dotfiles

Cameron's Dotfiles

Mainly for my use, but it just has my vimrc and some basic bash functions

Vim Keybindings

Tools are configured for vim style keybinding.

Setup

• Clone dotfiles: 'git clone https://github.com/durhc427/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles'
• Install dotfiles: 'cd ~/dotfiles && ./install_dotfiles.sh
• Install nvim (instructions coming)
• Install packages:
• pip install --user neovim
• sudo pacman -S exuberant-ctags
• sudo pacman -S tmux
• sudo pacman -S zsh
• sudo pacman -S zathura
• sudo pacman -S zathura-pdf-poppler
• sudo pacman -S texlive
• sudo packan -S termite
• sudo packan -S gvim
• sudo packan -S rtorrent
• Install AUR Packages [with yay]:
• siji-git
• [other font package for termite I cannot remember!]
• Install Vim plugins: ':PlugClean' and ':PlugUpgrade' and ':PlugUpdate'

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Arch Linux Install and Dotfiles Setup [UEFI]

Download

• Download and write arch iso to USB with dd: sudo dd if=</path/to/archlinux-20xx.xx.xx-x86_64.iso> of=</dev/sdx> example:

sudo dd if=<~/Downloads/archlinux-2018.12.01-x86_64.iso> of=</dev/sdb>

Boot

• Boot from USB (check your boot priority choices in boot sequence!)

• Connect to the internet wifimenu or dhclient -v

• Check internet connection ping archlinux.org

• Update the system clock and enable network time: timedatectl set-ntp true

Check service status using timedatectl status

Partition

• Partition the disks using fdisk or parted: fdisk /dev/sdx Check devices using lsblk or fdisk -l (ignore results ending in rom , loop , or airoot

• Required for devices with UEFI enabled:

• Partition for root directory: /
• EFI system partition
• example for UEFI with GPT:
  • Mount Point , Partition , Partition type , Suggested size
  • /boot , /dev/sdx1 , EFI System , 260-512 M
  • [SWAP], /dev/sdx2 , Linux swap , More than 512M, generally 2 x
  • / , /dev/sdx3 , Linux , 20-30G
  • /home, /dev/sdx4 , Linux , Remainder of device

Format

• Format the partitions, for example:
  • formatting the EFI system

    mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
    

  • formatting the swap partition

    mkswap /dev/sda2
    swapon /dev/sda2
    

  • formatting the Linux filesystems for root and home (if you have one)

    mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
    mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4
    

Mount the Filesystems

• Mount root partition mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
• Mount home partition mkdir /mnt/home mount dev/sda4 /mnt/home
• Mount boot partition mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Install Base system

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel vim git networkmanager

Configure the system

• Generate an fstab file:

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

• Change root into the new system

arch-chroot /mnt

• Set time zone:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Region>/<City> /etc/localtime

• Run hwclock(8) to generate /etc/adjtime:

hwclock --systohc

• Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed locales in /etc/locale.gen, and generate them with:

locale-gen

• Set the LANG variable in locale.conf(5) accordingly, for example:

/etc/locale.conf
----------------
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

• Create the hostname file:

/etc/hostname
-------------
<myhostname>

• Add matching entries to hosts(5)

/etc/hosts
----------------------------------------------
127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	<myhostname>.localdomain	<myhostname>

• Set root password

passwd

Post Install

• Login as root

• Add non-root user

useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash <normie_user>

• Create password for user

passwd <normie_user>

• Set editor:

EDITOR=vim visudo

• Look for and uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

• Log in as user

Install necessary packages

• Install (not sure if this is all in base-devel)

pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa xorg-xinit xorg-server bspwm sxhkd libxcb xcb-util xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-wm termite dmenu noto-fonts python pip-python zsh gvim openssh

• Font confusion? Set fonts manually in

~/.config/fontsconfig/fonts.conf

Setup window manager

• source: https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies

• Important: Make sure your environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set or your bspwmrc will not be found. This can be done by adding XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config" and export XDG_CONFIG_HOME to your ~/.profile.

• Copy /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc to ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc and run

chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

• Copy /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc to ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc . example:

mkdir ~/.config && mkdir ~/.config/bspwm && mkdir ~/.config/sxhkd
cd /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/
cp bspwmrc ~/.config/bspwm/ && sxkhdrc ~/.config/sxkhd/

Look at this file and learn the key bindings. Change any bindings you don't like. For instance, I prefer using alt over super (windows key). Change the line at 84 to match your preferred terminal editor (change to termite )

• Open up ~/.xinitrc and add the following to the bottom:

sxhkd &
exec bspwm

• Test new configuration Run startx and press Super + Enter. A grey terminal should appear.

Install dotfiles

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/durhc427/dotfiles.git

• Install dotfiles: 'cd ~/dotfiles && ./install_dotfiles.sh

• Install Vim plugins: ':PlugClean' and ':PlugUpgrade' and ':PlugUpdate'

Install yay (AUR Package Manager)

• detailed usage and examples: https://github.com/Jguer/yay#examples-of-custom-operations

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

• Install a package in yay

yay -S <package-name>

For example:

yay -S polybar

Setup SSH with github

NOTE: my dotfiles already include a git default setup with my email address, you should change this to yours

• source: http://bytes.usc.edu/cs104/labs/01_git.html

Set defaults

• Run the command to generate an SSH key, replacing Tommy Trojan's email with your own:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C "ttrojan@usc.edu"

• When prompted for a file location, use the default location (press Enter).

• Upon success, you should receive a confirmation such as:

Your identification has been saved in /home/cs104/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/cs104/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:vC+4OG2u1PIeE0OKX9jiFFHuLnkYCBSsvIW8ybD873H ttrojan@usc.edu
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
|   ++o.          |
|    S+.o *.*     |
|   +.X. o        |
|    0. o +       |
|   ..o  E .      |
|  .=S. . + .0    |
| .*=* ...        |
|.+.=o*. ..  *o*  |
| .++*oo. ..      |
+----[SHA256]-----+

• Set git defaults:

git config --global user.name "Tommy Trojan"
git config --global user.email "ttrojan@usc.edu"
git config --global color.ui auto
git config --global core.editor vim
git config --global core.autocrlf input
git config --global push.default simple

• Check your work:

git config --list

You should see something like this:

user.name=Tommy Trojan
user.email=ttrojan@usc.edu
color.ui=auto
core.editor=subl -n -w
core.autocrlf=input
push.default=simple

Add key to github page

• Go to: https://github.com/settings/ssh

• Click on Add SSH Key

• Provide a name for the key, such as "CS104 VM Key", "MacBook Key" or "aludra Key"

• Display the contents of your id_rsa.pub file by typing the following command at the terminal prompt.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Copy the contents of your id_rsa.pub file and paste them into the key field. Make sure you copy the entire contents of the id_rsa.pub file. It should start with ssh-rsa and end with your email address.

• Click Add Key

Thinkpad x240 Setup

Issues with trackpad upgraded to 3-button trackpad. http://diy.mironto.sk/thinkpad-x240-replacing-touchpad-and-keyboard/

• Remove default synaptics driver:
• sudo pacman -R xf86-input-synaptics
• Remove any synaptics.conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
• Add the following touchpad configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/:

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "touchpad"
   Driver "libinput"
   MatchIsTouchpad "on"
   Option "Tapping" "on"
   Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
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