hauke96 / arch-i3-setup

This is my desktop system setup I use every day. The key components are:

• i3-gaps
• polybar
• rofi
• konsole
• BreezeDark style with different colors

Notice

1. This contains configs and files I like to use.
2. Some of the configs (e.g. the /etc/fstab or drivers) only fit to my system. You probably want to change these.

1. Prerequisites

1. Well ... simply install Arch duh.
2. Make sure /tmp has at least 5GB space → mount -o remount,size=5G /tmp/

2. Installation

This installs everything:

1. Log in as root
2. Install git
3. git clone https://github.com/hauke96/arch-i3-setup.git
4. cd arch-i3-setup
5. Optional: Replace "hauke" and locale in the install-util.sh
6. Start main installation: ./install.sh
7. Follow instructions
8. Recommended: Reboot
9. Log into your users account
10. startx

3. Afterwards

Some more things are needed to have a fully working system with all necessary data, profiles, etc.

• Adjust nautilus
• Test audio
• Check printer IP in /etc/cups/printers.conf
• Setup SSH-Key
• Setup GPG-Keys
• Setup keepass database
• Add mail accounts in KMail
• Add firefox profile
• Activate software that needs license key etc.
• ...

Scripts

This repo contains some scripts:

Script name	Description
generate-package-lists.sh	Generates lists of all currently installed packages.
find-changed-configs.sh	Determines all config files that differ from the ones in ./configs/. Use --name-only to just print the file names.
packages-diff.sh	Show a diff view of all installed packages and all packages registered in this repo under ./packages/.
install.sh	Used to start the whole installation process
install-system.sh	Used internally to set up the system with pacman, AUR, locale, etc.
install-desktop.sh	Used internally to install all the desktop enviroment things (i3, fonts, browser, IDEs, ...)
install-configs.sh	Used to (re)install all the config files. They are not copied but symlinks are used.
install-util.sh	Not a standalone script. Contains important functions and variables.

Only use the first three scripts, all others (install-...) are internal scripts.

Development

The install-... scripts structure the tasks of the installation process: Installing the system, grub and the desktop + user applications.

In the ./packages/ folder, you'll find different .txt files with all packages that should be installed in the last step (which is install-desktop.sh).

Add a package

Just add a new line in an existing file.

Add package file

Adding a new package file requires two steps:

1. Add the file with its package names in it.
2. Add an entry in the `install-desktop.sh' file similar to the existing ones.