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pacman -Sy
pacman -S chromium xorg-server connman enlightenment rxvt-unicode autocutsel; # Note: Choose the noto fonts when prompted
systemctl enable connman

Touchpad support:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
#       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on clickpads
# and the right and middle top areas to be right / middle buttons on clickpads
# with a top button area.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "3"
        Option "TapButton3" "2"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

xterm / rxvt customizations
~/.Xdefaults

! Perl extension config
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,selection-to-clipboard
URxvt.perl-ext: tabbed
! Any scripts placed here will override global ones with the same name

!-- Xft settings -- !
!Xft.dpi:        96
!Xft.antialias:  true
!Xft.rgba:       rgb
!Xft.hinting:    true
!Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull

! Tabbed extension configuration
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: 8
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: 0
URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg:    15
URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg:    8
URxvt.tabbed.new-button: false

URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0200/c800
URxvt*font: xft:NotoSansMono-Medium:size=18:antialias=true
URxvt*foreground:white

/etc/sudoers.d/xorg

%sudo ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/Xorg
%sudo ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:/usr/local/bin/Xorg

Uncomment the line in /etc/sudoers to look like this:

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Add user myuser (change to the name of your user) to wheel.

usermod -aG wheel myuser

Create a file /usr/bin/startx-custom

sudo /usr/bin/Xorg &
sleep 2
export DISPLAY=:0
/usr/bin/autocutsel -fork
if [ `pidof Xorg` ]; then
        /usr/bin/enlightenment_start && killall -s KILL Xorg
else
        echo "No Xorg running... not starting E17"
fi

Make it executable.

chmod a+x /usr/bin/startx-custom

For a high resolution screen like on the Samsung Chromebook Plus, you may want to scale Chromium. To do this, add the following.
~/.config/chromium-flags.conf

--force-device-scale-factor=1.7

If DNS is not working right, adjust /etc/nsswitch.conf to look like this:

hosts: files mymachines myhostname dns resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns