dotfiles

Personal dotfiles, covering system installation, AwesomeWM and Hyprland desktops, and development tools.

SDDM's greeter runs on Wayland using Hyprland with a Finnish keyboard layout and a separate minimal configuration in /etc/sddm/hyprland.lua. SDDM automatically logs into Hyprland on Wayland at boot. AwesomeWM on X11 remains available in the login screen's session picker, which remembers the last session selected for manual login.

Thunderbird's startup hook exits if its Primary Password prompt is cancelled. It checks the credential store after the native startup prompt; profiles without a Primary Password still open normally. The installer places the AutoConfig loader and hook in /usr/lib/thunderbird. This uses Thunderbird's internal APIs and should be checked after major Thunderbird updates.

Installation from Arch ISO

Connect to internet via Ethernet cable.

loadkeys fi
archinstall
# chroot after and enable sshd for remote install, then reboot

Reboot into the desktop, then

bash <(curl -fsSL https://eniemela.fi/api-v1/laptop-install.sh)

If the Chaotic-AUR CDN returns HTTP 503, replace it with the geo mirror and rerun the installer:

sed -i 's|https://cdn-mirror\.chaotic\.cx|https://geo-mirror.chaotic.cx|g' .install.sh

Test the installer with QEMU

Install QEMU on Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S --needed qemu-desktop

From the repository root, download the latest Arch ISO and create a sparse 64 GiB test disk:

mkdir -p .vm

curl -L \
  https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/iso/latest/archlinux-x86_64.iso \
  -o .vm/archlinux-x86_64.iso

curl -L \
  https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/iso/latest/sha256sums.txt \
  -o .vm/sha256sums.txt

(
  cd .vm
  sha256sum --check --ignore-missing sha256sums.txt
)

qemu-img create -f qcow2 ".vm/dotfiles.qcow2" 64G

The image is sparse, so it initially consumes little physical disk space. Start the VM:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -m 8G \
  -smp 4 \
  -device virtio-vga \
  -display gtk \
  -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci \
  -drive file=".vm/dotfiles.qcow2",if=virtio,format=qcow2 \
  -cdrom ".vm/archlinux-x86_64.iso" \
  -boot once=d

Inside the Arch ISO, run the installer:

loadkeys fi
archinstall

Select /dev/vda as the target disk. It is the disposable virtual disk, not a physical drive. When installation finishes, reboot:

reboot

Because QEMU uses -boot once=d, the VM should boot from the installed virtual disk after reboot.

Boot the installed virtual system

Immediately after installation, reboot should boot the installed disk because the installer VM uses -boot once=d. To open it again later, run this from the repository root.

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -m 8G \
  -smp 4 \
  -device virtio-vga \
  -display gtk,clipboard=on \
  -device virtio-serial-pci \
  -chardev qemu-vdagent,id=vdagent,name=vdagent,clipboard=on \
  -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \
  -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci \
  -drive file="$PWD/.vm/dotfiles.qcow2",if=virtio,format=qcow2

Enable the host--guest clipboard

Install and start the clipboard agent once inside the virtual system.

sudo pacman -Syu spice-vdagent
sudo systemctl enable --now spice-vdagentd.socket
sudo reboot