Archlinux config

27 Dec 2014

All steps i reproduced to set my Archlinux config. You can find all the config files and system configuration files for my Archlinux to set up a nice environment for development and daily use.

Config files
Zsh
Xfce4 Config
nVidia Optimus Bumblebee
linux-ck Brain Fuck Scheduler (BFS)
Packages for programming
Sublime Text 3 config
Power managment
Firewall Configuration
Better Fonts with Infinality fonts
Source of all files

Config files

Bumblebee config to avoid errors
lightdm config with better integration with xfce4
pulseaudio config for better audio (?)
conkyrc config
guake config with color shceme from guake colors elementary-os
zsh config files
Sublime Text 3 config
and others config's files

Screenshots

Archlinux desktop

Guake colors

Zsh

pacman -S zsh zsh-completions
wget --no-check-certificate http://install.ohmyz.sh -O - | sh
sudo wget --no-check-certificate http://install.ohmyz.sh -O - | sh
chsh -s /bin/zsh
sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh

Xfce4 Config

1. xfce4 extras

#xfce4 devel
yaourt -S libxfce4ui-devel xfwm4-devel xfdesktop-devel xfce4-settings-devel xfce4-session-devel

pacman -S lxtask ffmpegthumbnailer poppler-glib gvfs gvfs-smb sshfs xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk guake pavucontrol pulseaudio-alsa lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libpulse
yaourt -S xfce4-volumed-pulse xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin menulibre
xdg-user-dirs-update
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update

2. xfce4 eyecandy

yaourt -S xfce-theme-greybird xcursor-human elementary-xfce-icons-git

2.1 Cursor theme

nano /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Human

3. xfce4 Lightdm integration

pacman -S lightdm-gtk2-greeter light-locker

nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

3.1 Wallpaper lightdm

cp path/to/wallpaper.png /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png

3.2 lightdm-gtk-greeter

nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

[greeter]
background= /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png
theme-name=Greybird
icon-theme-name=elementary-xfce

4. xfce4 Lightdm lightlock

4.1 Create systemd service

nano /etc/systemd/system/lock.service

[Unit]
Description=Lock X session
Before=suspend.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xflock4

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

4.2 Enable systemd service

systemctl enable lock

4.3 Add light-locker to xflock4 script

nano /usr/bin/xflock4

#!/bin/sh
light-locker-command -l

Source Xlock config

nVidia Optimus Bumblebee

pacman -S bumblebee bbswitch primus lib32-primus lib32-virtualgl nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils
gpasswd -a diego bumblebee
systemctl enable bumblebeed

nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

MODULES="i915 bbswitch"

nano /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1"

lspci | grep VGA | grep NVIDIA

nano /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

BusID "PCI:01:00:0"

Source Bumblebee config

linux-ck Brain Fuck Scheduler

pacman-key -r 5EE46C4C
pacman-key --lsign-key 5EE46C4C
pacman -S linux-ck-ivybridge linux-ck-ivybridge-headers nvidia-ck-ivybridge
yaourt -S bbswitch-ck acpi_call-ck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Packages for programming

pacman -S mariadb mongodb ruby openssh nodejs apache php php-apache php-mcrypt php-gd php-composer gdb virtualbox jdk7-openjdk jre7-openjdk jre7-openjdk-headlessc clang qtcreator virtualbox-host-dkms

pacman -S postgresql php-pgsql pgadmin3

pacman -S xampp
sudo ln -s ~/public_html /opt/lampp/htdocs/$USER

yaourt -S sublime-text-dev virtualbox-ext-oracle

npm install -g bower gulp grunt-cli yo sails generator-gulp-angular  generator-angular

#games
pacman -S tiled tinyxml sdl sdl_image sdl_gfx sfml

#Networking
pacman -S whois nmap wireshark-cli wireshark-gtk john aircrack-ng

Sublime Text 3 config

1. Install Package Control

Open Sublime Text 3 and hit ctrl+´ shortcut or the View > Show Console menu, then enter the following:

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = '7183a2d3e96f11eeadd761d777e62404' + 'e330c659d4bb41d3bdf022e94cab3cd0'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

2.Install and load packages (`ctrl-Shift-P`)

3. Load user settings from Sublime Text 3 config

PostgreSQL config

sed -i '/pgsql.so/s/^;//' /etc/php/php.ini
su - postgres -c "initdb --locale es_CL.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"
chown -R postgres:postgres /var/lib/postgres
systemctl start postgresql

Mariadb config

systemctl start mysqld && /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Power managment

pacman -S  tlp lm_sensors smartmontools lsb-release ethtool iw
systemctl enable tlp
sensors-detect

Network Manager

pacman -S networkmanager networkmanager-openconnect network-manager-applet dnsmasq
systemctl enable NetworkManager

Bluetooth

yaourt -S blueman-git
systemctl enable bluetooth

Firewall Configuration

pacman -S iptables
systemctl enable iptables && systemctl start iptables

Set rules

#block all conections
iptables -P INPUT DROP
#allow all conections for localhost
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
#allow all conections established by localhost
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Save rules

iptables-save > /etc/iptables/iptables.rules
systemctl reload iptables

Other stuff

pacman -S conky clementine gpicview wine winetricks wine_gecko xdelta3 pkgstats firefox-adblock-plus  firefox-i18n-es-cl transmission-gtk filezilla xchat  wget mpv libva libva-intel-driver thunderbird-i18n-es-ar  gtk-recordmydesktop skype galculator bleachbit preload ntfs-3g archey3 chromium flashplugin
#fix errors logs wine
pacman -S lib32-ncurses lib32-mpg123
yaourt -S profile-sync-daemon anything-sync-daemon chromium-pepper-flash
#gaming
pacman -S steam desmume

#Multimedia extras
pacman -S  gimp gimp-plugin-gmic inkscape blender mkvtoolnix-gtk soundconverter
yaourt -S jdownloader2 teamspeak3 animecheck-git radiotray
#Ofimatic
pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-es hunspell-es hyphen-es libmythes mythes-es

#LaTeX
pacman -S texlive-core texlive-bibtexextra texlive-htmlxml texlive-humanities texlive-latexextra texlive-pictures texlive-publishers  texlive-science

Compressed Files

pacman -S file-roller
pacman -S unrar zip unzip xz tar gzip bzip2 rpmextract

Better Fonts with Infinality fonts

nano /etc/pacman.con

[infinality-bundle]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch

[infinality-bundle-multilib]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/$arch

[infinality-bundle-fonts]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/fonts

pacman -S infinality-bundle infinality-bundle-multilib

pacman -S ibfonts-meta-base ibfonts-meta-extended-lt adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts adobe-source-serif-pro-fonts ttf-meslo-fonts-ibx otf-source-code-pro-pwl-ibx 

#Oriental fonts
pacman -S adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts ttf-roboto-ibx

Source of all files

The config files can be found in my repo in github

Archblog

Archlinux config

Table of Contents

Config files

Screenshots

Archlinux desktop

Guake colors

Zsh

Xfce4 Config

1. xfce4 extras

2. xfce4 eyecandy

2.1 Cursor theme

3. xfce4 Lightdm integration

3.1 Wallpaper lightdm

3.2 lightdm-gtk-greeter

4. xfce4 Lightdm lightlock

4.1 Create systemd service

4.2 Enable systemd service

4.3 Add light-locker to xflock4 script

nVidia Optimus Bumblebee

linux-ck Brain Fuck Scheduler

Packages for programming

Sublime Text 3 config

1. Install Package Control

2.Install and load packages (`ctrl-Shift-P`)

3. Load user settings from Sublime Text 3 config

PostgreSQL config

Mariadb config

Power managment

Network Manager

Bluetooth

Firewall Configuration

Other stuff

Compressed Files

Better Fonts with Infinality fonts

Source of all files

Archblog

Archlinux config

Table of Contents

Config files

Screenshots

Archlinux desktop

Guake colors

Zsh

Xfce4 Config

1. xfce4 extras

2. xfce4 eyecandy

2.1 Cursor theme

3. xfce4 Lightdm integration

3.1 Wallpaper lightdm

3.2 lightdm-gtk-greeter

4. xfce4 Lightdm lightlock

4.1 Create systemd service

4.2 Enable systemd service

4.3 Add light-locker to xflock4 script

nVidia Optimus Bumblebee

linux-ck Brain Fuck Scheduler

Packages for programming

Sublime Text 3 config

1. Install Package Control

2.Install and load packages (ctrl-Shift-P)

3. Load user settings from Sublime Text 3 config

PostgreSQL config

Mariadb config

Power managment

Network Manager

Bluetooth

Firewall Configuration

Other stuff

Compressed Files

Better Fonts with Infinality fonts

Source of all files

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