Arch Linux bspwm сonfiguration

Description

This is my personal Arch Linux BSPWM configuration.

Please ensure that the packages I use suit your needs before installation.

OS	Arch Linux
AUR Helper	Paru
Shell	Zsh
Window Manager	bspwm
Bar	Polybar
Compositor	Picom
Menu	Rofi
Terminal	Alacritty
File Manager	Yazi/Thunar
Browser	Chromium
Text Editor	Neovim

Installation

AUR Helper

The initial installation of Paru.

$ sudo pacman -Syu --needed neovim reflector git base-devel
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-git.git
$ cd paru && makepkg -si
$ cd ~ && rm -rf paru

Makepkg

To speed up the compilation of packages, edit the makepkg.conf file (use nproc for see amount of CPU cores):

$ sudo nvim /etc/makepkg.conf

MAKEFLAGS="-j8"

Pacman

Enable parallel downloading of packages by editing the pacman.conf file:

$ sudo nvim /etc/pacman.conf

ParallelDownloads = 8
Color

Clone repository

Clone the repository and update submodules:

$ git clone --depth=1 --recurse-submodules https://github.com/masajinobe-ef/archlinux-bspwm
$ cd archlinux-bspwm && git submodule update --remote --merge

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Installing packages

Assuming your AUR Helper is Paru, run:

$ paru -S --needed --noconfirm xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-xrandr xorg-xsetroot xorg-xset bspwm sxhkd polybar python-pywal rofi chromium alacritty zsh dunst libnotify picom feh vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader mesa mesa-utils mesa-vdpau libva-mesa-driver lib32-mesa networkmanager nm-connection-editor sof-firmware bluez bluez-utils acpid cronie udisks2 xdg-user-dirs yazi perl-image-exiftool ueberzugpp imagemagick xreader thunar tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer polkit-gnome lxappearance-gtk3 neovim mpv mpd mpdris2 ncmpcpp mpc tmux ghq git lazygit stow yt-dlp ffmpeg fastfetch btop eza fzf fd ripgrep bat bat-extras rsync curl wget maim xdotool xclip zoxide aria2 hyperfine xsel reflector jq man-db poppler ccache go rust nodejs npm yarn p7zip unrar zip unzip ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-cjk ttf-cascadia-code-nerd papirus-icon-theme

Copy configuration files

Copy the configuration files to the appropriate directories:

$ sudo chmod +x sym
$ ./sym

Daemons

Enable and start necessary services:

$ sudo systemctl enable acpid.service --now
$ sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager.service --now
$ sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service --now
$ sudo systemctl enable sshd.service --now
$ sudo systemctl enable cronie.service --now

$ systemctl --user enable mpd.service --now

$ sudo systemctl enable reflector.timer
$ sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer

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Setting-up

Add languages to your system:

$ sudo nvim /etc/locale.gen

ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8

$ sudo locale-gen

Set the keyboard layout in X11:

$ sudo localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap us,ru pc105+inet qwerty grp:caps_toggle

Configure the mouse settings:

$ sudo nvim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-pointer.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "pointer"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "false"
    Option "AccelProfile" "flat"
    Option "TransformationMatrix" "1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2"
EndSection

Configure reflector (pacman mirrors):

$ sudo nvim /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf

--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
--protocol https
--country France,Germany,Finland,Russia,Netherlands
--latest 10
--sort rate
--age 12

Install Oh My Zsh:

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Consider installing the following plugins for Zsh:

• powerlevel10k
• zsh-autopair
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-history-substring-search
• zsh-syntax-highlighting

Install nvm:

$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.1/install.sh | bash

License

This project is licensed under MIT. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed license information.