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Pop!_OS customizations
Install applications:
- Beyond Compare
- Chromium
- dconf Editor
- GIMP
- Gnome Tweaks
- Htop
- Insync
- JetBrains Rider
- Remmina
- Slack
- Sublime Merge
- Terminator
- Visual Studio Code
- VMware Workstation
Install Firefox extensions:
- Enhancer for YouTube
- Gnome Shell integration
- Greasemonkey
- LastPass
- RESTED
- uBlock Origin
Update Chromium settings to allow Teams to work (navigate to chrome://flags):
- Override software rendering list: Enabled
- Negotiation with GCM cipher suites for SRTP in WebRTP: Enabled
- WebRTC Stun origin header: Enabled
- WebRTC Echo Canceller 3: Enabled
- WebRTC new encode cpu load estimator: Enabled
- Enable PWA full code cache: Enabled
- Desktop PWAs: Enabled
- Desktop PWAs Link Capturing: Enabled
- WebRTC H.264 software video encoder/decoder: Enabled
- Parallel downloading: Enabled
Install Chromium extensions:
- User-Agent Switcher for Chrome
Install User-Agent Switcher for Chrome:
- Add a user agent
- Name: Edge 14
- User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14393X
- Use this user agent whenever conencting to Teams. I only use Chromium for Teams so I leave this always enabled.
Install Gnome extensions:
- Dash to Panel
- Emoji Selector
- TopIcons Plus
- User Themes
Download themes:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/ppa
- sudo apt install numix-gtk-theme paper-icon-theme
Inside Settings:
- Devices
- Keyboard
- Launchers
- Home folder: Super+E
- Navigation -- Disable everything except:
- Hide all normal windows: Super+M
- Switch windows: Alt+Tab
- System -- Disable everything except:
- Lock screen: Super+L
- Show the run command prompt: Super+R
- Typing -- Disable everything
- Windows -- Disable everyrhing except:
- Activate the window menu: Alt+Space
- Close window: Alt+F4
- Maximum window: Super+Up
- Restore window: Super+Down
- Toggle fullscreen mode: Super+F
- View split on left: Super+Left
- View split on right: Super+Right
Inside Gnome Tweaks:
- General
- Suspend when laptop lid is closed: off
- Overamplification: on
- Appearance:
- Themes
- Application: Numix
- Icons: Paper
- Desktop
- Trash: on
- Fonts
- Monospace Text: UbuntuMono NF Regular 11
- Keyboard & Mouse
- Mouse
- Acceleration Profile: Adaptive
- Top Bar
- Battery Percentage: on
- Window Titlebars
- Titlebar buttons
- Maximize: on
- Minimize: on
- Workspaces
- Static Workspaces: on
- Number of workspaces: 1
Run from the shell:
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/move-to-workspace-left "@as []"
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/move-to-workspace-right "@as []"
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-group "@as []"
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-group-backward "@as []"
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-left "@as []"
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-right "@as []"
dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/emoji-selector/emoji-keybinding "['<Super>Period']"
dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/emoji-selector/use-keybinding true
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