arch.md

Todo / Wishlist

• Emacs -- helm-ag within specified directory
• Emacs -- helm projectile search without pulling query term from point
• zsh -- is there a better way to deal with slow NVM startup?
• mpd -- play around with this for music playing with spotify

Arch Setup Todo

• i3 window styling
• i3 bar - add icons to workspace (firefox, emacs, etc)
• i3 bar - wifi icon, battery icon
• lemonbar or alternate
• suspend to disk config
• lockscreen on suspend
• emacs daemon on startup
• reinstalling with full disk encryption and with encrypted swap partition (LUKs?)
• launch x on system startup? - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login
• disable trackpad while typing
• multi swipe gesture -- 3 finger swipe for tabs (libinput?)
• i3 - alt-tab to cycle workspaces
• emacs (and vim?) - yank to system clipboard
• urxvt - copy/paste with keyboard commands - https://nixmeal.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/copypaste-text-in-urxvt-rxvt-unicode-using-keyboard/ -- solved use Alt+Ctrl+C / Alt+Ctrl+V
• better wifi manager?
• style rofi (solarized? limit # of lines shown?)
• Rofi launcher - bound to Alt+Space in i3; could still use some tweaks
• i3 assign programs to consistent workspaces

Incomplete Setup Notes

1. Wiped existing SSD using hdparm instructions here
2. Paritioned Drive:

1 100MB EFI partition # Hex code ef00
2 250MB Boot partition # Hex code 8300
3 100% size partiton # (to be encrypted) Hex code 8300

3. Format UEFI partition: mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
4. Format boot partition mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
5. Setup disk encryption cryptsetup --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --verify-passphrase --use-random luksFormat /dev/sda3
6. open the partition cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdX3 luks - note that the final argument here "luks" determines the name of the device under /dev/mapper
7. Create physical volume for lvm pvcreate /dev/mapper/luks
8. create volume group (this will be container both root and swap partitions): vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/luks
9. Create swap logical volume: lvcreate --size 8G vg0 --name swap -- generally make this the size of RAM (8gb in this case)
10. Create root logical volume in remainder of free space lvcreate -l +100%FREE vg0 --name root
11. Format root filesystem: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg0-root
12. make swap: mkswap /dev/mapper/vg0-swap
13. Mount system:

mount /dev/mapper/vg0-root /mnt # /mnt will be the installed system once we bootstrap it in a sec...
swapon /dev/mapper/vg0-swap # Not needed but a good thing to test
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt/boot # the unencrypted boot partition we created before
mkdir /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot/efi

14. bootstrap the system pacstrap /mnt base base-devel grub-efi-x86_64 zsh vim git efibootmgr (for my desktop i left off wifi)
15. Fstab genfstab -pU /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
16. arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
17. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
18. hwclock --systohc --utc
19. echo Bors > /etc/hostname
20. Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 from /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen
21. Also set LANG and LANGUAGE in /etc/locale.conf (may be redundant with locale-gen)

echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf
echo LANGUAGE=en_US >> /etc/locale.conf
echo LC_ALL=C >> /etc/locale.conf

# set root passwd
passwd

# create user acct
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh worace
passwd worace

# /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# MODULES="ext4"
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck"
# (keyboard moved up and added encrypt and lvm2 _before_ filesystems)
mkinitcpio -p linux

grub-install

# In /etc/default/grub edit the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:luks:allow-discards" then run:
# (allow discards lets TRIM instructions be passed through to the SSD supposedly)
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

# finish and reboot
exit
umount -R /mnt
swapoff -a
reboot

# ...

# add wheel to sudoers
su root
visudo /etc/sudoers
# uncomment:
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL


# enable dhcp auto connection
sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
# configure mirrors
# refresh list
sudo pacman -Syyu
sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
sudo rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# for my desktop i have a gtx 960 hence the nvidia drivers
sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-libgl hub openssh xclip xorg-server xorg-xinit firefox emacs xorg-server-utils the_silver_searcher xbindkeys
sudo reboot

# install yaourt
cd /tmp
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git
cd package-query
makepkg -si
cd ..
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yaourt.git
cd yaourt
makepkg -si
cd ~

yaourt -S dropbox python3 redshift ttf-font-awesome mpstat ttf-dejavu wqy-zenhei evince i3-gaps-git rxvt-unicode rofi termite i3blocks spotify slack-desktop

# fix dropbox file watchers limit
sudo echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000" | sudo tee --append /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl --system

# fix timezone clock issue
sudo pacman -S ntp
sudo ntpd -qg


git clone https://github.com/worace/dotfiles.git

ln -s ~/dotfiles/arch/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/arch/Xresources.light ~/.Xresources
mkdir ~/.config/i3
ln -s ~/dotfiles/arch/i3.config ~/.config/i3/config
ln -sf ~/dotfiles/.zshrc ~/.zshrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/emacs ~/.emacs.d
ln -s ~/dotfiles/.system_gitignore ~/.gitignore
ln -s ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
mkdir ~/.config/termite
ln -s ~/dotfiles/arch/termite-dark ~/.config/termite/config
ln -s ~/dotfiles/arch/.i3blocks.conf ~/.i3blocks.conf
mkdir ~/.local/share/applications
ln -s ~/dotfiles/arch/1Password.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/1Password.desktop

# Github SSH setup

# multilib and wine/1password
# uncomment the multilib section from /etc/pacman.conf:
# [multilib]
# Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -S wine

• symlinks...

Packages to install

yaourt ttf-font-awesome
yaourt mpstat
yaourt acpi
yaourt ttf-dejavu
yaourt wqy-zenhei
yaourt evince
sudo pacman -S wget

Local Postgres Setup

sudo pacman -S postgresql
sudo -i -u postgres
initdb -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'
logout
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
# create user account for your user:
createuser -s -U postgres --interactive
createdb
psql # verify it works

Password Manager

Keepass

• keepassx2 (1password alternative) sudo pacman -S keepassx2
• Using minikeepass on ios: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minikeepass-secure-password/id451661808?mt=8
• Writeup on ios<->dropbox syncing (semi-manual): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/viphone/ke4NVQ8QfC8

1Password

• mostly following https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/42126/making-1password-work-in-ubuntu-14-04
• also needed to go to Preferences > Browsers > Check "Unlock on secure desktop" and reopen firefox

Lockscreen

• i3lock-color (fork of i3lock): sudo pacman -S i3lock-color
• use script in scripts/lock.sh
• set binding in i3 config:

bindsym $mod+shift+l exec "$home/dotfiles/arch/scripts/lock.sh"

Dropbox

Setup to allow dropbox to work properly:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p

Node JS

sudo pacman -S nodejs
sudo pacman -S npm