having used manjaro for a while, i'm now back to arch. this time, for a somewhat minimalistic experience.
- removed grub in favor of efistub. if you follow the wiki, maybe you'll need to change PARTUUID to UUID so it works
- no display manager, just setup getty to autologin. it still requires a password.
- using sway as window manager. very nice. i still use a load of xorg stuff, though.
- upon login on tty1 it gets me to sway automatically. this does not require any additional packages, just some ~/.profile configuration
- still haven't figured out how to screen share or take screenshots. wayland stuff.
- i've lost most of my dotfiles because cp * does not copy hidden files :(
- pretty monochromatic layout, everything is black and cyan. no two tones for the colors, except white/gray/black. made a theme using oomox. numix is greate for a boxy look. no rounded corners, no gradients. everything looks like a terminal
- no window decorations, just a tiny border around it. and oh yes, gaps, of course
sad thing is that i haven't found a way to replace unclutter on wayland.
i use neomutt as my email client (imagine opening a browser to check your mail lol)
thing is: company requires all employees to send their mail with an image as the signature. most solutions online were quite complicated for people who don't know html (like me)
so what you can do is
- send yourself an email with the image as the signature
- get the html from the mail (you can just open the <text/html> attachment in mutt)
i didn't want to type a password everytime i opened my password manager (keepassxc if you are wondering)
thought it might be cool to use an external drive as a key file to open it - the passwords are all stored in the machine, but encrypted. the card is the decryption key.
it's not that hard, actually, and it so much more practical. just press enter and you are in. i hope i don't lose the card.