Quick personal cheat sheet for setting up a sane, useful instance of the labwc window manager on Arch Linux. These are my own personal notes and will not work on your computer without adjustment.
# Use archinstall to create a minimal Arch installation first. Chroot after installation is done.
archinstall
# Set parallel downloads to 25
nvim /etc/pacman.conf
# Setup ALHP optimized mirrors.
sudo -u louka mkdir -p /home/louka/Scratch
cd /home/louka/Scratch
sudo -u louka git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
sudo -u louka makepkg -si
sudo -u louka yay -s alhp-mirrorlist alhp-keyring
nvim /etc/pacman.conf # Add core-x86-64-v3, extras-x86-64-v3 providers
pacman -Syu
# Remove "kms" hook from HOOKS=..., add "plymouth" after udev hook.
nvim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# Add "quiet splash" to the kernel commandline parameters.
nvim /etc/kernel/cmdline
# Install headers for the kernel.
pacman -S linux-zen-headers
# Install plymouth.
pacman -S plymouth
# Install nvidia drivers. "nvidia-utils" disables nouveau!
pacman -S nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils
# Install my basic packages.
pacman -S --needed wget curl unzip neovim meson sassc clang llvm zig nodejs npm ufw ffmpeg yt-dlp noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji gnome-keyring libsecret firefox
# Install lightdm for our display manager.
pacman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
nvim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf # Set the greeter session to "lightdm-gtk-greeter".
systemctl enable lightdm
# Install labwc-related packages.
pacman -S labwc kanshi mako foot grim slurp swaybg waybar dex thunar archlinux-xdg-menu wl-clipboard wlr-randr xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
# Setup ufw.
systemctl enable ufw
ufw default deny incoming
ufw default allow outgoing
# Create storage directories.
mkdir /storage /storage2 /storage3
chown louka /storage /storage2 /storage3
# Install my software
pacman -S inkscape libreoffice-fresh obs-studio kdenlive krita file-roller
# We're (almost) done! Exit chroot, reboot, and create the files below in TTY. Reboot, and complete.
exit
systemctl rebootAppend:
storage UUID=6ddca5d7-0a76-4de1-8c41-4c692f0d87c8 none luksAppend:
UUID=d06cc6ee-44ad-4d20-be35-42a8a6ccedae /storage2 xfs defaults 0 2
UUID=e3e5212e-b13b-448e-bd2b-19e67f3f3c83 /storage3 xfs defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/storage /storage xfs defaults 0 2slurp | grim -g - - | wl-copydex -a &
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start)
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
waybar &
mako &
kanshi &
swaybg -i "/storage/MEGA/Pictures/Wallpapers/Dropped Image (6).png" >K_THEME=Adwaita-dark
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us,ca(fr)
XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=grp:win_space_toggle<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<labwc_config>
<resistance>
<windowEdgeStrength>80</windowEdgeStrength>
<screenEdgeStrength>80</screenEdgeStrength>
</resistance>
<keyboard>
<default />
<keybind key="C-Space">
<action name="Execute" command="wofi --show drun --gtk-dark --allow-images" />
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-t">
<action name="Execute" command="foot" />
</keybind>
<keybind key="Print">
<action name="Execute" command="/home/louka/screenshot.sh" />
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
<action name="Execute">
<command>pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
<action name="Execute">
<command>pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
<action name="Execute">
<command>pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle</command>
</action>
</keybind>
</keyboard>
<theme>
<name>Adwaita-Labwc-dark</name>
<dropShadows>yes</dropShadows>
<cornerRadius>4</cornerRadius>
<font name="Noto Sans" size="10" />
<titlebar>
<layout>icon:iconify,max,close</layout>
<showTitle>yes</showTitle>
</titlebar>
</theme>
</labwc_config><?xml version="1.0" ?>
<openbox_menu>
<menu id="root-menu" label="">
<menu id="applications" label="Applications" execute="xdg_menu --format openbox3-pipe --root-menu /etc/xdg/menus/arch-applications.menu" />
<separator/>
<item label="Firefox">
<action name="Execute" command="firefox" />
</item>
<item label="Files">
<action name="Execute" command="thunar" />
</item>
<item label="Terminal">
<action name="Execute" command="foot" />
</item>
<item label="Reconfigure">
<action name="Reconfigure" />
</item>
<item label="Exit">
<action name="Exit" />
</item>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>{
"layer": "top",
"position": "bottom",
"height": 42,
"spacing": 0,
"modules-left": [],
"modules-center": ["wlr/taskbar"],
"modules-right": ["tray", "pulseaudio", "clock"],
"wlr/taskbar": {
"format": "{icon}",
"icon-size": 24,
"tooltip-format": "{title}",
"on-click": "activate",
"on-click-middle": "close",
"rewrite": {
"Firefox Web Browser": "Firefox",
"Foot Server": "Terminal"
}
},
"tray": {
"icon-size": 18,
"spacing": 10
},
"clock": {
"tooltip-format": "<big>{:%Y %B}</big>\n<tt><small>{calendar}</small></tt>",
"format": "{:%I:%M %p}",
"format-alt": "{:%Y-%m-%d}"
},
"pulseaudio": {
"format": "{icon}",
"format-muted": "🔇",
"format-icons": {
"headphone": "🎧",
"hands-free": "🎧",
"headset": "🎧",
"phone": "📱",
"portable": "📱",
"car": "🚗",
"default": ["🔈", "🔉", "🔊"]
},
"on-click": "pavucontrol",
"tooltip": true,
"tooltip-format": "{volume}%",
"scroll-step": 5.0,
"max-volume": 100,
"smooth-scrolling-threshold": 1.0
}
}* {
border: none;
border-radius: 0;
font-family: "Noto Sans", "Font Awesome 6 Free", "Font Awesome 6 Brands";
font-size: 13px;
min-height: 0;
}
window#waybar {
background: #1e1e1e;
color: #ffffff;
border-bottom: 1px solid #2b2b2b;
}
#taskbar button {
padding: 0 5px;
background: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;
}
#taskbar button:hover {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
box-shadow: inherit;
border-bottom: 2px solid #ffffff;
}
#taskbar button.active {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
border-bottom: 2px solid #ff79c6;
}
#clock,
#pulseaudio,
#tray {
padding: 0 10px;
color: #ffffff;
}
#tray > .passive {
-gtk-icon-effect: dim;
}
#tray > .needs-attention {
-gtk-icon-effect: highlight;
background-color: #eb4d4b;
}
#pulseaudio.muted {
color: #eb4d4b;
}profile {
output DP-3 scale 2 position 0,0
output HDMI-A-1 scale 2 position 1920,0
}