My Linux desktop

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My Linux desktop setup on Fedora Sericea.

Desktop

• Window manager: Sway via baseOS

  Only use wayland applications; xwayland apps are not properly scaled swaywm/sway#2966, drag and drop does not work swaywm/sway#6460 and have a glitched behaviour uppon minimized on system tray swaywm/sway#6905.

• Display setup: wdisplays via rpm-ostree

• Browser
  • Primary: Firefox via baseOS

  • Secondary: Chrome via Flatpak

    With flags --ozone-platform-hint=wayland and --enable-pixel-canvas-recording=enabled.

• Terminal: GNOME Terminal via rpm-ostree

  I prefer Foot but having a grabbable scrollbar is a must for now. One workaround would be to setup fast scroll (i.e.: $mod + scroll wheel) but I have not been able to configure it correctly (if anyone has please let me know ↵).

  Ideally, would like a terminal with wayland, scrollbar and ligature support.

• IDE: Visual Studio Code via Flatpak

  With flags --socket=wayland and --ozone-platform-hint=wayland.

  With Fira Code font with programming ligatures installed via rpm-ostree.

  toolbox-vscode to integrate VSCode and toolbx for some SDKs that are not present in Flathub, i.e.: ansible.

  SDK extensions:

  • Golang: org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.golang
  • OCaml: org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.ocaml

• File manager: Nautilus via rpm-ostree with NautilusPreviewer (GNOME Sushi) via Flatpak (org.gnome.NautilusPreviewer)

  I prefer Thunar but I miss the preview feature.

• File sync
  • Dropbox via Flatpak
  • Gdrive with rclone via rpm-ostree

• Text editor: Gnome Text Editor via Flatpak

• PDF reader
  • Primary: Zathura via rpm-ostree
  • Secondary (when I need to annotate PDFs): Evince (GNOME Document Viewer) via Flatpak

• Image viewer: imv via baseOS

• Video player
  • Primary: mpv via Flatpak using the flathub repo
  • Secondary: VLC via Flatpak

• Torrent client: Transmission via Flatpak

• WhatsApp client: WhatsApp for Linux via Flatpak

  Supports wayland.

• Office suite: LibreOffice via Flatpak

Tools

• Shell: bash via baseOS
• Terminal multiplexer: tmux in remote systems
• Configuration management: Ansible via toolbx
• Text editor: neovim via Flatpak, emacs via Flatpak
  • With Fira Code font with programming ligatures installed via rpm-ostree
• Prompt: Starship via local install
• Containers: Podman and Toolbx via base OS, Docker in rootless mode via local install
  • Toolbx images
• Virtualization: kcli via toolbx
  • Kcli plans
• Kubernetes: Kind and kube-burner via local install
• Application management: rpm-ostree and Flatpak via baseOS
• Keyboard input: wtype via rpm-ostree

Tricks

• For ovn-kubernetes:

   $ sudo modprobe openvswitch
  

• For KubeVirt:
  • Create the kind cluster as root
  • The following command will allow the installation of KubeVirt in a normal user cluster but then the VMs won’t be created because rootless docker/podman are unable to create pods in kind with ephemeral storage requests:

     $ sudo chown $USER /dev/kvm
    

• For web-burner:

   $ echo 5000 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys
  

• Create a kind cluster using rootless podman as provider without the need of setting systemd property Delegate=yes (see https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/rootless/):

   KIND_EXPERIMENTAL_PROVIDER=podman systemd-run --scope --user ~/go/bin/kind create cluster
  

Issues

If you have managed to get working any of the following please let me know:

• Sway
  • Share a specific window on Google Meet swaywm/sway#3282
  • Drag & Drop from XWayland apps to Wayland ones: it only works occasionally [swaywm/sway#6460](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6460)
  • XWayland windows gets tiled uppong being reopened from system tray [swaywm/sway#6905](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6905)
  • Prime Video does not work (neither Chrome nor Firefox) https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/help?nodeId=GU85HKX66NVFNQ9Y
  • Small/giant mouse cursor on Visual Studio Code microsoft/vscode#136390
  • Fast scroll using $mod + ScrollWheel. Tried with:

     bindsym --whole-window $mod+button4 exec "wtype -M shift -k Prior"
     bindsym --whole-window $mod+button5 exec "wtype -M shift -k Next"
    

    • Problem 1: Only works the first wheel turn, then need to relase and press again $mod
    • Problem 2: Different apps use different combinations, i.e.: just ScrollWheel or Shift+ScrollWheel
• Toolbx
  • Support for custom commands upon entering container containers/toolbox#1302
• Starship
  • Conditional styling for Toolbx symbol starship/starship#2724
• Firefox
  • Slack huddles are not available webcompat/web-bugs#82623
• Rootless docker/podman
  • Unable to create pods in kind with ephemeral storage requests kubernetes-sigs/kind#3359

TODO

• Setup hibernation
  • https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/setup-hibernation-on-silverblue-kionite/78834
  • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=259382