Problem: every module installs its config into the running user's ~/.config, but
/etc/skel was never updated afterwards. Any additional user created with
`useradd -m` later would get an empty home directory with no configs at all —
they would have to manually copy or re-run setup.
Solution: at the end of both TUI installer scripts (after every module and the
colorway step have finished), copy the fully-configured user's home into
/etc/skel so that it becomes the template for all future users.
How it works — tui-install.sh + simple-install.sh (identical block in both):
The block runs AFTER the last run_module call and AFTER apply-theme.sh, so
the snapshot is taken when the home directory is in its final state. It copies:
~/.config/ → /etc/skel/.config/ (all app configs, DE configs, etc.)
~/.themes/ → /etc/skel/.themes/ (GTK themes, including cyberqueer)
~/.zshrc → /etc/skel/.zshrc
~/.bashrc → /etc/skel/.bashrc
~/.vimrc → /etc/skel/.vimrc
Each copy is guarded ([[ -d ]] / [[ -f ]]) so missing files are silently
skipped rather than erroring. sudo is used because /etc/skel is root-owned
but the installer runs as the normal user.
arch-autoinstall.sh + archbaseos-guided-install.sh (chroot-phase changes):
The previous version tried to cherry-pick specific subdirectories from the
Dotfiles repo clone (hypr/, niri/, waybar/, etc.) using a long list of cp
commands. This was brittle — any new module that installs to ~/.config was
not automatically captured, and the list had to be manually maintained.
Replaced with a minimal block that only copies the three shell dotfiles
(.zshrc, .bashrc, .vimrc) from the repo clone into /etc/skel. This is
sufficient for the first user created during installation (useradd -m runs
immediately after, before any modules). The full ~/.config sync above then
takes over for all subsequent users after the modules have run.
arch-autoinstall.sh additionally had the skel setup moved to before the
useradd -m call (was missing entirely before) so even the first user gets
the shell dotfiles, with a fallback direct-clone path if the skel clone fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki
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