My user configuration

This repository contains the config that I use for setting up a user on Arch.

Install dotfiles

The dotfiles are organized as stow packages and can be installed as:

stow --no-folding --dotfiles -v -t ~ dotfiles
stow --no-folding --dotfiles -v -t ~/.config config

Create Swapfile

The following commands create an 8GB swap file in the root directory:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=8k status=progress
chmod 0600 /swapfile
mkswap -U clear /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

at which point you can add using genfstab

systemd-boot

Assuming you have created an EFI partition and this is correctly typed as EFI Partition, you can run

bootctl install

Afterwards, add entries to /boot/loader/entries along the lines of:

title   Arch Linux
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /intel-ucode.img
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options root=LABEL=ARCH mem_sleep_default=deep rw

and for a backup:

title   Arch Linux (fallback initramfs)
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /intel-ucode.img
initrd  /initramfs-linux-fallback.img
options root=LABEL=ARCH mem_sleep_default=deep rw

For the above, you can use e2label to add a label to an ext4-formatted drive.

Then, register the default to /boot/loader/loader.conf:

default arch.conf
timeout 4
console-mode max
editor  no

And finally, bootctl update for paranoia-sake.

Arch Packages

When bootstrapping system:

base linux linux-firwmare \
dhcpcd iwd \
git vim neovim tmux

Other useful packages are located in pacman/packages.txt:

sudo pacman -U --needed - < pacman/packages.txt

Install oh-my-zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
chsh -s /bin/zsh

You may need to fix the symlink to .zshrc if it is overwritten.

Packer

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim

Tmux TPM

mkdir -p ~/.tmux/plugins
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

Then prefix + I within tmux to install plugins.

User groups

After installing xdg-user-dirs-update:

sudo systemctl enable --now xdg-user-dirs-update.service

After creating jstarr user:

usermod -a -G sys,docker,audio,wheel,uucp,lpadmin,gpiouser jstarr

Creating any group that does not exist already.

Trim

Enable periodic trim for SSD:

sudo systemctl enable --now fstrim.service fstrim.timer

Reflector

/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf

# Set the output path where the mirrorlist will be saved (--save).
--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# Select the transfer protocol (--protocol).
--protocol https

# Select the country (--country).
# Consult the list of available countries with "reflector --list-countries" and
# select the countries nearest to you or the ones that you trust. For example:
--country 'United States'

# Use only the  most recently synchronized mirrors (--latest).
--latest 5

# Sort the mirrors by synchronization time (--sort).
--sort age

sudo systemctl enable --now reflector

thermald

sudo systemctl enable --now thermald

ipython

Use the following in the ipython configuration file:

## Shortcut style to use at the prompt. 'vi' or 'emacs'.
c.TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode = 'vi'

## Set the editor used by IPython (default to $EDITOR/vi/notepad).
c.TerminalInteractiveShell.editor = 'vi'

DHCPCD

Open /etc/dhcpcd.conf and uncomment the following:

# Inform the DHCP server of our hostname for DDNS.
hostname