Cody's Linux Rice (Artix / Arch / Void)

Maintained?

• Artix: Yes, I use this rice on my Artix desktop daily
• Arch: Kinda, after some minor tweaks it should be fine on Arch.
• Void: No, the config is outdated.

Currently moving away from i3-gaps into ringwm. I3 is only used as backup right now. Bar config is already less compatible with i3. To be removed after the testing period.

About

• A minimal but useable desktop environment for my personal use.
• Supports live theme changing.

Key	Value
Os	Artix
Init system	OpenRC
Display server	X11
Display init	sx (https://github.com/Earnestly/sx)
WM (phase in)	Ringwm (https://github.com/codybloemhard/ringwm)
WM (phase out)	i3-gaps
Shell (bin/sh)	Dash
Shell (Login)	Fish
Terminal	St (https://github.com/codybloemhard/st-cody)
Launcher	Dmenu (https://github.com/codybloemhard/dmenu-cody)
Status bar	Shapebar (https://gitlab.com/codybloemhard/shapebar)
Prompt	Starship (https://github.com/starship/starship)
Text editor	NeoVim
Compositor	Picom
AUR helper	Paru
Keymap	Physical: QMK (https://github.com/codybloemhard/qmk-cody)
Notable Utils	Scrot, Slock, Feh, Fzf, Ag, Bat, Eza, Dust, Btop, Paclog, Reat
Themes	Nord, Gruvbox, Hawkrad, Tokyo Night, Space, Dark

Example Image

Usefull Shortcuts

• C: Control, S:Shift, M:Mod.
• M = Mod (windowskey).

i3-gaps

• M-f = close window
• M-b = open terminal
• M-j = open browser
• M-h = open dmenu
• M-Space = toggle popup terminal
• M-a = focus left window
• M-o = focus right window
• M-u = focus up window
• M-e = focus down window
• M-S-a = move left window
• M-S-o = move right window
• M-S-u = move up window
• M-S-e = move down window
• M-k = split horizontally from now on
• M-p = split vertically from now on
• M-r = toggle into resize mode
• a = (resize mode) decrease width
• o = (resize mode) increase width
• u = (resize mode) decrease height
• e = (resize mode) increase height
• M-n = toggle fullscreen for selected window
• M-S-f = toggle floating mode for selected window
• M-z = increase gap size
• M-S-z = decrease gap size
• M-x = set gap size to default
• M-S-x = set gap size to 0
• M-(q,g,m,l,w,y) = switch to workspace n
• M-S(q,g,m,l,w,y) = move window to workspace n
• M-S-d = reload config file
• M-S-s = restart i3, keep windows open
• M-S-t = close i3, xserver

st-cody

• Mouse to select text(if you want)
• C-u = scroll up
• C-e = scroll down
• C-S-Pgup = increase font size
• C-S-Pgdn = decrease font size
• C-S-c = copy
• C-S-v = paste
• C-v = Select mode (Vim-like)
  • a,u,e,o = Move around
  • arrows = Move around
  • s = Toggle select mode
  • t = Toggle block mode
  • Escape = Quit select mode
  • Return = Quit select mode and keep selection
  • /, ? = Search forward, backwards
  • n, N = Next, previous search result

Install

Install Rice:

0. Assuming you have internet access now and you only have artix installed.
1. Login as a normal user.
2. Install git (or include it in pacstrap): sudo pacman -S git
3. Make a dir for all git projects: mkdir ~/git
4. Goto the new dir: cd ~/git
5. Pull this repo(assuming you read this on another device): git clone https://gitlab.com/codybloemhard/linux-rice.git
6. cd ~/git/linux-rice/artix
7. Give exec rights: chmod +x calr.sh
8. Run it ./calr.sh
9. It does stuff(installing and copying config files).
10. You now have the programs, my configs, repos installed, system updated etc.
11. startx to start the x server.

Configure wifi (wpa, optional):

0. View your network interfaces sudo ip link show
1. Pick your interface, called INT from now.
2. List all networks by running sudo iw dev INT scan | grep -i ssid
3. Pick one called SSID from now.
4. You know the password for the network, called KEY from now.
5. Backup example conf: cp /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-std.conf
6. Populate the conf with our data. wpa_passphrase SSID KEY >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
7. For some reason had to do killall wpa_applicant;
8. wpa_supplicant -B -i<interface_name> -c<path/to/configuration/file> -Dwext
9. dhcpcd INT
10. Should work now, pacman -Syu and ping somewebsite should work.
11. If not, i also had to repeat some steps. If it prompts that it has this file in /usr/.... after step 10, just remove it with rm filename. and repeat step 10.

Confige wifi (connmanctl, optional):

0. connmanctl
1. enable wifi
2. scan wifi
3. agent on
4. services
5. connect wifi_...

Some tid bits

• mount boot partition to /mnt/boot, but install grub with grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub
• If you use grub and it boots to an grub terminal instead of the menu, boot from usb again, arch-chroot into your system, install grub with --removable flag.
• when chrooted in, install pacman -S iwd dhcpcd as they are only present at the install iso and not in your fresh system.
• Install sudo pacman -S sudo
• Make a normal user useradd -m username and set password passwd username
• Add user as sudoer su -c visudo, scroll down till you see root ALL=(ALL) ALL, add under that line username ALL=(ALL) ALL

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