Arch PostInstall
Networking
Do not panic, whereas your wireless interface used to be wlan0, the name has changed. I have been having a lot of problems with 'carrier lost' issues since I updated beyond Kernel 3.9.7. After switching from 3.11 back to 3.9.7 and continuing to have the same issues, I was able to solve them by issuing:
Core Tools (manual)
sudo pkill wpa_supplicant ## (I had two instances of it running) sudo rfkill unblock wifi sudo dhcpcd wlp2s0 iwconfig # find interface name ls /sys/class/net # alt-method of getting interface ip link set wlp2s0 up wpa_passphrase "Holocron" "password" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlp2s0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf sleep 10s dhcpcd wlp2s0 ## Install Cower (AUR) curl -O# https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/cower.tar.gz tar -xvf cower* cd cower* makepkg -s sudo pacman -U *.xz ## Install pacserve (local cache) cower -d pacserve sudo systemctl enable pacserve sudo systemctl start pacserveNetwork Configuration
See networkmanager or netctl.
Tethering from iphone
See tether iphone.
Users/Permissions
Sudo
See sudo.
Users and Groups
useradd -m username psswd username login username # (you want to avoid doing as much in root as possible)
Terminal
Set your default shell, and then setup your tmux and your tty.
tmux tty
AUR
See AUR Setup.
Audio
You can use any of the standard linux sound systems. Pulseaudio is the defacto standard.
alsa. pulseaudio
Display
Xorg/Video Drivers
Xorg mesa ati nvidia intel Login Manager
LXDM SLIM Window Managers
Generally, my setup is a combination of openbox( gui writing, games ), and i3( everything else ).
i3 openbox xmonad XFCE Notifications
dunst statnot inotify conky Utilities
redshift xbacklight Fonts
On a fresh install you'll notice that there are some strange misbehaving fonts. This is because your various programs are searching for a particular font. I haven't installed many fonts, but one that I have come to very much enjoy is the tft-droid font
pacman -S ttf-droidThemes
See Linux Themes.
Keybinding
There are many ways to bind keys in linux, and if I was to always stay within xmonad my life would be made simpler by simply binding keys through there. However I do occasionally use xfce, and I'd like to keep my keys relatively WM agnostic. The following programs make this possible.
xev xmodmap xbindkeys xdotool xte ironahk
Cron
See cron.
Time
See ntp.
Peripherals
Printers cups HP printers (hplip) Other synaptics wacom
File Associations
See mimetypes.