Dotfiles

Arch Linux dotfiles and system setup using Ansible. (Will switch to NixOS once my setup broke 3 times)

Fresh Arch Install

• Download Arch ISO

• Ensure sudo is available for the user

  • pacman -S --noconfirm --needed sudo as root/su

iwctl
station list # if required to find your wifi device
station wifi connect <your_wifi_ssid>
exit
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antonkesy/dotfiles/main/arch_install_config.json -o arch_install_config.json
# setup all missing parts: partitioning & authentication
archinstall --config arch_install_config.json
# Manually set: Partitioning (+ HW Encryption), Root PW, User Accounts

# Reboot and login into new user

nmcli radio wifi on
nmcli device wifi list
nmcli device wifi connect "<SSID>" --ask

# some setups might assume position of dotfiles in ~/workspace
mkdir -p ~/workspace && cd ~/workspace
git clone --recursive https://github.com/antonkesy/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
make desktop
# wait some time
reboot
setup/manual/hyprpm.sh # requires hyprland to be running

Targets

• make dotfiles - Links only dotfiles
• make base - Minimal setup (for example for WSL)
• make desktop - Full desktop setup
• make switch-to-ssh - Switches https git repo to ssh for development

Currently Used With

• Arch Linux
• Nvidia RTX 4070
• tmux + zsh
• LazyVim
• Hyprland
• Dank Linux

Workarounds

Gnome Online Accounts on Hyprland

• Just login through Gnome session :)

Broken Yay

If you get an libalpm.so error, its because there is a mismatch of versions of pacman and the AUR helper (yay/paru/...):

yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.XX: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Just remove yay or paru and reinstall with make desktop for example.

sudo pacman -Rns yay
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/yay

gcr-ssh-agent.service spams processes and uses 99% CPU

Check last logs:

journalctl --user-unit=gcr-ssh-agent.service -f

Possible:

Permissions 0644 for '/home/ak/.ssh/X' are too open.
This private key will be ignored.

Just fix by

chmod 600 /home/ak/.ssh/X

Tests

make test