AlanD20 Dot Files

My personal dotfiles. It includes Arch configs and my windows configs and suggestions.

• Windows: Suggestions, config files
• Arch
• Ubuntu

You may find all the application descriptions in setup-* scripts. Also, Head over to workspace-setup for installation guides including archlinux installation with and without dual booting.

Arch with Sway Screenshot

Oh My Posh Theme

Desktop Environment Setup

• You may modify scripts to your needs:
  • Scripts include names such as setup-*.sh are suppose to install essential apps and configure the system workspace.
  • Scripts include names such as *-install-profile.zsh are intended to be installed with user privileges. They will configure the user workspace and it copies user configurations.

Nvidia Drivers

Take a look at this repo to install nvidia drivers on arch.

After installing the nvidia drivers, use hyprland guide on Nvidia drivers to also finish some additional configuration if you still have issues with screen flickering or nvidia drivers aren't being used properly, Hyprland Guide on Nvidia

• With sway, use vulkan renderer, for that, you may have to install vulkan-intel and vulkan-validation-layers.
• Brightnessctl not working properly on nvidia drivers? Try adding acpi_backlight=native to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub. (Don't forget to do sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg after changes.), this will force using the gpu-native interface.
  • also force the nvidia interface to be used

  # Grab the interface
  ls /sys/class/backlight
  
  # Create a new rule, by putting this content to force using it. Rule at /etc/udev/rules.d/99-backlight.rules
  ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight", \
    RUN+="/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness", \
    RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness"

• Don't forget to Enable this kernel module parameter for nvidia: Preserve Video Memory After Suspend
• These environment variables are essential if you want to utilize hardware acceleration with your GPU. Read about Hardware Video Acceleration.

  # best to put at /etc/profile or read more at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables
  export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
  export VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
  export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
  export GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm

Enable SSH-Agent

# Make sure to add your private key to `ssh-agent`
ssh-add <path/to/private/key>

# Check currently loaded private keys
ssh-add -l

# Auto-start/Enable ssh-agent service
systemctl --user enable --now ssh-agent.service

Database & Email With Docker

Checkout docker/docker directory to quickly setup database and a testing email service with a single command.

You may configure the docker-compose file to your needs.

Screen Sharing on Wayland

To share your screen on Wayland, install sudo pacman -Sy obs-studio xdg-desktop-portal-wlr then use pipewire window capture to share your screen.

Chrome Flags

Make sure to enable the following flags for Chromium

• WebRTC PipeWire support: Enabled
• Preferred Ozone platform: Wayland or Xorg
• Parallel Downloading: Enabled
• Tab Groups Save and Sync: Enabled

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Resources & Troubleshooting

• Want to install another desktop/window environment? Take a look at archinstall profiles. It's a good start to install necessary packages for each environment.

• Licensed fonts such as Dank Mono.

• ZSH Plugin Descriptions

  • zsh-nvm plugin installs nvm.

• Find WSL IP address for SSH access:

  ip addr | grep eth0

• if for some reason you are stuck on window manager, you always have the ability to switch to tty using Ctrl + Alt + f2 shortcut. You may switch to several tty by using Ctrl + Alt + f2, Ctrl + Alt + f3, Ctrl + Alt + f4, , and so on.

• To find font names, you may use fc-list with grep to filter out your font.

  fc-list | grep -i meslolgmnerd

• To copy output or input to clipboard use xclip for Xorg and wl-copy (install wl-clipboard) for Wayland.

• A2DP Bluetooth Arch Wiki

  • enable Secure Simple Pairing (SSP) mode to avoid manual pin authentication for bluetooth connections

    sudo btmgmt ssp on

  • You might have to change the ControllerMode to bredr at /etc/bluetooth/main.conf, then restart the bluetooth service.

• Here are a few documentations to enable Dark mode:

  • Switching Dark Mode Wiki
  • GTK Configuration
  • Enable on Swaywm

• After rebooting, unable to connect to internet? Sometimes, both dhcpcd and NetworkManager conflict with each other, as a result, it fails to connect to internet. There are several ways to go about it: (1) Restarting your computer (2) Stopping dhcpcd service then restart NetworkManager service, after that, start dhcpcd service again. This should solve the problem.

• If you have issues with shared lib** is not found, you might already have the library but a newer version instead while the package might require an older version. You may check the /usr/lib if that library exist, if so, you may create a symbolic link pointing the required library version to the latest version.

• Looking for TUI apps? Take a look at toolleeo/Awesome list or rothgar/Awesome TUIs

• If you are dual-booting Linux and Windows, and have a shared partitions between them. It's good to turn of hibernation on Windows, so that it doesn't cause corruption when booting to Linux, especially when auto-mount is enabled.

  # on Windows, run these commands
  powercfg /h off
  # Confirm it's off
  powercfg /a