Arch notes - Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402XV

Packages

Pacman

acpilight - brightness control
alacritty - pseudoterminal emulator
amd-ucode - patches for AMD processor
android-tools - adb and fastboot support
asusctl - Asus laptop device manager
base - minimal package set to define a basic Arch Linux installation
base-devel - basic tools to build Arch Linux packages
blueman - GUI Bluetooth manager
bluez - Bluetooth protocol
bluez-utils - Bluetooth manager
cliphist - history clipboard manager
docker - containerization
dotnet-host - .NET version manager
dotnet-sdk - last .NET SDK
ffmpeg - video converting
gimp - raster image editor
git - system of version controlling
gnome-themes-extra - external gnome themes
grim - screenshots utility
hyprland - tiling desktop compositor
hyprpaper - wallpaper manager
less - pagination provider
linux-firmware - firmware files for Linux
linux-g14 - custom Asus G14 linux kernel
linux-g14-headers - custom Asus G14 linux kernel headers
mako - notifications support
micro - CLI code editor
nemo - file manager
neofetch - rice information about system
networkmanager - CLI tool for network connections managing
noto-fonts-cjk - asian symbols support
noto-fonts-emoji - emoji support
nwg-look - theme editor for GTK
obs - video and audio recording
pavucontrol - GUI pipewire manager
pipewire - sound server
pipewire-alsa - kernel level sound mixer support
pipewire-audio - Bluetooth headphones support
pipewire-pulse - integration with PulseAudio API
polkit-gnome - GUI agent for for controlling system-wide privileges
pyenv - Python version manager
rofi-emoji - emoji picker for Rofi
rog-control-center - GUI for asusctl
sddm - desktop display manager
slurp - choose monitor region utility
streamlink - media downloader
sudo - superuser manager
supergfxctl - GPU switcher
terminus-font - TTY fonts with cyrillic support
ttf-firacode-nerd - FiraCode Nerd font
ttf-noto-nerd - Noto Nerd font
vlc - video and audio player
waybar - desktop bar
wev - key codes provider
wl-clipboard - copy and paste command line utilities
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - enable filechooser for gnome apps
xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland - allows screen sharing features
yay - AUR manager
zerotier-one - VPN throw network utility
zsh - shell
zsh-autosuggestions - autosuggestions for shell
zsh-completions - additional completion definitions
zsh-syntax-highlighting - syntax highlighting for shell

AUR

ayugram-desktop-bin - Telegram client
bibata-cursor-theme-bin - cursor theme
brave-bin - browser
ghidra.desktop - reverse-engineering tool
imhex - hex editor
p7zip-gui - 7Zip GUI
rofi-lbonn-wayland - launcher menu
ruby-fusuma - touchpad gestures manager
ruby-fusuma-plugin-sendkey - send keys plugin for fusuma config support
stegsolve - steganographic image analyzer
visual-studio-code-bin - GUI code editor
webcord - Discord with share screen ability
wttrbar-git - module for showing the weather in Waybar

Custom

Oh-my-zsh

Services

bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
docker.service - Docker service
NetworkManager.service - NetworkManager service
sddm.service - SDDM Service
sshd.service - SSH Server service
systemd-oomd.service - OOM killer service

Environment

Bar: Waybar

Browser: Brave

Desktop compositor: Hyprland

Display manager: Sddm

Launcher menu: Rofi

Audio system: PipeWire

Notifications: Mako

Fonts:

Desktop: NotoSansM Nerd Font Regular 11pt
VSCode: FiraCode Nerd Font Mono Ret 14px

Limit CPU

You can limit CPUs for some processes (for example for yay):

numactl --physcpubind=0-7 <process name and arguments>

Fix Rofi drun execution issues

You can modify application .desktop file for custom launch parameters. Use it to find all of them:

find / -name "*.desktop" 2>/dev/null

Make global GTK theme configurable

Add user to theme group:

sudo groupadd theme
sudo usermod -a -G theme `whoami`

Restart user session to apply changes

Make global theme configurable:

sudo chown :theme /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
sudo chmod g+w /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

Create symbolic link to user space:

mkdir -p "/home/`whoami`/.icons/default/"
ln -s "/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme" "/home/`whoami`/.icons/default/index.theme"

Install text shrug to global rofi-emojis

Add user to theme group:

sudo groupadd theme
sudo usermod -a -G theme `whoami`

Restart user session to apply changes

Make global emojis configurable:

sudo chown :theme /usr/share/rofi-emoji/all_emojis.txt
sudo chmod g+w /usr/share/rofi-emoji/all_emojis.txt

Install custom shrug emoji for the srofi-emoji package:

echo "¯\_(ツ)_/¯\tPlain text\tplain-text\tshrug\ttext | shrugging | shrug" >> /usr/share/rofi-emoji/all_emojis.txt

Change the default terminal emulator for Nemo to alacritty

gnome-terminal is set as the default, if it is not installed, neither the "Open in terminal" context menu entry feature will not work, nor shell scripts or terminal applications will not run from Nemo.

You can change the default setting with gsettings to the alacritty.

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec alacritty

Make Docker volume accessible for Linux local user

Set a custom rights mask for the volume directory:
```
setfacl -d -m g::rwx /<volume directory>
```
Launch the container with flag --user :$(id -g).

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