Introduction

This is my description of what I did to customize a base install of the Fedora 23 XFCE spin to my needs.

Installation

Apparently there is some sort of bug the the Nouveau driver with dual monitors (at least on the GTX 750). So step 1 was to unplug one of my monitors. I didn't really customize anything, but as soon as it was done installing, I installed the propriatary NVidia drivers. I'm a big Free Software fan, but sometimes I need to Get Things Done and the fact is that the Nouveau drivers kinda suck (also they don't work in my setup).

The bug I encountered with the Nouveau driver causes the display to say "link training failed" and then just hang.

rpmfusion (free, nonfree)
nvidia stuff from negativo17

Base Applications

firefox
thunderbird
konsole
gnome-do
copyq
menulibre
libreoffice
transmission-remote-gtk
quodlibet
xfreerdp
Chrome
Flash Player

Development Tools

git
gitk
ack
jq
perl
ruby
nmap

Personal Dotfiles and local Customizations

zsh
ctags
clang-devel
golang
nodejs
npm
python-devel

Then:

Create ~/bin
Set up https://github.com/abatkin/dotfiles
~/.zshrc-local-pre
Java Stuff
JDK
Maven
Ant
IntelliJ

Moving windows around:

https://github.com/abatkin/move-window
wmctrl
xdotool
xrandr
xwininfo
xprop

Hot Corners:

xfce4-hotcorner-plugin (note: default build installes to /usr/lib and the file needs to be moved to /usr/lib64)
Xfdashboard

Remote Access:

Citrix Receiver
CA Cert
Rebuild with c_rehash from openssl-perl package

Printer:

hplip
simple-scan
Run hp-setup -i

IntelliJ:

Plugins
Maven Helper
.ignore
Markdown Support

xfreerdp:

xfreerdp /v:$windows_host /f /multimon +clipboard +home-drive +toggle-fullscreen -sec-nla /audio

Custom Shortcuts

CopyQ: Ctrl+Alt+V
Gnome-Do: Super+Space
Virtual Desktop keys
Tile window keys
Web Browser key
Terminal key
Thunar key
move-window.pl left/right (Shift+Super+Left/Right)

XFCE Settings

Set Preferred Applications (firefox, thunderbird, konsole)
Disable screensaver (blank only), add monitor powersave

Fonts

Infinality-Ultimate-Bundle (https://danielrenninghoff.com/2015/11/22/infinality-ultimate-bundle-packaged-for-fedora/)
Note: This appears to break some things, including many Amazon pages on Firefox (browser becomes unresponsive)
msttcore-fonts
powerline-fonts

System

Set up /etc/fstab and mounts
Add kernel.sysrq = 1 to /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
Symlink ~/Documents
Restore ~/.mozilla, ~/.thunderbird
Restore game saves
Restore .gnupg stuff

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