My personal Fedora setup — the full checklist I follow, plus a couple of fixes I always apply. This one is written for me, so the explanations are short.

First Steps

• Fedora Guide
• Keyd

Further Setup

Dev stuff

• Terminal customisation
• ghostty-terminal
• kitty-terminal
• yazi

Apps

• Editor's choice
• Essentials

Misc

• Facial Recognition with Gaze

Older Gaze versions broke automatic keyring unlock at GDM login, needing a custom authselect profile with pam_gaze stripped from password-auth. Fixed upstream — the stock profile now works as is.

Install steps

• Add the repo and install

  Hopefully Gaze will be packaged into the fedora or terra in the future when mature. For now, we import the repo manually.

  sudo rpm --import https://packages.gundulabs.com/keys/gundulabs-repo.asc
  sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/gundulabs.repo > /dev/null << 'EOF'
  [gundulabs]
  name=Gundu Labs
  baseurl=https://packages.gundulabs.com/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=1
  repo_gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=https://packages.gundulabs.com/keys/gundulabs-repo.asc
  EOF
  sudo dnf makecache
  sudo dnf install gaze gaze-gui

• Reboot

• Start the gazed daemon

  sudo systemctl enable --now gazed

• Select the Gaze authselect profile

  with-face-simultaneous allows you to input password the same time the facial recognition is firing.

  sudo authselect select gaze with-face-simultaneous with-silent-lastlog --force

• Configure & Test

  Set up face in the Gaze GUI, along with tweaking some of its settings.

  Try in the terminal: sudo echo test.

Desktop / Hardware-Dependent

Niri

• My niri-dms and niri-noctalia.

Gnome

• Gnome Guide
• Further Gnome Customisation

Hardware

• Logitech Linux Setup
• ProArt P16 2025
• External Resources
  • Touchpad scrolling speed fix

Contributors

aier9500

Changelog

9/3/26, 8:30 PM

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• ef9d1-updates in my personal niri reposon 9/3/26
• d02dc-updated aiers-fedora: niri-dms superceded by niri-noctaliaon 8/20/26
• f2849-Touchpad scrolling fix filed under Hardware, not Gnomeon 8/10/26
• 467f5-Kitty guide, mirroring the Ghostty guide; Ghostty stays default reccon 8/10/26
• 0f3b1-Added Kitty guide, mirror of Ghostty Guide, as default modern terminal recommendation.on 8/10/26
• e80c7-Updated outdated workaround for gaze because upstream implementation.on 8/8/26
• 1d205-with-face-simultaneous option for gazeon 7/29/26
• 1d526-missing step for gazedon 7/29/26
• c72d1-Rename guide shell-agnostic: Terminal Customisation; stub redirect at old permalinkon 7/27/26
• 8f628-Added P16 guide to personal guide.on 7/26/26
• 2413a-Migrated personal stuff to its own "guide", more like a blog.on 7/21/26