Arch PostInstall

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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  pacserve

Network 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-droid

Themes

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.