Dotfiles

acro5piano's personal dotfiles. It aims to automate setup my development PC idempotently.

Core technologies:

• Arch Linux
• i3
• yay
• Ansible

Setup process

Install Arch Linux with Windows 10 or 11 multi boot

• On windows,
  • Reduce Windows partition to minimum 80GB
  • Create a blank partition for Linux
• Create arch linux install usb.
  • download latest iso image
  • cp /path/to/iso /dev/sdX
• Boot to usb

File system (UEFI)

select disk to write arch linux

cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1

• Create a partition for main
  • create a new partition and set maximum size for it
• Create a partition for swap (for hibernation)
  • create a new partition and set 20G size for it
  • Add swap flag (8200)
• write out

# UEFI
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
swapon /dev/nvme0n1p3
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/efi

Install base system

# Connect to a Network
iwctl

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware iwd python git neovim os-prober grub
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

# Enter new arch
arch-chroot /mnt

# Configure iwd
cat <<'EOF'| sudo tee /etc/iwd/main.conf
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true

[Network]
NameResolvingService=systemd
EOF

# Connect to a Network
iwctl

# Grub
nvim /etc/default/grub # Enable this line: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
os-prober
grub-install
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit
reboot

Notes:

• Python is required because we use Ansible later.
• If you have any problems on resolving name, edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and fix dns to 8.8.8.8.
• Grub is easier than systemd-boot

Add user

Run the following commands as root:

# add user
useradd --create-home kazuya
passwd kazuya
gpasswd -a kazuya wheel

visudo /etc/sudoers.d/admin

# Recommended config:
#   %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
#   %wheel ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl restart iwd
#   %wheel ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl restart bluetooth
#   %wheel ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl systemctl restart keyd
#   %wheel ALL=NOPASSWD: /home/kazuya/bin/connect-client-vpn

exit

and login as kazuya:

localhost login> kazuya
password:

Install dotfiles

then install dotfiles:

cd ~
git clone git@github.com:/acro5piano/dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
cd $HOME/.dotfiles
python -m ensurepip
export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin/
pip install ansible
ansible-galaxy collection install community.general kewlfft.aur
ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass ansible/main.yml

Copy large & secure files

mkdir $HOME/var
scp -r 192.168.xxx.yyy:/home/kazuya/var/music $HOME/var/music
scp -r 192.168.xxx.yyy:/home/kazuya/.aws $HOME/.aws
scp -r 192.168.xxx.yyy:/home/kazuya/.ssh $HOME/.ssh

Maintain

# Sync dotfiles only
ansible-playbook ansible/main.yml --tags dotfiles

# Install pacman dep only
ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass ansible/main.yml --tags pacman

OSX

ansible-playbook ansible/main.yml --tags dotfiles,misc,npm,pip,gem --extra-vars "os=mac"

Linux only (No need Windows)

For Linux only environment, do this on cfdisk phase:

• Delete whole partition
• Create a partition for boot
  • create a new partition and set 512M for the partition size
  • Add UEFI boot flag (ef00)

And use this commands for the initial setup, replacing grub thing:

# systemd-boot
mkdir /boot
mount /dev/sda1 /boot
bootctl install

Windows + WSL2 Arch

For Windows, use them:

• Wezterm (To support select-to-copy on Surface touch screen)
• WSL2 Arch
• PowerToys (To customize key bindings on Browsers)

For Arch installation, see the awesome https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL

Tweaks of installation process

Before git clone:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin/
sudo pacman -Syu git openssh

Replace the Ansile command with:

ansible-playbook wsl/ansible/main.yml
ansible-playbook ansible/main.yml --tags pip,npm,misc
chsh -s /usr/bin/fish

About my keyboard

I use two BLE gridpads as a split keyboard by the power of keyd. keyd has two pitfills:

• 1. KC_BTN1 is not available
• 2. not works outside Linux.

These problems will be fixed by using two ble micro pro controllers as master/slave mode, but it should be difficult at this time. I'll try to implement it in the near future.

Update BLE Micro Pro config

Right hand

sudo umount /mnt ; sudo mount -o gid=1000,uid=1000 /dev/sd? /mnt
cp -v ./qmk/keyfuda-04-right-hand/*.JSN /mnt/
sudo umount /mnt ; sudo mount -o gid=1000,uid=1000 /dev/sd? /mnt

Left hand

sudo umount /mnt ; sudo mount -o gid=1000,uid=1000 /dev/sd? /mnt
cp -v ./qmk/keyfuda-04-left-hand/*.JSN /mnt/
sudo umount /mnt ; sudo mount -o gid=1000,uid=1000 /dev/sd? /mnt