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Post Install Setup

  • If on wifi and it does not start
nmcli device wifi list
nmcli device wifi connect SSID --ask
  • For Intel laptops. If the onboard sound card is not working
sudo pacman -S sof-firmware sof-tools
  • Install Oh My Zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  • Install yay package manager
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
  • Install plymouth boot splash screen for encrypet root
sudo pacman -S plymouth
  • Add plymouth to the hooks for initcpio
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block plymouth encrypt filesystems fsck)
  • Install plymouth themes
yay -S plymouth-theme-archlinux plymouth-theme-arch-logo plymouth-theme-catppuccin-mocha-git
# show themes
plymouth-set-default-theme -l
  • Create a plymouth conf
sudo vim /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
[Daemon]
Theme=catppuccin-mocha
DeviceScale=an-integer-scaling-factor # for HiDPI
  • After setting the theme rebuild the initramfs
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
  • Add splash to the grub bootloader
sudo vim /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet splash cryptdevice=UUID=<UUID>:cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot"
sudo grub-mkconfig --output /boot/grub/grub.cfg