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Arch Linux build:

• display server: Xorg (X11)
• no desktop environment
• display manager: LightDM
• window manager: XMonad
• compositor: yshui/picom

INSTALL

Install xorg-server

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg

Install picom

Install the following packages

pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pavucontrol

Install LightDM and its GTK greeter

lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

Enable lightdm.service

Copy lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf to /etc/lightdm/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM#Installation

Main fonts

ttf-inconsolata ttf-roboto noto-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation

Emoji font

noto-fonts-emoji

Refresh font cache

fc-cache
fc-list

docs

First create the directory /usr/local/share/fonts/ttf/ and place any custom fonts under it

Then install stack. Take the bin version from AUR to avoid the plethora of Haskell dependencies.

rua install stack-bin

Clone the sources in /opt/xmonad

git clone https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad
git clone https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib

Copy the config file xmonad/xmonad.hs to /opt/xmonad/.
Copy the xmonad/lib directory to /opt/xmonad/ (it contains a custom layout).
Init the project to generate the stack.yaml file

stack init

stack install

Xmonad expects xmonad.hs and stack.yaml to be in ~/.config/xmonad/
Use symlinks instead (does not make sense to have source files under the config directory)

cd ~/.config/xmonad
ln -s /opt/xmonad/xmonad.hs xmonad.hs
ln -s /opt/xmonad/stack.yaml stack.yaml

source: https://xmonad.org/INSTALL.html

Copy xsessions/xmonad.desktop in /usr/share/xsessions

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager#Session_configuration

Clone the sources and build the project

git clone https://codeberg.org/xmobar/xmobar.git

Override stack.yaml to only build needed features

cp xmobar/stack.yaml .

Add xmobarrc to ~/config/xmobar/.

Finally build and install it

stack install

rofi dmenu clipmenu trayer shotgun graphicsmagick xwallpaper
udiskie xclip slop gpick ouch

aur

trashy

sudo pacman -S xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-update

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

Install i3lock-color from AUR

Copy systemd_unit/[email protected] to /etc/systemd/system/ and enable it

sudo systemctl enable [email protected]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Sleep_hooks

Install materia materia-gtk-theme

edit .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-name = Papirus
gtk-theme-name = Materia-dark
gtk-font-name = Roboto 12

edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-icon-theme-name = "Papirus"
gtk-theme-name = "Materia-dark"
gtk-font-name = "Roboto 12"

For gnome apps

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme Materia-dark
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme prefer-dark
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Papirus
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme Paper
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 48

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia-dark

Install hicolor-icon-theme and papirus-icon-theme Papirus

Edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Papirus

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Icons#Manually

Install https://github.com/snwh/paper-icon-theme

To apply the theme edit .Xresources

Xcursor.theme: Paper

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cursor_themes

Install xwallpaper package
xwallpaper is spawned by XMonad
The wallpaper image is defined by $BG_PRIMARY env variable
eg. in .xprofile

export BG_PRIMARY=$HOME/Pictures/dark_ocean.png

DPI is set in .Xresources

Xft.dpi: 144

it will be loaded during display manager (ligthdm) starts and sources .xprofile

[[ -f "$home/.Xresources" ]] && xrdb -merge $home/.Xresources

sources:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#X_Resources
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM#Environment_variables

larger font for linux console

$ sudo pacman -S terminus-font

add in /etc/vconsole.conf

FONT=ter-v22b
FONT_MAP=cp437

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Linux_console_(tty)

The following notes are relevant to the installation of ArchLinux.

cd /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications

rename the links to match this format: obs.desktop, vlc.desktop

To prevent the journal to take 4Gb space of disk memory copy the configuration file 00-journal-size.conf (from the conf dir in this repo) into /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ directory (create it)

(the default is 4Gb)

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Journal_size_limit

Install gnome-keyring and libsecret

Enable the following systemd user unit (⚠ no sudo)

systemctl --user enable gcr-ssh-agent.socket

Set the env var SSH_AUTH_SOCK to /run/user/1000/gcr/ssh (.xprofile/ fish config)

→ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring

about:config tweaks:

• increase UI size

ui.textScaleFactor 180

• scrollbar width

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 48
widget.non-native-theme.enable true

install

bluez bluetui

start/enable bluetooth.service

To customize the speed use the magic trackpoint multiplier
First, find the device name

sudo libinput list-devices | rg -i trackpoint

Create /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks

[Trackpoint Override]
MatchUdevType=pointingstick
MatchName=*TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint*
AttrTrackpointMultiplier=1.5

Default multiplier value is 1.0

ref:
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/trackpoint-configuration.html\ ref https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TrackPoint#device-quirks