# MonakhOS: My general workstation environment

Code name given on 2024-05-16 : "MonakhOS"

Architecture:
- Sway
- Support of dots file repository
- A single `venv` in dots containing all utilities and libs

## 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
- install with `archinstall` to initialize the computer
    - use the profiles defined in `archinstall_configs`
- connect to the internet
- enable an ssh server to access it from the ansible runner host
- on the host, generate a private ssh key
- add the public key on the target host
- create a target directory in `target` directory
- configure `vars.yaml`, see example vars file
- create on the host, the private ssh key that will be installed on target
- add this sshkey to your forge that host your dots file, eg. 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
```

## Pacman packages

defined in dots file

arch_packages.yaml

categories: commons, work

## 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/

## Known issues

### SSH known hosts

You need to keep updated the known hosts in your profiles to not have this info erased each time you play the ansible book.

## Pistes

- https://github.com/id101010/ansible-archlinux
- https://github.com/kewlfft/ansible-aur