Debian installation

Misc

Timezone

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Internet

Changer DNS

Follow this link : https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/configuration/how-to-set-dns-on-debian/

Desktop environment

update-alternatives: usage of « /usr/bin/i3 » to provide « /usr/bin/x-window-manager

Sinon :

• xdg-settings get default-web-browser
• xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox-esr.desktop

Mate + i3

In dconf-editor :

Change org -> mate -> desktop -> session -> required-components from marco to i3.

In org -> mate -> desktop -> session -> required-component-list, delete:

• filemanager (otherwise the background window will cover everything)
• panel (if you want zero panel)

Picom

Identify class_g of a window : xprop WM_CLASS

Console

Color in tty

TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient -nw .bashrc needed; but the same command, in GUI, breaks colors.

Need a conditional alias using (I guess) tty | grep tty > /dev/null && alias emacsclient="TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient"

Choose an emulator

Tilix is a good compromise:

• It works well with emacs (just needs the melpa package xclip for copy/paste)
• It provides 256 colors.
• It really supports Unicode.
• But it depends on GTk3 and does not provide a text configuration file.

I prefer mate-terminal (even if it is part of the Mate desktop environment).

In comparison:

• kitty does not work well with emacs in console.
• others (even urxvt) does not support Unicode well.

Theme

(urxvt .Xdefaults syntax)

URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=11
URxvt.boldfont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:size=11

!! Colorscheme

! special
*.foreground: #b2b2b2
*.background: #292b2e
*.cursorColor: #e3dedd
! black
*.color0: #292b2e
*.color8: #292b2e
! red
*.color1: #f2241f
*.color9: #f2241f
! green
*.color2: #67b11d
*.color10: #67b11d
! yellow
*.color3: #b1951d
*.color11: #b1951d
! blue
*.color4: #4f97d7
*.color12: #4f97d7
! magenta
*.color5: #a31db1
*.color13: #a31db1
! cyan
*.color6: #28def0
*.color14: #28def0
! white
*.color7: #b2b2b2
*.color15: #b2b2b2

Drivers

Printers

sudo usermod -a -G lpadmin myusername

Network

Wifi:

• Install network-manager

• Install firmware-realtex (drivers)

• nmcli device wifi connect myessid password mypasswd

• Note that nm-applet (from the package network-manager-gnome) is mutually exclusive with /etc/network/interfaces

Nvidia GPU

Add to /etc/default/grub in order to avoid tty resolution issues:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

Add to ~/.profile in order to avoir screen tearing: nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"

Steam:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:i386
sudo apt-get upgrade steam -f
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-libs:i386

Disks

Usb mounting with usbmount:

• package created from https://github.com/rbrito/usbmount
• for f in /media/usb*; do echo "$f"; ls "$f"; done
• FILESYSTEMS="vfat ext2 ext3 ext4 hfsplus ntfs exfat" in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf