Dotfiles & stuff

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Font in this preview is Comic Code Medium, if you have it, you can use the corresponding config from dev branch!

Index

• Clean Installation Steps
• Things to note
• Contributing
• Code of conduct
• LICENSE

Clean Installation Steps

• You need to have a arch base-install (or, you can experiment on your existing system if you wanna get adventurous),
• If you're new/confused, you should refer arch wiki
• Steps you need to do before running my script: (layman's steps, need not be exact but expected working should be same)
  • Boot into a bootable image for an arch ISO which can be download from here
  • Perform disk partition using fdisk or cfdisk or whatever you're comfortable with
  • Create a file system by formatting the disks you made above
  • Connect to internet: wifi/ethernet/mobile tethering, anything that gets you started
  • Choose best mirror for downloading packages (not always required)
  • mount and pacstrap your arch install with following command

   pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware sudo networkmanager git

  • arch-chroot to your installation and enable network manager service with following command

  (CASE SENSITIVE COMMAND)

   systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

  • setup a root password using the command passwd (you won't be able login later unless you set this)
  • generate fstab entries, setup date-time, setup hosts and hostname
  • Install a bootloader, for grub installation: refer this
• After you boot back to your install as root user, you need to execute these steps for a clean install:

  assume USER for demonstration, replace it with whatever you want

  • Adding a new user and giving it an access to run all sudo commands without password

  Makes our clean install script process run without waiting for passwords from user

   useradd -m USER
   echo "USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | sudo EDITOR='tee -a' visudo

  • set new password for newly create USER using the command passwd USER
  • switch user from to root to USER using su - USER
  • Clone and run the script using the command given below:

   git clone https://github.com/maniac-en/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles \
   	&& cd ~/.dotfiles && ./clean_install.sh

Things to note

• Amongst the all scripts, I use API for two of them, and they can be put in user's home folder /home/USER with a file name .env.api (Sample File)
  • Github API (scope: notification access) for getting unread notification counter in polybar (bar present at the top in the screenshots)

  Github API docs: here

  • Imgur API for uploading screenshots to imgur for easy sharing!

  Imgur API docs: here

Contributing

Code of conduct

LICENSE