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Dotfiles for my Arch Linux install.

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Liempo's Linux

Hi there! This is a rice that focus on minimalism and usability, nothing too fancy here. This is a guide (for future me) to replicate things in case it breaks.

  • OS: Arch Linux
  • Window Manager: bspwm
  • Compositor:: ibhagwan's picom
  • Terminal: termite
  • Panel:: polybar
  • Launcher: rofi

Install notes

  1. Install the bare Arch Linux using the wiki. a. Use the following partition table:

    Partition Mount Point File System Size
    /dev/sda1 /efi FAT32 512M
    /dev/sda2 / (root) ext4 32G+

    b. Install the following packages along with base (during pacstrap):

    pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware \
   grub efibootmgr refind networkmanager zsh git vim

  2. During chroot phase, enable networkmanager by systemctl enable NetworkManger.

  3. Before exiting chroot, initialize grub temporarily (since I can't make refind work during chroot):

    grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=I_HATE_GRUB --efi-directory=/efi
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

  4. On first actual boot, log in to root, connect to network, and remove all those grub stuff:

    pacman -Rcns grub
rm -rf /efi/EFI/I_HATE_GRUB
rm -rf /boot/grub

  5. Initialize the better bootloader by running refind-install.

  6. Create a non-root user and add it to wheel

    EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim visudo # Uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL)
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh liempo
passwd liempo

  7. Login to non-root user, install yay

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

  8. Install the graphic packages:

    yay -S xorg lightdm lightdm-mini-greeter bspwm sxhkd picom-ibhagwan-git \
    firefox termite xcape feh rofi polybar termite python-pywal

  9. Configure lightdm with autologin:

    a. Create autologin group and add non-root user

    sudo groupadd -r autologin
sudo gpasswd -a username autologin

    b. Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:

    [Seat:*]
greeter-session=lightdm-mini-greeter
autologin-user=username
autologin-session=bspwm

  10. Reboot and configure bspwm and sxhkd (Or clone this repo)

Credits / Thanks