ArchLinux + i3wm desktop Windows10 dual system installation

Arch Linux official installation tutorial
mirror download China Tsinghua University source

This article refers to the official tutorial or the blog of Comrade Xingxi

Make U Disk Boot Disk

Use rufus software

1. Select mirror
2. Select gpt mode
3. Choose fat32
4. Write select dd mode
5. Start production and wait for completion

Ready to work

1. Turn off the bios secure mode
2. Turn off Windows Quick Start, etc. For these tasks, please refer to other blog posts or official documents

U disk boot to start installation

1. Use wifi-menu to connect to wireless network
2. Partition (key to the dual system)
   1. Use the cfdisk partition tool to divide the partition where you want to install ArchLinux into two partitions, one as swap and the other as the mount point of /.
   2. format

   mk.ext4 /dev/sdb3    // 设备名写自己的
   mkswap /dev/sdb4
   

   3. Mount

   mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt
   swapon /dev/sdb4
   mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
   mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi    // 注意  /dev/sda1 为 Windows efi 引导所在分区(重点)
   

wifi_menu is unavailable after chrooted into the system

This part is taken out separately because the new version of the ArchLinux installation package does not pack netctl into the installation package, which causes the wifi-menu to be unavailable after arch-chroot /mnt enters the installed system, so remember to do it before chroot Install netctl toolkit

pacman -S netctl

// 其他需要的联网工具
pacman -S rp-pppoe dialog iw wpa_supplicant networkmanager dhcp	

systemctl enable NetworkManager

Install grub boot

pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober ntfs-3g
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=ArchLinux --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Install Chinese input method

sudo pacman -S fcitx-im fcitx-configtool fcitx-googlepinyin	

In the ~/.xprofile file, add the following content (if not, create a new one)

export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
fcitx

Then run fcitx-configtool on the command line to add googlepinyin input method, if it doesn't work, remember to restart.

ficitx-sougoupinyin is not recommended to be unstable

WPS installation

WPS ArchLinux Wiki

sudo pacman -S wps-office
sudo pacman -S ttf-wps-fonts

Automatically mount NTFS partitions under Windows 10

Remember to turn off the quick start of Windows 10

1. Install ntfs-3g

// 支持 读写 ntfs 分区
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g    

2. Create mount point

mkdir -p /windows/c
mkdir -p /windows/d
mkdir -p /windows/e

3. Edit /etc/fstab

/dev/sda3 /windows/c ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /windows/d ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /windows/e ntfs defaults 0 0

Note: You can use fdisk -l or df or lsblk to view the device name of your windows partition

Install python3 and pip3

sudo pacman -S python3
sudo pacman -S python-pip

Install cpplint

sudo pip install cpplint

The cpplint installed by default in Arch Linux is in

/usr/bin/cpplint

In the catalog

Install vscode

sudo pacman -S visual-studio-code-bin

The startup command is code

Change i3wm desktop color theme

Install npm

sudo pacman -S npm

Install i3-style

sudo npm install -g i3-style

i3-style usage

Apply default theme

i3-style solarized -o ~/.config/i3/config --reload

Apply other themes under themes

Copy the theme file under themes to your designated directory and modify it to .yaml extension, then execute

i3-style ~/.config/i3/solarized.yaml -o ~/.config/i3/config

The default i3-style themes directory installed by npm is under /usr/lib/node_modules/i3-style/themes

Install oh-my-zsh

View the current shell

echo $SHELL

Install zsh

sudo pacman -S zsh

Configure zsh

zsh

Install oh-my-zsh

git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc

Restart the installation is complete

Refer to oh-my-zsh to configure
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