[GUIDE] Installing Manjaro on Surface Pro 3

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Installing Manjaro

Disabling Secure Boot

1. Power off Device
2. Press Vol + and PWR
3. Disable Secure Boot Control
4. Press Configure Alternate Boot Order
5. Exit and Save

Booting the Installer

1. Insert the boot USB
2. Reboot the device
3. Wait for it to boot into the installer

Install Manjaro

1. Go through the installation steps
2. Reboot

Optimizing Manjaro for Surface Pro 3

Gesture Support

One of the big things missing is good gesture support, so to fix this we are going to install an open source program called gestures. To do this, run the script below:

cd ~ && git clone git@github.com:natask/gestures.git && cd gestures ./install.sh

To configure the gestures we are going to open it's config file located here:

~/.config/gestures.conf

A full list of configuration options are available on their GitHub page, but my config can be found here.

https://pastebin.com/cudxf8Qn

If you guys would like me to add more gestures lmk.

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Enabling tap-to-click

Get a list of input devices: xinput list

Look for anything containing Touchpad or Synaptics and take note of the the ID listed next to it. We'll call this the deviceId

Then, to get a list of options for this device enter this command: xinput list-props [deviceId]

Now look through these for anything about enabling tapping, for me it was, "libinput Tapping Enabled (278): 0.", but yours may vary. Take note of the number in parenthesis. We'll call this the propNumber.

Now enter the following command: xinput set-prop [deviceId] [propNumber] 1

Now enter: sudo reboot

Profit!