Notes on setting up a my dev tools. Used in Manjaro 21 with Gnome 3.38.4
If you have a HDPI screen, you may want to set the resolution to 3200x1800(16:9), instead of changing the scale. (Just like Ubuntu)
If keyboard cannot be found from the GUI:
sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils blueman
Then scan, pair and connect using the bluetoothctl command.
The keyboard can now be paired from the GUI if deleted.
Make sure snap is installed and enabled on your system. Follow the instructions here.
If you get classic confinement requires snaps under /snap or symlink from /snap to /var/lib/snapd/snap error create this symlink:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Optional: hide the snap directory:
echo snap >> ~/.hidden
Enable AUR support in pamac GUI.
Install from pamac GUI
On KDE you may get this error:
the name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files when trying to connect to a database.
Install gnome-keyring from pamac GUI and when prompted for gnome-keyring password leave fields empty.
Install from pamac GUI
Install from pamac GUI (AUR)
Install from pamac (not the standalone version). (AUR)
Install visual-studio-code-bin from pamac GUI (AUR)
Install udev.rules so that platformio stops complaining (yellow warning in terminal). Documented here.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core/master/scripts/99-platformio-udev.rules | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rules
Restart udev service
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger
Add user to uucp group (similar to dialout in Debian/Ubuntu).
sudo usermod -a -G uucp $USER
sudo usermod -a -G lock $USER
Reboot for the user group changes to take effect.
snap install spotify
If you have a HDPI screen, Spotify fonts will be too small. To enlarge them edit:
sudo gedit /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop
Add --force-device-scale-factor=2.0 (or 1.5 or whatever scale factor you want) to the Exec line:
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop /snap/bin/spotify --force-device-scale-factor=2.0 %U
Download tarball
Manjaro does not use bash by default, so you need to replace realpath $BASH_SOURCE with realpath $0 in solstice.profile file.
Then you may add e.g:
source /home/orestis/Programs/Solstice/etc/solstice.profile
in your ~/.zshrc file.
Fast and user-friendly alternative to find, see here
pacman -S fd --noconfirm
Quick navigation to frequently used folders
Use zsh-z.sh script to install.
In order to edit and preview .tex documents in VSCode, install the Latex Workshop extension .
It requires a .tex compiler like texlive:
sudo pacman -S texlive-most
And texlive-latexindent-meta from AUR. Install from pamac GUI
Found instructions here