Messy folder

author: nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com> 2025-05-22 12:11:10 -0600
committer: nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com> 2025-05-22 12:11:10 -0600
commit: d194694f31002068868a378d121ed0e2db01c378 (patch)
tree: 295a67261fef4ebd02e29c36dd3e255492cffdfa /testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides
parent: 8176a8aac5d490562200eca0adb6efe5cc95e61a (diff)
4 files changed, 425 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/arch.xhtml b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/arch.xhtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a84ab1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/arch.xhtml
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+<title>&lrm;</title>
+<meta name="generator" content="Org Mode" />
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="#dcd1ba">
+<center>
+<table border="1" width="65%" bgcolor="#bebebe" id="content" class="content"><tr><td>
+<div id="table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
+<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
+<div id="text-table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#arch-linux">1. Arch linux</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#installing">1.1. Installing arch</a></li>
+<li><a href="#post">1.2. After installing</a></li>
+<li><a href="#nvidia">1.3. Nvidia drivers</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tricks">1.4. Tricks</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">[[../images/back<sub>home.png</sub></a>]]<br />
+<a href="../linux_room.html#distro_guides">[[file:images/back.png</a>]]
+</p>
+<div id="outline-container-arch-linux" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="arch-linux"><span class="section-number-2">1.</span> Arch linux</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-arch-linux">
+<p>
+Arch is just a better distro, but using arch doesnt instantly make you a
+better linux user. Saying "I am a arch user btw" is still fun and annoys
+people so I keep saying it reguardless.<br />
+<br />
+<b>Warning: This is a ever changing page due to the fact I havent been
+daily driving arch for long as of writing this and is uncompletish.</b>
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="#installing">Installing arch</a></li>
+<li><a href="#post">After installing</a></li>
+<li><a href="#nvidia">Nvidia drivers</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tricks">Tricks</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-installing" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="installing"><span class="section-number-3">1.1.</span> Installing arch</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-installing">
+<p>
+A lot of arch users will get pissed as fuck at me but <b>its ok to use
+arch install</b>. I personally prefer manually installing arch and wouldnt
+want to do it any other way so I dont use it, btw (:<br />
+<br />
+The <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide">offical arch
+installation guide</a> and other resources on the arch wiki is a great way
+to install arch though I also like to use
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgyW10xD8s">distro tubes arch
+installation guide</a> alongside the resources. Some arch users may be
+pissed I dare tell people to go watch a youtube video. I am sure most
+arch installation guides on youtube suck but DT's video is killer. Plus
+its not a replacement for the wiki, its just to help follow it a bit
+easier and act as a good jumping off point.<br />
+<br />
+Some things I gotta add is for me DT's video I linked doesnt work 100
+percent. When setting up grub it cant find the efi directory. You gotta
+use a switch to show that command that fails the efi directory. I forgor
+the switch and I am too lazy to look it up but you can find it if the
+<code>--help</code> flag. Also to dual boot with nasty nasty MS Windows(R) you
+gotta install ntfs-3g for it to be able to read MS Windows(R) ntfs(R)
+Microsoft(R) partitions. You also gotta set
+<code>GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false</code> in <code>/etc/default/grub</code> and mount the MS
+Windows(R) directory in the efi directory for OS proper to work
+sometimes.
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-post" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="post"><span class="section-number-3">1.2.</span> After installing</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-post">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Make sure you install a good ass DE or WM. No better DE than good old
+trusty xfce. Your also going to want lightdm with that. Thunar is a
+quite useable file manager though you can betterize it with gvfs or
+another opinional packages for cool fancy shit. Or for even more cool
+fancy things get something like
+<a href="../linux_room.html#spacefm">spaceFM</a>. Just fuck around tbh.</li>
+<li>If your sound fucking aint working right install sof-firmware.</li>
+<li>I use <a href="https://github.com/Jguer/yay">yay</a> because it makes life in
+arch easier even though its stupid ass bloat.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-nvidia" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="nvidia"><span class="section-number-3">1.3.</span> Nvidia drivers</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-nvidia">
+<p>
+A lot can change depending on many things and everything I say has only
+been tested on my machine so read some fucking resources here:
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA">Offical nvidia arch wiki</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide">Some
+strangely helpful github guide</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://medium.com/@sakalakis/how-to-easily-install-the-nvidia-drivers-in-arch-linux-5f1b3f1a5f66">Ewwwww,
+medium site (it strangely works without javascript)</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+Guide for my system mostly and maybe yours:
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Install some packages:<br />
+<code>sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings</code></li>
+<li>Rebuild the initramfs:<br />
+<code>sudo mkinitcpio -P</code></li>
+<li>Follow <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#LightDM">a
+guide found here</a> to setup lightdm for nvidia.</li>
+<li>Open up the xfce startup app thingy and add
+<code>nvidia-settings --load-config-only</code> as a startup app so your nvidia
+settings load on login.</li>
+<li>After reboot you can check the drivers with:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>My prefered way:<br />
+<code>sudo pacman -S mesa-utils glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"</code></li>
+<li>Another way: <code>nvidia-smi</code></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>For multi monitor refresh rate issues add these to your
+/etc/environment<br />
+<code>CLUTTER_DEFAULT_FPS=&lt;refresh rate of your sync monitor&gt; __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=&lt;monitor to sync to&gt;</code><br />
+Then open your nvidia settings, go to OpenGL Settings and turn off
+"Allow Flipping".</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-tricks" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="tricks"><span class="section-number-3">1.4.</span> Tricks</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-tricks">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>To clean out shit that builds up in pacman run <code>sudo pacman -Sc</code> and
+<code>sudo pacman -Qdtq | sudo pacman -Rs -</code><br />
+<code>-Sc</code> also works in yay.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</td></tr></table>
+<div id="postamble" class="status">
+<p class="creator"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 30.1 (<a href="https://orgmode.org">Org</a> mode 9.7.11)</p>
+</div>
+</center>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/fedora.xhtml b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/fedora.xhtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c09039e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/fedora.xhtml
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+<title>&lrm;</title>
+<meta name="generator" content="Org Mode" />
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="#dcd1ba">
+<center>
+<table border="1" width="65%" bgcolor="#bebebe" id="content" class="content"><tr><td>
+<div id="table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
+<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
+<div id="text-table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#fedora-xfce">1. Fedora xfce</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#setting_up">1.1. Setting up fedora</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#packages">1.1.1. Packages</a></li>
+<li><a href="#multimedia">1.1.2. Multimedia</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#nvidia">1.2. Nvidia drivers</a></li>
+<li><a href="#useful_things">1.3. Useful things in fedora</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">[[../images/back<sub>home.png</sub></a>]]<br />
+<a href="../linux_room.html#distro_guides">[[file:images/back.png</a>]]
+</p>
+<div id="outline-container-fedora-xfce" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="fedora-xfce"><span class="section-number-2">1.</span> Fedora xfce</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-fedora-xfce">
+<p>
+Fedora been my go to for quite a while though I sometimes switch
+desktops lmao. I have tried the gnome version but it doesn't really fit
+me so most of the time I have used the kde spin though recently kde just
+haven't been feeling the same. It has been feeling buggy and have been
+fighting with nvidia drivers. After running xfce on my second computer
+for a while I grew to really like it and started using it on my main and
+it have been running much better then kde.<br />
+<br />
+Fedora xfce can be downloaded
+<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/spins/xfce">here</a>.
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="#setting_up">Setting up fedora</a></li>
+<li><a href="#nvidia">Nvidia drivers</a></li>
+<li><a href="#useful_things">Useful things in fedora</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-setting_up" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="setting_up"><span class="section-number-3">1.1.</span> Setting up fedora</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-setting_up">
+<p>
+Fedora has a little extra setup you wouldn't see in something like linux
+mint though it isn't that bad.
+</p>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-packages" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="packages"><span class="section-number-4">1.1.1.</span> Packages</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-packages">
+<p>
+You can speed up dnf by adding these to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf<br />
+<code>max_parallel_downloads=20 fastestmirror=True</code><br />
+<br />
+The default repos have lots of stuff but you might want an app that
+isn't in it like steam. I know the gnome version has a enable 3rd party
+repos button that does everything I listed here but I am on the xfce
+version and also had to do this on the kde verison.
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Setup rpm fusion to get more packages in dnf with the
+<a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/rpmfusion-setup/">resources
+here</a></li>
+<li>Install flatpak if not already there using "sudo dnf install flatpak"
+then add <a href="https://flathub.org/setup/Fedora">flathub</a> to get some
+cool apps!</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-multimedia" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="multimedia"><span class="section-number-4">1.1.2.</span> Multimedia</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-multimedia">
+<p>
+By default fedora doesn't have many codecs and you need to install them
+yourself. Without them many media files will not work and lots of
+youtube videos will not be able to play. The fedora docs use to show how
+to install them but they removed it from their page and instead shows a
+new version which installs some stuff but not everything. I do both of
+them to make sure I get all the codecs I need.
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Update your system with <code>sudo dnf upgrade</code></li>
+<li>Install the new packages with <code>sudo dnf group install multimedia</code></li>
+<li>Install the old ones with these three commands in a row:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><code>sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel</code></li>
+<li><code>sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel</code></li>
+<li><code>sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing</code></li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-nvidia" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="nvidia"><span class="section-number-3">1.2.</span> Nvidia drivers</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-nvidia">
+<p>
+Nvidia isn't the best on linux and I like AMD much more though I am
+stuck with nvidia for now. For xfce there are some extra settings to
+enable it but it works great once that is done. You will need rpm fusion
+first before you can install the drivers.
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Follow the fedora docs on nvidia
+<a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/set-nvidia-as-primary-gpu-on-optimus-based-laptops">here</a></li>
+<li>Also look at the rpmfusion docs on nvidia
+<a href="https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA">here</a></li>
+<li>Follow the archwiki on nvidia in lightdm
+<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#LightDM">here</a>.</li>
+<li>For multi monitor refresh rate issues add these to your
+/etc/environment<br />
+<code>CLUTTER_DEFAULT_FPS=&lt;refresh rate of your sync monitor&gt; __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=&lt;monitor to sync to&gt;</code><br />
+Then open your nvidia settings, go to OpenGL Settings and turn off
+"Allow Flipping".</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-useful_things" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="useful_things"><span class="section-number-3">1.3.</span> Useful things in fedora</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-useful_things">
+<p>
+Fedora doesn't have "update-grub" so instead you have to use these:<br />
+<code>sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg</code>
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</td></tr></table>
+<div id="postamble" class="status">
+<p class="creator"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 30.1 (<a href="https://orgmode.org">Org</a> mode 9.7.11)</p>
+</div>
+</center>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/images/back.png b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/images/back.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aec1613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/images/back.png
diff --git a/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/xfce.xhtml b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/xfce.xhtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3590f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides/xfce.xhtml
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+<title>&lrm;</title>
+<meta name="generator" content="Org Mode" />
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="#dcd1ba">
+<center>
+<table border="1" width="65%" bgcolor="#bebebe" id="content" class="content"><tr><td>
+<div id="table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
+<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
+<div id="text-table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#xfce-de">1. Xfce DE</a></li>
+<li><a href="#rofi-in-xfce">2. Rofi in xfce</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">[[../images/back<sub>home.png</sub></a>]]<br />
+<a href="../linux_room.html#distro_guides">[[file:images/back.png</a>]]
+</p>
+<div id="outline-container-xfce-de" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="xfce-de"><span class="section-number-2">1.</span> Xfce DE</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-xfce-de">
+<p>
+Indeed the best DE out there.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+By default xfce is a very plain desktop and looks kind of old and shitty
+(like this website), but it can look and feel great with some work!
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Install nicer icons like papirus, can never go wrong with papirus
+icons. then set them as your icon theme</li>
+<li>Install a better theme. Some good ones are:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="https://drasite.com/flat-remix-gtk">flat-remix</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1681313/">gruvbox</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.xfce-look.org/p/2098041">DoorMaker</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1394325">BaZik</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Install kvantum and kvantum-qt5 to change qt themes. Add this to
+<code>/etc/environment</code> for kvantum to work:<br />
+<code>QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=kvantum</code></li>
+<li>Whisker menu for those who want a more modern menu:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Install whisker menu for a way better menu</li>
+<li>Go into the panel settings to remove the old one and change it to
+whisker menu.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Enable clipman as one of the startup apps for a kde like clipboard.</li>
+<li>Make some nicer keybinds:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Bind <code>xfce4-popup-whiskermenu</code> to something like alt+f1 than use
+xcape to bind it to super to get around the xfce super key bug. Add
+<code>xcape -e 'Super_L=Alt_L|F1'</code> as a startup application or whatever
+dummy keybind you binded to whiskermenu. Sadly xfce cant bind
+anything to super key without breaking other shortcuts that use
+super so we have to use xcape in a painful hacky way.</li>
+<li>Bind "super+v" to <code>xfce4-clipman-history</code> to make it feel more like
+the kde clipboard</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Make new windows show up at the mouse by going into the "Window
+ManagerTweaks" "Placement" tab, turning the minimum size all the way
+up and chaning the place windows position to under the mouse pointer.</li>
+<li>Go into "Window Manager" and set a cooler window style and more sane
+shortcuts for virtual desktops.</li>
+<li>Go into "Window Manager Tweaks" and fuck around with the compositor
+settings for cool clear things.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-rofi-in-xfce" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="rofi-in-xfce"><span class="section-number-2">2.</span> Rofi in xfce</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-rofi-in-xfce">
+<p>
+The default xfce appfinder been causing me issues lately so I decided to
+switch to rofi.<br />
+<br />
+To make rofi work with my workflow I like to add some binds for it:
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Bind <code>rofi -show drun -icon-theme "Papirus-Dark" -show-icons</code> to
+super+d</li>
+<li>Bind <code>rofi -show run</code> to super+r</li>
+<li>Bind <code>rofi -show window -icon-theme "Papirus-Dark" -show-icons</code> to
+super+w</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+There is much more I could use rofi for but this is all I need.
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</td></tr></table>
+<div id="postamble" class="status">
+<p class="creator"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 30.1 (<a href="https://orgmode.org">Org</a> mode 9.7.11)</p>
+</div>
+</center>
+</body>
+</html>
author	nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com>	2025-05-22 12:11:10 -0600
committer	nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com>	2025-05-22 12:11:10 -0600
commit	d194694f31002068868a378d121ed0e2db01c378 (patch)
tree	295a67261fef4ebd02e29c36dd3e255492cffdfa /testTheThing/xhtml/distro-guides
parent	8176a8aac5d490562200eca0adb6efe5cc95e61a (diff)