First, fixing the weird things that annoy me. Ranging from things that don't work correctly by default to things that are straight up broken without some intervention.

Since I'm on Fedora, I enabled RPM Fusion. And I set up Flathub.

I then also did the multimedia steps the RMP Fusion site has. Apparently Fedora doesn't ship some media codecs you need to play a lot of videofiles. https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

At this point, update all the things! sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade

The audio was popping every time a sound starts playing similar to the sound you hear when you first plug in headphones.

To fix, I turned off power saving for the audio on my motherboard.

echo `options snd-hda-intel power_save=0` > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

There are 3 screens plugged into this computer:

• 2 PC monitors
• 1 TV

Either I use the 2 monitors, or the single TV. No matter what, it showed the login screen on the TV, even when it was off.

To fix it I deleted the ~/.config/monitors.xml file. Then set up my monitors with the graphical Gnome tool (right click on the desktop followed by Display Settings).

This created that file again. Then I made GDM (that's Gnome's login manager, in other words it's the screen with the password input when you boot) to use that file.

I copied the file that setting up the monitors created and made sure the gdm user and group owned that file.

sudo cp -v ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm/.config/
sudo chown gdm:gdm /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml

Sadly, in Firefox my cursor went invisible if I dare to watch a YouTube video. So I fell into old habits and used Google Chrome.

But the text of tab titles was blurry.

In the browser I went to chrome://flags and set the Preferred Ozone platform to Wayland.

Similar to how I installed build-essential on WSL Ubuntu, Fedora needs some installed packages that are needed to build various pieces of software.

sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake

I noticed emojis don't display in the terminal (for instance the astronaut in astro.dev starter). I set the specific font I use in the terminal to have a fallback to an emoji font is a glyph can not be displayed. This is done by putting a file at ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

Help on the syntax in that file: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips

The specific syntax to use for the fallback (I used the nerdfont version if the jetbrainsmono font) https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/linux-terminal-font-alacritty-jetbrains-mono-emoji

Then force it to be applied with fc-cache --really-force

Test it by echoing a bunch of emojis in the terminal, most have color now (not that heart outline).

echo "♥❤️👍😍🙊🥱🥺✨✅🎊🏄".

This does not show combined emojis, but the parts that make them. The zero-width joiner unicode uses to combine emojis into new ones is still visible. An example is the astronaut emoji, instead of seeing an astronaut, you see the parts: "human,zwj,rocket": 🧑‍🚀

sudo dnf install git

Some default settings:

git config --global user.name "Nicky Meuleman"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global core.autocrlf input
git config --global init.defaultBranch main

sudo dnf install zsh

Change the default shell (bash) to zsh so it launches whenever you open the terminal.

chsh -s $(which zsh)

https://starship.rs/

Install using the command they provide.

No manpage, so man starship does not work. See issue #2926

starship --help works.

starship explain is a handy tool that prints a quick summary of what every part of the current prompt is.

The starship binary can generate shell completions. Put the output for the specific shell in a file in the $fpath

starship completions zsh > $ZDIR/completions/_starship

https://www.rust-lang.org/

Install using the command they provide.

Manpages are weird. Cargo is under rustup man cargo

Trying to use it gives a usage hint that says:

USAGE:
    rustup man [OPTIONS] <command>

But I have no idea what [OPTIONS] <command> is, I only guessed cargo.

Related: rust-lang/rustup#1729

Add completions to shell for both rustup and cargo: rustup help completions

rustup completions zsh > $ZDIR/completions/_rustup
rustup completions zsh cargo > $ZDIR/completions/_cargo

https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

Install using the command they provide.

No manpage, so man fnm does not work.

fnm --help works.

A tl;dr is available: tldr fnm

The fnm binary can generate shell completions. Put the output for the specific shell in a file in the $fpath

fnm completions --shell=zsh > $ZDIR/completions/_fnm

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Installed from source. They have a handy script that does it for us, neat!

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#using-git

No traditional completions so it does not fill in flags. eg. when tabbing after fzf -. junegunn/fzf#3349

Fuzzy completion can be entered while typing a command pressing tax after the trigger sequence, which is "**" by default.

eg. vim ** and hitting tab will start a fuzzy search. When a file is selected the "**" will be replaced with the path to that file.

You can start that fuzzy search off with a query by placing it before the trigger sequence before hitting tab. eg. vim potatoes** starts fzf off with "potatoes" already entered.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#fuzzy-completion-for-bash-and-zsh

You can also do this with hotkeys

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-line

CTRL-t does the almost same thing, it adds the selection to your prompt. It does NOT start the fuzzy search off with what you already entered.

So if you did vim pota, hit CTRL-t and chose potatoes.txt, your final prompt would be vim potapotatoes.txt

The fuzzy finder uses some vim motion keys to navigate. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#using-the-finder

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

Installed from source.

1. Clone repo and change directory into it
2. Build for release with cargo build --release
3. Move the executable to a directory in $PATH
   • cp target/release/zoxide $HOME/.local/bin/
4. Move man page to its dedicated directory
   • cp -r man/ $HOME/.local/share/
5. Move completions to a directory in $fpath
   • cp contrib/completions/_zoxide $ZDIR/completions/_zoxide

Make sure to use the full name instead of the z alias when using it for anything other than the base jumping functionality.

zoxide --help works, but z --help does not.

zoxide integrates with zsh-autocomplete to show frecent (not a typo) directories when tabbing direcly after z.

ajeetdsouza/zoxide#9

Pressing tab after a space triggers interactive completion (like you get when you use zi) eg. z thing and then tabbing triggers the interactive searcher that uses fzf with "thing" as query. ajeetdsouza/zoxide#9 (comment)

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

I could download the release from github and install that via these instructions: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/INSTALL.md#linux

Instead I opted for convenience and installed a slightly older version with

sudo dnf install pandoc

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

sudo dnf install fd-find

The binary name is fd, not fd-find.

https://github.com/casey/just

sudo dnf install just

The just binary can generate shell completions. Put the output for the specific shell in a file in the $fpath

just --completions zsh > $ZDIR/completions/_just

I previously used exa, but that's unmaintained now.

https://github.com/eza-community/eza

Built from source.

1. Clone repo and change directory into it
2. Build for release with cargo build --release
3. Move the executable to a directory in $PATH
   • cp target/release/eza $HOME/.local/bin/
4. Build man pages with just man
5. Move man page to its dedicated directory
   • cp target/man/eza.1 $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/
   • cp target/man/eza_colors.5 $HOME/.local/share/man/man5/
   • cp target/man/eza_colors-explanation.5 $HOME/.local/share/man/man5/
6. Move completions to a directory in $fpath
   • In my case cp completions/zsh/_eza $ZDIR/completions/

https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

This tool accesses the community pages on https://tldr.sh/. This is a rust version, the usual tldr tool is written in nodejs.

Executable named tldr

sudo dnf install tealdeer

No manpage (but tldr has a tldr page! Hah!) The website functions as those docs https://dbrgn.github.io/tealdeer/

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

sudo dnf install bat

https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

CLI benchmarking tool. Handy for quickly benchmarking some code without having to set up a proper benchmarking suite. (eg. using hyperfine instead of criterion to quickly bench something in Rust)

sudo dnf install hyperfine

https://github.com/bootandy/dust

Built from source.

1. Clone repo and change directory into it
2. Build for release with cargo build --release
3. Move the executable to a directory in $PATH
   • cp target/release/dust $HOME/.local/bin/
4. Move man page to its dedicated directory
   • cp man-page/dust.1 $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/dust.1
5. Move completions to a directory in $fpath
   • cp _completions/_dust $ZDIR/completions/_dust

https://github.com/cli/cli

sudo sudo dnf install gh

after installing, authenticate with

gh auth login

These dotfiles also provide a shortcut (gh c) to clone a github repo into a folder structure of OWNER/REPONAME. Usage is either gh c owner/repo or gh c repo-url

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

sudo dnf install btop

No manpage. No shell completions.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

sudo dnf install ripgrep

https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei

sudo dnf install tokei

No manpages.

No shell completions.

Removes node_modules/ in JS projects, target/ in Rust projects, and many more.

https://github.com/tbillington/kondo

Built from source.

1. Clone repo and change directory into it
2. Build for release with cargo build --release
3. Move the executable to a directory in $PATH
   • cp target/release/kondo $HOME/.local/bin/

No manpages.

No shell completions.

An other terminal resource monitor because for some reason btop does not tell you anything about your GPU. This one is nicer anyway imo.

https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

Built from source.

The generation of manpages and shell completions is only performed when an env variale is set.

1. Clone repo and change directory into it
2. Build for release with BTM_GENERATE=true cargo build --release --locked
3. Move the executable to a directory in $PATH
   • cp target/release/btm $HOME/.local/bin/
4. Move man page to its dedicated directory
   • cp target/tmp/bottom/manpage/btm.1 $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/
5. Move completions to a directory in $fpath
   • cp target/tmp/bottom/completion/_btm $ZDIR/completions/

Something to differentiate terminal windows when I open up a bunch of clean ones. I didn't want to look for ASCII art, and a "fetch" script if fine, as long as it's fast.

https://github.com/Macchina-CLI/macchina

Installed from source.

1. Clone repo and change directory into it
2. Build for release with cargo build --release
   • The produced binary is quite huge, consider stripping it to reduce its size strip target/release/macchina
3. Move the executable to a directory in $PATH
   • cp target/release/macchina $HOME/.local/bin/
4. Move man pages to its dedicated directory
   • cp doc/macchina.1 $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/
   • cp doc/macchina.7 $HOME/.local/share/man/man7/

No shell completions.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

sudo sudo dnf install alacritty

This uses the catppuccin theme. I cloned that repo and referred to a file in the .toml config file.

https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid

Installed via flatpak: flatpak install flathub io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid

It's a frontend for mpv. It supports some configuration files for mpv. I linked the input.conf file via preferences in the GUI to get the keybinds I am used to.

Somehow Fedora came without a clipboard tool? Used mainly to make neovim aware of the system clipboard.

sudo dnf install wl-clipboard

Neovim :checkhealth recommended this. It's a faster file watching tool, so it speeds up a lot of LSPs

sudo dnf fswatch

https://nexte.st

cargo install cargo-nextest --locked

cargo install tree-sitter-cli

Necessary because the treesitter grammar for LaTeX needs to be generated using the CLI-tool

https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon/

Install dependencies:

sudo dnf install \
  cmake \
  expat-devel fontconfig-devel libxcb-devel \
  freetype-devel libxml2-devel \
  harfbuzz

Install with cargo:

cargo install silicon

silicon uses a lot of the same assets as bat, so I am reusing the theme files.