Arch Linux i3 setup on a System76 Oryx Pro 7

Features

• Full disk encryption
• System76 packages installed
• i3 and Sway setups
• Startup Arch Linux logo and styled FDE password prompt
• SDDM greeter
• Notifications
• Built-In screen turns off when lid is closed

Wayland: Known bugs

• Screensharing only works with the integrated graphics card
• Screenshots only work with the integrated graphics card

Preview

SDDM greeter

Xorg with i3

Wayland with sway

Bindings

VIM Bindings

Moving

Words

• b: Move to the start of the previous word
• w: Move to the start of the next word
• e: Move to the end of the word

Lines

• 0: Move to the start of the line
• ^: Move to the first non-blank character of the line
• $: Move to the end of the line
• :<LINE_NUMBER>: Move to a specific line
• G: Move to the end of the file
• gg: Move to the begginning of the file

Inserting Text

• a: Insert after the cursor
• A: Insert at the end of the line
• o: Insert below the current line
• O: Insert above the current line

Editing Text

• r: Replace a single character and return to command mode
• cc: Replace (its in the clipboard) entire line and go into insert mode
• c: Replace from the cursor to whereever specified after
• J / gJ: Merge with the line below with or without a space
• u: Undo
• CTRL + r: Redo
• w !sudo tee %: Write file using sudo and tee

Copy and Paste

• yy: Copy line
• dd: Cut line
• p: Paste after the cursor
• P: Paste before the cursor

Selecting

• v: Select by character
• V: Select by line
• CTRL + v: Select by block mode
• y: Copy selected
• d: Cut selected
• u: Change to lowercase
• U: Change to uppercase

Searching

• (/|?)pattern: Forward or backward pattern search
• n: Repeat search in same direction
• N: Repeat search in oppsosite direction

IntelliJ

• CTRL + ALT + R: Rename
• CTRL + ALT + T: Sorround with
• CTRL + ALT + V: Extract local variable
• CTRL + ALT + F: Extract to field
• CTRL + ALT + N: Inline
• CTRL + ALT + M: Extract method

Installation

System setup

Create a bootable ArchLinux USB drive

sudo umount /dev/sdx
sudo dd bs=4M if=arch_linux.ISO of=/dev/sdb status=progress

Insert drive and reboot into the drive.

Installation convinience

# Available keyboard layouts
ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz
loadkeys de-latin1

# Adjust TTY font size
ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts | grep -P "[2-9]\d+\.ps"
# Use the biggest font you can find
setfont latarcyrheb-sun32

Verify boot mode

If it shows an output it uses UEFI, if not it uses BIOS

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

This tutorial only supports UEFI.

Setting up an internet connection

# Verify your connection
ping www.google.com

# If not try this
## Ethernet
### Find adapters
ip link
### Configure adapter
ip link set NIC up
dhclient NIC

## Wireless
ip link
ip link set wlan0 up
### Chose on variant
#### No encryption
iw dev wlan0 connect “your_essid”
#### WEP
iw dev wlan0 connect “your_essid” key 0:your_key
#### WPA/WPA2
wpa_passphrase my_essid my_passphrase > /etc/wpa_supplicant/my_essid.conf
wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/my_essid.conf -i wlan0
wpa_supplicant -B -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/my_essid.conf -i wlan0
dhclient wlan0

# Verify your connection
ping www.google.com

Update system clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

Prepare for LUKS encryption

modprobe dm-crypt
modprobe dm-mod

Prepare disks

# Find your disk for me its nvme1n1
lsblk

# You may have to remove partitions before
# Follow the instructions d, enter, select partition, repeat
fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

# Choose gpt
cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1
# Create 3 partitions
## Goto new, enter size and select type, 'Free Space'
## First: Size: 256MB, Type: 'EFI'
## Second: Size: 512MB, Type: 'ext4'
## Third: Size: Rest, Type: 'ext4'
## Goto write and press enter

Encrypt root partition

# Confirm with uppercase YES and type desired password
cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p3

# Open it, it will prompt for your password
# The partition will be available under /dev/mapper/luks_root
cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p3 luks_root

Format and mount file system

# Format all partitions
mkfs.vfat -n “EFI” /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 -L boot /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/luks_root

# Mount them
mount /dev/mapper/luks_root /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi

# Create a swap
cd /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1M count=65536
mkswap swap
swapon swap
chmod 0600 swap

Update Pacman mirrors

Find the mirror closes to you and copy it to the top of the list

vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorslist

Installing ArchLinux

# Pacstrap
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel efibootmgr grub linux linux-firmare networkmanager sudo vi gvim bash-completion nano
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

# Change root to new system
arch-chroot /mnt

pacman -S git
git clone https://github.com/Geigerkind/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
bash ./scripts/install_arch.sh nvme0n1p2 nvme0n1p3

exit
reboot

Configuration

sudo dhcpcd
git clone https://github.com/Geigerkind/dotfiles
bash ./scripts/config.sh nvme0n1p3

# Enable dGPU
reboot
prime-offload
optimus-manager --switch nvidia
sudo system76-power graphics nvidia

reboot

Ricing

bash ./scripts/rice.sh

nvim +PackerInstall

# reboot for everything to take effect