Ubuntu 18.04 + i3 on Macbook Pro 2015

[9 Nov 2018]

Everything works surpisingly well. No issues with graphics, power management or missing features.

Full disk encryption with preserving dual boot to OS X

Just follow this awesome guide step by step. Dual boot works fine. Both OS X and Linux partitions are encrypted.

i3 quirks

Seems like everything works out of the box in Gnome. i3 requires some manual things to do to make it run fine. I'm too lazy to setup hotkeys for screen brightness and keyboard backlight and adjust them manually.

HiDPI

$ echo "Xft.dpi: 192" > ~/.Xresources

Screen brightness

$ xrandr --output eDP --brightness 0.75

Keyboard backlight

$ sudo vim /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

Volume control via media keys i3 config

bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10%; exec pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ 0
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -10%; exec pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ 0
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle

Wifi and bluetooth applets

exec blueman-applet
exec nm-applet

Enjoy!

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