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Arch Linux build:

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

INSTALL

X

Install xorg-server
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg

Le roi est mort, vive le roi !
(No, not Wayland)

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver

compositor

Install picom

Audio

Install the following packages

pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack pavucontrol

Display manager

Install LightDM and its GTK greeter

lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

Enable lightdm.service

Note

If login fails with "wrong password" be sure to check the
current keyboard layout. Eg. for FR it must be set as an X config
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

config

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

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

AUR setup

install base-devel \
install Rust https://rust-lang.org/tools/install/
install rua

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rua.git
cd rua
makepkg -si

https://github.com/vn971/rua#install-the-aur-way

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

Important

Most of the required system deps should be already installed (via xorg).
But some of them could be missing and need to be installed,
like libxss ref

stack

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

rua install stack-bin

sources

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

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

init with lightDM

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

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

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

eza rofi dunst dmenu clipmenu stalonetray shotgun graphicsmagick
xwallpaper udiskie xclip slop gpick ouch go-yq

aur

trashy

XDG user directories

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

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

Tip

To remove unwanted dirs like ~/Desktop, ~/Templates or ~/Public
just rm -rf them then run xdg-user-dirs-update

Screen lock

Install i3lock-color from AUR

On suspend

Copy systemd_unit/suspend@.service to /etc/systemd/system/ and enable it

sudo systemctl enable suspend@pierre.service

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

UI style

Theme

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 XCursor-Pro-Dark
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 48

Flatpak

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

Icon theme

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

Cursor theme

To install XCursor-Pro-Dark run

./install_xcursor.sh

To apply the theme edit .Xresources

Xcursor.theme: XCursor-Pro-Dark

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

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:

larger font for linux console

$ sudo pacman -S terminus-font

add in /etc/vconsole.conf

FONT=ter-v32b

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

notes

The following notes are relevant to the installation of Arch Linux.

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/title/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

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

Bluetooth

install

bluez bluetui

start/enable bluetooth.service

TrackPoint

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

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nvim_build		nvim_build
pacman		pacman
systemd_unit		systemd_unit
udev_rules		udev_rules
win		win
xmobar		xmobar
xmonad		xmonad
xorg_conf		xorg_conf
xsessions		xsessions
.Xresources		.Xresources
.bashrc		.bashrc
.gitconfig		.gitconfig
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.xinitrc		.xinitrc
.xprofile		.xprofile
ARCH_INSTALL.md		ARCH_INSTALL.md
README.md		README.md
install_xcursor.sh		install_xcursor.sh
mdi_font.md		mdi_font.md

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