lg# dotfiles

Checklist For Installation:

• Debian Installation

  • Programs that need to be installed post-Debian install.
  • Screen Resolution and Layout

• Wifi Card Setup

• Alacritty Inatallation:

  • Preferred: Build Alacritty from source
  • Install and setup Alacritty

• Neovim Installation & Setup

  • lazy.nvim
  • lazy.git

• fonts

  • Installing getnf and fonts
  • Setting up fonts for terminal

• i3 Windows Manager Installation & Setup

• Rofi Menu Manger & PICOM Compositor Installation.

• Apple device related issues

  • Function Keys on the keyboard not working The steps below configure an Apple keyboard connected to a Linux system to treat the F1-F12 keys as standard function keys by default, instead of special function keys (like adjusting brightness or volume), and require a system reboot to apply the changes.
    1. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf (create this file if needed)
    2. Add options hid_apple fnmode = 2
    3. run sudo update-initamfs -u
    4. reboot the system

• [Enabling click on tap]

1. Debian installation.

   • Official Debian Site for Installation of MacBook Pro
   • See installation info here.
   • Reboot the MacBook while holding the Alt button to reach the boot screen.

   The following programs need to be installed:

    - XFCE
    - Firefox
    - Alacritty
    - git
    - Rofi
    - zsh
    - Neovim
    - tree
    - nitrogen
    - picom
   

2. WiFi

   1. MacBook Pro:

      a. Use lspci on the terminal to list the PCI devices

      c. The interface name is wlp3s0.

      d. See Details of the driver installation: 1. WiFi Driver Installation. 2. Install wl Driver

      e. wl driver needed for bcm4360 wl

3. iSight Camera Not working:

   • iSight Driver Issue
   1. apt -y install dkms linux-headers-amd64 git kmod libssl-dev checkinstall
   2. wget https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd/archive/refs/tags/0.5.18.tar.gz
   3. tar xf 0.5.18.tar.gz -C /usr/src/
   4. dkms add -m facetimehd -v 0.5.18
   5. dkms build -m facetimehd -v 0.5.18
   6. dkms install -m facetimehd -v 0.5.18
   7. sudo echo "facetimehd" >> /etc/modules
   8. git clone https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd-firmware.git
      • cd ./facetimehd-firmware/
      • make
      • make install

4. Neovim Installation and Setup

   1. Neovim can be build using these steps: Neovim/BUILD.md. This is the preferred method for Linux by me.
      • Install Prerequisites: sudo apt-get install ninja-build gettext cmake unzip curl build-essential
      • Clone Neovim to a local directory (~/neovim) git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim
      • Remove current version of Neovim: sudo dpkg --remove neovim
   2. Custom Installation Script
   3. Debian has Neovim: sudo apt-get install neovim
   4. Setting up Neovim
      1. typecraft
      2. lazy.nvim
      3. Formatting with prettier.
         • Install npm
         • Select prettier from formatter section in Mason.

5. Rofi and

   1. Install rofi (sudo apt install rofi)
   2. Add the following line to the i3 config file. (~/.config/i3/config) `bindsym $mod+x exec "rofi -show drun"
      • Reload i3 Config with "$Mod+Shift+r"
   3. Rofi can be configured by editing ~.config/rofi/config.rasi file.

6. Picom Compositor

   1. Youtube Video on installation

7. Setting up PDF Viewing in Neovim

   • Installing TexLive on Linux and Mac
   • Prerequisites: Zathura, synctex enabling
   • Setting up Neovim for Latex and PDF Preview

8. Github Management

• Fetch the latest changes from the remote repository git fetch origin
• Reset the local repository with the remote git reset --hard origin/main

12. Enabling Tap to Click Feature on Scrollpad

13. Installing lazygit

    • Currently (Jan 2025) there is no Debian package available.
    • Lazygit can be installed manually.
    • Go is a prerequisite
    • git clone https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit.git
    • cd lazygit
    • go install

14. Setting up lightDM display manager to correct resolution

    • During boot, the init system (e.g., systemd) starts various services, including the display manager. If LightDM is the display manager, the service lightdm.service is started.
    • LightDM starts and initializes its components. It reads its configuration files to determine the settings to apply. Configuration is loaded from:

    /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf (main configuration file). /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ or /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ (additional configuration snippets).

    • We will be adding configurations under /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
    • LightDM starts an X server (or Wayland compositor in some setups) for the graphical display. The X server initializes and manages the screen, input devices, and graphical environment.

• Steps

• 1. sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-resolution.conf
  2. Add the following content: [Seat:*] display-setup-script=/usr/share/lightdm/display-setup.sh

• Create the script sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/display-setup.sh the add #!/bin/bash xrandr --output <MONITOR_NAME> --mode <DESIRED_RESOLUTION>

• Restart lightdm to test sudo systemctl restart lightdm