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Arch Linux dotfiles

gnome

Language

Table of Contents

Fonts, themes and GTK

Software Utility
Gnome Graphical Environment
Qogir Qogir-dark for icons
Qogir Qogir-dark GTK Theme

Apps

Software Utility
kitty Terminal Emulator
zsh Shell
powerlevel10k ZSH Theme
nautilus Graphical file manager
ranger Terminal file manager
neovim Terminal based text editor
gedit Text editor
shotwell Pictures Viewer & Editor
krita Picture Editor
vlc Video player
firefox Web browser

Arch Linux Installation

These are my hard disks and partitions in my case I will use the nvme1n1 disk that already has the partitions made because I already had Arch installed and I am only going to format them, here I leave a very good guide that details all the steps.

lsblk

lsblk

Formatting boot, EFI and swap partitions

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme1n1p1
mkfs.ext4 -L boot /dev/nvme1n1p2
mkswap /dev/nvme1n1p4
swapon

lsblk

I format root partition where the system is going to be installed. In this case the partition is encrypted with luks.

mkfs.btrfs -L root /dev/mapper/root -f

lsblk

We mount the partitions where we are going to install Arch in /mnt

mount -t btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt 
mkdir /mnt/boot 
mount /dev/nvme1n1p2 /mnt/boot 
mkdir /mnt/efi
mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt/efi

lsblk

Preparing pacman GPG keys to avoid problems

pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate
pacman-key --refresh-keys

Install the basic (required) packages with pacstrap

pacstrap -K /mnt linux linux-firmware networkmanager grub wpa_supplicant base base-devel efibootmgr nano btrfs-progs

Generate the fstab file for the system to identify the partitions

genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

Now we are going to enter the system that we have just installed on our hard drive

arch-chroot /mnt

chroot

Set the root password and create our user

passwd
useradd -m fran
passwd fran
usermod -aG wheel fran

users

Configure the /etc/sudoers file

visudo /etc/sudoers

#Uncoment this line
%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

wheel

Generate the locale-gen file, set the hostname and timezone

#Uncomment or add en_US.UTF-8 and es_ES.UTF-8 on /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
echo HOSTNAME > /etc/hostname

timezone

Edit hosts file

nano /etc/hosts
#Add this lines
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       HOSTNAME.localhost HOSTNAME

hosts

We add the root partition at boot time to decrypt it. In my case it is /dev/nvme1n1p3 but I will add it with the UUID since it is unique.

blkid #To see the UUID of each partition
nano /etc/default/grub
#And we add in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=UUID=YOURUUID:root root=/dev/mapper/root"

decryptroot

Now we will also modify the configuration script for the creation of the initrd to decrypt the partition at boot time.

blkid #To see the UUID of each partition
nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
#We look for the first HOOKS without comment (without # in front) and add encrypt and/or the missing ones at the end to make it look like this:
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck encrypt)

Now we run the script to create the boot kernel.

mkinitcpio -P

I have another hard disk that I don't mount as home but I have encrypted and I want to decrypt it at boot time.

nano /etc/crypttab
#I add the following, I use the UUID but you can use the partition with /dev/sdX:

hdd UUID=YOURUUID   none

hdddecrypt

Installing and configuring grub

#These commands are for UEFI (you will have to change the partitions to the corresponding ones in your computer)
grub-install --boot-directory=/boot --efi-directory=/efi /dev/nvme1n1p2

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub-mkconfig -o /efi/EFI/arch/grub.cfg

#Commands for BIOS (Legacy)
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

grub

Enable the NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant services to have internet at startup.

systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
systemctl enable wpa_supplicant.service

We already have Arch installed and we could reboot, in this case I'm going to install xorg and Gnome and enable it so that when rebooting it already has a graphical environment. You can install the graphical environment that you want, like KDE, Xfce, Qtile, etc.

pacman -S git xorg xorg-server gnome
systemctl enable gdm.service

Finish the installation and restart the computer.

exit
reboot now

reboot

Install paru to use AUR

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
cd paru-bin/
makepkg -si
paru

Recomended software

sudo pacman -Sy firefox kitty ntfs-3g krita materia-gtk-theme vlc mpv zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting bat lsd neovim unzip zip unrar shotwell transmission-gtk chromium neofetch gnu-free-fonts noto-fonts ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-croscore

paru -S qogir-icon-theme qogir-gtk-theme github-desktop sublime-text-4 vmware-workstation wps-office ttf-wps-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-ibm-plex ttf-liberation ttf-nerd-fonts-hack-complete-git ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k

Set zsh as default shell

sudo usermod --shell /usr/bin/zsh fran
sudo usermod --shell /usr/bin/zsh root

Install nvidia drivers

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia egl-wayland
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
    #Add this lines
    blacklist nouveau
    blacklist rivafb
    blacklist nvidiafb
    blacklist rivatv
    blacklist nv
sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo reboot now

Gnome

Gnome extensions that I use: