Manjaro Installation and Config

Manjaro Installation

https://manjaro.org/download/

Install Packages

$ wget https://github.com/jacksonx9/manjaro_post_installation_script.git
$ chmod a+x packages.sh
$ sudo ./packages.sh
$ rm packages.sh
$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

Note: will install software required for brother-mfc-7460dn specific

Install Recommended Plugins

vim ~/.zshrc

Change the following lines in the file:

ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

plugins=(
  git
  git_branch_remote
  history
  systemd
  sudo
  zsh-autosuggestions
  autojump
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
  extract
  copyfile
  timer
  archlinux
  docker
  npm
)

Others

octave-5.1.0-4 has a bug with PAUSE, downgrade to previous version. Recommend:

DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1 downgrade octave 

and then select version 4.4.1

Also recommend betterlockscreen: https://github.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen>

Read their README.md for further details. Different setup procedure for kde, gnome, i3, etc.