Mint 20 initial manual setup

Here's everything I did after installing Linux Mint 20 to customise to my liking

• Install git, xclip, tmux, parcellite

sudo apt install git-all xclip tmux parcellite

Mint theme

• Menu ⇢ Themes: Window borders = "Mint-X", Icons = "Mint-Y", Controls = "Mint-Y"

Terminal

• Change the background colour to black
• Untick "show menubar by default in new terminals" in preferences

Parcellite

• Run on the command line as parcellite & (after restart it will launch at startup by default)
• Right click the clipboard icon that appears in the corner panel, in Preferences tick the top 3:
  • Use Copy (Ctrl-C)
  • Use Primary (Selection)
  • Synchronize clipboards
• (Now selected text will be copied to the clipboard: what else do you use select for anyway?)

Firefox settings

• Change default search engine to DDG (type "search engine" in the search bar)
• Type "home" in the search bar and
  • Untick home page junk (just show search bar), under "Firefox home content" untick:
    • "Top sites"
    • "Recommended by Pocket"
    • "Highlights"
  • Unset home page from the Linux Mint site
    • Set both "Homepage and new windows" & "New tabs" to the option "Firefox Home"
• Untick "Ctrl + Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" (type "Tab" in search bar)

Git

• Regenerate SSH keys

  • For GitHub in particular that'd be this page, the important commands are

    ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
    eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
    ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
    xclip -selection clipboard < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

• (Then paste into GitHub: https://github.com/settings/keys)

• Git clone your git-versioned dotfiles repo (either backed up from previous OS or on another machine)

Conda

• Go here and wget the latest version of miniconda into your ~/Downloads then run the shell script installer with bash
• I suggest doing this after setting up your bashrc (so it writes to your bashrc file after you change it)