Desktop Environment

Xfce: lightweight & user-friendly

Terminal Emulater

  • Guake: dropdown windows terminal(like iTerm2’s hotkey window)
  • Terminator: split panels

Shell

  • oh-my-zsh
  • make zsh your default shell: chsh -s $(which zsh) and then log out and log back in

Byobu

Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.

sudo apt-get intall byobu

Git

install

sudo apt-get install git

initial setup

git config --global user.name cheng10
git config --global user.email cheng10@ualberta.ca
git config --global core.editor vim

check your settings

git config -l

generate a new SSH key(optional)

# This creates a new ssh key, using the provided email as a label. 
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/ https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Setup

Python

basical setup

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
python3 --version
sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-venv build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev

virtualenv

mkdir ~/.venv
python3 -m venv ~/.venv/p3
source ~/.venv/p3/bin/activate

digital ocean tutorial

virtualenv wrapper

install

sudo pip3 install virtualenvwrapper

update your shell config file(.bashrc, .profile, .zshrc, etc.)

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.venvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Projects
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

to use

mkvirtualenv p3
workon p3

https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

China Optimization

USTC mirror

  • python pip mirror

git

proxy your ssh git clone： just setup ssh proxyjump

# ~/.ssh/config
Host github.com
    User git
    ProxyJump gce-jp

setup ss-local

systemd

# /lib/systemd/system/ss-local.service
[Unit]
Description=ss-local
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/ss-local
User=nobody
Group=nogroup
LimitNOFILE=32768
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ss-local -c $CONFFILE $DAEMON_ARGS

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

environment file

# /etc/default/ss-local
# Enable during startup?
START=yes

# Configuration file
CONFFILE="/etc/shadowsocks-libev/local-config.json"

# Extra command line arguments
DAEMON_ARGS="-u -v --acl /etc/shadowsocks-libev/chn.acl"
# chn.acl: bypass china ip, file can be found on ss-libenv github repo

# User and group to run the server as
USER=nobody
GROUP=nogroup

config.json

# /etc/shadowsocks-libev/local-config.json
{
 "server":"YOUR SERVER IP",
 "server_port":8388,
 "password":"yourpassword",
 "timeout":30,
 "method":"aes-256-gcm",
 "fast_open": true,
 "local_address":"0.0.0.0",
 "local_port":1080,
}