Configuration of Ubuntu

1 Appearance

1.1 Themes(Application Themes & Shell Themes & Icons)

You can visit Gnome Themes to find application themes, shell themes, and icons.

1.1.1 Installation

1. Create folder ~/.themes and ~/.icons.
2. Download the archive file and extract files to that folder.

1.1.2 Applications & Shell Themes

1. Sweet-mars

1.1.3 Icons

1. Tela-Black
2. Vimix-Black

1.2 Fonts

1.2.1 Powerline Fonts

This contains pre-patched and adjusted fonts for usage with Powerline status line plugin.

Installation

sudo apt install fonts-powerline

1.2.2 Nerd Fonts

Installed font: Hack

Installation

# Download the zip file and extract files to ~/.local/share/fonts
wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/Hack.zip
unzip Hack.zip
mv Hack\ * ~/.local/share/fonts

# Clear and regenerate the cache and indexes.
fc-cache -f -v

# Confirm that the fonts are installed.
fc-list | grep "Hack"

1.2.3 Comfortaa

Installation

sudo apt install fonts-comfortaa

1.3 Wallpapers

You can visit Wallpapers to find more wallpapers.

2 Extensions

You can visit GNOME Shell Extensions to find and download extensions.

2.1 Recommended Extensions

2.1.1 Tweaks

Tweak advanced GNOME 3 settings.

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

2.1.2 User Themes

Load shell themes from user directory.

2.1.3 GSConnect

Transfer files with mobile phone.

3 Terminal

3.1 Oh My Zsh

A framework of zsh manages themes and plugins of zsh.

3.2 Lsd

This is a next generation of command ls which makes the output of ls beautiful.

This should be used with font Hack Nerd Font Regular .

3.2.1 Installation

wget https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/releases/download/0.19.0/lsd_0.19.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt install lsd_0.19.0_amd64.deb

3.2.2 Alias

alias ls='lsd'
alias ll='lsd -l'
alias la='lsd -a'
alias lla='lsd -la'
alias lt='lsd --tree'

3.3 Color Scheme

3.3.1 Gogh

Pre-Installation

sudo apt install dconf-cli uuid-runtime

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh.git
cd Gogh/themes

# Necessary on Ubuntu
export TERMINAL=gnome-terminal

# Install themes

Recommended Schemes

• 139, Paul Millr
• 161, Snazzy
• 177, Symphonic

4 Applications

4.1 Goldendictionary

Installation

sudo snap install goldendictionary

Add Dictionary

Select Edit > Dictionaries > Sources > Websites > Add, and set the Name as youdao and set the Address as http://dict.youdao.com/search?q=%GDWORD%&ue=utf8. Then check Enabled.

Select Dictionary

Select Edit > Dictionaries > Dictionaries and then drag the dictionary to active group or inactive group.

4.2 Sublime Text

Installation

sudo snap install sublime-text

4.3 Google Chrome

Installation

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt install google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

4.4 Visual Studio Code

4.5 Typora

4.6 Zotero

Installation

wget https://download.zotero.org/client/release/5.0.95/Zotero-5.0.95_linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Turn on Sync

Enter Edit > Preferences > Sync and input user and password of your account.

4.7 Startup Disk Creator

Installation

sudo apt install usb-creator-gtk

4.8 Wps

Installation

wget https://wdl1.pcfg.cache.wpscdn.com/wpsdl/wpsoffice/download/linux/10161/wps-office_11.1.0.10161.XA_amd64.deb

4.9 Pycharm

Installation

sudo snap install --classic pycharm-professional

4.10 StarUML

Installation

wget https://staruml-7a0.kxcdn.com/releases-v4/StarUML_4.0.0_amd64.deb

4.11 Todoist

Installation

sudo snap install todoist

5 Network

We configure a proxy with electron-ssr which provides proxy of HTTPS as frontend and Hivessr as backend.

Install Electron-ssr

wget --directory-prefix=$DOWNLOAD_DIR_PREFIX https://github.com/shadowsocksrr/electron-ssr/releases/download/v0.2.7/electron-ssr-0.2.7.deb
sudo apt install -y $DOWNLOAD_DIR_PREFIX/electron-ssr-0.2.7.deb

Configure Proxy

Set Settings > Network > Network Proxy to Automatic and set the value to http://127.0.0.1:2333/proxy.pac.

FAQ

1. Reboot gnome shell.

Press Alt + F2 and enter r to reboot the gnome shell.

Use gnome-shell --replace to reboot the gnome shell.

2. Where do desktop files save in Ubuntu.

	root user	other user
snap application	/snap/app/current/snap/gui	/snap/app/current/snap/gui
deb application	/usr/share/applications	~/.local/share/applications

3. Unzip file in format tar.xz.

Use tar -xvJf file.

4. The /etc/hosts file.

This file save some mappings of some hostnames to IP addresses. Because as machine gets started, it will need to know these mappings before DNS can be referred. This file can also be used to add some mappings which will make machine resolve hostnames to specific IP address.

# For example
IP_address Hostname
127.0.0.1 localhost
# The follow can make machine resolve hostname imap.google.com to address 127.0.0.1.
127.0.0.1 imap.google.com