Setting up Arch Linux with persistent changes on USB key

Original guide for setting up Arch Linux with persistent changes on USB key is here: https://gitlab.com/c.magyar/archlinux-usb

Html version: https://valleycat.org/linux/arch-usb.html

Make a bootable Arch live USB in Windows: https://rufus.akeo.ie/

i3 improved tilling window manager: https://i3wm.org/docs/

Guide for the finished system

The Arch Linux installation boots into a basic terminal login, so just type in your username and password to login to the system. i3 tilling window manager is run immediatelly.

To open a terminal window: Windows-Enter To close a terminal window Windows-Shift-q To switch to another workspace: Windows-Number Focus to another window: Windows-Arrows Move a window to another workspace: Windows-Shift-Number Resize a window: Windows-r (then use arrows to resize and enter to finish)

Terminal opens a fish shell by default. You can switch to a more standard bash shell by typing bash in the terminal. The shell prompts are designed to be visually identical.

Use dmenu as program launcher: Windows+d

Connecting to wireless. Run wifi from dmenu launcher or from a terminal. It allows you to choose and connect to a wireless network, a master password is needed. This script fetches saved networks from netctl. If you want to add a new wireless network run wifi-menu from terminal, connect to a network and then save it as a template.

You can also connect to eduroam network, if avalilable. Run eduroam-start and eduroam-stop from terminal. Requires master password.

Usefull and commonly used programs which can be run from dmenu... firefox - a web browser thunderbird - email client, retrieves email from several accounts for which master password is needed

Run from terminal: Search titles of notes and open them in vim: note Search titles of Arch notes and open them in vim: arch Search titles of articles and open them in Zathura: article Search titles of books and open them in Zathura: book Search within all notes and open them in vim on corresponding line: search note Search within all Arch notes and open them in vim on corresponding line: search arch Search titles of dotfiles and open them in vim: dot