e200ha_linux.md

Install sudo:

su
apt install sudo
addgroup YOURUSERNAME sudo
reboot

Install Chrome

As described here:

wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
sudo apt update
apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Remove possibly unnecessary packages like libreoffice and firefox:

sudo apt purge libreoffice*
sudo apt purge firefox*
sudo apt purge firefox-esr
sudo apt purge hv3
sudo apt purge xfburn
sudo apt purge quodlibet
sudo apt autoremove

Prevent evbug from spamming your /var/log/debug

Add this line to your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (creating the file, if it doesn't exist)

blacklist evbug

Make login not take forever

(see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442698/when-i-log-in-it-hangs-until-crng-init-done)

sudo apt install rng-tools5

Get audio to work

As described here

Make tap-to-click work

1. if /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't exist, create one:
   1. go to a non graphical tty by pressing ctrl+alt+f1
   2. login
   3. Kill the current x-session with sudo service lightdm stop (replace lightdm with your display-manager, for example gdm)
   4. sudo X -configure
   5. sudo mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
   6. sudo service lightdm start (replace lightdm with your display-manager, for example gdm)
2. Add the following section at the end of the file:

   Section  "InputClass"
           Identifier  "touchpad overrides"
           Driver "libinput"
           MatchIsTouchpad "on"
           Option "Tapping" "on"
           Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
           Option "ButtonMapping" "1 3 2"
   EndSection
   

Update the keyboard-layout

1. sudo apt install keyboard-configuration console-setup
2. Change the layout in /etc/default/keyboard to your liking, for example to de
3. Reboot

Install designs

sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme gnome-themes-standard

Download and install osx-arc-collection from here

• Select OSX-Arc-Shadow as window manager theme
• Select OSX-Arc-Shadow as style (in appearance)
• Select Papirus-Adapta-Nokto as icon theme

Style lightdm

Edit the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf as root and uncomment the following lines be removing the #:

• greeter-hide-users=false

Add mac-like screenshot-shortcuts (xfce)

• sudo apt install xfce4-screenshooter
• create screenshot_full_auto.sh with the following content:

  #!/bin/bash
  
  target=~/Desktop/screenshots
  mkdir $target
  
  filename=$(date +%F__%H-%M-%S).png
  path=$target/$filename
  
  if [ "$1" = "region" ]; then
    xfce4-screenshooter --region --open cat > $path
  elif [ "$1" = "window" ]; then
    xfce4-screenshooter --window --open cat > $path
  else
    xfce4-screenshooter --fullscreen --open cat > $path
  fi
  

• make it executable with chmod +x screenshot_full_auto.sh
• map /PATH/TO/screenshot_full_auto.sh region to alt + shift + 2
• map /PATH/TO/screenshot_full_auto.sh window to alt + shift + 3
• map /PATH/TO/screenshot_full_auto.sh fullscreen to alt + shift + 4

Add samba to thunar

• sudo apt install gvfs-backends
• reboot
• Open Thunar and select Browse Network

Speed up boot

Don't wait for network connectivity

(see https://mike42.me/blog/how-to-boot-debian-in-4-seconds)

sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service