Arch Linux desktop installation

ArchSetup.md

Gnome

# pacman -S gnome
# systemctl enable gdm

i3

# pacman -S i3 volumeicon dunst scrot xfce4-power-manager \
xautolock network-manager-applet ttf-font-awesome feh \
awesome-terminal-fonts gnome-terminal polkit polkit-gnome \
rxvt-unicode xorg-xbacklight

AUR

i3-scrot

Network

In chroot, after install to use wifi-menu

# pacman -S wireless_tools wpa_supplicant wpa_actiond dialog

After install

# pacman -S networkmanager
# systemctl enable NetworkManager

PAMAC

This can be used to install any AUR

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

Printer

# pacman -S cups
# systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service

Locale Fixes

sudo localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" 

Simulate pbcopy

alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'

increase inotify watchers && vm max heap count

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system
echo vm.max_map_count=262144 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system