Role Name

Configure a fresh fedora OS with my preferred setup

Requirements

• A clean install of Fedora, either GNOME or XFCE4 (make sure to set the feddy_environment variable correctly for XFCE).
• A regular user with sudo access

Role Variables

Check out defaults/main.yml

Dependencies

• git must be installed
• ansible must be available (preferrably with pip)
• community.general collection (for copr / whiskermenu)

Example installation

Log into the fedora desktop with your user, open the terminal and paste the following:

# Install git and ansible
sudo dnf install git python3-pip python3-libdnf5 -y
python3 -m pip install ansible --user
ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

# Create the folder and the playbook
mkdir -p ~/git/ansible && cd ~/git/ansible
cat << EOF > install.yml
---
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    custom_hostname: feddy.domain.xyz
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: feddy
...
EOF

# Create the role folder and clone this role to it
mkdir roles
git clone https://github.com/oveee92/feddy.git roles/feddy

# Run the ansible setup
# If the previous steps take too long and the sudo password cache times out, you'll need to add -K to the next command
ansible-playbook install.yml -K

# Update and reboot (you might have to re-enter your sudo password at this point, the playbook takes 5+ minutes to run the first time)
sudo dnf update -y
reboot

Post-installation stuff

Dropbox / Google Drive / etc

Run rclone config and set up your cloud accounts. Follow something like this guide. D

Then create the folder in your home directory (e.g. mkdir ~/GoogleDrive). Make sure to name your rclone remote the same as the mount directory in your home folder. For example, name it GoogleDrive if you plan to mount it to ~/GoogleDrive.

Then run the command systemctl --user enable rclone@GoogleDrive --now if you always want it mounted, or just systemctl --user start rclone@GoogleDrive for a temporary mount.

Note that this will mount the folders "traditionally", only fetching the files you need when you need them, not taking up space on your local fileystem/disk. For accessing a file multiple times, vfs will cache the files to make subsequent access faster, but for things like listing all files on the mount, searching through them, etc. it will be VERY slow (2-3 files per second slow, depending on the API limitations and network bandwidth).

To make it more snappy, consider using rclone sync and rclone copy to clone the files to local, then set up a cron job to automatically sync every 10 minutes or so to sync changes back to the cloud. Note that this is a one-way sync process and potentially destructive on the destination, and the files will take up space on your hardisk as well as in the cloud. You might just want to use this technique for backup, not "daily use".

For proper two-way sync to the local filesystem you should use a client, like dropbox. Might also want to take a look at InSync.

Dropbox daemon

If using the dropbox daemon, after installation and reboot, find the link to register to dropbox with systemctl status dropbox --user or journalctl --user -u dropbox. You might have to run systemctl restart dropbox --user after registering.

Others

• Set up your KeepassXC file (maybe from cloud storage?)

• Log into online accounts, mail, etc. via the Online Accounts page in Settings

• Set up / import your Obsidian vault (maybe from cloud storage). Or start a new one (in that case, run Super-Shift-n first, as Super-n will fail without having created a vault)

• Log into and set up VSCode.

  • Remote explorer
  • Git integration
  • others?

• Install GNOME shell extensions, like:

  • Extension

  • AppIndicator and KStatusNotifier Support (install it via CLI for better stability):

    sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
    # then reboot
    gnome-extensions enable [email protected]

  • GSConnect

  • Blur My Shell (for prettifying)

  • Burn My Windows (for fun)

  • Caffeine (to prevent screen sleeping)

• Beautify your libreoffice setup

  • View -> User Interface -> Tabbed setup
  • Settings -> Options -> View -> Icon sets (Sifr Dark)
  • Maybe create a template with better sized cells for Calc

• Download some ISOs for libvirt or boxes

• Run the following python script to circumvent the GNOME developers latest whim, preventing Flameshot from screenshotting (on wayland):

  import dbus
  bus = dbus.SessionBus()
  perm = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore', '/org/freedesktop/impl/portal/PermissionStore')
  perm_iface = dbus.Interface(perm, dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore')
  
  perm_iface.Lookup("screenshot", "screenshot")
  perm_iface.Set("screenshot", dbus.Boolean(True), "screenshot", {"": ["yes"]}, dbus.Byte(0x00))
  perm_iface.Lookup("screenshot", "screenshot")

• Put your custom wallpapers in .local/share/backgrounds

Have fun!

Example playbooks

---
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    custom_hostname: feddy.domain.xyz
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: feddy
...

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Me