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+# MonakhOS: My general workstation environment
+
+Code name given on 2024-05-16 : "MonakhOS"
+
+Architecture:
+- Sway
+
+- A single `venv` in dots containing all utilities and libs
+
+## Ansible
+
+https://github.com/id101010/ansible-archlinux
+
+## Getting started with a VM (qemu)
+
+Cd in `sandbox_vms/vm1`
+
+Create the QCow base image.
+
+    ../../ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh base.img
+
+Run the image, use remmina to install with archinstall.
+
+With Archinstall add:
+- desktop profile
+    - sway
+    - ly greeter
+- networkmanager
+
+Create snapshot to be able to quickly restart the ansible script with a clean image
+
+    qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b base.img -F qcow2 after_arch_install.img
+
+    qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b after_arch_install.img -F qcow2 after_ssh_init.img
+
+    qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b after_ssh_init.img -F qcow2 ready_for_ansible.img
+
+
+
+## Steps to install
+
+- find a new name for the device eg. blackjack
+- connect to wifi
+- enable ssh server to access it from the exterior
+- generate ssh key
+- add sshkey to forge.lefuturiste.fr
+
+### Generate a unprotected default ssh key
+
+```
+ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "mbess@blackjack"
+```
+
+no passphrase
+
+> ECDSA-SK, Ed25519 and Ed25519-SK keys have a fixed length and the -b flag will be ignored.
+
+### Configure ~/.ssh/config
+
+```
+# set as default
+IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unprotected_ed25519
+
+Host *
+    ServerAliveInterval 40
+
+Host forge.lefuturiste.fr
+    user git
+    IdentitiesOnly yes
+    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unprotected_ed25519
+
+Host aur.archlinux.org
+    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_aur
+    User aur
+```
+
+### Clone dots
+
+```
+cd ~
+git clone git@forge.lefuturiste.fr:mbess/dots .dots
+```
+
+```
+cd ~/.dots
+python3 -m venv venv
+
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# create symbolic link to access dots
+ln -s ~/.dots ~/dots
+```
+
+### install yay
+
+```
+git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
+cd yay
+makepkg -si
+```
+
+### configure Zsh
+
+https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zsh
+
+
+
+### configure xremap
+
+    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+
+    sudo systemctl enable --now xremap
+
+
+### Import and configure GPG keys
+
+### Configure unix password manager
+
+using `extra/gopass`
+
+### Setup symbolic links to configs files
+
+run the script `setup_dot.sh`
+
+## Shell
+
+### Fish
+
+#### install fisher
+
+https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher
+
+use `fisher package`
+
+#### fzf fish
+
+https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish
+
+require fd and bat
+
+#### lfcd
+https://github.com/gokcehan/lf/blob/master/etc/lfcd.fish
+
+### Zsh
+
+https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ud7YxC33Z3w
+https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode
+
+How to handle different profiles
+
+## Pacman packages
+
+defined in dots file
+
+arch_packages.yaml
+
+## Sway
+
+### swayidle
+
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68694093/how-to-prevent-swayidle-from-execution-while-watching-a-film
+
+## Greeter
+
+Ly is a TUI greeter, it will show a terminal based login prompt
+
+https://github.com/fairyglade/ly
+
+## ansible
+
+### auto run archinstall with ansible
+
+- question: how to overwrite the drive config and set it to auto ?
+
+https://archinstall.archlinux.page/
+
+
+## Pistes
+
+https://github.com/kewlfft/ansible-aur