Kali Linux Desktop PC Initial Setup

Lin­ux Desk­top

This is a short guide that cov­er my set­up of Kali Lin­ux as desk­top en­vi­ron­ment. It doesn't cov­er the in­stal­la­tion process of Kali Lin­ux it­self.

En­able Blue­tooth

In Kali Lin­ux 2022 the Blue­tooth ser­vice is dis­abled by de­fault. In or­der to en­able it run thew fol­low­ing com­mand.

sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth.service

Add Win­dows 10 en­try in­to the Grub menu

• Ref­er­ence: Ma­gen­to fo­rum – Warn­ing: os-prober will not be ex­e­cut­ed to de­tect oth­er bootable par­ti­tions

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

# SZS: https://wiki.metalevel.tech/wiki/Kali_Linux_Desktop_PC_Initial_Setup
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

sudo update-grub

In­stall the lat­est Nvidia Dri­ver

• Ref­er­ence: Huawei Sup­port: How to Dis­able the Nou­veau Dri­ver for Dif­fer­ent Lin­ux Sys­tems

Here I'm go­ing to in­stall the Lat­est NVIDIA Dri­ver, rec­om­mend­ed for Quadro T600, which is not pre­sent­ed in the Kali's repos­i­to­ry. The first step is to down­load the lat­est dri­ver: NVIDIA Dri­ver Down­loads > Quadr/​​​RTX T600 > LIN­UX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DIS­PLAY DRI­VER.

Then Black­list the de­fault Nou­veau dri­ver:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

sudo update-initramfs -u

Af­ter that re­boot the sys­tem. If the log-in screen come back – don't log-in, but prob­a­bly there will be blank screen wit blink­ing cur­sor. In both cas­es, press Ctrl+Alt+F3, log-in to a TTY, and re­move any ex­ist­ing NVIDIA Dri­ver:

sudo apt remove '*nvidia*'

And then in­stall the dri­ver.

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01.run
sudo nvidia-xconfig

Fi­nal­ly re­boot the sys­tem once again. If there are some per­for­mance is­sues check NVIDIA Set­tings > Pow­er­Miz­er > Per­for­mance Mode. You can change the de­fault per­for­mance mode by chang­ing xorg.conf or you can change it via the CLI by the fol­low­ing com­mands.

nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=0  # Adaptive
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1  # Prefer Maximum Performance
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=2  # Auto
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=3  # Prefer Consistent Performance

Gnome Ex­ten­sions

Don't up­date the ex­ten­sions de­liv­ered by Kali Lin­ux from the GNOME Shell Ex­ten­sions page! The pack­age gnome-brows­er-con­nec­tor is not yet avail­able to the Kali's repos­i­to­ry – that cause the mes­sage: Your na­tive host con­nec­tor do not sup­port fol­low­ing APIs: v6., – in the brows­er. Cur­rent­ly every­thing works de­spite the men­tioned mes­sage. In case there is a prob­lem, in­stead of adding new ex­ten­sions via the brows­er we can use gnome-shell-ex­ten­sion-man­ag­er.

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

An­oth­er way is to down­load and in­stall the ex­ten­sions man­u­al­ly – ref­er­ence.

gnome-extensions install -f <name of downloaded zip file>.zip

Al­so keep in mind there is a cou­ple of de­fault ex­ten­sions avail­able in the OS' repos­i­to­ry.

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-[Press TAB]

#Out­put

gnome-shell-extension-appindicator             gnome-shell-extension-impatience
gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu                 gnome-shell-extension-kimpanel
gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar           gnome-shell-extension-manager
gnome-shell-extension-bluetooth-quick-connect  gnome-shell-extension-panel-osd
gnome-shell-extension-caffeine                 gnome-shell-extension-pixelsaver
gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock               gnome-shell-extension-prefs
gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel            gnome-shell-extension-proxyswitcher
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng         gnome-shell-extension-shortcuts
gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast           gnome-shell-extension-sound-device-chooser
gnome-shell-extension-freon                    gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
gnome-shell-extension-gamemode                 gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant
gnome-shell-extension-gpaste                   gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus
gnome-shell-extension-hamster                  gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview
gnome-shell-extension-hard-disk-led            gnome-shell-extension-volume-mixer
gnome-shell-extension-hide-activities          gnome-shell-extension-weather

Notes about some ex­ten­sions:

• Dash to Pan­el | Re­set set­tings: dconf re­set ‑f /org/g­nome/shel­l/ex­ten­sion­s/­dash-to-pan­el/
• No overview at start-up – not longer re­quired be­cause such fea­ture is avail­able in Dash to Pan­el ex­ten­sion.
• Tiling As­sis­tant | Win­Tile: Win­dows 10 win­dow tiling for GNOME + Use­less Gaps
• Screen­shot Win­dow Siz­er, use Ctrl+Alt+S and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S
• Pop Shell: Sup­port Ar­ti­cles @System76 | GitHub | Theme GitHub
• List of all cur­rent­ly in­stalled ex­ten­sions

Ad­di­tion­al Soft­ware In­stal­la­tion and Tweaks

• Cre­ate a Cus­tom Dis­play Switch Op­tion by Xran­dr and Pactl
• Kali Lin­ux Print­er Set­up
• Vi­su­al Stu­dio Code on Lin­ux
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall xRDP
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall Brave brows­er + Tmpfs Tools Pro­file Sync Dae­mon (PSD)
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall Telegram
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall Viber
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall Mes­sen­ger
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall Skype
• Kali Lin­ux In­stall NextCloud Client
• GNOME Shell Fix the Open in Ter­mi­nal Op­tion
• QEMU/KVM on AMD Ryzen 9 Desk­top with Dual-boot and Passthrough
• Of­fen­sive Se­cu­ri­ty: Cus­tomiz­ing Kali Lin­ux
• ON­LY­OF­FICE Desk­top Ed­i­tors for Lin­ux
• How to in­stall plu­g­ins in ON­LY­OF­FICE Desk­top Ed­i­tors | Plu­g­ins List | To make it looks more na­tive, once it is in­stalled, open a ter­mi­nal win­dow and run onlyoffice-desktopeditors --system-title-bar, then close the ap­pli­ca­tion win­dow – the set­ting will be re­mem­bered.
• Launch­pad: Li­bre­Of­fice Fresh

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