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Dot files for my Arch Linux + bspwm setup used on my Dell XPS 15 9560.

(NOTE: These are the bspwm dotfiles, my i3wm setup is located in the i3wm branch)

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Installation

Installation and the dotfiles are to be managed with yadm, thus installation is done through cloning the repository using yadm clone, and then confirm running the bootstrapping script when prompted to. If not prompted after cloning, executing the bootstrapping script can be done at any time with yadm bootstrap.

Thus, if you have a completely fresh install of arch, do the following:

The bootstrapping script should setup and install most things, and get you a completely usable system. There are, however, still some further configuration needed for some of the applications that I use. The following sub-sections will cover these extra setups.

LightDM setup

Make sure you have the following packages installed:

pacman -S --needed lightdm lightdm-webkit2-greeter lightdm-webkit-theme-litarvan

Vim setup

Simply open vim and it should automatically install everything the first time. If something is wrong, or nothing seemed to have been installed, run :PlugInstall from within vim.

Firefox setup

Rounded corners (bspwm fork)

To get the rounded corners in bspwm, I currently use a fork of bspwm by dylanaraps, found here.

To patch your current bspwm with these changes, do the following:

Now, unfortunately, as you will quickly notice with this fork, these corners are not anti-aliased and are quite jagged. There is currently some open issues and discussion on getting anti-aliased corners, especially a pull request by sdhand is quite promising, found here. As of writing, none of the solutions out there are without compromises or problems, so I choose to live with jagged corners as of the time being.

Device/hardware specific settings

These are some of the tweaks I've made for my specific setup, most of them are to optimize battery lifetime

Disabled modules

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist nouveau
blacklist nvidia
blacklist psmouse
blacklist btusb
blacklist bluetooth

Disabling turbo boost

/etc/systemd/system/disable-turbo-boost.service

[Unit]
Description=Disable Turbo Bost on Intel CPU

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo"      
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo"      

[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target

Enable powertop auto tune

TLP can be used instead of this if you want a less aggressive power tuning.

/etc/systemd/system/powertop.service

[Unit]
Description=Powertop tunings

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/powertop --auto-tune
RemainAfterExit=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Kernel parameters

Below are the kernel parameters I would pass to all linux installations, mainly based upon some shortcomings and oddities that I have experienced with the Dell XPS 15.

add_efi_memmap rw quiet splash i915.modeset=1 nouveau.modeset=0 acpi_rev_override=1