ansible-desktop-ubuntu-18.04

Personal Ansible playbook to bootstrap a desktop setup with Ubuntu 18.04

Setup

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ansible git

Clone

git clone git://github.com/panagiks/ansible-desktop-ubuntu-18.04 && cd ansible-desktop-ubuntu-18.04

Install dependencies

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.txt

Run the playbook

ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass playbook.yml

Configure appearance

• Open Settings > Apparance and:
  • select Dark under Window colors
  • Enable Auto-hide the Dock
  • Set Icon size to 28 (or adjust at will)
  • Set Position on screen to Bottom (or adjust at will)
• Open Startup Applications Preferences
  • Select Add
  • Add a descriptive name (for Caffeine Indicator)
  • Select Browse... navigate to /bin (by clicking + Other Locations) and select caffeine-indicator from the list
• Open Terminal and go to Preferences
  • In General set Theme variant to Dark
  • In Profiles:
    • Set Cursor shape to Underline
    • Set Curson blinking to Enabled
    • Disable Terminal bell
    • Under Colors > Text and Background color > Built-in schemes select Solarized dark
    • Under Colors > Palette > Built-in schemes select Solarized

Logout from the user session

Since some configuration is placed in .profile a session (not terminal) logout is requeired.

Verify functionality