Arch Linux: 12.2020 ISO Install With Encryption & i3

NOTE: there is a typo at 35:17. The font is notosans mono (and not notosana mono)
This is a video I wanted to make live, but for organizational reasons couldn't do it. I am going install Arch Linux with the December 2020 ISO with encryption and the i3 window manager, which was updated some weeks ago.
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[@Bloodnaousky]

This dude has been nailing arch install in all ways. No one on youtube has ever made this much content on arch.The great detail with he's doing it with i think no one will ever have to go at arch wiki except for grabbing the iso Great work!!!

[@shimamooo]

Nicest dude on the internet! Congrats on 10k!

[@eflinux]

So kind of you :)

[@FortyToOne]

Thank you! The way you explain each step and even keystroke is brilliant: never boring but always there if something's unclear

[@eflinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mustaphaabdullah8139]

Nochmals vielen Dank für die großartige Arbeit ermanno, mögest du gesegnet sein

[@eflinux]

Danke :)

[@mustaphaabdullah8139]

@@eflinux bitter schon

[@hexearth8258]

Before I watch the video, just noticed 10.5K subs... that is just impressive, for a Linux channel that talks mostly about Arch... that is amazing and you are a great teacher, so I just hope it continues to grow. I always send people back to see your channel and I've had people installing Arch that were newbies in Linux. Yes, with your videos.

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! I’m thinking about expanding to a more “general” Linux videos next year. I’ll see what I come up with :)

[@chimak111]

Congrats on 10K! I love that you take the trouble to explain each step.

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@ayoubjamouhi6890]

the best tutorial I've seen I'm stuck 4 days trying to install it

[@gerds.9956]

Hallo Ermanno, thank you for this Tutorial! I wish you and your Family a nice Weekend. Stay healthy

[@archimanchakraborty7772]

i just love your videos Ermano.... i learned Arch Linux Installation watching your videos... i was wishing for a video on i3 with lightdm and boom... you did it.... love your videos... lots of love from India

[@eflinux]

Glad you like them!

[@archimanchakraborty7772]

can you make a video on customizing lightdm login manager it will be very helpful

[@eflinux]

Definitely :)

[@micleh]

Always nice for beginners to get such a good tutorial. With regard to getting the uuid into grub: You already said in previous videos that there are many ways to do this. With the following method you can shave off 1 minute (19:11-20:12) of installation time by opening /etc/default/grub with vim, and in command mode write: :r!blkid /dev/vda3. Have a nice Christmastime and hopefully you can enjoy time with your family.

[@eflinux]

Thanks Michael.

[@bograham6221]

Just came here for the tips on the encryption, and found your demonstration pretty straightforward.

[@luysv]

You are AWESOME. Thank you. I read the Arch Wiki, but i like following step by step like you do. Helps a lot!

[@pengjiayou]

Thanks for your great toturials.

[@eflinux]

My pleasure!

[@babinio7458]

And a big thank you from the bottom of my heart as well

[@LordHog]

Congrats on the 10k sub mark. Well on your way to 100k

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@marvicdigital]

Thank you very much for your excellent tutorials, well explained and very readable for everyone ..... I want to ask you a question, when will the Void Linux review be? Thanks and happy weekend.

[@eflinux]

Next Friday:)

[@MnemonicCarrier]

Great tutorial. I have been following this for my Arch installs, although recently I discovered ArcoLinux-D (which I now use to get to a base install). I then install KDE Plasma instead of i3. One of the differences I noticed between a base install of Arch and a base install of ArcoLinux-D is the hard drive decryption takes longer on ArcoLinux-D. Other than that, everything else seems to work exactly the same (which I love).

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@racingtheweb]

I like the way you explain things, very simple and clear, easy to understand. Since this video is 3 years old, I'd like to know if the arch encrypted install is still the same. Thanks

[@sharjeel_mazhar]

You're the best sir❤❤

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@TechyMechie]

Looking forward to a sway and wayland thing at this channel

[@stefanomedici2752]

Hello Ermanno. Thank you so much for this review on both installation and configuration procedure for Arch Linux OS. I was wondering: the large majority of online tutorial propose a 3-level partition scheme as EFI, Swap and root partition respectively. This means you do not recommend creating an home partition? Since Arch is considered unstable distro, could it be useful prepare it to protect (furtherly) the user's data? I am not sure, however, I do not know any OS installer which do this. Are Linux's User used to this?

[@eflinux]

Hi Stefano! Thanks for your comment. Creating a home partition is definitely a valid possibility. I don't usually create on my machine because I save most of my data externally or on a secondary drive. I am using Arch as my main distro now since more than 1 year and didn't have any issues with it. In my experience Arch is actually quite stable, but it is a high maintenance distro, meaning one needs to really take care of it, update it, tuned it and keep it lean and clean for it to work at best.

[@stefanomedici2752]

​@@eflinux - Great! In Windows, I found quite uncomfortable to have two diffing separate partitions addressed to root (:/C) and user's data (:/D). It was unclear the benefits to choosing this set-up. However, with MacOS, I have realized the real advantage of it: upgrading the machine is simpler and safer or restore it without any data-loss. So, I think I'll do it this way. I feel like to install it correctly. Thank you for your experience!

[@SimilakChild]

Mid December I kinda noticed that the new keyring made Arch less bleeding edge than it used to be.. was that intended?

[@eflinux]

I haven't looked at it, thanks for sharing.

[@ronnierush9379]

Thank You. Followed your very good instructions but used the cinnamon desktop environment instead of i3 and to my surprise it all worked correctly first time :-) The only thing I cannot figure out "myself" is getting the network shares services working, i.e. wont find any of my NAS or any other network shares.

[@eflinux]

Glad it worked! For NAS I'd suggest you look at the NFS and Samba videos on the channel.

[@EkmekArasiKofte242]

you are always the best!!

[@CatoSucks]

Man your videos are so helpful, thank you.

[@eflinux]

Glad you like them!

[@davidbudzynski9290]

I would love to see more hacking on xmonad! haskell is so complicated for new users and it would be cool to see something that goes beyond basic config :)

[@eflinux]

I’ll see what I can do :)

[@greatsaid5271]

as always great, thank you

[@Morses23]

Great speaker. I like it. Subscribed.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the sub!

[@leftoverture1976]

Thanks for this knowledge transfer.

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Always going back as I play with wms

[@vipulsundriyal8996]

Which virtual machine software do you use? I'm on manjaro and thinking of installing a virtual machine...

[@eflinux]

I use mostly KVM.

[@vipulsundriyal8996]

@@eflinux sudo pacman -S barrier Is this the same stuff that you're using?

[@eflinux]

No, I use other packages. You can see the video I have on the channel on installing KVM.

[@loicpellat2206]

Hi Ermanno thanks for your videos ! I did my first install of arch this week-end and it works perfectly thanks to you =)

[@eflinux]

Congratulations! Let me know how you like Arch!

[@punishedvolt3998]

This was a great video. Thank you so much.

[@eflinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@matthewrossee]

Hi Ermanno, is this encryption part of installation still up-to-date? Also, are the steps the same when installing arch with separate home partition?

[@youssefbouzidi4672]

Thanks...very educational

[@tvm2209]

Do you think you will ever do a video on Arco Linux? Keep hearing great things about it.

[@eflinux]

Yes, in 2 weeks :)

[@tvm2209]

@@eflinux ahh I will be waiting patiently 😌. Is your main driver still running vanilla Arch w/ Plasma?

[@eflinux]

I am trying out Gnome with Arch right now.

[@tvm2209]

@@eflinux surprised you are such a Desktop Environment fan. Would have thought you would be a Tiling Window Manager fan.

[@eflinux]

Actually, I don't really have a preference and it depends also on the machine. On my main machine, because of the workflow there, I like a DE. But on my laptop I do use a WM.

[@lam8611]

Hermano if you can do a series of how to videos of nethserver 7.9.2009 i would apreciate very much. Thank you for your amazing work.

[@eflinux]

I will check it out.

[@christenorio9555]

I hope there is a star trek lcars menus script for i3!

[@lorenzoluilli967]

On March the 3rd the command for lxappearance in dmenu search is now "lxappearance": customize look and feel doesn't appear anymore (HTH)

[@alikaram98]

This educational video was really great Thank you for making this video Your channel is useful Good luck

[@emvdl]

Danke!

[@eflinux]

Bitte!

[@TheKeule33]

Ach ja richtig, er spricht ja auch Deutsch :D

[@xMercuryx56]

Just found you, you earned a new sub!

[@eflinux]

Thank you! Really appreciate that!

[@rivubardhan6376]

Love it!!

[@eflinux]

Glad you like it!

[@mahmoud-yuki]

great content great explanation no ego 👏 🎉 perfect

[@umair7354]

@18:29 wasn't the boot directory at /mnt/boot?

[@eflinux]

When you’re chrooted in you are already in the /mnt directory. So the mount point is /boot.

[@Wynell]

Hi I have a few questions about this video, and I would be glad if you answer it What exactly happens if I will not install linux-firmware? Or what happens if I will not install intel-ucode? Or will not create a swapfile?

[@eflinux]

So, the first two provide better performance for your PC and processor. If you have a PC with a small RAM, a Swap partition or a Swapfile is recommended in case your processor runs out of memory.

[@Wynell]

@@eflinux so, if i have enough ram, i don't have to create swap file, right? and, if I don't install base package, will I still be able to use the system?

[@eflinux]

I would install a swapfile anyway for system stability and you do need the base package.

[@AREAV01D]

Sir I'm an Arch user since 4 months, I loved it but now I'm not getting any updates for arch Please help me sir ThankYou

[@eflinux]

Can you tell me more?

[@andi242]

have you tried "sudo pacman -Syyu" on the terminal? Arch won't install updates like others where it tells you that there's updates available

[@AREAV01D]

When I run sudo pacman -Syyu it showing there is nothing to update

[@eflinux]

Which kernel are you running?

[@AREAV01D]

@@eflinux 5.9.8

[@NaurisMich]

Another amazing tutorial, thanks! I successfully installed Arch on my both physical pc's by this tutorial. But on virtualbox i can't get it work correctly. After reboot im getting the following error: ERROR: device ''/dev/mapper/cryptroot" not found. I reinstalled multiple times and this error always appears. It just don't work on virtualbox. Do i miss something in virtualbox configs? Cheers

[@eflinux]

Can you try to remove the quite option from grub and boot in verbose?

[@Antiz96]

I have the same issue... The VM always starts in the grub-rescue mode saying "device not found" while doing an encrypted install. No problem with a non-encrypted install tho. Have you been able to solve this ? While it is probably a VirtualBox related problem (according to your comment), I would like to setup encryption in a VM before doing it on my real PC :)

[@davidlangen7529]

Check in your Boot Menu whether RAID or AHCI is enabled. AHCI should be enabled.

[@user-hd8tg4em2n]

To anyone having this same issue, the problem occurs when you use /dev/mapper/ UUID instead of /dev/ UUID. Simple mistake to make, but it had me confused for a little bit. for eg. lets say your device is /dev/vda3 and when unlocking with luks you name it cryptroot, if you run blkid you will see an entry for /dev/mapper/cryptroot and /dev/vda3, use the UUID for /dev/vda3 not /dev/mapper/cryptroot. When updating /etc/default/grub you will put "cryptdevice=UUID=:cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot" and this problem will be resolved.

[@shaidsk2578]

It's just awesome sir 😍❤️

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@shaidsk2578]

@@eflinux sir, I have humble request, please sir make a video about config file on wm xmonad.

[@eflinux]

I'll see what I can do! Haskell is not particularly easy (at least for me).

[@shaidsk2578]

@@eflinux okay sir. We are waiting. ☺️

[@oldominion8669]

What if we don't want to use Xorg but Wayland for let's with GNOME, can we just skip the pacman -S xorg?

[@eflinux]

i3 requires xorg. If you want to use Wayland you will have to install the Sway WM.

[@CreepyReading213]

Hello, I follow your tutorial step by step but now when I want to install grub I get "Efi variables are not supported on this system" times 2 "grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: No such file or directory." Do you know a way how to fix this? I tried many things but nothing seems to work for me

[@eflinux]

If you are installing this on VirtualBox you need to activate the efi setting in the VB settings.

[@mohamedsoliman3511]

Thank you so much, as usual a great video, could you please tell me how can I solve the problem of anydesk or TeamViewer's playing image when connecting remotely to my arch linux? it's quite annoying and I couldn't find a solution keep it up we always learning from you 💪👍

[@eflinux]

Can you elaborate on that? I use TW on Arch without issues.

[@mohamedsoliman3511]

@@eflinux I wish I can send you a video of what is happening, it's really really annoying me because of pandemic so we are working from and I can't tell you how much is it bothering 🤦 the frames keep coming and going, for example if you are opening a web browser the edges of this window keep coming and going, it's shaggy, as if you keep refreshing the window

[@eflinux]

That sounds more like a graphics driver issue to me. What card and drivers are you using?

[@mohamedsoliman3511]

@@eflinux when I write >> neofetch this is the output of the GPU : GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430 / Radeon 520 Mobile GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620 and this is the output of >> pacman -Qs |grep xf86-video- : local/xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2 (xorg-drivers) local/xf86-video-ati 1:19.1.0-2 (xorg-drivers) local/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+912+gad5540f6-1 (xorg-drivers) local/xf86-video-vmware 13.3.0-2 (xorg-drivers) Thanks in advance it will be really really a huge help

[@MacRenow]

Excellent video! I'm adapting this guide to a vm install of Artix but after reboot I keep getting "error no such device:... \ error: unknown filesystem." The proper UUID was pasted correctly and grub-mkconfig ran just fine, any idea what's wrong?

[@eflinux]

I'm not sure if that will work. I haven't tried that on Artix yet.

[@MacRenow]

@@eflinux If you could make a quick video showing what's different on Artix runit it would be much appreciated. I think I got everything right up until that grub uuid part.

[@eflinux]

I'll see what I can do.

[@muchvibrant]

what are your thoughts on pipewire?

[@eflinux]

I haven’t tried that enough to say something useful about it yet :)

[@wildbritannia9887]

Followed to the letter but when doing the command grub-install, brings up error: "EFI variables on not supported on this system" - never been able to install Arch yet on my Mac. Is this a common error/issue to easily overcome?

[@eflinux]

It sounds like your machine is not UEFI. How old is your Mac?

[@wildbritannia9887]

@@eflinux Thank you Ermanno - it is an older 2013 machine, iMac. Changed the settings on VirtualBox to allow EFI and all works now. Many thanks and have a great 2021!

[@eflinux]

Great!

[@KimBrianRoblesAvila]

Thank you ! It's really a great video ! I've some questions for the grub config I partioned my disk in 4 partitons (uefi, root, swap and /home) bc I wanted to separate users files from os programs Then I followed all instructions for encrypting both ext4 partitions (root and /home) but when I 've to modify /etc/default/grub file to write the UUID partitions I don't how to write both UUIDs I tried writing only UUID root partition but when I reboot , I've have a line error saying "A password is required to access to the volume. Command device requires device and mapped name as argument" So my question is how do I have to modify /etc/default/grub file to allow grub to access to /home partition?

[@Matt771]

Hi, love your videos. Thanks to you I installed arch with bspwm but I had a cpu temp issue that made me go back to windows. My laptop i7-9750H, gtx1660ti. And IDLE BSPWM cpu tem was 40-50*C and I started to get higher fans RPM. On windows idle its 34 and quiet, even with browser on. Any advices on how to configure, what to install. I have looked up and installed thermald, TLP but didnt know what to do with them, I have systemctle eneblaed thermald I believe but as I use windows for now I can't check.

[@eflinux]

Have you tried the "tuned" service? I have a video you that on the channel.

[@Matt771]

@@eflinux No, will have a look and try today again

[@jovanmilic8484]

I would love to see gentoo with btrfs install

[@eflinux]

Maybe next year :)

[@umka7536]

How secure is to have unencrypted swap partition? I prefer use swapfile on the main encrypted partition.

[@eflinux]

I’d probably do also a swapfile, but since I did it in past installations I thought I do a partition.

[@naleMedia639]

should the swap partition be encrypted as well or else an encrypted swap file used rather than swap partition?

[@zzocozaa]

Hello Sir, this is not related to your videos,but please, I'd watched some videos and seems to me you "know your job-ARCH" . Can you PLEASE , "teach-inform-advice " some of those so called "arch distro developers" like EndeavourOS, ArcoLinux, Garuda or even MANJARO to BUILD a bloody DEEPIN ISO for hybrid-gaming laptops ? - ( nvidia users ). PS : on their latest ISO-s I cant even pass the 'move-minimize-maximize' any app windows " on the screen.

[@eflinux]

I’ll see what I can do :)

[@anaximeno]

👌🏿

[@hoangndst]

so how to remove encrryption when we don't need it ?

[@eflinux]

It is possible but not always advisable. It requires a few steps, and you can see them here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Removing_system_encryption#Removing_LUKS_Encryption_in-place - Too long to explain in a comment :)

[@brainstrom8320]

Hi! Can you make a tutorial on nvidia-optimus/prime/offloader/bumblebee/bbswitch or whaveter that works in Artix linux runit system with igpu/dgpu (laptop)? I can't find any video tutorials and I'm struggle with text tutorials.

[@eflinux]

I have already one about Optimus Manager on the channel.

[@brainstrom8320]

@@eflinux There are extra steps for runit systems that I'm starving for.

[@bestelevated]

Sir it'll be really really helpful if you can tell my problem, everything went fine till I entered the correct passphrase (confirmed 10x) but still it shows it's not the key. Why is it happening and solution?

[@luqmanhamdan9285]

I encounter some issue when installing the bootloader. EFI variables are not supported on the system EFI variables are not supported on the system grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry. No such file or directory. I'm using the latest January ISO, installing on VMware Workstation 15. Also, I had some issues with reflector constantly giving request time out even though I try every single country. To solve this I just use pacman mirrorlist generator from archlinux.org/mirrorlist/. Hope somebody can help me.

[@eflinux]

These errors refer to the fact that you didn't enable EFI in VMware.

[@utx0]

what version of luks was this?

[@DieterZakel]

After installing light dm i cannot login into i3. my password is not accepted although i can login to a console. Does anyone has an idea?

[@eflinux]

Hi Dieter, as user you can login to the console but not from the display manager?

[@DieterZakel]

@@eflinux yes. but i found out what it is. the keymap de-latin one was not loaded so theres that. but then other problems arose. maybe virtual machine installation is slightly different then on a real machine=

[@eflinux]

Can be, of course. Not every machine works the same anyway. Maybe you can share some issues you had so that others can get help if they face the same issues as you.

[@DieterZakel]

@@eflinux That was the issue and I dont know why this happend. I moved on to Open BSD Thank you very much!

[@JacobKapitein]

Hi, I want to do this on my laptop, obviously, because it's a portable device, but I have an SSD where I want to put my root and an HDD, where I want to put my home folders. How would I go into doing that?

[@eflinux]

You'll have to create the partitions on the disk accordingly and mount the respective partitions.

[@JacobKapitein]

@@eflinux Thanks, I have done that, but now how do I add multiple encrypted cryptdevices to my GRUB bootloader configuration? Would that be something like this?: cryptdevice=UUID=(uuid1here):cryptroot,(uuid2here):crypthome root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot home=/dev/mapper/crypthome

[@eflinux]

For the root yes, but for the home partition it's going to be slightly different. I have a video coming up soon about encrypting a non-root disk.

[@JacobKapitein]

@@eflinux Thanks, looking out for that! I need that, because I have a laptop with both SSD and HHD and I want to seperate home and root. Subscribed btw ;)

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the sub Jacob!

[@parinpatel4774]

Hi ermanno, i am facing a issue, after the last reboot i.e., install all the packages, i get a black screen with just cursor on top left corner. Can you help me with it!??

[@eflinux]

Make sure you add the graphics card module in the mkinitcpio.conf file and regenerate the initarmfs.

[@kingz725]

Any easy way to install main Arch Linux in dual boot easily?

[@eflinux]

It depends what you mean by easy :) I have already several videos on that.

[@RubiksHnK]

Great video. Sadly didn't fix the issue I'm having though. Anyone else doing install after install with the wiki, forums, and videos and their PC still not seeing grub (boot media)?

[@eflinux]

Can you elaborate on that?

[@RubiksHnK]

@@eflinux I'm not sure if GPT needs the bootable flag with fdisk -l I may go through it again and do a MBR install. Currently, after install, it says to insert bootable media. Boot order is Flash > CD > HDD > etc

[@eflinux]

Is your system UEFI or legacy?

[@RubiksHnK]

@@eflinux It's UEFI but I can set it to either or a compatibility.

[@RubiksHnK]

I switch BIOS to legacy repeated the steps and made sure sda1 was bootable and I'm in. I do need to fix my encrypted drive since I booted into an emergency shell lol. Complete pain this has been but you have my like and subscribe. =D

[@walterazbill463]

How to make "setfont ter-132n" automatic after reboot?

[@eflinux]

You can add "FONT=ter-132n" to your /etc/vconsole.conf file.

[@walterazbill463]

@@eflinux thx

[@adityasoni8113]

What's the diff between using fdisk and gdisk?

[@eflinux]

So, fdisk is meant to created dos disk labels, while gdisk is for gpt.

[@adityasoni8113]

@@eflinux Thanks. When I enter 'g' in fdisk it creates new gpt label. Is it still different?

[@eflinux]

It is said fdisk could have some issues with gpt, but I used it as well and it worked. However, it's good practice to use gdisk for gpt.

[@crlfff]

How do i set the font back to default?

[@amrouzamar]

Hello sir, I hope you are well, Kindly, is it possible to have multiples virtuel desktops in i3wm? if so, could you please explain how to do it? :) Waiting for your answor, wish you great day

[@alikaram98]

Hi Please record a tutorial video to install artix with i3 and use cryptroot partitioning If you have recorded a video with these specifications, thank you for giving me the link

[@murilolivorato1489]

hello my frind , at 23:50 minut vide , when it gonna restart to start arch . it gave an error and I could not restart . =/ ERROR : device '/dev/mapper/crypto_LUKS' NOT FOUND . I dont know how to fix now . could you help me ?

[@gudangaudiofilm6173]

what linux are you using

[@eflinux]

Arch.

[@TheKeule33]

@@eflinux , btw.

[@shipaviu6439]

Hi, with the help of this video I succeeded to boot in Arch on my MacBook Pro. The Broadcom WiFi did work in iso and chroot and it seems to work now too. Same driver loaded, WiFi-menu shows entries only dns doesn’t work and I can’t even ping my Gateway-IP. iwconfig command isn’t found did. I miss something especially if chroot did work? I installed netctl, dialog, network manager , dhcpcp. I am still trying to figure out a solution but if someone can help would be great. Thanks

[@samokidam8306]

Arch KDE: failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of leds:dell::kbd_backlight Any ideas what this is and how to fix it? Thanks

[@eflinux]

Hi Samo, you might want to try reading this on the wiki, about masking. Similar issues are reported on the Arch Forums: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Masking

[@samokidam8306]

@@eflinux Hi Ermanno :) I did what you told me and error no longer pops up. I also had this error with: NetworkManager-wait-online.service I have no idea where this came from since I never enabled it or started it or whatever but just disabled it so it no longer pops up. I guess it doesn't hurt anything if it is disabled. People on the webs said that it is benign. I have another question for you: On the following link I have uploaded 3 images regarding my question. we.tl/t-Vz9w6b0ZEh When I had Windows 10 installed that little LED light would turn red at the either 15% of battery life or 10%. White light means it is charging. Now that I have Arch installed and once the battery was at 13% and you can see from the monitor that it is red - there is no red LED light. Do you perhaps know how to solve this also? Thanks a lot! Samo

[@eflinux]

Hi Samo, I'm not sure how to solve that one. The best bet is to search the wiki for you laptop model and see if there's specific information on that.

[@samokidam8306]

@@eflinux Could you make a video explaining GTK and Qt? If someone has Arch KDE, should he downloa GTK or Qt version? I have seen that people say that Qt is for KDE but then on the other hand when people customize KDE they use GTK a lot. To be frank, I have no idea what they even mean and I guess that it would made for a nice video :) Thanks.

[@eflinux]

I was literally thinking today during my trip back home about this. I'll definitely do something on it.

[@theramendutchman]

Hey guys, I try this in Virtualbox but I don't have Lightdm booting up. Everything goes well until the graphical boot; there I'm stuck on a black screen with a white, blinking underscore in the top-left. Does this guide still work for the latest version of Arch?

[@jonascaluwe6140]

This can be due to hardware accelleration being enabled, turn off 3d-accelleration in virtualbox and it should work.

[@RafaelSales55]

Someone help me please, I'm getting this error everytime I try to use grub-install comamnd "EFI variables are not supported on this system" I tried to change in the motherboard to UEFI only but the error still is happening

[@eflinux]

Sometimes you might have a hybrid mbr uefi setting you might have to check in the bios.

[@derekmccammond3567]

You go way too fast to follow along without having to pause, rewind, and watch over. Also your video was covering the grub configuration and I got lost and now my /dev/mapper/cryptroot cannot be found.

[@eflinux]

Sorry about that, it's difficult to find the right speed for everyone.

[@sridharahan3439]

Its offline or online

[@eflinux]

How do you mean?

[@sridharahan3439]

@@eflinux full installation with insternet or offline

[@eflinux]

You need internet.

[@sridharahan3439]

@@eflinux thanks

[@mustaphaabdullah8139]

Request for using Sid

[@mattgalvin93]

This is an awesome video that worked perfectly- thank you! I'm trying to figure out how I can lock my computer after some idle time now but I haven't been able to make it work. I followed the steps in this video exactly so it's the same set up as described here. I added a file /etc/systemd/system/i3lock@.service to lock when I close the lid of the laptop and that works. However, if the computer is idle it does sleep but does not lock. So, can anyone help me figure out how to tell the computer to lock when idle when using Arch and i3 like in this video?

[@eflinux]

Hey Matt! Thanks for the feedback. You might want to snoop in my dotfile on GitLab. I have a new config for i3 that might help you out with that :)

[@mattgalvin93]

@@eflinux thank you! I will check it out! Thanks again for the videos and help!

[@eflinux]

My pleasure!

[@jonascaluwe6140]

When I follow all the steps you did, I always get thrown into grub rescue prompt. It is saying that it cannot find the device with the uuid pointing to /dev/mapper/cryptroot even tho I specified /dev/sda3's UUID and not the mapper one. This happens on real hardware and in virtual machines can someone please help me. I posted this on arch forum, but no one responds, so I am trying here as well.

[@eflinux]

There might be an error or a typo in the grub line.

[@jonascaluwe6140]

I have done this 13 times now in a virtualmachine on both a laptop and a pc and on real hardware, even with two different bootloaders. Grub and systemd and always the same result it saids it cannot find the uuid of the decrypted drive when it hasnt even asked for the decryption password yet. This is the weird part even when deleting all references to the wrong uuid out of the grub.cfg it still gives the error looking for the wrong uuid. This leads me to think that grub uses a different config file, other than /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Btw that is a really quick response. Glad to see you still take care of comment sections of older videos. Thank you, i subscribed!

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the sub! I wonder if it has to do with you pc model. I'll try it out again in the coming days to see if something changed.

[@jonascaluwe6140]

Great let me know if anything has changed. Thank you!

[@jonascaluwe6140]

I might have theory, I just haven't been able to test it yet. I am mounting the efi partition, that isn't encrypted to /boot/efi, but when starting the system the configuration for grubs lives in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Can it be the case, that it is looking for the configuration in the root device which doesn't exist because it is encrypted and thus, can't find it? If so, it should be fixable by mounting the efi partition to /boot so that the grub cfg is on the non encrypted partition.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

Thanks. Some ideas for people: # Resizing windows with keyboard only: unix.stackexchange.com/q/255344/150597 # Resizing by 1 bindsym $mod+control+Right resize grow width 1 px or 1 ppt bindsym $mod+control+Left resize shrink width 1 px or 1 ppt bindsym $mod+control+Up resize shrink height 1 px or 1 ppt bindsym $mod+control+Down resize grow height 1 px or 1 ppt (This is the complete set atm, but I honestly need to trim it down lol): bindsym control+Shift+q gaps left current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+w gaps left current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+a gaps right current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+s gaps right current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+e gaps top current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+d gaps bottom current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+r gaps top current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+f gaps bottom current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+t gaps outer current toggle 40 bindsym control+Shift+g gaps outer current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+b gaps outer current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+y gaps outer all set 10 bindsym control+Shift+h gaps outer all set 20 bindsym control+Shift+n gaps outer all set 40 bindsym control+Shift+u gaps vertical current set 20 bindsym control+Shift+j gaps outer all set 40 bindsym control+Shift+m gaps outer all set 60 bindsym control+Shift+i gaps inner all set 5; gaps outer all set 5 bindsym control+Shift+k gaps inner all set 15; gaps outer all set 15 bindsym control+Shift+comma gaps inner all set 30; gaps outer all set 30 bindsym control+Shift+o gaps vertical current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+l gaps vertical current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+period gaps horizontal current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+slash gaps horizontal current minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+bracketleft gaps all set minus 10 bindsym control+Shift+bracketright gaps all set plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+semicolon gaps right current plus 10 bindsym control+Shift+apostrophe gaps right current minus 10 And if you've made it this far, I recommend autotiling (in the AUR), and rofi-shortcuts (from GitHub).

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@@eflinux Always a pleasure.

[@dritterregenschirm2324]

Do you speak swissgerman?

[@eflinux]

A little, but I do understand it.

[@micleh]

Apropos encryption. Have you already tinkered with systemd-homed? I watched Lennart Poettering's presentation (kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXjJoneue7uMeJY) and I agree with everything he says there, especially portable home directories that can be encrypted. I've thus far either encrypted my entire disk or only home but making encryption work with systemd-homed is extremely easy. You just need a standard arch install but don't set up a user just yet. After the installation, you enable systemd-homed and create a new user by issuing: homectl create YOUR_USER_NAME --member-of=wheel --storage=luks If you like, I'd very much welcome an in-depth installation, especially with portable home dirs. I've not yet tested it because the requirements described in the arch wiki are manifold.

[@eflinux]

I'll have a look at it.

[@viktor196262]

i don't like this i 3 - the most popular is xfce

[@ronanwong5670]

KDE and gnome are more popular

[@caiofdacosta]

Hey! Thanks for your video! I followed it and everything went smoothly, but after a reboot today, the system hangs just after I enter my passphrase on dm-crypt. It just shows the message "/dev/mapper/cryptroot: clean, 114643/31226904 files, 3623021/124891473 blocks" Prior to this reboot, I was trying to configure a second monitor using Xrandr. Do you have any idea of what could be causing this? I'd really appreciate if you could give me a hint on how to debug it. Thanks a lot!