This ain't no install tutorial
That said, this page exists to support your wicked new Linux desktop. Back up your stuff, should you care, we gonna install handy function that you probably don't deserve for that tired box of yours.
This is Debian GNU/Linux and Openbox together with supporting aliases and scripts and whatnot that comprise a fabulous desktop paradigm on your workstation, or, whatever. You can have this, too, because sharing is fundamental. Download the supporting stuff first - check those md5s and let's do it real quick, go grab the net-installer iso . Probably burn it to a USB stick - I have a handy alias for mintstick, which is pretty awesome --> alias burn='sudo mintstick -m iso'
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ 4 local devices / aka, my drive partitions │ ├────────────┬────────┬───────┬────────┬────────┬──────┬─────────────────┤ │ MOUNTED ON │ SIZE │ USED │ AVAIL │ USE% │ TYPE │ FILESYSTEM │ ├────────────┼────────┼───────┼────────┼────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤ │ / │ 27.3G │ 10.9G │ 15.0G │ 39.8% │ ext4 │ /dev/nvme0n1p2 │ │ /boot/efi │ 92.5M │ 8.7M │ 83.8M │ 9.4% │ vfat │ /dev/nvme0n1p1 │ │ /dump │ 340.9G │ 14.4G │ 326.6G │ 4.2% │ xfs │ /dev/nvme0n1p4 │ │ /home │ 562.1G │ 55.4G │ 506.7G │ 9.9% │ xfs │ /dev/nvme0n1p3 │ ╰────────────┴────────┴───────┴────────┴────────┴──────┴─────────────────╯
This particular desktop paradigm employs a butt-load of aliases and keybinds and scripts to run and it's been running happily on all of my personal machines for years. Decades. Aside from being rediculously fast and reliable it is, alas, equally boring, and, to its end, again; reliable. Yaaaaawn.
Really, I insist that you take a moment to consider how utterly boring and reliable this setup is. It runs forever and never quits and everything works always all of the time. WTF!? You should just bail because you like to mess about and this setup will kill you. In fact, until this year, it has been 15 years since I changed anything. I made it all a little prettier this year and am using kitty. Them's the big changes, heh.
Go ahead with that USB stick - boot to it, run the installer; I allow root, manual ethernet, targeted kernel, system tools only at software tasksel and for grub: yes, yes, no...reboot.
Post install I log in as root to install sudo and aptitude . Then, I run visudo to add my user account to sudo, using the nopasswd:all argument to save me from password prompts, like:
$USER ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Following that, log out and back in as regular user and run kevin : sudo ~/bin/kevin
You can -
wget https://madcarters.com/kevin
and then run
chmod+x kevin
to make it executable
kevin md5:
d63684119e134c66dc6fd6b895e14bc5
Handy focal points for the install
- - for partitioning use guided and encrypted if a new drive unless you now why and how not to
- - allow root
- - manual IP addy on ethernet when networking pops up
- - choose only system tools for software at tasksel
- - targeted kernel
- - yes grub: yes, yes, and no which would be the defaults
Installing with kevin is a one-shot thing, run it, go touch grass for 6 minutes, and come back to a done-deal. You can type startx, enter and log into an empty black mess - unless you downloaded the handy files I have provided here to support this endewavor. Ha!
Have a look at the structure of supporting files, where they go. You will only have to make the ~/bin directory.
|
.bashrc .bash_aliases .bash_functions .profile .xinitrc .bashcolors .gtkrc-2.0 .fehbg |
~/.config gtk-3.0/ geany/ openbox/ fastfetch/ Thunar/ sublime-text/ orage/ lxpanel/ kitty/ keepassxc/ gtk-4.0/ assets/ wallpapers.cfg starship.toml obsession.conf |
kevin obamenu.py procinfo.pl waldesk datemenu.py frank resz color.sh lscolors.sh |
~/Downloads
|
~/Documents dome.txt
|
Supporting files
scripts for ~/bin -
bin-for.zip
.
md5 : 4a80b08344e346de8286cfa18fb5fa7f
~/ (home) dot files:
homedots.zip
md5 : 49fb246427c32929d7f1729b975a6588
thunar scripts:
thunar scripts
extract to
~/.local/share/scripts
md5: a6a7909a9c8887d90ca0ed31e88cc8bc
Here is a terrific weather script that I use all the time. It pipes to an openbox menu, too, if you're into that. Looks great in the terminal:
weather script
Theme:
Arc-Dark
,
Nord-Openbox
,
Obsidian-Gray
(sic)
I use a handy desktop
wallpaper script
, too, that puts a different image on each virtual desktop. Love it.
Also, here is my custom actions file from ~/.config/Thunar which is handiness as well as nautilus scripts. Check out 'resize-options' (resz script in ~/bin) :
uca.xml
md5 for uca.xml: b90dd7e280c08c0a8e8939001ed73859
#------------------------------------------////
handy aliases
# Package Management:
#------------------------------------------////
alias sources='sudo x-text-editor /etc/apt/sources.list'
alias deb='sudo dpkg -i'
alias show='aptitude show'
alias list='dpkg -L'
alias cpf='sudo aptitude clean && sudo aptitude purge ~c && sudo aptitude -f install'
alias remove='sudo apt-get remove --purge'
alias install='sudo aptitude -y install'
alias apps='sudo synaptic'
alias search='aptitude search'
alias update='sudo aptitude update'
alias upgrade='sudo aptitude full-upgrade'
alias updoogie='runwithfeedback upgrading upgrade'
alias devs="aptitude -F '%p' search '~i -dev$'"
alias devsizes="aptitude -F '%I %p' search '~i -dev$'"
alias otto='sudo apt-get autoremove'
More good
function hg() { history | grep "$1"; }
function cl() {
DIR="$*";
# if no DIR given, go home
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
DIR=$HOME;
fi;
builtin cd "${DIR}" && \
# use your preferred ls command
ls -F --color=auto
function myps() { ps $@ -u $USER -o pid,%cpu,%mem,bsdtime,command ; }
}