🐧 Linux Configurations

💾 Backup Configurations

• Make the backup.sh file executable with chmod +x ./backup.sh first.
• Backup configurations by executing backup.sh file.
• Files & folders that needs to be backed up should be mentioned inside backup.conf file.
• Once backup is complete, commit the changes.
• If you want to restore the backup, instead of just copy paste everything back, run the backup script. After that you can use file diff to compare the changes and pick manually.

💫 Install Packages

• Make the install.sh file executable with chmod +x ./install.sh first.
• Bulk install packages by executing install.sh file.
• Packages needs to be installed should be listed inside install_third_party.conf & install_trusted.conf files.
• Services needs to be enabled should be listed inside services.conf file.
• Its better to restart the PC after script finished running.
• 3rd party packages are installed through pikaur AUR helper.

⚡️ Notes

• Install VMWare Player from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware#Installation
• After installing wine
  • Create a link in home directory to /run/media/chandu/Storage/Softwares/Wine directory.
  • Enable multilib in /etc/pacman.conf file.
• Use below code to create direct shortcut for joining Zoom calls:

  [Desktop Entry]
  Comment=Zoom video conference
  Exec=xdg-open "zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&confno=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&pwd=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  Icon=Zoom
  MimeType=application/x-zoom;
  Name=Join Meeting
  StartupNotify=true
  StartupWMClass=zoom
  Type=Application
  X-KDE-Protocols=zoommtg;zoomus;tel;callto;zoomphonecall;