This is my ubuntu customization, includes the initial process, very useful tools and everyday use apps. plus the gnome-extensions i use to make the interface look amazing and alot more
- UBUNTU MOD
- INSTALLATION
- Updating And Upgrading Ubuntu
- Installing Nala To Replace Apt
- Installing Flatpak And Useful Apps
- Installing Gnome Tweaks And Extension Manager
- Extra Tools
- Setting Up Spicetify
- Setting Up Better Discord
- Installing Thorium Browser( Chromium Fork )
- Installing Mercury Browser( Firefox Fork )
- Installing Visual Studio Code
- Installing Proton VPN
- Installing Tlauncher For Minecraft
- Improving BASH Shell
- REMOVING SNAP
You can either auto-install the whole setup or or install manually according to your preference
#First Update & Upgrade Ubuntu
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install nala -y
sudo nala fetch
sudo nala update && sudo nala upgrade -y
Important: If warning appear while upgrading then remove those repositories from Software & Updates -> Other Software -> Remove repos causing error and repeat previous step
Note: Remove link to any app you dont want
sudo nala install flatpak -y
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Important: Restart your device after installing flatpak or after installing apps, Flatpak apps will be visible after restart
flatpak install flathub -y tv.kodi.Kodi com.spotify.Client com.discordapp.Discord org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent org.videolan.VLC com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience
sudo nala install gnome-tweaks -y
sudo nala install gnome-shell-extension-manager -y
Open the Extension Manager and from the browse tab search and install the following extenxions:
Blur My Shell / Burn My Window / Just Perfection / Hide Top Bar / Caffeine / User Themes / Clipboard Indicator / Fullscreen Notifications / Dash To Dock / Aylur's Widgets / Gnome 4x Improvements / Impatience / Net Speed Simplified / Removable Drive Menu / Simple System Monitor / Todo.txt / Unite
sudo nala install stacer curl git neofetch -y
sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp # Make executable
To update, run:
sudo yt-dlp -U
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras -y
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize-or-previews'
Spicetify is a multiplatform command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/master/install.sh | sh
flatpak run com.spotify.Client
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.sh | sh
NOTE:The process of adding marketplace will fail to fix this close spotfiy and do the following:
# open config-xpui.ini and add the below line to the prefs_path
# /home/zaeem/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/config/spotify/prefs
Then run this in terminal:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.sh | sh
Finally in terminal, set read/write permission for it:
sudo chmod a+wr /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client/x86_64/stable/active/files/extra/share/spotify
sudo chmod a+wr -R /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client/x86_64/stable/active/files/extra/share/spotify/Apps
spicetify backup apply
Open Spotify and go to Marketplace -> Extensions and install these extensions
Adblocker / Autoplay
Then Go to the Themes and install Galaxy or try any other
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bb010g/betterdiscordctl/master/betterdiscordctl
chmod +x betterdiscordctl
sudo mv betterdiscordctl /usr/local/bin
To update:
sudo betterdiscordctl self-upgrade
betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak install
NotAnotherAnimeTheme ClearVision Cyberpunk 2077
Get more themes and plugins for the website
wget https://dl.thorium.rocks/debian/dists/stable/thorium.list
sudo mv thorium.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo apt update
sudo apt install thorium-browser
Download the Deb file for Mercury Browser
After the download is finished run the following in a new terminal window:
cd Downloads
sudo nala install mercury-browser_115.4.0_amd64.deb
To change the icon:
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/mercury-browser.desktop
Add the location of the png after Icon=
/home/zaeem/.icons/firefox-nightly.png
NOTE: Just change the zaeem with your username.
Open the Mercury Browser and install these useful extensions:
Ublock Origin / Bonjour / Auto Discard Tab / 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)
IMPORTANT: Go to mercury settings and under Performance disable Use recommended performance settings for smoother video( Fix buffer )
NOTE: If the video is still laging disable Use hardware acceleration when available as well
NOTE: To disable menu-bar on alt key in browser(Firefox) than go to about:config and set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false
sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget
wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main"
sudo apt install code -y
Download the Deb file for Proton VPN
After the download is finished run the following in a new terminal window:
cd Downloads
sudo dpkg --install protonvpn-stable-release_1.0.3-2_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop
sudo apt install libayatana-appindicator3-1 gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
Download the Zip file for Tlauncher
After the download is finished run the following in a new terminal window:
cd Downloads
unzip TLauncher-2.895.zip
rm README-EN.txt README-RUS.txt
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
sudo apt-get install openjfx
mv Downloads/TLauncher-2.895.jar .config/
java -jar .config/TLauncher-2.895.jar
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git clone --recursive https://github.com/andresgongora/synth-shell.git
cd synth-shell
sudo chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh
Except for synth-shell greater install everything
if [ ! -a ~/.inputrc ]; then echo '$include /etc/inputrc' > ~/.inputrc; fi
echo 'set completion-ignore-case On' >> ~/.inputrc
Reopen the terminal to see changes.
To remove snap completely from ubuntu:
snap list
sudo snap remove --purge firefox
sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
sudo snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
sudo snap remove --purge gnome-42-2204
sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
sudo snap remove --purge bare
sudo snap remove --purge core22
sudo snap remove --purge core20
sudo snap remove --purge snapd
After removing all the snap packages:
sudo apt remove --autoremove snapd
That’s not all. Even if you removed the snaps using the above command, the sudo apt update command again brings back the snap if you don’t stop the apt trigger. So, to stop that, we need to create an apt preference file in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ and create a new preference file to stop snap. Create a new file called nosnap.pref in /etc/apt/preferences.d/
sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
And add the following lines, then save the file.
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
NOTE: To Disable Logout and Shutdown prompts:
gsettings set org.gnome.SessionManager logout-prompt false