elementaryOS | Things I Do After Installing elementary OS Hera

First Things First

Enable PPA

 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https curl

Install apt-fast [Yes! it's really fast]

 sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:apt-fast/stable
 sudo apt -y install apt-fast
 echo $'\nalias apt="apt-fast"' >> ~/.bashrc 
 source ~/.bashrc

Update OS

 # use "sudo apt" if you're skipping 'Install apt-fast' 
 apt upgrade

Install git
```
 apt install git
```
Cleanup OS
```
 apt autoremove -y && apt autoclean -y
```

UI Tweaks

Bring back Tray icons (why did they remove it?)

 wget https://github.com/Lafydev/wingpanel-indicator-ayatana/raw/master/com.github.lafydev.wingpanel-indicator-ayatana_2.0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
 wget https://github.com/mdh34/elementary-indicators/releases/download/0.1/indicator-application-patched.deb
 sudo dpkg -i com.github.lafydev.wingpanel-indicator-ayatana_2.0ubuntu6_amd64.deb indicator-application-patched.deb
 sudo apt-mark hold indicator-application
 sudo reboot

Icon Pack La Capitaine by @keeferrourke

 mkdir ~/.icons && cd ~/.icons
 git clone https://github.com/keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme.git
 cd la-capitaine-icon-theme && ./configure

Cursors La Capitaine by @keeferrourke

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dyatlov-igor/la-capitaine
 apt install la-capitaine-cursor-theme

APPS (Install from their sites)

APPS (Install from terminal)

Restricted extras & MM Codec

 apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras libavcodec-extra

flash-plugin

 apt install flashplugin-installer pepperflashplugin-nonfree

archive formats

 apt install unace rar unrar p7zip-rar p7zip sharutils uudeview mpack arj cabextract lzip lunzip

Wine (If you want to run windows apps)

 sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
 sudo apt-key add winehq.key
 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
 apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

My Terminal

Guake Terminal
```
 apt install guake
```
Oh My ZSH
Powerlevel10k theme

Other Tweaks

fusuma: MultiTouch Gestures (config.yml)
Preload
```
 apt install preload
```

Reduce Overheating & Improve Battery Life

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
 apt install tlp tlp-rdw
 sudo tlp start

Smaller titlebar height for non-GTK apps by @sprite-1

Add minimize button (it's not worth it)

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/elementary-tweaks
 apt install elementary-tweaks

then do System Settings>Tweaks>Layout>Windows

ancient fonts
```
 apt install ttf-ancient-fonts
```
elementaryOS theme for FireFox by @Zonnev
elementaryOS theme for Telegram by @sprite-1

Troubleshooting

Fix Lag on Login/Restart by @Jason Waddington

 sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled
 sudo mv /usr/share/upstart/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop /usr/share/upstart/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled

Display Hidden Startup Applications

 sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Fix Desktop entries not executing by @user170

Credits

Author

Surendrajat commented Jun 19, 2020 •

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@montagco Hi. About tray icons, since this is not officially supported therefore there are issues with these solutions. The tray icons will come if you've done all the steps but as soon as you exit any of these, all will disappear. You will have to launch one more such app in order to see it back. The settings button is just a placeholder. I suggest you remove wingpanel-indicator-namarupa and try https://github.com/lafydev/wingpanel-indicator-ayatana. I prefer namarupa as it takes little space and I really don't care much about minimized apps anyways as long as they are running.
About the battery draining issue, It's an issue for all Linux based distros out there. Windows being most used for so long is heavily optimized for power savings. However, If you installed tlp as suggested in Other Tweaks part above, you should feel the difference. Other than that I will suggest you find graphics driver for your graphics card and install if possible(whatever works for Ubuntu 18.04, will work on elementary OS 5) and use power settings and all wisely, in general.

JoseRco commented Jun 19, 2020 •

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@montagco Hi. About tray icons, since this is not officially supported therefore there are issues with these solutions. The tray icons will come if you've done all the steps but as soon as you exit any of these, all will disappear. You will have to launch one more such app in order to see it back. The settings button is just a placeholder. I suggest you remove wingpanel-indicator-namarupa and try https://github.com/lafydev/wingpanel-indicator-ayatana. I prefer namarupa as it takes little space and I really don't care much about minimized apps anyways as long as they are running.
About the battery draining issue, It's an issue for all Linux based distros out there. Windows being most used for so long is heavily optimized for power savings. However, If you installed tlp as suggested in Other Tweaks part above, you should feel the difference. Other than that I will suggest you find graphics driver for your graphics card and install if possible(whatever works for Ubuntu 18.04, will work on elementary OS 5) and use power settings and all wisely, in general.

Thanks for ur help. A last question: how I remove that? I try it, seen other examples... but I blow up the whole wingpanel 🤣 , already recover it but I dont know how to remove that specific thing. Thanks again!