Arch Linux

Init

Login

After boot, login with [1]:

username: root
password: root

Wireless configure [2] (Optional):

ip link
systemctl status iwd
systemctl restart iwd
systemctl status iwd
iwctl
device list
station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks
station wlan0 connect "<ssid>"
ping archlinux.org

Pacman [3][4]

Use repository mirror:

sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak
sudo vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Server = https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Refreshes the package database and upgrades all installed packages:

pacman -Syyu

Additional tools for pacman:

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib

Removes older versions of packages from the cache, keeping only the two most recent versions for each one.

sudo paccache -rk 2

Users and groups

useradd

sudo useradd -m <user>
sudo vim /etc/sudoers

<user> ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

addgroup

sudo addgroup sudousers
sudo usermod -aG sudousers <user>
sudo vim /etc/sudoers

sudousers ALL=(ALL)ALL

reboot

Localization [5]

sudo vim /etc/locale.gen

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8

sudo locale-gen

sudo vim /etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

System time

timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai

Set the hostname

sudo vim /etc/hostname

<hostname>

sudo systemctl restart systemd-hostnamed

Domain name resolution [6]

sudo vim /etc/hosts

<ip> github.com
<ip> raw.githubusercontent.com
<ip> mirror.archlinuxarm.org

sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved

NetworkManager

sudo pacman -S networkmanager
sudo systemctl stop netctl
sudo systemctl disable netctl
sudo systemctl enable --now networkmanager

Enable system tray:

sudo pacman -S network-manager-applet

Setup

sudo pacman -S mpv \
	yt-dlp

yay

pacman

sudo pacman -Syu yay

From source

gh auth login
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg
sudo pacman -U yay-bin*.pkg.tar.xz
yay

Paru (Optional)

yay -S paru

Flatpak [7][8] (Optional)

sudo pacman -S flatpak
reboot
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --user flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

You can find apps on Flathub.

Uncomplicated Firewall

sudo pacman -S ufw
sudo ufw status
sudo systemctl enable --now ufw
sudo ufw status

SSH [8]

sudo pacman -S openssh
sudo systemctl enable --now sshd
sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
ip addr show

Get your ip of inet. On client machine:

ssh <user>@<ip>

Xfce [9]

sudo pacman -S xorg
sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies

i3 [10] (Optional)

sudo pacman -S i3

Hyprland (Cache)

Sway [11] (Cache)

Thunar

• Thunar → View → Show Hidden Files

• Thunar → View → Configure Toolbar

  New Tab
  Split View
  View Switcher
  

Nemo [12] (Optional)

sudo pacman -S nemo

LightDM [13][14]

sudo pacman -S lightdm lightdm-webkit2-greeter

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/TheTerrior/lightdm-minimal
cd lightdm-minimal
chmod +x ./risky_installer.sh
sudo ./risky_installer.sh
sudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter

sudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf

webkit_theme = minimal

sudo systemctl enable --now lightdm

xfce-tile (Optional)

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/dodophoenix/xfce-tile
cd xfce-tile
cp xfce-setup-shortcuts.sh xfce-setup-shortcuts.sh.bak
vim xfce-setup-shortcuts.sh
chmod +x ./xfce-setup-shortcuts.sh
./xfce-setup-shortcuts.sh

Console font [15][16] (Optional)

showconsolefont
ls /user/share/kbd/showconsolefont
sudo pacman -S terminus-font
setfont drdos8x14 -m 8859-2

Bluetooth [17][18]

sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils blueman
sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth
systemctl status bluetooth
sudo vim /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

AutoEnable=true

If return Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check ... [19]:

sudo modprobe bluetooth
sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
systemctl status bluetooth

Audio

pulseaudio

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio

pipewire

sudo pacman -R pulseaudio
yay -S pipewire-pulse
sudo systemctl enable --now pipewire

USB drive [20]

sudo pacman -S udisks2

sudo fdisk -l
udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda1
udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sda1
udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sda

auto-cpufreq [3]

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq.git
cd auto-cpufreq
sudo ./auto-cpufreq-installer
sudo auto-cpufreq --install
sudo systemctl status auto-cpufreq
sudo auto-cpufreq --stats

preload [3]

yay -S preload
sudo systemctl enable --now preload
sudo systemctl status preload

sudo systemctl stop preload && sudo systemctl disable preload
sudo reboot

Timeshift [3]

yay -S timeshift

sudo timeshift --list
sudo timeshift --restore --snapshot '20XX-XX-XX_XX-XX-XX' --skip-grub

restic (Cache)

Application Autostart

Settings → Session and Startup → Application Autostart → Add:

Name `<name>`
Command `<command>`

Configure Desktop

Materia

sudo pacman -S materia-gtk-theme

Settings → Appearance → Style → Materia-dark-compact.

Papirus

sudo pacman -S papirus-icon-theme

Settings → Appearance → Icons → Papirus-Dark.

SIF (Optional)

Configure Cursor

mkdir ~/.icons
cd ~/.icons

1. Get Bibata-Rainbow-*.tar.gz from Bibata Cursor Rainbow - Releases.

2. Get Chroma-*.tar.xz from Chroma Cursors for Linux.

tar -xvf Bibata-Rainbow-Modern.tar.gz
tar -xvf Bibata-Rainbow-Original.tar.gz
tar -xvf Chroma-Black-M.tar.xz
tar -xvf Chroma-Black-S.tar.xz

Settings → Mouse and Touchpad → Theme → <theme>

Configure applications menu

• Settings → Panel → Appearance

  • Style → Solid color

  • Color → black

• Settings → Panel → Items

  1. Separator → Edit

     • Style → Transparent

     • Expand (Off)

  2. Applications Menu → Edit

     • Show button title (Off)

     • Icon → Select icon from → Image Files → 100x100.png

  3. Separator → Expand (Off)

  4. Workspace Switcher → Edit

     • Appearance → Buttons

     • Workspace Settings → General → Names

       # Workspace Name
       1 1
       2 2
       3 3
       4 4
       

  5. Separator → Expand (On)

  6. Windows Buttons → Edit

     • Show button labels (Off)

     • Show handle (Off)

  7. Separator → Expand (On)

  8. Status Tray Plugin → Edit

     • Adjust size automatically (On)

     • Arrange items in a single row (On)

  9. Wavelan → Edit

     • Show signal bar (Off)

  10. Batter Monitor → Edit

      • Display icon (On)

      • Display bar (Off)

  11. Separator → Expand (Off)

  12. Clock → Edit

      • Timezone → Asia/Shanghai

      • Layout → Time Only

  13. Separator → Expand (Off)

Configure wallpaper

Thunar

mkdir -p ~/Pictures/wallpaper

1. Put wallpaper images into ~/Pictures/wallpaper.

2. Thunar → Choice image → Context menu → Set as wallpaper

nitrogen

sudo pacman -S nitrogen

nitrogen → Preferences → Add → ~/Pictures/wallpaper → OK → Apply.

Disable screen lock

• Settings → Xfce Screensaver

  • Screensaver → Enable Screensaver (Off)

  • Lock Screen → Enable Lock Screen (Off)

Fonts

sudo pacman -S adobe-source-han-serif-cn-fonts \
	noto-fonts-cjk \
	noto-fonts-emoji \
	noto-fonts-extra

Install Opts

picom

sudo pacman -S picom

dunst

sudo pacman -S dunst

Alacritty

sudo pacman -R xfce4-terminal
sudo pacman -S alacritty

Rime

sudo pacman -S fcitx5-im

sudo vim /etc/environment

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=fcitx
SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx

Brave

yay -S brave-bin

qutebrowser (Optional)

pacman -S qutebrowser

mpv

sudo pacman -S mpv
cp -r /usr/share/doc/mpv/ ~/.config/

ClamAV

sudo pacman -S clamav

clamd
clamscan <file>

If return ERROR: Can't create freshclam.dat in /usr/local/share/clamav [21]:

sudo chown -R <user> /usr/local/share/clamav

Clipboard

sudo pacman -R xfce4-clipman-plugin
sudo pacman -S copyq

qView (Optional)

yay -S qview

Flameshot (Optional)

Snipaste

yay -S snipaste

eSearch (Optional)

git clone --depth=1 https://aur.archlinux.org/e-search-bin.git

Download eSearch-*-linux-x64.deb from releases.

mv eSearch-*-linux-x64.deb e-search-*.deb
mv e-search-*.deb e-search-bin/
cd e-search-bin
makepkg
sudo pacman -U e-search-bin-*-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Umi-OCR

yay

yay -S umi-ocr-bin

From releases

Get Umi-OCR_Linux_Paddle_*.tar.xz from Umi-OCR - Releases.

tar -xf Umi-OCR_Linux_Paddle_*.tar.xz
mv Umi-OCR_Linux_Paddle_* Umi-OCR_Linux_Paddle
./umi-ocr.sh

Goldendict

pacman

sudo pacman -S goldendict-git

From releases

Download goldendict-1_1.5.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, qt5-webkit-5.212.0alpha4-22-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fabiololix-os-archive/files/Packages/

sudo pacman -U qt5-webkit-5.212.0alpha4-22-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U goldendict-1_1.5.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
yay -Ql goldendict

Rofi

sudo pacman -S rofi

rofi-shortcuts (Optional)

From source

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Zeioth/rofi-shortcuts
cd rofi-shortcuts
mkdir -p ~/.config/rofi/rofi-shortcuts/
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/rofi/rofi-shortcuts/
cp ./rofi-shortcuts.conf ~/.config/rofi/rofi-shortcuts/rofi-shortcuts.conf
cp ./rofi-shortcuts.sh ~/.local/share/rofi/rofi-shortcuts/rofi-shortcuts.sh
chmod u+x ~/.local/share/rofi/rofi-shortcuts/rofi-shortcuts.sh
ln -sf ~/.local/share/rofi/rofi-shortcuts/rofi-shortcuts.sh ~/.local/bin/rofi-shortcuts

rofi-shortcuts

rofi-calc (Optional)

sudo pacman -S rofi-calc
rofi -show calc -modi calc -no-show-match -no-sort

Rofimoji

sudo pacman -S rofimoji

rofi-copyq

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/cjbassi/rofi-copyq
cd rofi-copyq
./rofi-copyq

AHK_X11 (Cache)

yay -S ahk_x11-bin

keymapper (Later)

yay -S keymapper
sudo systemctl enable --now keymapperd

Input Leap (Optional)

yay -S input-leap-git
input-leap

On Client PC, install Barrier.

WeChat

flatpak install flathub com.tencent.WeChat

Photoshop CC (Cache)

• Photoshop CC v19 installer for Linux

• error: sorry something went wrong during download photoshopCC-V19.1.6-2018x64.tgz

• Dropbox link to download photoshopCC-V19.1.6-2018x64.tgz is broken

Reference

• Desktop entries

• My workstation configs

• vim_styled

• dotfiles-x220

Cross-reference

• archwsl.md

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[1]

alarm login?

[2]

Network configuration/Wireless

[3] (1,2,3,4)

10 Things You MUST DO After Installing Arch Linux (2023)

[4]

USTC Mirror Help - Arch Linux

[5]

Localization/Simplified Chinese

[6]

hosts

[7]

[Bug]: “SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK” during extra-data download, only on Ubuntu-based distros

[8] (1,2)

Discover Flatpak update error message: Aborted due to failure (Flatpak system operation Deploy not allowed for user)

[9]

enable SSH on Arch Linux

[10]

Install XFCE Desktop on Arch Linux

[11]

How to Use i3 with XFCE

[12]

Sway on Arch Linux: 2023 Edition (From Scratch)

[13]

Set dark theme on dolphin in cinnamon

[14]

Arch linux install lightdm (Light Display Manager)

[15]

A minimal LightDM WebKit2 theme

[16]

How to Change Linux Console Fonts on Arch Linux

[17]

Linux console - Fonts

[18]

Bluetooth headset connection occasionally fails: br-connection-page-timeout

[19]

How to Set up Bluetooth in Arch Linux

[20]

Bluetooth not working on computer

[21]

Using USB drives on Arch

[22]

Can’t create freshclam.dat in /usr/local/share/clamav