Dotfiles

Dotfiles and instructions to make my Arch Linux portable and easy to replicate

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How I Installed Arch Linux

Basic Steps

• Boot live environment

• Connect to the internet iwctl station <INTERFACE> connect <SSID>

• Use archinstall command archinstall

  This command will make your life easier, some of my choices are:

  Bootloader: grub
  Profile: xorg
  Audio: pipeware
  NetworkConfiguration: NetworkManager
  AdditionalPackages: [
       vi,                 # Text Editor
       vim,                # Text Editor
       neovim,             # Text Editor / IDE
       git,                # Git
       qtile,              # Window manager
       qutebrowser,        # Web Browser
       zip,                # Zip command
       unzip,              # Unzip command
       brightnessctl,      # Brightness control
       zsh,                # Shell
       kitty,              # Terminal Emulator
       arandr,             # Screen profiles
       autorandr,          # Screen profiles
       dunst,              # Notifications
       feh,                # Wallpapers
       rofi                # Menus
  ]

  Note 1: Set a password for root and add an non root user
  Note 2: You dont need chroot into the installed distro, just reboot and login

AUR helper - Yay

• Install yay

      git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
      cd yay
      makepkg -si

Fonts

• Install these fonts

      yay -S ttf-font-awesome ttf-fira-code ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols

Dotfiles (This reposiory)

• Clone and checkout dotfiles repository

  echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore
  git clone --bare <https://github.com/devx-ph/dotfiles.git> $HOME/.dotfiles
  alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
  dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
  dotfiles checkout

  Obs.: When checking out you may receive a message requesting to remove files when you already have them.

Shell - Zsh

• Run chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh (to make it default shell)
• Install exa and procs (that replace ls and ps. See more on Rewritten in Rust Commands)
• Clone zsh-autosuggestions from GitHub
• Install and configure powerlevel10k (zsh theme)
• Install fzf fuzzy finder

Terminal Emulator - Kitty

• Nothing to do

Display Manager - Ly

• Enable Ly service

      sudo systemctl enable ly.service

Window Manager - Qtile

• Install these packages:

      yay -S wireless_tools iwgtk alsa-utils flameshot python-pip
  
      # wireless_tools (for wlan widget)
      # iwgtk (for GUI on click of wlan widget)
      # alsa-utils (for volume)
      # flameshot (for screenshots)
      # pip (for install python packages)

• Install these python packages

      pip install iwlib psutil dbus-next

• Install a compositor (for transparency, transitions, blurs and more effects)
  I used Pijulius

Note 1: Fonts are required to see all symbols in Qtile. Otherwise you will see weird squares instead symbols.
Note 2: Check Qtile documentation

Wallpapers and Screen Locker (Optional) - Betterlockscreen

• Download some wallpaper images into ~/.wallpapers
• Install the screen locker

      yay -S betterlockscreen
      betterlockscreen -u ~/.wallpapers

• Use Feh to set the wallpaper

      # Example
      feh --bg-fill --randomize ~/.wallpapers/*

App Launcher and menus (Optional) - Rofi & dmenu

• I used adi1090x/rofi for my rofi theme
  • Install adi1090x rofi theme
  • Run dotfiles restore ~/.config/rofi
  • For power menu works as expected:
    • run visudo and add these lines:

          ## Admin user group is allowed to execute halt and reboot 
          %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff

    • And add your user to admin group

          sudo groupadd admin
          sudo usermod igortxra -a -G admin

File Manager - ranger

Other

Discord

yay -S discord ttf-symbola noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji

udiskie

yay -S udiskie and see permissions

More Configurations

• Install and use lxappearance to set themes and icons.

• Set Qutebrowser as default browser running: xdg-settings set default-web-browser org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop

• Set your Qutebrowser quickmarks (I stored somewhere and downloaded)

• Set a theme for Qutebrowser such as Dracula

• Screen Profiles

  • First use arandr to configure screen layout
  • After that use autorandr to save the profile

       autorandr --save <profile-name>