danieltantonio / arch-dot-files-and-configs

Personal Arch Linux dotfiles and configuration settings for programs or services.

Arch Linux Surface Laptop 3 dotfiles And Configs

Everything needed for Arch Linux to run on a Microsoft Surface Laptop 3. Although specifically set up for my Microsoft Surface, this can also be used for either automating your installation or configuring your system. Using Wayland as a display server and Hyprland as a Compositor, so there are a lot of issues to be fixed.

How To Use

This repo has two parts: Installation & Post-Installation

INSTALLATION: Can be found in install.sh, an installation script that can be used to automate the Arch Linux Installation Process that gets Arch Linux up and running on the Microsoft Surface Laptop 3.

POST-INSTALLATION: Can be found in post_install.sh, this is where we customize and configure the system. We download Hyprland, and every other tool we may need or want. As well as configure the system.

Pre-Requisites

1. If running on a Microsoft Surface Laptop, please make sure Secure Boot is off before beginning installing! A simple web search should give you some results. After Installation phase, please re-enable.

2. If you are installing Arch Linux with an older installation medium (like me) then you will run into a PGP Signature error when running the given command during section 2.2 Install essential packages. Please update to the latest key-ring to prevent this:

$ pacman -Sy
$ pacman -S archlinux-keyring

Once done you can continue with the installation process.

Installation

If you already have installed Arch Linux and just want to have a GUI up and running, then feel free to skip this section and go to Post-Installation.

If you are trying to install Arch Linux, please follow the installation guide until after you complete section 3.2 Chroot. Once chrooted into the system, download git and a text editor program ex: vi or nano. Personally, I prefer neovim.

$ pacman -S git neovim --noconfirm`

--noconfirm is just a way to skip the prompt asking if you're sure you want to download.

After downloading git and a text editor, clone this repository and open the directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/danieltantonio/arch-dot-files-and-configs.git
$ cd arch-dot-files-and-configs

Before running install.sh, MAKE SURE to edit the necessary fields within the shell script.

$ nvim install.sh

Credits

All dotfiles are a fork from Chris Titus's Hyprland-Titus repo with my own personal edits. If you like this one, you should check out his! https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/hyprland-titus