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3.1.1 Boot flags

3.2.1 Tools

1. Launcher
   

   Bind this to Alt+Space for fast window searching/application launching.

   rofi -combi-modi window,drun -show combi -modi combi
   

2. Window Manipulation
   
   1. Center
      

      #!/bin/bash
      
      IFS='x' read screenWidth screenHeight < <(xdpyinfo | grep dimensions | grep -o '[0-9x]*' | head -n1)
      
      width=$(xdotool getactivewindow getwindowgeometry --shell | head -4 | tail -1 | sed 's/[^0-9]*//')
      height=$(xdotool getactivewindow getwindowgeometry --shell | head -5 | tail -1 | sed 's/[^0-9]*//')
      
      newPosX=$((screenWidth/2-width/2))
      newPosY=$((screenHeight/2-height/2))
      
      xdotool getactivewindow windowmove "$newPosX" "$newPosY"
      

   2. Grow
      

      #!/bin/bash
      curr=$(xdotool getwindowgeometry `xdotool getactivewindow` | tail -n1 | sed 's/  Geometry: //g')
      width=`echo "$curr" | cut -dx -f1`
      height=`echo "$curr" | cut -dx -f2`
      add=100
      w=$(expr $width + $add)
      h=$(expr $height + $add)
      
      xdotool windowsize `xdotool getactivewindow` $w $h
      

   3. Shrink
      

      #!/bin/bash
      curr=$(xdotool getwindowgeometry `xdotool getactivewindow` | tail -n1 | sed 's/  Geometry: //g')
      width=`echo "$curr" | cut -dx -f1`
      height=`echo "$curr" | cut -dx -f2`
      del=100
      w=$(expr $width - $del)
      h=$(expr $height - $del)
      
      xdotool windowsize `xdotool getactivewindow` $w $h
      

3.2.2 Tweaks

3.4.1 Miscellaneous

sudo apt install bash-completion build-essential imagemagick vim neofetch htop lm-sensors screenfetch scrot ffmpeg wget curl xdotool wmctrl slop wkhtmltopdf tmux ranger

3.4.2 Utilities

mpv nomacs zathura mupdf mupdf-tools qutebrowser telegram-desktop hexchat appmenu-gtk2-module chrome-gnome-shell zathura-ps zathura-djvu zathura-cb ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-bitstream-vera obs-studio kolourpaint rofi vrms

3.4.3 TLP

tlp tlp-rdw acpi-call-dkms tp-smapi-dkms powertop menu smartmontools ethtool

3.5.1 Dependencies

sudo apt-get build-dep emacs

sudo apt install imagemagick ripgrep libxpm-dev libjpeg-dev libgnutls28-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libacl1-dev libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev librsvg2-dev libmagickcore-dev libmagick++-dev libgpm-dev libselinux1-dev libm17n-dev libotf-dev libsystemd-dev libtool-bin cmake cmake-extras texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended pandoc html2ps

3.5.2 Compiling

tar -zxvf emacs-VERSION.tar.gz
cd emacs-*

./configure --disable-silent-rules \
--with-modules --with-file-notification=inotify --with-mailutils \
--with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-lcms2 \
--with-imagemagick --with-xml2 --with-json --with-harfbuzz CFLAGS='-O3'

time make
sudo make install

3.5.3 Setup

1. Clone emacs configuration.
   

   My emacs configuration is based upon https://github.com/snackon/witchmacs with some minor tweaks/updates for emacs-27 (tab-bar-mode) and some personal keybinds.

   git clone https://github.com/diamondbond/emacs ~/.emacs.d
   

2. Add emacs to your session startup
   
   1. Gnome
      

      In gnome simply copy your emacs.desktop to ~.local/share/applications/ and set its exec to Exec=emacs –daemon

      Add emacsdaemon.desktop to tweak-tool's startup applications and uncomment (server-start) from init.el.

   2. XFCE
      

      Create an autostart script somewhere in your home directory with the following contents:

      #!/bin/sh
      emacs --daemon
      

      Add this script to XFCE's session & startup items.

3. Starting emacs
   
   1. emacsclient
      

      Make sure to create another emacs.desktop within ~.local/share/applications/ with its Exec set to Exec=emacsclient -c -a 'emacs'.

      Launch emacs with this .desktop file as it will connect to the emacs server, this is the recommended way of launching emacs as it allows you to create frames on the fly with a keybind (use the same emacsclient command above) and not have to worry about different emacs sessions.

      If you want to connect to the local emacs server via a terminal run the following command or alias it:

      emacsclient -t
      

4. Misc
   
   1. Theme
      

      M-x package-install modus-operandi (as of emacs 28 this should be redundant as modus-themes are being upstreamed.)

   2. PDF
      

      For viewing pdfs within emacs we can leverage the pdf-tools package. For external viewing zathura is recommended.

      M-x package-install pdf-tools This will prompt the user to install the pdf-tools backend/dependencies and etc, just hit y.

   3. Term
      

      EShell is nice but sometimes we need an ncurses compatible terminal which is where vterm comes in.

      VTerm modules need to be compiled so launch vterm with M-x vterm and hit y to compile modules.