Dotfiles for Arch Linux

Installation:

Pre-Installation:

Set key map

loadkeys mod-dh-ansi-us

Disk layout

I am going to use XBOOTLDR, EFI and systemd-boot for laying out my partitioning scheme.

Btrfs subvolumes

The subvolumes I am going to be using are the defaults that the archinstall script uses.

subvol	mountpoint
@	/
@home	/home
@log	/var/log
@pkg	/var/cache/pacman/pkg
@.snapshots	/.snapshots

Post-Installation

Installing the paru AUR helper.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git /tmp/paru
cd /tmp/paru || exit
makepkg -si

Firefox

The firefox dir contains a few files that can come into use when placed in the correct places.

Key Map Set Up

Setting the keymap is essential, coz if I can’t get to colemak-dh, my speed is cut down a lot. Use localectl to set X11 keymaps as well the vconsole’s keymap.

Set the /etc/vconsole.conf to

KEYMAP=mod-dh-ansi-us

This command can also be used to set the keymap.

Remember to pass the --no-convert flag so that the file is not overwritten in any ways.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo localectl set-keymap --no-convert mod-dh-ansi-us

Run these commands to set the X11 keymaps.

sudo localectl set-x11-keymap --no-convert us "" colemak_dh "ctrl:swapcaps"

Setting GTK theme

Run these commands to set GTK theme. The GTK theme is mostly managed by Noctalia itself.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'adw-gtk3'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

# Set Emacs bindings for GTK
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

# Filechooser: start in cwd
gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser startup-mode cwd

Qutebrowser

To use some aliases and shortcuts in Qutebrowser, use it’s userscripts. The userscripts are typically stored in /usr/share/qutebrowser/userscripts. Soft symlinking those scripts to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/qutebrowser/userscripts directory will make them available. From there they can be called using a key binding or any alias. I use the view_in_mpv userscript to start any video from sites like youtube.

To-Do list

• [ ] Remove Neovim (now that we got mason.el)
• [ ] Move from wlr-which-key to noctalia’s dmenu