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Arch Linux setup 2023

Packages

Editor: neovim

Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor. I currently use packer.nvim as my plugin/package manager for Neovim.

Installation

• After stow-ing the root repository, install packer through the AUR through paru -S nvim-packer-git.
• Run neovim and execute :PackerSync
• Since I use the Mason plugin for installing new LSPs, we need to install npm and unzip as well (paru -S npm unzip).
• Reopen neovim and wait for the LSPs to be reinstalled.
• Install ripgrep as a dependency for the telescope configuration.

TODO:

** Tasks marked with * are still tentative. The list below is also ordered based on priority**

• Migrate packer.nvim to lazy.nvim for plugin management as Packer is now unmaintained. Lazy.nvim also features package lazy loading which will help my neovim's startup time.
• Migrate out of null-ls
• * Migrate out of mason and use a bash script instead for installing LSPs

Version Control System: git and GitHub

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system.

Installation

• As per my archinstall configuration, I have already specified git as an additional package and hence should come out of the box with my Arch Installation.
• Install openssh for generating
• After stow-ing, generate a new ed25519 ssh key in ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 through ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -c "<email>".
• This then would generate a private ang public ssh key. Add this key then as authentication and signing on GitHub.
• Also, run systemctl --user enable --now ssh-agent to run ssh-agent upon logging in as a user.

Since the ssh config has AddKeysToAgent=yes, ssh keys are added upon use (GPG Signing and SSH are deemed different and hence it runs the prompt once for each).

Window Manager: swayfx

Sway is a tiling wayland compositor and a drop in replacement for the i3 window manager. SwayFX is a fork of sway but with eye candy.

Installation

• Install swayfx-git

Configuration Dependencies

• kanshi for dynamic monitor configuration.
• autotiling for sway autotiling.
• grim, slurp, swappy, wl-clipboard for screen region captures.
• waybar
• wofi as the launcher.
• kitty as the terminal.

Web Browser: chromium

• This is being used by swayfx-git to run YT Music upon startup.
• Head over to catppuccin/chromium to style this in accordance to the setup.

Google Drive Mirror: rclone

• Initialize config through rclone config.
• Enable 30 min bisync timer through systemctl --user enable --now rclone-bisync.timer.

Note that this is located in the stowed .config/systemd/

• TODO: Explicitly stow .config/systemd/ as files instead of directory.