My Linux desktop

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My Linux desktop setup on Fedora Sway Atomic, previously known as 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. All flatpak applications installed in user mode.

• Browser
  • Primary: Firefox via Flatpak

  • Secondary: Chrome via Flatpak

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

• Terminal: WezTerm via Flatpak

  Amazing terminal with wayland, grabbable scrollbar and ligature support.

  Would 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 ↵). Also Foot does not support ligatures dnkl/foot#57.

• IDE:

  • Primary: Visual Studio Code via Flatpak

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

    With JetBrains Mono font with programming ligatures installed via rpm-ostree.

    Instead of using SDK extensions tend to opt for local language installs (golang, ocaml, etc.).

    toolbox-vscode to integrate VSCode and toolbx.

  • Secundary: Neovim via Flatpak

  • Tertiary: Giving Helix via Flatpak a chance

• Messaging application: Ferdium via Flatpak

  Use it as client for Google Calendar, Simplenote, Gmail, Outlook, Teams, Slack, Google Chat, WhatsApp, iCloud, Discord, Element, ChatGPT and Bard.

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

  Would prefer Thunar (via baseOS) or PCMan FM but miss the preview feature.

• Text editor: Gnome Text Editor via Flatpak

• Image viewer: imv via baseOS

• PDF
  • Reader: Evince (GNOME Document Viewer) via Flatpak
  • Editing
    • Basic editing via Evince and Firefox
    • Xournal++ via Flatpak for adding images, etc.
    • PDF Arranger via Flatpak for merging PDF files.

• Basic photo editing: Drawing via Flatpak

• Video player: `mpv via Flatpak

• Torrent client: Transmission via Flatpak

• File sync
  • Dropbox via Flatpak
  • Gdrive with Celeste via Flatpak

• Office suite: LibreOffice via Flatpak

• Display setup
  • wdisplays via rpm-ostree
  • wl-mirror via rpm-ostree
• Screen recording: Kooha via Flatpak

Tools

• Shell: bash via baseOS
• Prompt: starship via local install
• Text editor: neovim via Flatpak
• Application management: rpm-ostree and flatpak via baseOS
• Terminal multiplexer: tmux in remote systems
• Configuration management: ansible via toolbx
• Containers: podman and toolbox via base OS, docker in rootless mode via local install
  • Toolbx images
• Keyboard input: wtype via rpm-ostree
• Power management: tlp via rpm-ostree.
• Virtualization: kcli via toolbx
  • Kcli plans

• Kubernetes: kind and kube-burner via local install

  Tried out tuned-ppd but it needs an external controller (i.e.: gnome-settings-daemon), see redhat-performance/tuned#708, or manually creating a user systemd controller service.

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 rootless cluster but then the VMs won’t be created because rootless docker/podman are unable to create pods in kind with ephemeral storage requests kubernetes-sigs/kind#3359:

     $ sudo chown $USER /dev/kvm
    

• For web-burner:

   $ sudo sysctl -w kernel.keys.maxkeys=5000
  

• 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
  

• Add kernel boot parameters:

   rpm-ostree kargs --editor
  

Issues

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

• Emacs Flatpak
  • ^G detaches text-mode emacs from terminal flathub/org.gnu.emacs#6
  • Pure-GTK (wayland) support flathub/org.gnu.emacs#58
• Ferdium
  • Allow setting default zoom level per service [ferdium/ferdium-app#1556](https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app/issues/1556)
  • Credentials autocomplete ferdium/ferdium-app#1425
  • Feature: Ability to add Chrome extensions like password managers ferdium/ferdium-app#135
  • Unable to print from Gmail view ferdium/ferdium-app#1573
  • Stuck in purple screen in Linux with Wayland [ferdium/ferdium-app#1551](https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app/issues/1551)
  • Zoom resets after service change [ferdium/ferdium-app#1419](https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app/issues/1419)
• Firefox
  • Slack huddles are not available webcompat/web-bugs#82623
  • Prime Video does not work (neither Chrome nor Firefox) https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/help?nodeId=GU85HKX66NVFNQ9Y
• GNOME
  • gvfsd-recent preventing system suspension GNOME/gvfs#715
• Kind
  • Unable to create pods in rootless mode with ephemeral storage requests [kubernetes-sigs/kind#3359](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/3359)
• Nautilus
  • Extract files to current folder r/gnome/112a3jq
  • Nautilus on Flathub GNOME/nautilus#946
• NeoVim
  • [NeoVim lsp] Unable to find root directory [ocaml/ocaml-lsp#1050](https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-lsp/issues/1050)
• Starship
  • Conditional styling for Toolbx symbol starship/starship#2724
• Sway
  • Allow all glob patterns in output configs swaywm/sway#5629
  • Drag & Drop from XWayland apps to Wayland ones: it only works occasionally [swaywm/sway#6460](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6460)
  • Differentiate between *app_ids* that start the same [swaywm/sway#7838](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7838)
  • 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
  • Persistent workspaces swaywm/sway#7631
  • Share a specific window on Google Meet swaywm/sway#3282
  • XWayland windows gets tiled uppong being reopened from system tray [swaywm/sway#6905](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6905)
• Toolbx
  • Load completions from the host containers/toolbox#1302
  • Support for custom commands upon entering container containers/toolbox#1302
• Transmission
  • Support running in the background on Linux transmission/transmission#5484
• Vim Flatpak
  • Wayland support vim/vim#4727, vim/vim#9639
• Visual Studio Code
  • Add optional Wayland support [flathub/com.visualstudio.code#471](https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code/issues/471)
  • Crash when rebuilding application menu on wayland [microsoft/vscode#184124](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/184124)
  • Exit Vim Insert Mode on Save VSCodeVim/Vim#2411
  • JetBrains Mono font ligatures not working [JetBrains/JetBrainsMono#655](https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/issues/655)
  • Paste through mouse middle button does not insert text at cursor position VSCodeVim/Vim#5065
  • Reset to normal mode when leaving file focus VSCodeVim/Vim#7553
  • Small/giant mouse cursor [microsoft/vscode#136390](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/136390)
• Zathura
  • Add Flatpak manifest pwmt/zathura#25

TODO

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