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Installation

Set up WiFi on bootable USB

Find out what your wifi device is called with

iwctl device list

often it will be called wlan0.

Connect to a WiFi network with

iwctl station <device> connect <SSID>

If you do not know your network's SSID, use

iwctl station <device> scan

Run the archinstall script

archinstall

Select extra programs to install

Basic setup:

bat
btop
eza
fd
firefox
fish
git
github-cli
gnupg
hyprland
inotify-tools
kitty
lazygit
light
man-db
man-pages
neovim
openssh
pass
pipewire
pipewire-alsa
pipewire-audio
pipewire-pulse
reflector
ripgrep
rustup
stow
sudo
tldr
ttf-fantasque-sans-mono
ttf-firacode-nerd
ttf-joypixels
unzip
zoxide
zsh

Extra dependencies

For pinentry-gnome3

sudo pacman -S --asdeps gcr

If using a Wayland compositor, you may also want:

swaybg waybar wl-copy wofi

If using hyprland, you may want sddm.

If using an X based window manager, may also want:

feh polybar rofi xorg-xinput

Hyprland

Hyprland works best with SDDM.

Audio

See the ArchWiki page for PipeWire.

You may want a GUI tool for managing audio sources and syncs. qpwgraph and helvum are two options for this.

User groups

  • video to enable backlight control with the light utility
sudo usermod -aG video $USER
reboot

Change shell to fish

exec fish
chsh -s $(which fish)

Setup SSH keys and register them with git

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

Note: this step requires the github-cli package

gh auth login

Pull down dotfiles and scripts from GitHub

git clone [email protected]:mfdorst/.cfg
git clone [email protected]:mfdorst/scripts
git clone [email protected]:mfdorst/wallpaper

Install dotfiles

Browse the .cfg directory, and for each configuration you want to use, run stow <dir>.

If you have a hidpi display, make sure to stow hidpi.

Install other stuff

install-omz # Oh my zsh
install-paru
install-starship

Make updates faster with Reflector

sudo pacman -S reflector

Configure the arguments reflector will run with on startup

sudoedit /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf

To make the updates faster, use only the 5 latest US mirrors.

--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
--protocol https
--country 'United States'
--latest 5
--sort rate

Run reflector on startup

The --now flag will make it run immediately, as well as on startup.

systemctl enable --now reflector

Note: the service will not run until you are connected to the internet, so give it a second. If you want to check if the mirrorlist has updated recently, check the timestamps in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

SSH Server

sudo pacman -S openssh
sudo systemctl enable sshd

If you don't want information about your previous login popping up every time you log in, do

touch ~/.hushlogin

Enable backlight keys

sudo pacman -S light
usermod -aG video <user>
reboot

For usage examples, check the hyprland config.

Fix monitors switching sides randomly on X

Create a script that runs an appropriate xrandr command, for instance:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
xrandr --output DP-4 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of HDMI-0

Make it executable

chmod +x monitor-setup-script

Assuming you are using LightDM:

Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. In the [Seat:*] section, add:

display-setup-script = /path/to/monitor-setup-script

Printer setup (Canon PIXMA MG6100)

Install the printer and scanner drivers from the AUR:

paru -S canon-pixma-mg6100-complete

Get the network address (make sure the printer is on and on the correct network for this step):

cnijnetprn --installer --search auto

Should print something like:

network cnijnet:/00-1E-8F-A4-95-E4 "Canon MG6100 series" "IP:10.0.0.9"

Use the cnijnet:/ address in the following command:

sudo lpadmin -p "Canon MG6120 -m canonmg6100.ppd -v cnijnet:/<address> -E