dots

Inspired

See installer in the dots/ folder

Structure

Most of the dotfiles are in the bare repository, so they are already a part of the real HOME directory

For other files that are copied into place, see dots/

Notes

Proxy

For proxy usage

• First you should run apply-http-proxy default to see the settings, and then eval $(apply-http-proxy default) to set the environment.
• For systemd services that need proxy access, you should run apply-http-proxy systemd-apply first, and then restart any services that need to use the proxy.
• For git, update your git-ssh config to use the socat proxy line

Fonts

I code with a monospace Comic Sans like font. Yes, I am serious.
Currently I'm using a fork of "Comic Shanns", found here on github:
you have been warned

Sound on Linux

You may need alsa-firmware and sof-firmware for sound cards. You also would generally want to install alsa-utils and alsa-plugins for higher quality sound resampling.

USBGuard

Make sure you setup USBGuard usbguard generate-policy > /etc/usbguard/rules.conf

Otherwise, if another service starts usbguard somehow, you will be locked out!

Firmware Update

I prefer fwupd and using the org.gnome.Firmware flatpak for the frontend. To enable fwupd.service, you may wish to mask passim.service, which for example reports problems on my machine and prevents fwupd from running.

Wayland

• Sunshine needs cap_sys_admin sudo setcap 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN+p' /usr/bin/sunshine
  • Can be automatically handled by a pacman hook
• Gamescope may need cap_sys_nice sudo setcap 'CAP_SYS_NICE=eip' /usr/bin/sunshine
  • Can be automatically handled by a pacman hook
• See Arch wiki for enabling Wayland for Android Studio / Webstorm

Docker

For video acceleration in docker, make sure you setup hardware accel in the container

Use podman instead of docker to avoid the root daemon

Flatpak

For OBS capture, install OBSVkCapture from freedesktop.Platform and ObsStudio Also include gstreamer-vaapi from Freedesktop and Plugins.Gstreamer from ObsStudio You will need to install MangoHud gamescope protonup-qt manually

For Dark Mode you'll need the following flatpaks for the correct runtime (assuming GNOME)

QT: QAdwaitaDecorations QGnomePlatform QGnomePlatform-decorations

GTK: See the themepak script, which copies your GTK theme into the user folders

Steam (Flatpak)

See notes in dots/scripts/gaming/README.md

Moonlight

Make sure you do not block the X11 or fallback x11 sockets for moonlight or else --grab won't work Sunshine Right-Alt tweak does not work because Wayland GNOME does not respond to the re-bound key.

Sunshine

Be sure to add the LizardByte Archlinux repository to /etc/pacman.conf

Don't enable the user level systemd service - it's weird. Use our customer autostart-sunshine user service which calls through to the restart-sunshine script, which it expects to live in ${HOME}/.local/bin The restart-sunshine script is unixy platform agnostic and will handle known quirks of sunshine

Secure Boot

You should install sbctl to easily manage secure boot, and reference the Arch wiki for usage. On specific machines, the secure boot BIOS process is a little janky. On my minisforum UM780XTX it is as follows

At any point if you are asked to "restore factory keys" or "reboot without saving", DO NOT DO IT.

• Boot into Admin BIOS -> Security -> Secure Boot
• You should see you are in "User" or "Standard" mode at the top
• Disable Secure Boot
• Set to Custom Mode
• Manually restore the factory keys
• Enable setup mode
• Reboot the machine, go into BIOS again
• Boot into Admin BIOS -> Security -> Secure Boot
• You should see you are in "User" or "Standard" mode at the top
• Enable setup mode (it should be allowed and the machine still in Custom mode with Disabled SB)
• Now at the top you should see you are in "Setup" mode instead of "User"
• DO NOT REBOOT - IF YOU REBOOT YOU WILL LEAVE SETUP MODE
• Go to the boot override and select your main boot device.
• Verify you are in setup mode via sbctl status and enroll your keys

Tweaks

FS performance

Enable fast_commit for ext4 Disable crypt workqueues

License

GPLv2

  The GPLv2 License

    Copyright (C) 2023  pyamsoft

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.