Notes

A collection of useful notes on development environment configurations and other findings.

The following is a collection of resources (e.g. packages, PPAs, themes) I’m using in my Ubuntu desktop:

Apple Keyboard Fn switch - Switch Fn key function in Ubuntu for use with Mac keyboards (echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode).
emoji-keyboard - Emoji support via virtual keyboard.
rtl8192cu-fixes - Repackaged Realtek 8192CU USB WiFi driver.

asdf - Extendable version control manager for Erlang, Elixir, Elm, etc.
bat - Better cat.
docker - Container (virtualization) engine.
- Install instructions: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-docker-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts-focal-fossa
docker-compose - Single-machine container orchestration.
- Install instructions: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-docker-compose-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux
fd - Better find.
Fira Code - Monospaced font for coding with ligature support.
nvm - Install and manage multiple versions of Nodejs.
Ruby package - Use 3^rd party Ruby repository to get the latest version, including dev packages and version switch utility.
SDKMAN - Install and manage multiple versions of Java SDKs and build tools.

cpufreq - CPU monitor and power management tool.
- Remove irqbalance if required: sudo apt-get remove irqbalance
f.lux - Adapt computer monitor glow by time of day.
psensor - Show system temperature in toolbar.
Stacer - Linux system optimiser and monitoring.
system-monitor - Show system resource usages (e.g. CPU, memory, network) in toolbar.
- Clutter install command if required: apt install gir1.2-clutter-1.0
tilix - Tiling terminal emulator.

Gnome Shell Extension - Enable Gnome user-shell extension for Gnome Tweak tool.
Sushi - Smart file previews.
Yaru Dark VLC - Ubuntu’s Yaru Dark VLC theme.
Change dock ‘on click’ behaviour:
- View options: gsettings range org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action
- Set value (e.g. preview): gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'previews'
Remove mounted drives on dock gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts false

Adapta - Google Material design theme.
Flatpak - Cross-distro Linux application distribution platform.
Gnome Shell Extension - Enable Gnome user-shell extension for Gnome Tweak tool.
Papirus - Icons - Flat icons with Adapta theme.
Change dock ‘on click’ behaviour:
- View options: gsettings range org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action
- Set value (e.g. preview): gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'previews'

Erlang asdf installation:
- Install libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev and libwxgtk-webview3.0-gtk3-dev to fix missing wxWidgets developer packages.
Fix screen tearing:
- Firefox - Force hardware acceleration (about:config and then set layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true).
- System-wide - Add xorg device configuration.
Random string generation - Generate random string in bash (</dev/urandom tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'\''()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_{|}~' | head -c 64; echo)
Restore grub - Restore grub after Windows 10 update (bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi in command shell).

The following is a list of useful Gradle plugins I’m using in my Java / Kotlin / Scala projects:

gradle-test-logger - Test output formatting with themes and parallel execution support.
gradle-scoverage - Enable Scoverage in Scala project
gradle-stats - Provides source code statistics in individual or aggregate project.
spotless - Source code formatter support; supports Java, Scala, Kotlin, SQL, etc.

The following is a list of useful global SBT plugins I’m using in my Scala / SBT projects:

sbt-coursier - An improved Scala artifact fetcher, with parallel downloads and better offline mode.
sbt-dependency-graph - Add support to visualize dependency graph within SBT (supports both ASCII and HTML output).
sbt-dependency-updates - Add support to fetch and display available dependency updates in current project.
sbt-ensime - Adds an SBT command to generates .ensime file in SBT projects for use by ENSIME (e.g. in Atom, emacs, or VS Code).
sbt-stats - Provides source code statistics in individual or aggregate project.
scala-clippy - Improved compiler error messages and syntax colorizer.