Arch Linux Auto Rice Bootstrap Scripts

Minimalist archlinux rice boostrap with just the essentials. These script will install and configure linux tools in your archlinux environment how to install and what is included is described in each section.

Instalation

In a fresh archlinux install with internet access

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0000marcell/MARBS/master/download.sh | bash

Xorg

Keyboards

Two different layouts are used,

.Xmodmap(US) with caps_lock swapped for super
.Xmodmap(BR) with caps_lock swapped for super

I also use a script to toggle between the two kb layouts

#!/usr/bin/bash

LAYOUT=$(cat ~/kbstate)
echo $LAYOUT

if [ $LAYOUT = us ]; then
  notify-send "keyboard layout changed to BR"
  xmodmap ~/.Xmodmapbr
  echo "br" > ~/kbstate
else
  notify-send "keyboard layout changed to US"
  xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
  echo "us" > ~/kbstate
fi

if you don't want caps_lock swapped by super you can just swap back editing these two files, if you have problems with the mapping you can use xev to figure out your keysym and edit the files

Fonts

I use Liberation Mono everywhere, if you want to use a different font you can add fonts in /usr/share/fonts then

fc-cache -vf

and run

fc-list

you should see a list of all available fonts in your system, you can grab the name of the font in the second argument after the first : then you can use this name on ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf most apps get the fonts from that file, for the st terminal you need to compile again with the font name that you want to use

ST

i3WM

nvim

neovim very simple configuration with plug https://github.com/0000marcell/MARBS/blob/master/config/nvim/init.vim

checkbatcapacity

Script to check bat capacity and send notification when battery is low needs to be adapted to different computers

https://github.com/0000marcell/MARBS/blob/master/scripts/checkbatcapacity

Notifications

Dunst is used for notifications

.bashrc

The following is a short explanation on the default configuration on bash

# Environment variable used by a lot of different programs
export TERMINAL="st"
export EDITOR="nvim"
export BROWSER="brave"

# copy uses xclip and copies to the clipboard
alias copy="xclip -selection clipboard "
# syntax highlight for cat
alias ccat="highlight --out-format=ansi" # Color cat - print file with syntax highlighting.
# default pdf viewer
alias pdf='zathura'


# Quickly open a file in VIM
vf() { $EDITOR $(fzf) ;}

# uses $c, $s, and $d to quickly access these folders
export c="/home/mmc/.config"
export s="/home/mmc/scripts"
export d="/home/mmc/Downloads"

# add scripts folder to path
# add script folder to path
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/scripts"

this one is computer specific, you will need to figure out your hardware to configure

xinput

Used to configure peripherals like the touchpad How to find the name of your devices

xinput list

A list of devices will be shown then use list-props to show the possible configuration of that device, in my case, I have a Thinkpad with Synaptics touchpad

xinput "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" list-props

then a list of possible configuration will show up you can enable disable increase decrease the prop values with

xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1

the first argument is the name of the device, the touchpad in this case the second one is the name of the prop and the third one is the value, in this case I'm enabling tapping

After figuring out what you need to do a good place to save these configurations is in ~/.xinitrc