dotfiles

TODO

Write a script to automatically setup the environment

• Download repo
• Install dependencies (identify deps first)
• Copy, move, create, link all required files

Also, the script to setup dotfiles should account for different OSes

Basic setup

Create basic folder structure

• for dir in archive classes downloads media/{music,pictures} projects workspace; do mkdir $dir; done

Files in etc/ and usr/ are not actually located in the home folder. Clone the repo, then cd dotfiles and then follow these steps

• sudo pacman -Syu

• sudo pacman -S yay zsh termite firefox polybar

• sudo chsh; chsh

• yay -S polybar code megasync touchegg xbindkeys

• sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

• git clone https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/powerlevel10k

• cp etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub; sudo update-grub

• cp etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config

• cp etc/locale.conf /etc/locale.conf or just set the proper locale

  • Uncomment the locale to be generate (en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8) in /etc/locale.gen
  • Generate with sudo locale-gen

• cp -r usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d /usr/share/X11/ or just copy the content

• cp -r usr/share/conky /usr/share/ (now disabled in ~/.config/i3/config/)

All the other configuration files are in the home folder

• YET TO TEST for file in .dotfiles/.config/*; do ln -s $file .$(basename $file); done
• cp .Xresources ~/; xrdb ~/.Xresources
• echo "[ -f ~/.xprofile ] && . ~/.xprofile" >> ~/.xinitrc
• ln -s .xprofile ~/.xprofile if necessary (rm -rf ~/.xprofile)
• ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.dmenurc ~/.dmenurc

Some stuff to install

• sudo pacman -S unzip docker docker-compose go davfs2 yarn npm transmission-cli openvpn gdb colordiff ifconfig zathura dpkg httpie openssh
• yay -S dpkg

Shell

Configuration

Install zsh (and also Oh-My-Zsh), vim, terminator/termite if necessary, then

• cp -r .vim ~/.vim/
• ln -s .vimrc ~/.vimrc
• ln -s .zshrc ~/.zshrc

Binaries

Symlink user binaries

• for f in $(find bin -type f); do cp "$f" "${HOME}/.local/$f"; done

Install fonts

• git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git --depth=1
• ./fonts/install.sh && rm -rf fonts

Vim plugins

• vim-netranger

Additional packages

• termtosvg
• todo.txt
• downgrade - sudo pacman -Syu downgrade
• xbacklight - pacman -Syu xorg-xbacklight

Touchscreen

Configuration

[EDIT 05/11/2020]

touchegg-1.1.1.1 is not available anymore and the new version doesn't support DRAG (2 fingers gestures). So it's necessary to downgrade to 1.1.1.1 to keep the old configuration

• Add arcanis repo to /etc/pacman.conf

[arcanisrepo]
Server = http://repo.arcanis.me/repo/$arch

• Update packages database pacman -Syyu
• Install using pacman pacman -S touchegg
• Remove arcanis and update again

[BEFORE 27/09/2020]

• yay -Syu touchegg
• Double check that ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf exists, or ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.config/touchegg ~/.config/
• Load touchegg with echo "touchegg &" >> ~/.xprofile or just load~/.xprofile from ~/.xinitrc

touchegg.conf

More

<touchégg>
  <settings>
    <property name="composed_gestures_time">111</property>
  </settings>
  <application name="All">
    <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="1" direction="ALL">
      <action type="DRAG_AND_DROP">BUTTON=1</action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="3" direction="UP">
      <action type="MAXIMIZE_RESTORE_WINDOW"></action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="3" direction="DOWN">
      <action type="MINIMIZE_WINDOW"></action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="2" direction="ALL">
      <action type="SCROLL">SPEED=7:INVERTED=true</action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="PINCH" fingers="2" direction="IN">
      <action type="SEND_KEYS">Control+minus</action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="PINCH" fingers="2" direction="OUT">
      <action type="SEND_KEYS">Control+plus</action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="TAP" fingers="3" direction="">
      <action type="MOUSE_CLICK">BUTTON=2</action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="TAP" fingers="2" direction="">
      <action type="MOUSE_CLICK">BUTTON=3</action>
    </gesture>
    <gesture type="TAP" fingers="1" direction="">
      <action type="MOUSE_CLICK">BUTTON=1</action>
    </gesture>
  </application>
</touchégg>

Fingerprint

Configuration

Currenlty using fingerprint-gui with libfprint (only v. 0.8.2-1 works). In case of upgrade just downgrade with DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1 downgrade libfprint

Touchpad

Configuration

• Install xf86-input-libinput
• cp 40-libinput.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

40-libinput.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
        Option "AccelSpeed" "0.7"
        Option "AccelProfile" "adaptive"
        Option "Tapping" "true"
        Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm"
EndSection

Audio

Configuration

• sudo usermod -aG audio $(whoami)
• sudo install_pulse
• sudo pacman -S pavucontrol
• Add options snd_hda_intel index=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
• Set default input/output for pulse audio here
• Make sure only one instance of pulseaudio is running
  • Assuming /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service is enabled with
  • systemctl --user enable pulseaudio
  • systemctl --user start pulseaudio
  • Keep exec --no-startup-id pulseaudio commented out

No need for /etc/asound.conf or put the following configuration

# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

Audio keybinds

• xbindkeys -d > ~/.xbindkeysrc

Add mute/unmute bind

echo "# Mute volume
"pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle"
   XF86AudioMute
" >> ~/.xbindkeysrc

Firefox

Configuration

• Edit about:config
  • layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.4
  • toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true
• ln -s .dotfiles/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox/

Notes

Audio

Should works with both pulseaudio and alsa installed

alsa-lib 1.1.7-1
alsa-plugins 1.1.7-3
alsa-tools 1.1.7-1
alsa-utils 1.1.7-1
zita-alsa-pcmi 0.3.2-1

Possible fixes/patches

Detect sound card with cat /proc/asound/cards. That gives the following output

 0 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
                      HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf0530000 irq 48
 1 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf0534000 irq 44

and set as default card in /etc/asound.conf NOT WORKING ANYMORE

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card PCH
}

ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card PCH
}

To unmute the sound use the keybind

• Mod1 + XF86SoundMute set in .config/i3/config
• "pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle" XF86AudioMute

If the output of pulseaudio shows E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. try adding user to audio group with sudo usermod -aG audio $(whoami)

Using both pulseaudio and alsamixer.

• Get default output device with pacmd list-sinks | grep -e 'name:' -e 'index:'
• Get default input device with pacmd list-sources | grep -e 'name:' -e 'index:'

List all available cards with aplay -L

...
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
...

and test if they are working with speaker-test -D NAME -c 2 where the name could be, in this specific case, "pulse" or "default".

• Alsa
• PulseAudio

Screen resolution

• Generate and create new resolution - xrand --newmode $(cvt 2304 1296 | sed '2 !d;s/Modeline\s//g')
• Add resolution to output device - Find connected device xrandr | sed -n -e '/\sconnected/p' | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' (in my case eDP1) - xrandr --addmode eDP1 2304x1296_60.00
• Change resolution - xrandr -s 2304x1296

Keybinds

This might require xbindkeys. Now the touch-function keys are set to

• Search: launch firefox
• Explorer: launch ranger
• Tools: launch morc menu
• Display: toogle display brightness

Misc

• Arch on X1 carbon
• Install Postman
  • Download the executable and place it in ${HOME}/.app/
  • Create link sudo ln -s ${HOME}/.dotfiles/.script/postman /usr/bin/postman