Customize Linux Mint

Apply personal settings. Install useful applications. Make Linux Mint run faster.

System Settings

Open the Settings app and change below options:

Effects
- Animation: OFF
Accessibility
- Large text: ON
Date and Time
- Region: Asia, City: Ho Chi Minh
- First day of week: Monday
Desktop
- Icons: ALL
General
- Disable compositing for full-screen windows: ON
Notifications
- Remove notification after their timeout: ON
Preferred applications
- Removable media
  - Prompt of start program on media insertion: OFF
Privacy
- Remember recently accessed files: OFF
Screen saver
- Customize
  - General: OFF
Startup Apps
- mintwelcome: OFF
- Print Queue: OFF
- System Reports: OFF
- Update Manager: OFF
Window Titling
- Maximize, instead of tile, when dragging a window to the top edge: ON
Bluetooth:
- Device: OFF
Display
- Refresh rate: 60 Hz for the main monitor
- Refresh rate: 30 Hz for the plugged-in monitor
Power Manager
- Turn off screen when inactive for: 5 mins
- Suspend when inactive for: 30 mins (on Battery)
- Brightness when inactive: 5%
- Dim screen after inactive for: 30 secs
Sound
- Output: Muted (when no Headset)
- Input: Muted (when no Headset)
Users and Groups
- Groups: add to tty, dailout

System Tweaks

Sudoers

sudo bash -c "echo '$USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/$USER"

Filesystem Table

sudo nano /etc/fstab

UUID=xxxx /          ext4  errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime,commit=600   0 1
UUID=xxxx /workspace auto  nosuid,nodev,nofail,noatime,nodiratime,commit=600 0 1
UUID=xxxx /boot/efi  vfat  umask=0077                                        0 1
tmpfs     /tmp       tmpfs noatime,nodiratime                                0 0
/swapfile none       swap  sw                                                0 0

System Control

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

vm.swappiness = 1
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 10
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 60000

Start-up

sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

APT

sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00aptitude

Acquire::Languages "none";

SSD TRIM

sudo mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/fstrim.timer.d

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/fstrim.timer.d/override.conf

[Timer]
OnCalendar=
OnCalendar=daily

System Maintenance

Software Sources

Mirrors: Fastest

System Reports

Multimedia Codecs: Installed

Update Manager

Kernel: Updated
Packages: Updated

Hardware Drivers

Nvidia GPU: Installed (Latest)

Applications

Packages

sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv

sudo apt install build-essential make cmake gawk curl git

git config --global user.name "vuquangtrong"
git config --global user.email "vuquangtrong@gmail.com"

sudo apt install nvtop htop tmux

sudo apt install fonts-firacode

Terminal

Change General options:

Show menu bar: No
Enable mnemonics: No
Enable F10: No
Background color: #121212

Starship (Terminal prompt)

sudo apt install curl
curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh
echo 'eval "$(starship init bash)"' >> .bashrc
starship preset plain-text-symbols -o ~/.config/starship.toml

Ble.sh (Bash line autocomplete)

sudo apt install git make gawk
git clone --recursive --depth 1 --shallow-submodules \
    https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh.git
make -C ble.sh install PREFIX=~/.local
echo 'source ~/.local/share/blesh/ble.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

Configuration:

ble-face -s command_builtin_dot bold,fg=red
ble-face -s command_builtin     bold,fg=red
ble-face -s command_alias       bold,fg=teal
ble-face -s command_function    bold,fg=99 # bold,fg=133
ble-face -s command_file        bold,fg=green
ble-face -s command_keyword     bold,fg=blue
ble-face -s command_jobs        bold,fg=red
ble-face -s command_directory   bold,fg=63
ble-face -s command_suffix      bold,fg=231,bg=28
ble-face -s command_suffix_new  bold,fg=231,bg=124

IBus IME (Language Input Method)

sudo apt install ibus ibus-unikey

IBus Preference:

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Space
Options:
- Embed preedit text in application window: Unchecked

Nemo (File Explorer)

Bookmarks:
- /tmp
- /home/trongvq/workspace

Actions in .local/share/nemo/actions:

[Nemo Action]
Name=Open in Text Editor
Comment=Open in Text Editor
Exec=xed %F
Icon-Name=text-editor
Selection=mdx
Extensions=mdx;

[Nemo Action]
Name=Open in VS Code
Comment=Open in VS Code
Exec=code %F
Icon-Name=visual-studio-code
Selection=Any
Extensions=dir;

Themes

sudo apt remove papirus-icon-theme
sudo apt remove yaru-theme-icon

Firefox

Goto about:config, then:
- Disable Session Store:
  - change browser.sessionstore.interval to 1800000
  - change browser.sessionstore.interval.idle to 1800000
- Move Network cache to RAM:
  - change browser.cache.disk.enable to false
  - change browser.cache.memory.enable to true
  - change browser.cache.memory.capacity to 1048576 (for 1 GB)
  - change browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size to 1048576 ( for 1 KB)
- Others:
  - change browser.urlbar.suggest.trending to false
  - change browser.search.region to US
Goto about:preferences, then:
- Privacy:
  - DNS over HTTPS: Max Protection
- Google search language: English

Visual Studio Code

Download and install .deb file:

sudo dpkg -i code_*_amd64.deb

Sync with GitHub account.

Settings:

{
    "security.workspace.trust.enabled": false,
    "window.restoreWindows": "none",
    "workbench.startupEditor": "none",
    "editor.fontLigatures": true,
    "editor.mouseWheelZoom": true,
    "editor.fontFamily": "'Fira Code', 'Droid Sans Mono', 'monospace', monospace",
    "editor.rulers": [
        100,
    ],
    "files.associations": {
        "*.mdx": "markdown"
    },
    "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
}

ImHex

sudo apt install libglfw3 libmbedtls14t64 libmbedx509-1t64
sudo dpkg -i imhex-*-x86_64.deb

ImHex Options:

Change Font to DejaVu Sans Mono, Size to 20

BootTerm

git clone https://github.com/wtarreau/bootterm
cd bootterm
sudo make install

Meld (Directory and File Comparasion)

sudo apt install meld

System Backup

Timeshift

Options:

RSYNC
Weekly

Include/Exclude:

"exclude" : [
    "/var/lib/apt/lists",
    "/var/log/journal",
    "/home/*/.platformio/.cache",
    "/home/*/.nvm/.cache",
    "/home/*/.npm",
    "/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports",
    "/home/*/.config/Code/Cache",
    "/home/*/.config/Code/CachedData",
    "/home/*/.config/Code/CachedExtensionVSIXs",
    "/home/*/.config/Code/Crashpad",
    "/home/*/.config/Code/logs",
    "/home/*/.bash_history",
    "/home/*/.xsession-errors",
    "/home/*/.xsession-errors.old",
    "+ /home/trongvq/.**",
    "/root/.bash_history",
    "/root/**"
],