Mint 20 initial manual setup

Here's everything I did after installing Linux Mint 20 to customise to my liking

• Install git, xclip, tmux, parcellite

sudo apt install git-all xclip tmux parcellite

• Mint theme:

  • Menu ⇢ Themes: Window borders = "Mint-X", Icons = "Mint-Y", Controls = "Mint-Y"

• Terminal:

  • Change the background colour to black
  • Untick "show menubar by default in new terminals" in preferences

• Parcellite:

  • Run on the command line, right click the icon in the corner panel, in Preferences tick the top 3:
    • Use Copy (Ctrl-C)
    • Use Primary (Selection)
    • Synchronize clipboards

• Firefox settings:

  • Change default search engine to DDG
  • Untick home page junk (just show search bar) and unset home page from the Linux Mint site
  • Untick "Ctrl + Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order"

• Git:

  • Regenerate SSH keys
  • Git clone your git-versioned dotfiles repo (either backed up from previous OS or on another machine)

• Conda:

  • Go here and wget the latest version of miniconda into your ~/Downloads then run the shell script installer with bash
  • I suggest doing this after setting up your bashrc (so it writes to your bashrc file after you change it)