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setup elementary os on hp spectre x360 15t 5KC45AV

HP Spectre x360 15t 5KC45AV

Documentation of setting up Elementary OS 5.1 Hera on HP Spectre x360 15t 5KC45AV

Table of Contents

• Script
• Enable WiFi
• Brightness Fix for OLED
• Disable suspend
• Qt apps dark theme
• Sources

Script

A menu to install apps and configure settings

./setup.sh

Enable WiFi

Install 5.4.10 kernel from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/

wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-headers-5.4.10-050410_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-headers-5.4.10-050410-generic_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-image-unsigned-5.4.10-050410-generic_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-modules-5.4.10-050410-generic_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-*.deb linux-image-*.deb linux-modules-*.deb

Edit /etc/default/grub, set

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi='!Windows 2013' acpi_osi='!Windows 2012' snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0"

Run sudo update-grub to regenerate GRUB config

Sound and WiFi are working

Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1876701#p1876701

Brightness Fix for OLED

The monitor-backlight script listens to display changes and the set-bright script sets the initial display brightness as a percentage from 0 to 1.0.

Settings > Applications > Startup > Add Startup App... > Type in a custom command
/usr/local/bin/monitor-backlight
and
/usr/local/bin/set-bright 0.45

Source: AW13 OLED Monitor Brightness

Disable suspend

Laptop won't wake from suspend, and requires power cycling. To disable suspend, create the following file as root:

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.disable-suspend.pkla

[Disable suspend (upower)]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
ResultActive=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAny=no

[Disable suspend (logind)]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend
ResultActive=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAny=no

[Disable suspend when others are logged in (logind)]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions
ResultActive=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAny=no

Source: How to disable suspend in 14.04?

Qt apps dark theme

sudo apt-get install qt5ct

Open Qt5 Settings app and select gtk2 from the style dropdown

Append the following lines to ~/.profile

unset QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"

Source: r/elementaryos Qt apps not conforming to dark theme

Sources

• Dark themes for writing
• Keybindings