xubuntu-setup

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A guide of how to install my Ubuntu config. Mostly for myself as I reinstall machines often.

Linux distro

For most of my projects, I use ROS Kinetic for which bounds me to use Ubuntu LTS 16.04. Unity is ugly and impractical, that's why I use Xubuntu instead. Download here

Config files

• .bashrc - place in home
• hosts - place in /etc/hosts
• Sublime Text is my fav editor so it has it's own config repo

Customisations

• Arc X Darker Theme - Can be downloaded as a .deb package which you can simply install. Then you have to change your theme from both the Apperance and Window Manager apps.
• [Arc X Icons] - Installed from install scripts folder
• Panel layout can be found in this repo
• Default file browser - Nautalis

Keyboard shortcuts

• File Manager - Super + E
• Whiskers Menu - Super + R

Apps

Just run the script install.sh with sudo to install everything. Otherwise, you are free to install whatever you fancy

Don't forget to configure:

• ODrive

Manual installs

• CLion - remember to sync settings
• PyCharm - remember to sync settings
• TeamViewer
• Ultimate VIM
• Slack
• Anaconda - Note that Anaconda has some issues running with ROS. For this purpose remove the path sourcing for it from .bashrc and source it only whenever needed. For that purpose I have made a custom command called start_conda within the .custom_commands.bash file
• Install VSCode extensions using the Settings Sync extension from the VSCode marketplace

Useful scripts

• stop_joy.bash - when you connect a some joysticks to ubuntu, they start controlling your mouse. This script stops that but allows the joystick to still work as a joystick.
• wifi_fix.bash - on my Dell Latitude E5450, my wifi would sometimes refuse to connect to secure networks. This script fixes it for 1 connection attempt.

Remote file connections

Usually access these through the Nautalis Connect to Server menu

• sftp://ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s15/s1521716 - Uni DICE filesystem
• smb://192.168.0.15/e/ - Samba access for home fileserver

Configure RDP

Enable sharing from the RDP menu by launching terminal with vino-preferences and enabling sharing.

Set up file manager

• Changed default file manager in Preferred Applications
• Set up nautilus in list mode with gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-folder-viewer 'list-view'

Git setup

Remember to use git config credential.helper store to save credentials