WWCTWArch (forked by trq)

General

This script is for my specific fully configured Arch Installation with a heavily patched DWM, DWM-Blocks and all the apps I need. During the installation there are several options you can choose to customize the installation to your needs. The color scheme is Onedark. To Install just boot from the latest Arch ISO http:https://archlinux.org and execute the first command below. The other scripts will execute automatically.

Install Modes that are supported

Mode	UEFI	BIOS
Linux only	X	X
Dual-Boot	X
SDA Controller	X	X
Nvme Contoller	X

The patches applied to the Suckless programms can be found in the depending repositories below.

A big shout out to the wonderful people who are doing such great work to explain linux stuff to the masses.

Derek Taylor (Distrotube) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVls1GmFKf6WlTraIb_IaJg

Luke Smith https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA

The Linux Cast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCylGUf9BvQooEFjgdNudoQg

Repositories that are used for the installation

Suckless DWM https://github.com/BennyOe/dwm
DWM Blocks https://github.com/BennyOe/dwmblocks
Suckless Simple Terminal https://github.com/papitz/SimpleTerminal
Dotfiles https://github.com/BennyOe/.dotfiles
NVim https://github.com/papitz/nvim
Wallpaper https://github.com/BennyOe/wallpaper

Installation

Dual Boot Installation (Optional)

Install Windows
Resize Windows partition for the Linux install
Install Arch with this script
DO NOT CREATE ADDITIONAL PARTITIONS BEFORE INSTALLING ARCH!!!

adding Windows to grub manually if needed

get the UUID from the EFI partition with lsblk -o +UUID

edit the /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add the following code

menuentry "Windows 10" --class windows --class os {
insmod ntfs
search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid YOUR_UUID_HERE
chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}

install update-grub yay -S update-grub
run sudo update-grub

WLAN

if running a device with WLAN run these commands to connect to the internet

iwctl device list
iwctl station <DEVICE> scan
iwctl station <DEVICE> get-networks
iwctl station <DEVICE> connect <SSID>

Run the base install script

to fetch and execute the script run the command:

curl -sL https://git.io/JOWEH | bash

Install XOrg, DWM & Applications

This script gets called automatically after the base install script. If you wish to execute manually, please run

curl -sL https://git.io/JOBJn | bash

Post installation

Enable the sudo command promt for a password run the commands

su
visudo
uncomment the line %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
comment the line %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Intellij and java applications

to get java swing or java fx applications working in dwm add this line to your /etc/profile

 export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

Autologin in lightdm

uncomment the following line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and add your user

[Seat:*]
autologin-user=<USERNAME>

execute the following commands

groupadd -r autologin
gpasswd -a <USENAME> autologin

to avoid race conditions uncomment the following line

  #logind-check-graphical=false

autorandr

Set the desired screen layout with arandr or xrandr
Save the config with autorandr -s <PROFILENAME>

pulse audio

disable switching to idle mode if audio is not used comment out the following line in /etc/pulse/default.pa and restart

# load-module module-suspend-on-idle

spotifyd

to set the password in your keyring execute the following command

secret-tool store --label='name you choose' application rust-keyring service spotifyd username <your-username>

it should look something like this

to setup the spotifyd daemon create ~/.config/spotifyd/spotifyd.conf and add this config config file or take the one from the ~/.dotfiles folder

Sync the systemclock

systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service

Auto mount network drives

create a file where you store your username and password

username=<USERNAME>
password=<PASSWORD>

in /etc/fstab create entry

# Local drive
 UUID=<UUID>                          /home/<USER>/<MOUNTPOINT>         ntfs-3g         umask=000,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=1000,gid=1000,windows_names       0 0

# Network mount
//192.168.1**.**/<SHARE>              /home/<USER>/<MOUNTPOINT>         cifs            uid=1000,credentials=/home/<CREDENTIAL FILE>,iocharset=utf8,x-systemd.automount    0 0

mount with Label

LABEL=<DEVICENAME>  <MOUNTPOINT>    <FSTYPE>    umask=000,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=1000,gid=1000,windows_names       0 0

Power button

set the following line in /etc/systemd/logind.conf

HandlePowerKey=suspend

Keyring authentication at login

add the following two lines at /etc/pam.d/login

auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

Login keyring needs to be the default keyring. Can be set via seahorse.

setting standard applications with thunar

open settings manager
set default apps
set terminal emulator to /usr/local/bin/st
on "others" filter "plain"
for text/plain choose application
use a custom command
st -e nvim

setting up docker

systemctl enable docker
systemctl start docker
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Neo-Vim

run :PackerSyncto intall all Vim plugins etc

Surface

On Surface devices run the following commands to install the Surface kernel

sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/EFI

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/master/pkg/keys/surface.asc | sudo pacman-key --add -

sudo pacman-key --finger 56C464BAAC421453
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 56C464BAAC421453

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BennyOe/arch_install/main/surfacePacman.conf -o /etc/pacman.conf

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S linux-surface linux-surface-headers iptsd
sudo systemctl enable iptsd

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Set the resolution and scale of the device in the ```~/.dwm/autostart.sh```

In ~/.dotfiles change the branch to surface and run ./setsymlinks.sh then reboot the surface.

Known Problem Fixes

when booting takes over 1 minute

edit /etc/fstab and comment out the swap partition line

bluetooth not starting

check if the Bluetooth service is running

systemctl status bluetooth.service

if not enable it

systemctl enable --now bluetooth.service

Key Bindings

Basic controls

Key	Action
mod + space	Rofi App launcher
mod + return	terminal
mod + b	togglebar
mod + j	focus stack down
mod + k	focus stack up
mod + up	increase master count
mod + down	decrease master count
mod + l	increase master size
mod + h	decrease master size
mod + shift + j	move window stack up
mod + shift +k	move window stack down
mod + shift + return	toggle master window
mod + tab	cycle through tags
mod + q	kill window

Layout manipulation

Key	Action
mod + ctrl + comma	cyclelayout -
mod + ctrl + period	cyclelayout +

Switch to specific layouts

Key	Action
mod + m	set master layout
mod + f	fullscreen
mod + space	toggle last layout
mod + shift +space	togglefloating
mod + 0	view all tags
mod + shift + 0	move window to all tags

switching between monitors

Key	Action
mod + comma	focus prev monitor
mod + period	focus next monitor
mod + ctrl + left	tag to prev monitor
mod + ctrl + right	tag to next monitor

Gaps

Key	Action
mod + y	increase gaps
mod + shift + y	decreaase gaps
mod + ctrl y	toggle gaps
mod + alt + y	default gaps

Scratchpads

Key	Action
mod + p	togglescratch
mod + minus	scratchpad show
mod + shift + minus	scratchpad hide
mod + =	scratchpad remove

Keyboard Layout

Key	Action
mod + ctrl + e	switch to US layout
mod + ctrl + d	switch to german layout

Apps

Key	Action
mod + c	brave browser
mod + x	ranger
mod + e	thunar
mod + ctrl + l	multilockscreen
mod + shift + c	discord signal whatsapp
mod + shift + t	kill picom
mod + ctrl + t	start picom
mod + ctrl + m	pavucontrol
mod + shift + m	mailspring
mod + shift + s	flameshot
mod + ctrl + e	english keyboard
mod + ctrl + d	german keyboard

Installed Applications

Base install

iw wpa_supplicant dialog wpa_actiond sudo grub efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools base linux linux-firmware
base-devel vim networkmanager git man bash

GUI install

$graphicsdriver xorg xorg-xinit picom nitrogen rofi dunst yay nerd-fonts-jetbrains-mono pacman-contrib
archlinux-contrib sysstat ttf-font-awesome dmenu network-manager-applet gnu-free-fonts zsh papirus-icon-theme
gtk4 arc-gtk-theme lxappearance timeshift grub-customizer polkit polkit-gnome feh bluez bluez-utils blueman
viewnior xcape multilockscreen libxft-bgra lsd pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pavucontrol pa-applet-git ponymix
ranger redshift thunar numlockx zathura htop-vim-git neofetch nodejs npm python-pynvim xarchiver unzip ueberzug
lightdm lightdm-mini-greeter zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git neovim zsh oh-my-zsh zsh-autosuggestions
zsh-syntax-highlighting vim-plug gotop gotop cifs-utils ntfs-3g xclip zathura-pdf-mupdf udisks thunar-volman
pulseaudio-bluetooth lazygit pamixer gvfs xfce4-settings zip-3.0-9 bat ripgrep fd networkmanager-openconnect xdotool seahorse

Optional

signal-desktop discord brave-bin flameshot autorandr mailspring whatsapp-for-linux xidlehook
intellij-idea-ultimate-edition intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre jre-openjdk vlc spotify-tui playerctl spotifyd docker docker-compose

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