Thomas Leon Highbaugh Thomashighbaugh

Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

Problem

In Arch Linux mkinitcpio -p linux

shows

Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
 Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x

Raspberry Pi Setup Guide

This is a guide to setup a Raspberry Pi as a webserver running Arch Linux ARM.

Some important links:

Hardware

Raspberry Pi 2 B: much more powerfull than previous models, has 1GB RAM and a 900MHz CPU, very capable as a home server.

Cleaning up your Github account from those repositories you once forked and then forgot about is a tedious process when done manually.

Lets speed up this process with some automagic:

Open all repositories that you want to delete in new browser tabs
Use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall?hl=en to shorten them to a list and export the URL's as a text file
In a text editor shorten the URL's to just the last part (username/repositoryname)
Create a new personal API token with capability to delete repositories and paste that token in the script
Run ./clean-repos.sh

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	#!/bin/bash

	# must run as root
	if [ $UID != 0 ]; then
	echo "You must be root."
	exit 0
	fi

	# soft link vmware's init.d scripts to void's runit directory
	ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware* /etc/runit/

	#!/bin/sh

	set -ex

	PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
	KEYMAP="us us"
	HOST=alpine
	USER=anon
	ROOT_FS=ext4
	BOOT_FS=ext4