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OS installation

Arch Linux build:

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

INSTALL

X

Install xorg-server

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

Display manager

Install LightDM and its GTK greeter

lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

Enable lightdm.service

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#Installation

Window Manager

fonts

Main fonts

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

Emoji font

noto-fonts-emoji

Refresh font cache

fc-cache
fc-list

custom fonts

docs

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

XMonad

First install stack. Take the static version from AUR to avoid the plethora of Haskell dependencies.

rua install stack-static

Clone the sources in /opt/xmonad

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

Add the configuration file from xmonad/xmonad.hs and init the project to generate the stack.yaml file

stack init

Build & install

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

XMobar

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

required packages

dmenu clipmenu trayer shotgun graphicsmagick xwallpaper udisks2 
udiskie xclip slop gpick trashy ouch

XDG user directories

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

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories

Screen lock

Install i3lock-color from AUR

On suspend

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

Design

GTK theme

Theme used https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme

Install materia-gtk-theme

edit $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

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

edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0

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

gnome

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 Paper
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 64

Flatpak

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

Cursor theme

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

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

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Paper

note: the icon theme is also set when .Xresources file is read when lightdm (display manager) starts and sources .xprofile

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cursor_themes
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Icons#Manually

set the wallpaper

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

HiDPI

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/index.php/HiDPI#X_Resources
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/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/index.php/HiDPI#Linux_console

notes

The following notes are relevant to the installation of ArchLinux.

solve icon problem for apps installed through Flatpak

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

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

journal

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/index.php/Systemd/Journal#Journal_size_limit

SSH agent

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

Firefox

To set the scrollbar width set the following property in about:config

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 16

NOTE: the widget.non-native-theme.enable should be set to true