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Sarthak's Complete Linux Settings, Solutions and Troubleshooters:

Dual-Booting Linux and Windows:​

Dual Booting is differnt for UEFI an Legacy Laptops:

  • My Hp-ck2018tu Laptop: UEFI GPT
  • Hp Student Laptop: UEFI/Legacy MBR

Installing on:​

  • UEFI GPT =>

Uninstalling on:​

  • UEFI GPT =>
    • Step 1: Deleting the Linux Partition
    • Step-2: Removing the manjaro( GRUB Bootloader) from EFI Partition
    • A Youtube Tutorial

My LInux Troubleshooters

Manjaro Linux (KDE):​

Linux Commands to Install and Unsinstall:​

Removing a uninstalled repository remaining hidden​

  • Removing a uninstalled repository remaining hidden: The repo should be specified in "/etc/pacman.conf". Just edit the file and remove it or comment it out by putting # in the beginning of the line.

Visual Stude Code​

  • ERROR while "Sign in" or "Connecting to Github"
    Error message: secret_password_clear_sync() failed with error code 2: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
    Solution: you likely don't have gnome-keyring and libsecret installed.In "Terminal" Run👇↲: 
sudo pacman -S gnome-keyring libsecret

Then restart PC.
Also can Follow this Vs Code Issue here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/224

Configuring Git​

  • Configuring Git for "Cloning" and "Submitting File":

    • Run the following Commands:
    git config --global user.name "cosmicsarthak"
    git config --global user.email "sarthakmohanty200@gmail.com"

    Then I can Check its corect or not by👉: git config user.name or git config user.email or git config list
    It should show like this👇:

    user.name=cosmicsarthak
    user.email=sarthakmohanty200@gmail.com

  • ...

Change your default git branch name to main by Terminal​

You can set the default parameters for any new git repo you initialize in your global git config settings. The default directory that git reads from is ~/.gitconfig. You can see what your current settings are by running the following command in your terminal emulator:⏬


git config --global --list

Let’s make a custom directory to hold our new configuration files. Create a directory called .git-template in your home directory. ⏬


mkdir ~/.git-template

Now, add a file named HEAD (no extensions) and add the following lines in the file named HEAD: ⏬


ref: refs/heads/main

Then Run👇↲ to add to git configuration settings


git config --global init.templateDir ~/.git-template

In Windows, while installing git we get the option to choose default branch as main (Always set default branch as main)

Disabling baloo_file_extractor (taking a lot of RAM)​

  • Check Status:
balooctl status
  • Stop baloo:
balooctl disable

Then again run balooctl status

  • Renove baloo:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo

Garuda Linux (KDE Dr460nized):​

Linux Commands to Install and Unsinstall:​

Enabling Tap-to-click​

  • Garuda Linux has disabled tap-to-click by default. Follow these steps to enable tap-to-click in Garuda Linux. Follow these steps carefully, it requires root(sudo) privileges.
    1. In the Terminal run these 2 commands👇:sudo pacman -S --needed xf86-input-libinput
    sudo micro /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf
    Copy the following text👇:
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "on"
    Option "ScrollMethod" "twofinger"
EndSection

4. paste this text into 30-touchpad.conf (file opened in step 1) 5. save the file (Ctrl + s)
6. quit the editor (Ctrl + q)
7. Reboot

If you follow these steps carefully, tap to click and right click should be enabled.
libinput is being used/configured here
Tip: Visit https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput for more configuration of touchpad

Software Centre​

  • pamac is to be used as Software centre (optopiis not supported [as of July 2021]) ### Visual Stude Code - ERROR while "Sign in" or "Connecting to Github"
    Error message: secret_password_clear_sync() failed with error code 2: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
    Solution: you likely don't have gnome-keyring and libsecret installed.In "Terminal" Run👇↲:
    cpp sudo pacman -S gnome-keyring libsecret Then restart PC.
    Also can Follow this Vs Code Issue here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/224

Configuring Git - Configuring Git for "Cloning" and "Submitting File":​

  • Run the following Commands: git config --global user.name "cosmicsarthak"git config --global user.email "sarthakmohanty200@gmail.com" Then I can Check its corect or not by👉: git config user.name or git config user.email or git config list
    It should show like this👇: user.name=cosmicsarthak user.email=sarthakmohanty200@gmail.com ### VS Code Terminal ERROR⏩ manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC** and $LANG are correct - Step 1: *open the terminal in vscode and type localeand see which language it is in. It should be in LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 - Step 2. type in the terminal sudo nano /etc/locale.gen and scroll down and remove # in front the language which is in my case en_GB.UTF-8 then > ctrl+x then press y after that enter_if using TERMINAL
    > or I can do this in any EDITOR at /etc/locale.gen. - Step 3. type in terminal sudo locale-gen that it ! it is solved!

Disabling baloo_file_extractor (taking a lot of RAM)​

  • Check Status:
balooctl status
  • Stop baloo:
balooctl disable

Then again run balooctl status

  • Renove baloo:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo

Reseting Customisations & Themes to Default​

Garuda Welcome >> Garuda Assistant >> Reset All Configs​

Reseting Customisations & Themes to Default

Changing Default Apps / Software​

~/.profile
  • go to ~/.profile and change the names of the App you want as Default.

Ubuntu:​

  • ..
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Arch Linux (KDE / i3wm):​

Garuda Linux (KDE Dr460nized):​

Linux Commands to Install and Unsinstall:​

Some Important Tutorials:​