dmarcoux/dotfiles-CachyOS

Installation

I only mention what isn't obvious. Same for differences from the standard setup.

• Use Limine as bootloader.
• Select keyboard layout Canadian (CSA) under French (Canada).
• Pick COSMIC Desktop.
• Unselect CachyOS shell configuration, select Printing Support. Erase the whole disk (/dev/sda on my desktop computer)
• Use encryption with a different password as my user.
• Use a different password for the root user.

Issues

• Wrong keyboard layout used when decrypting the LUKS partition on boot. Changing the keyboard settings within the GUI of the Live ISO doesn't work. Same with localectl.

First Boot Setup

1. Install & Configure 1Password and its CLI. The 1Password signing key is imported before the installation.

    curl -sS https://downloads.1password.com/linux/keys/1password.asc | gpg --import
   
    paru -S 1password 1password-cli

2. Install official packages:

   sudo pacman -S --needed $(cat packages.txt)

   packages.txt was created with:

   pacman --query --native --explicit | cut --delimiter " " --fields=1 | paste -sd " " > packages.txt

3. Install AUR packages:

   paru -S --needed $(cat AUR_packages.txt)

   AUR_packages.txt was created with:

   pacman --query --foreign --explicit | cut --delimiter " " --fields=1 | paste -sd " " > AUR_packages.txt

4. Enable Docker daemon (with docker.socket, it starts on first usage, not on boot), and add my user to the docker group to allow using Docker as non-root.

   sudo systemctl enable --now docker.socket &&
     sudo gpasswd -a dany docker

TODOs for Setup

• How to assign applications to launch on a specific workspace?
• i3wm-like behavior in Cosmic
  • Go back to end when reaching start of a stacked windows group (other way around works already)
  • How to only use stacked windows group by default? At least for specific workspaces (1 and 2), it would be nice.
  • Pin workspaces to have 5 permanent workspaces