dotfiles/provision/arch/additional-setup.md

Additional Setup

The following documents some Arch setup that wasn't automated with ansible.

Wireguard Client [x]

Wireguard is nice for a home vpn and pivpn makes it easy. Currently my scripts for controlling (and visualizing the state of the vpn) assume the connection name for the vpn is the same as the hostname of the system. This may need to be modified in the future if I end up needing multiple vpn connections.

1. Create client on server and copy resulting .conf file to local machine
2. Import to networkmanager with:

nmcli connection import type wireguard file <conf file from pivpn>

3. Use nm-connection-editor to disable automatic connection
4. Connect to vpn with `nmcli connection up

Mount network drives [x]

I find fstab messing about more troubule than it is worth. Credentials are stored in ~/.smb. Mount network drives when needed with the following command:

linux-mount-<network drive name>

Taskopen for taskwarrior [x]

taskopen is easier to install manually at this point since it isn't packaged and uses nim. Might get this automated in the future.

curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh # install nim
git clone https://github.com/jschlatow/taskopen.git
cd taskopen
make PREFIX=/usr
sudo make PREFIX=/usr install

Syncthing

Syncthing is used to sync folders between various computers and android. The ansible script should setup and run the service, but shares must be setup via the web gui. Currently four shares exists:

• .warrior - .task and .timewarrior folders to sync taskwarrior tasks. These two folders are symlinked to the home folder where taskwarrior/timewarrior expects them.
• warrior - contains text files associated with taskwarrior (mostly from taskopen).
• phone photos - personal photos synched from android.
• phone screenshots - personal screenshots synced from android.
• ssh_keys - contains ssh keys for git remotes (~/.ssh/keys)
• vimwiki - contains text files associate with my personal vimwiki.

Git SSH for personal and work

• ~/.gitconfig - personal github configuration.
• ~/devel/work/.gitconfig - work gitlab configuration.

Gitconfig files for SSH git push/pull are automaitcally placed. The only additional configuration required is the transfer of SSH keys (see Syncthing section).

Firefox [x]

Transfer the .mozilla folder from install-to-install to maintain Firefox settings and configurations.

Bluetooth Audio

In addition to the pipewire-codec-aptx package being required (installed with ansible) you need to set ControllerMode = bredr in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf to get bluetooth to work properly with audio devices.

Linux-tkg kernel

The linux-tkg kernel provides a more responsive desktop. Install with the following:

git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg.git
cd linux-tkg

Set CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL to y in linux-tkg-config/<kernel-version>/config.x86_64.

./install.sh install
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia

Reboot into new kernel.

Single GPU Passthrough to windows

I use a windows virtual machine with gpu passthrough of the few games that won't work on linux, Zwift, and Fusion360. This has scripts that make that process relatively easy and this wiki provides good information on setting up the virtual machine in virt-manager. The patch.rom required for my GPU is included in my repo. The virt-manager setup should usually be avoided by transfering the VM between machines:

1. Copy the VM's disks from /var/lib/libvirt/images on src host to the same dir on destination host
2. On the source host run virsh dumpxml VMNAME > domxml.xml and copy this xml to the destination host
3. On the destination host run virsh define domxml.xml

AUR Helper [x]

I install the absolute minimum number of AUR packages (and I don't automate thier installation). Run the following to install:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-git.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

I usually install the following packages:

1. Google Earth
2. Google Chrome (I like baseball)

Yuzu [x]

Copy over the ~/.config/yuzu and ~/.local/share/yuzu from prior install.

Themeing (is that a word?)

Alacritty

TODO

ZSH

TODO

Sway

TODO

GTK Theme [x]

Set the GTK theme to dracula within the gnome-tweaks application.