BSPWM ARCH

BSPWM Configuration files for Macbook Air Late 2011 A1370

Infomation

OS	Arch Linux
AUR Helper	yay
Shell	Fish
Window Manager	BSPWM
Bar	Polybar
Menu	Rofi
Terminal	Kitty
File Manager	Thunar
Browser	Chromium
Text Editor	VSCodium / micro
Theme	Mojave GTK
Icons	Kora

Installation

AUR Helper

The initial installation of Yay

$ sudo pacman -Syu --needed micro git base-devel
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay
$ makepkg -si
$ cd && rm -rf yay

MAKEPKG

Speed up compiling of AUR packages

$ sudo micro /etc/makepkg.conf


MAKEFLAGS="-j4"

Pacman setting-up

Parallel downloading of packages

$ sudo micro /etc/pacman.conf


ParallelDownloads = 4

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Installing packages

Assuming your AUR Helper is yay.

$ yay -S --needed \

# Xorg
xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-xrandr xorg-xsetroot \

# System Environment
bspwm sxhkd polybar rofi rofi-power-menu feh kitty fish dunst \

# File Manager
thunar xdg-user-dirs xfce-polkit tumbler lxappearance-gtk3 \

# Text Editors
vscodium-bin micro \

# Media Players
vlc \

# User Software
telegram-desktop qbittorrent chromium obs-studio \

# CLI Programs
go rust yt-dlp ffmpeg fastfetch btop eza fzf fd lazygit ripgrep bat maim xdotool xclip xsel reflector jq \

# File Archiver
p7zip zip unrar unzip xarchiver \

# Fonts & Icons
ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-cjk papirus-icon-theme \

# Drivers
mesa xf86-video-intel xf86-input-libinput broadcom-wl \

# Network Manager
networkmanager nm-connection-editor network-manager-applet \

# Utility
acpid brightnessctl auto-cpufreq \

# RDP Client
remmina freerdp

Copy configuration files

$ git clone https://github.com/masajinobe-ef/arch-bspwm-macbook

# ~/.config
$ mkdir -p ~/.config && cp -r ~/arch_bspwm_macbook/config/* ~/.config

# ~/.local/bin
$ mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && cp -r ~/arch_bspwm_macbook/bin/* ~/.local/bin

# Make executable
$ sudo chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
$ sudo chmod +x ~/.config/polybar/polybar.sh

# Misc
$ cp -r ~/arch-bspwm-macbook/misc/. ~

Internet (only for macbook)

$ sudo micro /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


blacklist ssb
blacklist mmc_core
blacklist b43
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist brcmutil
blacklist cordic
blacklist mac80211
blacklist bcma


$ sudo mkinitcpio -P
$ sudo modprobe wl

Daemons

$ sudo systemctl enable acpid --now
$ sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager --now
$ sudo systemctl enable auto-cpufreq  --now

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Setting-up

Adding language

$ sudo micro /etc/locale.gen


ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8


$ sudo locale-gen

Configure keyboard layout in Xorg

$ sudo localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap us,ru pc105+inet qwerty grp:alt_shift_toggle

Config touchpad

$ sudo micro /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf


Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
    Option "ClickMethod" "clickfinger"
    Option "AccelProfile" "flat"
    Option "TransformationMatrix" "1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1"
EndSection

Config mouse

$ sudo micro /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-pointer.conf


Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "pointer"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "false"
    Option "AccelProfile" "flat"
    Option "TransformationMatrix" "1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.2"
EndSection

Config keyboard (only for macbook)

$ sudo micro /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf


options hid_apple fnmode=2 iso_layout=1


$ sudo mkinitcpio -P

Config mkinitcpio (only for macbook)

$ sudo micro /etc/mkinitcpio.conf


# add vfat to other modules for fix "Failed to mount /boot ... unknown filesystem vfat"
MODULES=(vfat)


$ sudo mkinitcpio -P

Config vconsole

$ sudo micro /etc/vconsole.conf


XKBLAYOUT=us,ru
XKBMODEL=pc105+inet
XKBOPTIONS=grp:alt_shift_toggle
XKBVARIANT=qwerty
KEYMAP=us
FONT=cyr-sun16
USECOLOR=yes

Config GRUB

$ sudo micro /etc/default/grub


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 mitigations=off splash intel_pstate=disable"


$ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Config auto-cpufreq

$ sudo sensors-detect
$ sudo micro /etc/auto-cpufreq.conf


[charger]
governor = performance
energy_performance_preference = performance

scaling_min_freq = 800000
scaling_max_freq = 1801000

# turbo boost setting. possible values: always, auto, never
turbo = always

[battery]
governor = powersave
energy_performance_preference = power

scaling_min_freq = 800000
scaling_max_freq = 1800000

# turbo boost setting (always, auto, or never)
turbo = never

# battery charging threshold
# reference: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq/#battery->
# enable_thresholds = true
# start_threshold = 20
# stop_threshold = 80

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Other

Fisher (Fish)

$ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgebucaran/fisher/main/functions/fisher.fish | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher

Fish Plugins List:

jorgebucaran/fisher
jethrokuan/z
patrickf1/fzf.fish
franciscolourenco/done
jorgebucaran/autopair.fish
nickeb96/puffer-fish
ramlev/mkcd
meaningful-ooo/sponge
ilancosman/tide@v6