Setup Archlinux

Enabling reflector to run weekly

Copy the following content to /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf

# Reflector configuration file for the systemd service.
#
# Empty lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored.  All other lines should
# contain valid reflector command-line arguments. The lines are parsed with
# Python's shlex modules so standard shell syntax should work. All arguments are
# collected into a single argument list.
#
# See "reflector --help" for details.

# Recommended Options

# Set the output path where the mirrorlist will be saved (--save).
--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# Select the transfer protocol (--protocol).
--protocol https

# Select the country (--country).
# Consult the list of available countries with "reflector --list-countries" and
# select the countries nearest to you or the ones that you trust. For example:
# --country France,Germany
--country Brazil,Argentina,Colombia,Paraguay,Uruguay,Chile,Ecuador,Mexico,Bolivia,Portugal,Poland,us

# Use only the  most recently synchronized mirrors (--latest).
--fastest 10

# Use the latest ones
--latest 10

# Sort the mirrors by synchronization time (--sort).
--sort rate

After that you can simply enable the service and the timer

sudo systemctl enable reflector.timer reflector.service

Configure plymouth

On /etc/default/grub

Edit the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add splash after quiet, like so:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet splash mem_sleep_default=deep ..."

On /etc/mkinitcpio.conf edit the HOOKS and add the plymouth after udev like so:

HOOKS=(base udev plymouth autodetect modconf kms block filesystems resume encrypt keyboard fsck)

After that you can simply run:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

and

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux-zen

Configuring xinput

Create a file called 00-keyboard.conf on /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the content below

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "system-keyboard"
	MatchIsKeyboard "on"
	Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option "XkbLayout" "us"
	Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection

Create a file called 30-touchpad.conf on /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the content below

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Driver "libinput"
	Option "Tapping" "on"
	Option "DisableWhileTyping" "1"
	Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
EndSection

Configure systemd-resolved

Run ln -rsf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

Change the contents of the file with the following:

[Resolve]
# Some examples of DNS servers which may be used for DNS= and FallbackDNS=:
# Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1#cloudflare-dns.com 1.0.0.1#cloudflare-dns.com 2606:4700:4700::1111#cloudflare-dns.com 2606:4700:4700::1001#cloudflare-dns.com
# Google:     8.8.8.8#dns.google 8.8.4.4#dns.google 2001:4860:4860::8888#dns.google 2001:4860:4860::8844#dns.google
# Quad9:      9.9.9.9#dns.quad9.net 149.112.112.112#dns.quad9.net 2620:fe::fe#dns.quad9.net 2620:fe::9#dns.quad9.net
#DNS=
#FallbackDNS=1.1.1.1#cloudflare-dns.com 9.9.9.9#dns.quad9.net 8.8.8.8#dns.google 2606:4700:4700::1111#cloudflare-dns.com 2620:fe::9#dns.quad9.net 2001:4860:4860::8888#dns.google
DNS=<internal-ip>
FallbackDNS=1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1
#Domains=
DNSSEC=no
DNSOverTLS=no
MulticastDNS=no
LLMNR=no
Cache=yes
#CacheFromLocalhost=no
DNSStubListener=yes
#DNSStubListenerExtra=
ReadEtcHosts=yes
#ResolveUnicastSingleLabel=no

Configure power-save mode networkmanager

Create a file called 10-power-save-mode.conf on /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ with the following content

[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2 # disable

GNOME Keyring

Change /etc/pam.d/login with the following content

auth       required     pam_securetty.so
auth       requisite    pam_nologin.so
auth       include      system-local-login
auth       optional     pam_gnome_keyring.so
account    include      system-local-login
session    include      system-local-login
session    optional     pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
password   include      system-local-login