{"id":1913,"date":"2019-08-31T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2021-04-07T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T19:41:00","slug":"general-linux-setup-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/31\/general-linux-setup-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"General Linux Setup Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Install these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Putty (or remember to use ssh -l loginName)<\/li>\n<li>Install freerdp-x11 before installing KRDC (Remote desktop client)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Foobar2000 requires snapd to install. It doesn&#8217;t have a GUI package manager (either use &#8220;sudo snap install&#8221; or use <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\">Snap Store<\/a>\u00a0to find the app and click &#8216;Install&#8217; directly from there)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a chicken-and-egg problem with snap store though. On Linux Mint, snap-store needs to be installed with command line before the button on the web page works correctly. So there&#8217;s no way around doing this command line once: &#8220;sudo snap install snap-store&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be better off just doing &#8220;sudo snap install foobar2000&#8221; if you are not going to use SnapCraft store again later. Alternatively, use <a href=\"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/10\/foobar2000-alternatives-for-linux\/\">DeadBeef<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My other favorite Windows app Notepad++ is also on snap store. Unfortunately, these are both Wine applications that Cinnamon doesn&#8217;t scale them properly with HiDPI mode. I&#8217;ll use NotepadQQ instead.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pain in the butt to deal with snap store because it won&#8217;t automatically create shorcuts on the panel or desktop. Then you cannot directly run it in the command line either because the apps are install under \/snap\/bin and it&#8217;s not in the path either! Add it in \/etc\/environment and RE-LOGIN!<\/p>\n<p>There are websites that teaches you to extend the path in <a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/3744\/how-do-i-modify-my-path-so-that-the-changes-are-available-in-every-terminal-sess\">\/etc\/profile<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not necessary if you did \/etc\/environment already. Doing both will have the path added twice!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the icons files are hidden in:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/800685\/add-a-snap-icon-to-the-desktop-ubuntu-16-04\">\/var\/lib\/snapd\/desktop\/applications<\/a>\u00a0and the panel icons can be anebled by linking the .desktop folders:<\/p>\n<pre><code>sudo ln -s \/var\/lib\/snapd\/desktop\/applications\/ \/usr\/share\/applications\/snap <\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Geeze! A windows program this broken these days are not the norm. They never work right out of the box for the most natural and common use cases!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Only Evolution Mail Client supports Google accounts from GNOME online account services. 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