dotfiles#

My dotfiles managed using GNU Stow.

Personal installation notes#

Things that I might want to backup manually#

~/.local/share/fish/fish_history
uBlock Origin filters & settings
Twitch FFZ, Previews, 7TV settings
ViolentMonkey userscripts & options
YouTube Enhancer & SponsorBlock config
Tabs and windows using Session Buddy
Remote Torrent Adder config
AniList Automail userscript config
VueTorrent settings
Redirector entries
Flatpak apps (~/.var/app/ or flatpak list --columns=application --app)
gpg keys (~/.gnupg/)

// TODO: automate everything below

Clone dotfiles#

git clone git@github.com:brw/dotfiles.git

Disable Intel pstate driver#

Add intel_pstate=disable to the options in /boot/entries/linux.conf

Or intel_pstate=active, if using throttled:

Copy system files#

sudo cp -i sysctl/etc/sysctld.d/* /etc/sysctl.d/
sudo cp -i zram/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf /etc/systemd/
sudo cp -i etc/udev/rules.d/10-trim.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo cp -i throttled/etc/throttled.conf /etc/throttled.conf

Enable throttled#

sudo systemctl enable --now throttled

Install yay#

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
yay -Y --gendb

Import tor gpg key#

gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrowser@torproject.org

Install packages#

yay -Syu --needed $(cat arch-{shell,desktop}-packages)

Install dotfiles#

rm -rf ~/.config/fish
stow -d dotfiles bin cpupower direnv fish git gtk neofetch nvim ripgrep mise starship stow wayland paru ghostty jj

Use systemd-resolved#

sudo ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved

Enable pkgfile daemon and pacman files db refresh timer#

sudo systemctl enable --now pkgfiled pacman-filesdb-refresh.timer

Enable timers#

sudo systemctl enable --now yaycache.timer paccache.timer plocate-updatedb.timer

Enable printer service#

sudo systemctl enable --now cups

Enable systemd-boot update service#

sudo systemctl enable systemd-boot-update

Enable en_NL locale#

sudo sed -i '/^#en_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8/s/^#//' /etc/locale.gen
sudo locale-gen

Enable kernel-modules-hook linux-modules-cleanup service#

sudo systemctl enable --now linux-modules-cleanup

Fix fish universal variables in Gnome Wayland session#

Modify /usr/bin/gnome-session, changing (hardcoding) $SHELL to sh on line 10 (temporary fix, probably bad practice but /shrug, universal variables are sort of maybe being removed in the near future anyway, at which point I'll change this)

Fix scaling issues on Gnome Wayland and bluriness with Xwayland#

org.gnome.mutter experimental-features ['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']

Unbind XF86Tools (F13) on Gnome#

For some reason the button I have bound to F13 on my mouse opens the Gnome control center/settings by default, with no way to change it outside of dconf/gsettings. quite annoying

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys control-center-static "['']"

Enable Gnome Keyring SSH Agent#

systemctl --user enable --now gcr-ssh-agent
ssh-add

Set up keylightd#

sudo usermod -aG keylightd bas
sudo systemctl enable --now keylightd

Get latest plex-rich-presence#

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/Arno500/plex-richpresence/releases/latest \
    | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name | contains("linux_amd64")).browser_download_url' \
    | wget -q -P $HOME -i - \
    && chmod +x $HOME/plex-rich-presence_linux_amd64-*

Install systemd services#

cp -i systemd/.config/systemd/user/plex-rich-presence.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
systemctl --user enable --now plex-rich-presence
#sudo cp -i etc/systemd/system/reload-cpu-modules.service /etc/systemd/system/
#sudo systemctl enable --now reload-cpu-modules
#cp -i systemd/.config/systemd/user/imwheel.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
#systemctl --user enable --now imwheel

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