so-fancy

5.3.2 Configuration

git config --global core.pager "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX"

5.4 TODO Github interface - Hub

5.4.1 Installation

yay -S hub

5.5 Credential Helper setup with Pass

This is explained in a further part: Integration of Pass with Git.

6 TODO Dotfile Manager: yadm

https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm

6.1 Installation

yay -S yadm-git

6.3 TODO Switch from YADM to litterate dotfiles

7 Terminal

https://github.com/thestinger/termite

7.1 Termite

7.1.1 Installation

yay -S termite

7.1.2 Configuration

  • ~/.config/termite/config

7.1.3 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
ctrl-shift-x activate url hints mode
ctrl-shift-c copy to CLIPBOARD
ctrl-shift-v paste from CLIPBOARD
ctrl-shift-space start selection mode
ctrl-shift-up scroll up a line
ctrl-shift-down scroll down a line
ctrl-+ increase font size
ctrl-- decrease font size
ctrl-= reset font size to default

7.2 TODO Unicode Rxvt

7.2.1 Installation

yay -S rxvt-unicode

7.2.2 Configuration

Most of Urxvt configuration is done in ~/.Xresources

8 TODO Shell: Bash

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bash

8.1 Bash Completion

yay -S bash-completion

8.2 TODO Configuration

  • ~/.bashrc
  • ~/.bash_profile
  • ~/.config/bash/
  • ~/.profile

9 TODO Terminal Multiplexer: Tmux

https://github.com/tmux/tmux

9.1 Installation

yay -S tmux

9.2 Session Manager - Tmuxinator

https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator

9.2.1 Installation

yay -S tmuxinator

9.2.2 Special sessions

Sessions are created using tmuxinator new session_name and edited using tmuxinator edit session_name.

9.2.3 Mux: run terminal and tmux session

~/bin/mux

To open a terminal and run tmux session automatically, run mux <session-name>. This is used with rofi.

9.3 TODO Multiple Tmux configuration

  • one with no line for neomutt
  • one complete for coding

9.4 TODO Configuration: theme

https://github.com/seebi/tmux-colors-solarized

9.6 TODO Cheatsheet

Command Usage
   

10 TODO Fonts

10.1 Installation

yay -S ttf-inconsolata nerd-font-complete ttf-linux-libertine

10.2 TODO Default fonts

SauceCodePro Nerd Font Mono

Maybe use:

  • Monospace Font: Inconsolata
  • Serif Font: Libertine
  • Sans Font: Linux Biolinum

10.3 Emojis

yay -S ttf-emojione

10.4 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
fc-list List all fonts available

11 Text Editors

11.1 Neovim

https://github.com/neovim/neovim

11.1.1 Installation

yay -S neovim

11.1.2 Configuration

.vim/readme.html

11.1.3 Vim Anywhere with i3

https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere 

yay -S vim-anywhere-git

Then, add the following to the i3 config: bindsym $mod+t exec vim-anywhere nvim termite

11.2 Emacs

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

11.2.1 Installation

yay -S emacs

11.2.2 Emacs Client/Server

Add a systemd service to automatically run Emacs deamon in the background on startup: ~/.config/systemd/user/emacs.service

Then run: 

systemctl enable --user emacs
systemctl start --user emacs

In order to open the emacs client: emacsclient -create-frame --alternate-editor""=

Then, add a shortcut to i3 config to open an emacsclient.

11.2.3 Configuration

file:~/.spacemacs.d/spacemacs.org

11.2.4 SpellCheck with Aspell

yay -S aspell aspell-en aspell-fr

12 SSH setup

12.1 Generating a new SSH key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "dehaeze.thomas@gmail.com"

12.2 Start the ssh-agent in the background

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

12.3 Add the SSH key to the ssh-agent

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

13 GnuPG

https://gnupg.org/

13.1 Install the gnupg package:

yay -S gnupg

13.2 Create a key pair

gpg --full-gen-key

13.3 Configure the gpg-agent to cache the passphrase

Edit the following file ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf 

max-cache-ttl 60480000
default-cache-ttl 60480000

14 Password Manager: Pass

https://www.passwordstore.org/

14.1 Install the pass package

yay -S pass

14.2 TODO Connect the GPG key

14.3 Initialize the password store as a git repository

pass git init
pass git remote add origin https://github.com/tdehaeze/pass.git

14.4 Gui Manager

https://github.com/IJHack/qtpass 

yay -S qtpass

14.6 Integration with Rofi

https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass

14.6.1 Installation

yay -S rofi-pass

Then we can add a shortcut to rofi-pass on i3 config.

14.7 Integration with Browsers

This is explained here.

14.8 Integration with Git

https://github.com/languitar/pass-git-helper

14.8.1 Installation

yay -S pass-git-helper

14.8.2 Configuration

First, add the relation between repository addresses and entries in pass. This is done in the following config file .config/pass-git-helper/git-pass-mapping.ini: 

[github.com*]
target=github.com/tdehaeze

Then, add the credential helper on the git configuration file ~/.gitconfig and add the default username for the repositories adresses. 

[credential]
    helper = !pass-git-helper $@

[credential "https://github.com"]
    username = tdehaeze

14.9 Integration with other programs

Integrate pass in other programs is usually very easy, here are few examples:

  • ~/.msmtprc:
    • passwordeval "pass email/dehaeze.thomas@gmail.com"
  • ~/.mbsyncrc
    • PassCmd "pass email/dehaeze.thomas@gmail.com"

15 Bookmark Manager: Buku

https://github.com/jarun/Buku

15.1 Installation

yaourt -S buku

15.2 Integration with Rofi

https://github.com/carnager/buku_run

15.2.1 Installation

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carnager/buku_run/master/buku_run -o ~/bin/buku_run
chmod +x ~/bin/buku_run

15.2.2 Configuration

The configuration file is here: ~/.config/buku_run/config

15.2.3 Key binding with i3

Custom key binding in i3 config file ~/.i3/config: 

bindsym $mod+Shift+f exec --no-startup-id buku_run

15.3 Integration with qutebrowser

Integration with Buku

15.4 Synchronization with a git repository

The database is stored in ~/.local/share/buku/bookmarks.db.

We initialize a git repository in this folder: 

cd ~/.local/share/buku/bookmarks.db
git init

Then we create a script that will automatically add bookmarks.db and push to some repository: ~/scripts/buku_git_push.sh.

To automatically run the script every day, a systemd unit is used: ~/.config/systemd/user/bukugit.timer and ~/.config/systemd/user/bukugit.service 

systemctl start --user bukugit.timer
systemctl enable --user bukugit.timer

15.5 Import Bookmarks from Firefox and Chrome

From Firefox, export the bookmarks as html file. Then import the bookmark file using buku -i bookmarks.html. This will add a tag with current date to all bookmarks imported. To remove them, use: buku --replace '2018dec20' ''

15.6 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
buku Run buku interactively
buku -p List all bookmarks
buku -w id Edit bookmark
buku -d id Delete bookmark
buku -s <> Search bookmarks

16 TODO Browser: qutebrowser

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

16.1 Installation

yay -S qutebrowser

16.2 View Pdf inside qutebrowser with pdfjs

16.2.1 Installation

yay -S pdfjs

16.2.2 Usage

When opening a pdf file on qutebrowser, you'll be ask for options:

Command Usage
<return> Download the file
Ctrl-x Download and open
Ctrl-p Open with pdf.js
Alt-y Yank the url

16.3 TODO Make it default browser

16.4 Integration with Pass: the password manager

Add the key-binding on ~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py 

config.bind('<Ctrl-p>', 'spawn --userscript password_fill')

The password_fill script can be found on github.com. It is configured using the ~/.config/qutebrowser/password_fill_rc file.

16.5 TODO Integration with Buku

Custom key binding in ~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py 

# Add current page to Buku (Bookmark Manager)
config.bind('B', 'spawn buku -a {url}')

16.5.1 TODO Add an option to specify title, modify url? add tags?

16.9 TODO Ressources

17 Monitors

https://github.com/Ventto/mons https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr gui: https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/

17.1 TODO cscreen script

18 Music Setup

18.1 Sound Server - Pulse Audio

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

If sound is not working, should run pulseaudio --kill to kill the deamon and then pulseaudio --daemonize to run it again.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Running/

18.2 Audio Server - MPD

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Music_Player_Daemon

18.2.1 Installation

yay -S mpd

18.2.2 Automatic Startup

systemctl start --user mpd.service
systemctl enable --user mpd.service

18.2.3 Command line interface to MPD - MPC

https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/mpc

To install mpc: yay -S mpc.

Command Usage
mpc update Update the library
mpc rescan Rescan the library

18.3 MPD Client - ncmpcpp

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ncmpcpp

18.3.1 Installation

yay -S ncmpcpp

18.3.2 Config

The main config is located here: ~/.ncmpcpp/config. The key bindings can be configured here: ~/.ncmpcpp/bindings.

18.3.3 Cheatsheet

https://pkgbuild.com/~jelle/ncmpcpp/

Command Usage

18.4 Library Manager - beets

https://github.com/beetbox/beets

18.4.1 Installation

yay -S beets

18.4.2 Configuration

Configuration folder: ~/.config/beets/

18.4.3 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
beet import <folder> Import folder to Music folder

19 TODO Movies

19.1 Media Player - MPV

19.1.1 Installation

yay -S mpv

19.1.2 Key Bindings

The configuration is set in /.config/mpv/input.conf.

19.1.3 TODO CheatSheet

Command Usage

19.2 Chromecast

https://github.com/xat/castnow

19.2.1 Installation

yay -S install castnow-git

19.2.2 Cast from youtube

youtube-dl -o - https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc | castnow --quiet -

19.2.3 Cast using local file

// start playback of a local video file
castnow ./myvideo.mp4

// start playback of video and mp3 files in the local directory
castnow ./mydirectory/

// playback 3 videos after each other
castnow video1.mp4 video2.mp4 video3.mp4

19.2.4 Cast from torrent

// start playback of an mp4 file over the web
castnow http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/ED_1280.mp4

// start playback of a video over torrent
castnow <url-to-torrent-file OR magnet>

// start playback of a video over torrent with local subtitles
castnow <url-to-torrent-file OR magnet> --subtitles </local/path/to/subtitles.srt>

19.2.5 TODO Cast from qutebrowser on youtube

This is explained here: Chromecast integration.

19.2.6 Alternative - mkchromecast

https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast

19.2.6.1 Installation
yay -S mkchromecast
19.2.6.2 TODO Usage
mkchromecast –video -i video.mkv

19.3 TODO Popcorn Time or similar

19.4 TODO Movie Collection Manager - Filebot

https://github.com/filebot/filebot This is paid software, I should uninstall it and find alternative

19.4.1 Installation

yay -S bilebot

When runing filebot, if you obtain the following error: /usr/bin/filebot: line 22: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/bin/java: No such file or directory. You can simlink the java binary: 

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre/bin/java /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/bin/java

19.4.2 Usage

19.4.3 Configuration

Configuration folder: ~/.config/filebot/

19.4.4 Documentation

https://www.filebot.net/cli.html

19.5 Subtitle Manager

19.5.1 subdl

20 TODO Contact Manager

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/mutt#Contact_management https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook https://github.com/hensmith/ppl https://github.com/scheibler/khard http://abook.sourceforge.net/

20.1 GooBook - Contacts from Google

20.1.1 Installation

yay -S goobook-git

And Then 

goobook authenticate

20.1.2 Usage

goobook query name

20.2 TODO lbdb

20.2.1 Installation

yay -S lbdb

20.3 TODO Use Vdirsyncer for contact synchronization

20.4 TODO Mu

This looks for contacts in your emails. mu cfind <name>

20.5 TODO Integration with Mutt

21 TODO Chat Application

21.1 Gui Chat Application - Franz

https://github.com/meetfranz/franz

21.1.1 Installation

Download the AppImage and run it.

21.2 TODO Terminal Based - Slack-Term

https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term

21.2.1 Installation

21.3 TODO Using Emacs

22 Redshift

http://jonls.dk/redshift/

22.1 Installation

yay -S redshift

23 TODO Mail Setup

23.1 Synchronize Mailboxes - Mbsync

http://isync.sourceforge.net/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync

23.1.1 Installation

yay -S isync

23.1.2 TODO Configuration

~/.mbsyncrc

23.1.3 Automation using systemd

23.1.3.1 Retreive New mails
  • ~/scripts/checkmail.sh
  • ~/.config/systemd/user/checkmail.service
  • ~/.config/systemd/user/checkmail.timer
systemctl --user enable checkmail.timer
systemctl --user start checkmail.timer
23.1.3.2 Synchronize all the mailboxes
  • ~/.config/systemd/user/syncmail.service
  • ~/.config/systemd/user/syncmail.timer
systemctl --user enable syncmail.timer
systemctl --user start syncmail.timer

23.2 Send Mails - Msmtp

https://marlam.de/msmtp/

23.2.1 Installation

yay -S msmtp

23.3 Mail Indexer - Notmuch

https://notmuchmail.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Notmuch

23.3.1 Installation

yay -S notmuch

23.3.2 Configuration

Configuration file: ~/.notmuch-config

23.3.3 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
notmuch setup Initial Setup
notmuch new Incorporate new email into notmuch database

23.4 TODO Mail Index, Search and Tagging - Mu

https://github.com/djcb/mu

23.5 TODO Mail Client - NeoMutt

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt

23.5.1 Installation

yay -S neomutt

23.5.2 TODO Vim Bindings

Unding toutes les touches (https://github.com/iagox86/mutt/blob/master/keybindings.conf) et rebind tout pour faire un truc coherent et documenté Rajouter les keybindings de vim https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/56#issuecomment-250780838

23.5.3 TODO Mailcap configuration

23.5.4 Display html mails

yay -S w3m

23.5.5 Open PDF from mail

~/scripts/openfile.sh

23.5.6 TODO Integrate with contact manager

23.5.9 Attachments

23.5.9.1 Attach multiple files at once

First, tag the files you want to send using t, then ; to apply the action on all tagged files and finally <enter> to add them all

23.5.9.2 TODO Add attachment using GUI file manager
23.5.9.3 Cheatsheet
Command Usage
<spc> Open the file

23.5.10 Open Url from mail

yay -S urlview

23.5.12 TODO Searching mails with notmuch

https://github.com/tsto/notmuchfs

23.5.13 TODO Cheatsheet

Command Usage
   

23.5.14 TODO Integration with calendar application

http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2014/04/05/calendar/ https://gist.github.com/guiniol/5109c5bd953af950e0530b720507d704

~/scripts/printics.sh

23.6 TODO Mu4e

23.7 TODO Notification system

A script (~/scripts/checkmail.sh) is used to retreive new mails and use notify=send is there are new received mails.

24 TODO File Manager

24.1 TODO Ranger

https://github.com/ranger/ranger

24.1.1 Installation

yay -S ranger

24.1.2 Configuration

The configuration file is ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.

24.1.3 Display pdf

All the display of the files are defined in ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh.

It seems that Ranger is not working well with Termite. The screen is not refreshing after viewing one image (Github Issue).

It works better with Urxvt.

24.1.4 TODO Cheatsheet

Command Usage
X Extract archive
Z Compress file or folder

24.2 TODO nnn

https://github.com/jarun/nnn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2n5aGqou9E

24.2.1 Installation

yay -S nnn

24.3 TODO GUI File Manager: pcmanfm

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCManFM

25 TODO Image viewer

25.1 Feh - Minimal Image Viewer

https://feh.finalrewind.org/

25.1.1 Installation

yay -S feh

25.1.2 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
f Fullscreen
m Show menu
spc next image
bspc previous image
w Fit image

25.2 TODO Vimiv

https://github.com/karlch/vimiv

25.2.1 Installation

yay -S vimiv

25.3 TODO sxiv

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW9i_u5PYs

25.3.1 Installation

yay -S sxiv

26 TODO Windows Manager - i3

26.1 TODO Installation

yay -S i3-gaps

26.2 TODO Packages to install/understand

artwork-i3 i3-wallpapers

26.3 TODO Configuration

~/.i3/config

26.4 TODO Specific config per workspace

https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/contrib/per-workspace-layout.pl For instance, default to tabbed windows for workspace dealing with matlab figures.

26.4.1 Figures / Matlab

26.5 TODO Scratchpad

This mode is activated using cmd-s.

Command Usage
p Music Player - ncmpcpp
m Mail Reader - neomutt
c Calculator - insect

To close the current Scratchpad, use cmd-bsp

26.6 TODO CheatSheet

Command Usage

27 TODO Custom bar - Polybar

https://polybar.github.io/

27.1 Installation

yay -S polybar

27.2 TODO Configuration

~/.config/polybar/config

Polybar is launched automatically from i3 config.

27.3 TODO Add custom modules

  • [ ] show passwords
  • [ ] show bibliography
  • [ ] show bookmarks
  • [ ] switch theme (dark/light)
  • [ ] suspend, restart, hibernate, lock

27.4 Display unread emails

Let's say we want to display unread emails, and when clicking on that we open our mail client. 

[module/unread_mail]
type = custom/script

label-font = 2
format-underline = ${colors.background}
click-left = termite -e "tmuxinator start neomutt" &
format = <label>
exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/unread_mails.sh
interval = 1

A custom script ~/.config/polybar/scripts/unread_mails.sh is just returning the unread emails.

27.6 TODO Add Conky to polybar

28 TODO Compositor - Compton

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton https://github.com/chjj/compton

28.1 Installation

28.2 TODO Configuration

~/.config/compton.conf

28.3 Automatic run as daemon

Compton is run from i3 config in the background (-b option) 

exec --no-startup-id compton -b

29 TODO Notification Manager - Dunst

https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dunst

29.1 Installation

yay -S dunst

29.2 Configuration

~/.config/dunst/dunstrc

29.3 TODO Special notifications

  • [ ] Mails
  • [ ] New messages on slack

29.4 TODO How to merge similar notifications like new mails?

30 Managing Theme

30.1 GTK Themes

Gtk2 themes are managed using the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 while Gtk3 themes are managed using ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.

30.1.1 Gui Manager

To customize the look of the system using GUI application, run lxappearance.

Installation: 

yay -S lxappearance

30.1.2 Icons and themes

yay -S zukitwo-themes faenza-icon-theme

30.2 QT Themes

Run qt5ct to manage QT Themes.

30.3 XFT Themes

Some configuration are located in ~/.Xresources.

31 Launcher - Rofi

https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi

31.1 Installation

yay -S rofi

31.2 Setup rofi as a dmenu replacement

Setup rofi as a dmenu replacement in ~/.i3/config: 

bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id rofi -show run

31.3 Run sudo commands with rofi

https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi/issues/584#issuecomment-384555551

Use sudo -A, that will open a rofi prompt to ask for the password.

For that to work, we need to add the following code to ~/.profile: 

export SUDO_ASKPASS=~/bin/askpass-rofi

The askpass script is: 

#!/bin/sh

# Take password prompt from STDIN, print password to STDOUT
# the sed piece just removes the colon from the provided
# prompt: rofi -p already gives us a colon
rofi -dmenu \
  -password \
  -no-fixed-num-lines \
  -p "$(printf "$1" | sed s/://)"

32 TODO Advanced config

32.1 TODO Deactivate startup mac sound

sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80

32.2 TODO Webcam

https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki/Get-Started

Explain how this is working now

32.3 TODO Trackpad

The configuration is here: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf

32.4 TODO Startup programs

Should I use i3 or systemd for that? https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/132gle/eli5_the_systemd_vs_initupstart_controversy/

32.5 TODO Printer

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS http://localhost:631/

system-config-printer

32.5.1 TODO How to store pin number for the printer?

32.5.2 TODO CheatSheet

Command Usage

32.6 TODO Kernel Management

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Kernels

32.6.1 TODO Cheatsheet

Command Usage
mhwd-kernel -li Determine which kernel is used
== Change current kernel

32.9 TODO Suspend / Hibernate

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=215091 https://loicpefferkorn.net/2015/01/arch-linux-sur-macbook-pro-retina-2014-avec-dm-crypt-lvm-et-hibernation/

https://0xadada.pub/2016/03/05/install-encrypted-arch-linux-on-apple-macbook-pro/#configuring-wireless

https://medium.com/@tigersoldier/macbook-pro-2015-with-arch-linux-4f8d3a2c0de5 To work around this problem, disable the driver before suspend: sudo rmmod brcmfmac On wake up, re-enable the driver: sudo modprobe brcmfmac

32.9.1 Current behavior

Actually, it seems that the first suspend is working. After that the macbook go out of the suspend after few seconds

32.10 TODO Lid open/close

Should automatic show lock screen

/etc/systemd/logind.conf

32.12 TODO NAS Synology

32.12.2 TODO Automatic Backup of folders?

AUR package: synology backup

32.12.4 TODO Install beets on the nas?

32.13 TODO Format disks

https://gparted.org/

sudo gparted to format disks ()

32.14 TODO Bluetooth

Bluetooth: Gui: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman

32.14.2 TODO Bluetooth headset

32.16 TODO Temperature and Fan control

https://github.com/dgraziotin/mbpfan https://0xadada.pub/2016/03/05/install-encrypted-arch-linux-on-apple-macbook-pro/#fine-tuning Fan are controlled by mbpfan. The config file is /etc/mbpfan.conf 

# Enable Automated Power Regulation
sudo pacman -S tlp
sudo systemctl enable tlp
sudo systemctl enable tlp-sleep
sudo tlp start

# Enable thermald (overheat shutoff)
yaourt -S thermald
sudo systemctl enable thermald
sudo systemctl start thermald

32.18 TODO Lock Screen

https://github.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen

32.18.1 Installation

yay -S betterlockscreen

33 TODO LaTeX

33.1 Installation

yay -S texlive-most

Biber support for the bibliography: 

yay -S biber

Support for source code using minted: 

yay -S minted

33.2 Personnal classes/packages

Every custom class or packages can be put under ~/texmf/tex/latex/local/ folder.

In order for LaTeX to be aware of new packages/classes, run sudo texhash each time a new custom package is added.

33.3 TODO From screenshot to latex math formula

https://mathpix.com/

33.3.1 Installation

yay -S mathpix-snipping-tool

33.3.2 Usage

First, you have to run mathpix-snipping-tool. That will add something in the tray.

Then, use <ctrl><alt>m and then select a part of the screen to convert that area to latex formula.

33.3.3 TODO Think of a better way to run that program. Maybe disable the tray icon and add some polybar script that automatically run the program, and ask for selection of the screen.

33.4 TODO Custom script to select latex symbol

https://github.com/superluserdo/Latex-picker Maybe use that script for other things?

34 Mathematical Software

34.1 Insect

https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

34.1.1 Installation

yay -S insect

34.1.2 Usage

Command Usage
3 m/s to km/h Convert Unit

34.2 Matlab

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATLAB#Installation

34.2.1 Installation

yay -S matlab

35 TODO Cloud Backup / Sync - Rclone

https://github.com/ncw/rclone https://rclone.org/docs/ gui: https://martins.ninja/RcloneBrowser/

Rclone is used to manage the online drives like Google Drive and Dropbox.

35.1 Installation

yay -S rclone

35.2 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
rclone config Configuration
rclone listremotes List configured remotes
rclone about Informations about the remote
rclone copy Copy files from source to dest
rclone sync Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only
rclone check Check if the files in the source and destination match
rclone ls List all the objects in the path
rclone size Return the total size and number of objects in remote:path
rclone cleanup Clean up the remote if possible

35.3 Usefull commands

Command Usage
rclone sync ~/gdrive/ gdrive:/ -P Make Google Drive files to same as local ones
rclone copy gdrive:/directory/ ~/gdrive/directory/ -P Copy directory from Google Drive to local
rclone lsf gdrive:/ --max-depth 1 List files and directory

35.3.1 Progress bar for long synchronizations

Use --progress --stats-one-line.

36 Download Manager

36.1 CLI Download Manager - Aria2

36.1.1 Installation

yay -S aria2

36.2 TODO Torrent Client - deluge

https://github.com/deluge-torrent/deluge https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Deluge

36.2.1 Installation

yay -S deluge

36.2.2 Configuration

~/.config/deluge/

36.2.3 Command Line Interface

https://whatbox.ca/wiki/deluge_console_documentation

Start the daemon using deluge -d. Then run the CLI client using deluge-console.

36.2.4 GUI Client

deluge

36.3 TODO CLI Torrent Client - btpd

https://github.com/btpd/btpd

37 TODO Default Applications

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2018/01/20/set-default-application-using-xdg-mime/

37.1 Mailcap file

37.2 TODO XDG-OPEN

~/.config/mimeapps.list

37.3 TODO Make QuteBrowser the default browser

38 TODO Desktop files

~/.local/share/applications/

39 TODO Bibliography Management

39.1 Papis

https://github.com/papis/papis

39.1.1 Installation

sudo pip3 install papis

40 TODO Calendar

40.1 TODO Vdirsyncer - Sync calendars

40.1.1 Installation

yay -S vdirsyncer

sudo pip install requests-oauthlib

40.1.2 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
vdirsyncer sync Synchronize

40.1.3 Automation - Systemd

http://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/tutorials/systemd-timer.html?highlight=systemd 

systemctl --user enable vdirsyncer.timer
systemctl --user start vdirsyncer.timer

To check the status of the service: 

systemctl --user status vdirsyncer.service

40.2 TODO Calendar Client - Khal

https://github.com/pimutils/khal

40.2.1 Installation

yay -S khal

40.2.2 TODO Cheatsheet

Command Usage

40.3 TODO Calendar Client - Calcurse

https://www.calcurse.org/ https://github.com/lfos/calcurse

40.3.1 Installation

yay -S calcurse

41 TODO Presentation software

41.1 Beamer

41.3 Presentation setup on computer

41.4 PowerPoint Viewer

41.5 Multi-monitor pdf presentation - pdfpc

https://github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc

pdfpc is a great tool for showing pdf presentations. It support:

  • screen splitting
  • support for videos in pdf presentations
  • support for notes

41.5.1 Installation

yay -S pdfpc

41.5.2 Video support

yay -S gst-plugins-ugly gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-base-libs gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-bad gst-libav

41.5.3 Usage

pdfpc filename.pdf

42 TODO RSS Reader

GUI:

With Emacs:

42.1 Newboat

https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Newsboat

42.1.1 Installation

yay -S newboat

42.1.2 Configuration

https://newsboat.org/releases/2.12/docs/newsboat.html ~/.newsboat/

42.1.3 TODO Automatic Retrival of Feeds

Make a systemd service.

43 TODO Task Manager

43.1 OrgMode and Emacs

44 Background manager: nitrogen

https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen/

44.1 Configuration

~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg

44.2 Wallpapers

~/scripts/wallpaper.sh: script to automatically change wallpaper each x minutes.

45 PDF Reader: Zathura

https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/

45.1 Installation

yay -S zathura

Then add dependecies to view specific files: 

yay -S zathura-pdf-mupdf zathura-djvu zathura-ps zathura-cb

It seems that mupdf is better that poppler to view pdf.

45.2 Configuration

~/.config/zathura/zathurarc

45.3 Cheatsheet

Command Usage
p Print the current pdf
tab Show the outline
r Reload
J/K Next/previous page
H/L Zoom in/out
a Fit height
s Fit width
D Double page
f Follow link
i Night Mode
<n>gg Go to page n
mm Mark current location to m
'm Goto location m

46 TODO Theme manager

The idea would be to have a command that changes the theme of all the system.

There would be at least one light and one dark theme. Applications that could change:

It seems the color is due to this part of the script. Should then source this file somehow. 

BASE16_SHELL="$HOME/.base16-manager/chriskempson/base16-shell/"
[ -n "$PS1" ] && \
    [ -s "$BASE16_SHELL/profile_helper.sh" ] && \
        eval "$("$BASE16_SHELL/profile_helper.sh")"

Possible theme managers:

46.1 TODO Theme script

~/bin/theme

46.2 TODO Base16

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOxU1sOOuw

46.2.1 Base16 Philosophy

Define colors according to rules: http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/ Then we can use these colors multiple applications.

46.2.2 Base16-shell

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell

This changes the shell colors. This should be added to ~/.bashrc: 

# Base16 Shell
BASE16_SHELL="$HOME/.config/base16-shell/"
[ -n "$PS1" ] && \
    [ -s "$BASE16_SHELL/profile_helper.sh" ] && \
        eval "$("$BASE16_SHELL/profile_helper.sh")"

46.2.3 Base16-manager

https://github.com/AuditeMarlow/base16-manager

This help changes many applications colors at once.

47 TODO Graphical Editor

48 TODO System monitor: conky

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky

Integration with polybar:

49 TODO Bugs

49.1 TODO Why the cursor is turning when on the background image?

50 TODO Games on Linux

https://www.protondb.com/ https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

51 TODO VPN Setup

openvpn

https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/

52 Others

52.1 Reddit on terminal: rtv

yay -S rtv

53 TODO Usefull commands

53.2 Show informations about the machine

53.3 Separate PDF

pdfseparate -f 1 -l 6 file.pdf split%d.pdf Will create split1.pdf to split6.pdf files corresponding to correct pages of file.pdf.

53.4 Readline

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcut Description
Ctrl+l Clear the screen

53.4.1 Cursor Movement

Keyboard Shortcut Description
Ctrl+b Move cursor one character to the left
Ctrl+f Move cursor one character to the right
Alt+b Move cursor one word to the left
Alt+f Move cursor one word to the right
Ctrl+a Move cursor to start of the line
Ctrl+e Move cursor to end of the line

53.4.2 Copy & Paste

Keyboard Shortcut Description
Ctrl+u Cut everything from line start to cursor
Ctrl+k Cut everything from the cursor to end of the line
Alt+d Cut the current word after the cursor
Ctrl+w Cut the current word before the cursor
Ctrl+y Paste the previous cut text
Alt+y Paste the second latest cut text
Alt+Ctrl+y Paste the first argument of the previous command
Alt+./ Paste the last argument of the previous command

53.4.3 History

Keyboard Shortcut Description
Ctrl+p Move to the previous line
Ctrl+n Move to the next line
Ctrl+s Search
Ctrl+r Reverse search
Ctrl+j End search
Ctrl+g Abort search (restores original line)
Alt+r Restores all changes made to line

53.4.4 Completion

Keyboard Shortcut Description
Tab Auto-complete a name
Alt+? List all possible completions
Alt+* Insert all possible completions

53.5 Others

Command Description
glances Moniteur d'activité
meteo Get the meteo
sudo cputhrottle PID %PROC Limiter l'accès au proc pour un processus
asciinema Reccord you terminal
nmap -sP “192.168.1.*" Check all ip addresses on local netword
ncdu See what takes place on the disk
rsync -a --progress source dest Copy folders with stats
su -sh folder Return the size of the folder

54 TODO Custom scripts

54.1 TODO Password completion with fzf

Make a script to use FZF for autocompletion of password (with pass program) and then send to current line or copy. Maybe use tmux pane for that.

55 TODO Bash Snippets

55.1 For loop

for file in ./*; do
  command ${file};
done

Author: Thomas Dehaeze

Created: 2019-01-09 mer. 15:35

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