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