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#pacman -Syyu
after you have commented out the
#
for your desired repo mirrors.
Like:
Server = http://mirror.1favre.de/$repo/os/$arch
That will do.. I agree it is very useful to have auto login in a live session.
I get a lot of complaints of people registering about missing slim or another log in manager.
Seems a good idea to me.
I advise you to check out this page:
and see if changing settings of xset can solve the problem: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … _Signaling
I mean this oage that is out of date.
I remember Stan making a kind of news/press statement about the new release and sending it to distro@distrowatch.com
Mr. Dodds sent me this mail:
just thought i would let you guys know...
i downloaded and installed your latest release distro....
after 30 minutes or so of going through the different programs....
some of the programs opened up in the Russian language...whilst i have a American English language 32.bit distro.
Rather mysterious...
Would somebody want to give an update notification to Distrowatch? Our latest release noted there is December 2012.
Yes, but that misses Mr. Greens argumentation: why should people visit a site or install another application to get notified about necessary steps; I think it is a great idea and as obvious as can be! That is why it won't be implemented; it isn't cool/elitist enough.
Congratulations and keep them coming!!
Archbang is an openbox set up.
Great if someone using KDE can help you, but probably you will be more successful in a KDE related forum.
I get some questions on the login /display manager.
A good thing to add to the DOC which seems out of date.
Conky I find only useful for people who want to monitor their network use and their cpu.
When I have problems with font rendering I always install fontmatrix. It always seems to solve the problems in a an easy way.
I\m working now in a a fresh install of the latest 07.06 rc-uefi iso and font rendering is perfect out of the box.
Thanks for the link!
I 'm always amazed to learn what a big impact we have with the small group of people we are on the whole Arch ecosystem...
from what I have learned you can turn off secure booting and maybe even uefi
On our new machine it is not possible to turn off uefi. So you indeed are looking at it in a wrong too simplifying way.
That is the big problem with uefi enabled hardware, that it can have many variables, which working on each other in a hard to analyse/solve way.
I think you both think a bit to easy about leaving Windows totally when no alternatives are available on Linux.
Especially adaptive software in Linux, which I need for my disabled daughter, is a mess.
But also my wife whose pc this new machine is, needs to use Windows for her work.
But she does like to work on internet in Linux.
Yeah, will try not to forget this one.
This is only useful if you have a dedicated hard drive for this installation alone.
It will be counter-productive if you use a multi boot set up.
The aptosid installation uses the same efi partition as the Windows boot up and this seems to me the best and cleanest solution.
Guess I have to go into setup to turn off secure booting to arch to run
Yes I had to find the keyboard short cut to be able to enter the bios set up (del) on my machine.
The easiest way is to turn it off although there are alsosolution with keeping secure boot; but that is not relevant for creating an uefi supported.
After installing aptosid I could use a keyboard shortcut, F8 to enter a boot menu.
Pity I can't test your iso the coming two weeks as I am on holidays now.
Yes!! At least on my machine.
The default Arch installation medium worked on my difficult uefi machine.
If all the ArchBang users donated a few dollars I could buy the hardware needed to create a working UEFI iso...
Missed this remark before. I would not mind doing a bit of fund raising, but It wouldn't prove anything if it works on your machine.
Only if it works on more recent new, popular hardware we have a solution.
The best policy would be to publish a uefi capable test iso and let it test by me and others around that have uefi motherboards.
As I concluded before and uefi boot can be very varied and some hardware set ups will be easier to get along with than others.
My installation AB cd wouldn't even show up when I tried, which proves that even if you solve it , it won't be solves for every one.
Quite useful for someone who wants to get familiar with an AB installation.
@Mr Green: Update warnings is a moderators only segment of the forums.
I find this video very annoying, sexist and stupid...and disrespectful to his mother.
The only things he proves is that some things have to be learned..what a discovery!
Quite a detailed view, you gave, barchi, and I agree with you.
Recently I installed Arch on a machine where Archbang wasn't useful (with efi boot) and again was irritated with the dull routine that is and people see that as giving insight; to do that for the Xth time??
The way people act in groups as analysed in social psychology is in average dreadful: peer pressure, hierarchies, conformity, scapegoating, informal and formal leadership. You see it all happen on the Arch forums; as i am doing this for the fun I try to avoid the bad vibrations as much as possible. If the leadership is authoritarian and not self critical and the crowd uncritical and fanboyish, there is little hope for change.
I use yaourt now on some new installations; it is not so terrible but still I liked packer better.
No the .xinitrc is basic to starting up your DE/ windowmanager. This should work out of the box.
Readonly looks like a permission error and probably users and groups (rights) are not well defined.
So maybe you didn't set up a user?
Try a reinstallation.
This will be a video card driver issue.
Try this: http://wiki.archbang.org/index.php?titl … Mode_Guide
Without the xorg bit as this is outdated. Just reboot.
If you still have problems you may have a problem with your login manager
#nano ~/.xinitrc
to check if your login is defined well https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Login
To change login manager: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager
Very interesting!!
We are very happy to present to you the final release of siduction 2013.1 - Firestarter. Siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch and we try to release snapshots quarterly.
Siduction 2013.1 is shipped with 5 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC, XFCE, LXDE, GNOME, and Razor-qt, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. From the shipped DEs only LXDE and Razor-Qt fit on a CD with 700 MegaByte. But as CDs become more irrelevant with every day, we are not too worried about this and recommend to use USB-Sticks for installation.
New in this release cycle is GNOME 3, that we are happy to officially present. Also officially shipped for the first time is noX, a variant without a X-Server, meant for users that prefer to work without an X environment completely or wish to build their own environment pretty much from scratch.
The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of Sid, from 2013-05-20. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.9.3, accompanied by X-Server 1.12.4-6.
Since Debian has released Wheezy just recently, we use the opportunity to release a current snapshot of the archive, after the opened floodgates after the end of the freeze have flushed a plethora of fresh packages into Sid.
Only the lxde version fits on a cd.
Download here.
People that have a ATI Radeon videocard should read the release notes before using it.
Ir reminds me of austrumi; also such a wonder of delicate engineering.
Its latest version is 2.6.8.and from 20 March 2013: ftp://austrumi.ru.lv/
Nice !
I again have this libpng issue after updating; reinstalling gtk-pixbuf and gtk2 and gtk3 didn't solve it.
Also reinstalling libwmf at which the error first was shown during pacman update didn't solve it
Error running smplayer: /usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libpng15.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Will need to rebuild some packages from AUR like mplayer-vdpau-svn. Build failed, so back to mplayer.
I suggest you install geany and open menu.xml in the folder /home/yourusername/.config/openbox
Helped by the color code you can see what is and does what. Just edit by hand.
My perception in the last few years was that wine in the newest versions isn't optimal.
Try a distro that is conservative in package renewal like debian stable.
Maybe you will have more success.
Thanks for the suggestion. It surely looks great!!
What makes it unattractive to me that it seems all mouse driven.
I couldn't find anything about keyboard short cuts for managing windows, starting applications etc.
This keeps me bound to openbox or *box.
Arch installation medium
Bridge Linux (Arch-based)
Aptosid, Siduction
Debian - (special builds at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unoff … velopment/ ) Wheezy RC2 64 bits
Ubuntu 64-bit
RedHatEL 5.9 or later
Fedora 17 and later
OpenSUSE 12.2
Please give feedback if you know more..
No, I can only turn off secure boot, no option to login legacy bios
not even sure if it is possible to boot from usb on a uefi based machine
Yes it is, you just have to prepare the partitioning in a certain way:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UE … B_from_ISO
First create a partition table and at most one partition in the USB. Mount the ISO image from the Arch Linux download page.
# mkdir -p /mnt/{usb,iso}
# mount -o loop archlinux-2012.12.01-dual.iso /mnt/isoThen create a FAT32 filesystem in the partition on the USB (unmount before if necessary) with LABEL as used in the Archiso configuration. Obtain the label from /mnt/iso/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64.conf; this is used by the archiso hook in initramfs to identify the udev path to the installation media. mkfs.vfat is part of package dosfstools.
# mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdXY -n label #E.g. ARCH_201305
Mount the newly created FAT32 USB partition, and copy the contents of the installation media to the USB media.
# mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/usb
# cp -a /mnt/iso/* /mnt/usb
# sync
# umount /mnt/{usb,iso}
Someone else wrote in these forums the usb should be formatted fat16 but have not found that somewhere else.
The problem with uefi machines that they are all configured different and that a running efi on one piece of hardware doesn't give any guarantee for the next different one.
but a grub uefi set up that boots archbang iso might be possible.
I also concluded that this should be possible for non efi compatible Linux distros, but strange that with the ample documentation that is available about uefi and the fact that it is around for about two years I didn't find a straightforward guide how to do it.
I also find the Arch wiki guide not quite reliable/sufficient as it for instance proposes to create an new efi partition which is only useful in a non-multiboot situation.
Of course it can be done with arch-install-media, but it would be important to create a quick and easy solution for non so savvy people to do it. Now AB and other non-efi compatible distros rapidly become obsolete while people are starting to use newer hardware.
I find the beginners guide btw again not reliable for multiboot/uefi situations.
I bought an desktop pc a medion akoya, i7 with windows 8 installed and maybe you wonder why I bought such a machine supporting the enemy.
It has no bios fallback; the only thing you can do in the bios is to set secure boot disabled.
Basically it will be my wife's machine who needs to use windows compatible software for her work and for my daughter that uses some adaptive software that is only available for windows.
Of course I wanted to install Linux on it, so I had to create a multiboot sytem and I must admit that the whole Safe boot and uefi thing is a clever way to make it much more difficult to install Linux.
But only when the installation medium is not uefi compatible
aptosid hesperides xfce13-01 provided a easy efi compatible installation. I installed it 5 minutes or so.
Their installer is a great example of simplicity and effectiveness.
First you have to disable secure boot although booting Linux with secure boot is also possible but again more complicated. It seems safer to partiton, to resize your windows partition from within windows.
I can't even boot a live Archbang cd on this machine, probably because there is no efi boot folder on it.
When you can boot a non- uefi bootable livecd as some older machines can it is more easy to install and adapt the efi partition afterwards: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=21510
it is not clear to me if this will create an uefi compatible AB installation usb stick http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23139#p23139
This is the wiki for the arch iso:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … B_from_ISO
but I wonder if this will work for the AB liveCD and to what conf file you have to point:
Then create a FAT32 filesystem in the partition on the USB (unmount before if necessary) with LABEL as used in the Archiso configuration. Obtain the label from /mnt/iso/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64.conf; this is used by the archiso hook in initramfs to identify the udev path to the installation media. mkfs.vfat is part of package dosfstools.
or this is to put it on an external ssd: http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=13203#p13203
But I agree with scjet:
... the next CD-Live "ArchBang 2013.*" will definitely have to incorporate a uefi-compliant OS...
I also just installed linux-lts, but the problem still persists.
Are you sure you are booting from linux-lts? Have you rearranged grub or selected the linux-lts kernel at boot?
Is there a hardware button with which you can choose between wifi or ethernet?
I can't remember such a scenario that the hardware is OK , but not recognized at all.
Have you tried this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dkms-alx/
Have you seen this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1251004
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p … 0&t=126355
Have you tried other distros....
If it was my friend , I would try a crunchbang live CD, or manjaroo liveCD as they say they put a lot of effort in hardware recognition out of the box.
If you wnat debian cutting edge use aptosid or siduction.
If your perception or opinion about Debian is created by what Ubuntu did/was/is, you're really missing out on something.
I find it fantastic, stable, fast and clean in some hard to describe way.
The doctor describes using aptosid for at least three weeks; I have nothing to complain about it, except that the forums are not as user friendly as should be.
The risk is we lose our developer.
For not so fast computers also: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1553 … eliability
International Space Station goes Debian.
Thanks, I will try out the i686 release.
Installed fine. no problems with gparted.
A pity packer is such a nuisance to install.
As there is no ethernet controller shown and according to the wiki it should be recognized, it is meaningful it isn't shown.
You are sure there is no hardware failure?
You could try the linux-lts kernel to see if this one recognizes the ethernet controller.
#pacman -S linux-lts
That is very exciting!! I already had the idea that busybox might be a way to get around systemd.
What a pity systemd is still necessary for udev.
Btw I always seem to have problems with systemd. Devices that cann't be umounted (when using k3b) so it takes some 6 minutes to shutdown, and ntp service that fails to start..
Its too bad I have to authenticate each one, but for now its fine.
That is the advantage of using pmount. You don't have to do that.
You must be doing something wrong that it doesn't work for you, but I don't get a clue from what you're writing.
Use grub-customizer for editing your grub menu: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grub-customizer/
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More
The only thing we seem to be able to do nowadays is to be critical consumers: http://www.fairwear.nl/36/brands/
linux-lts updates regularly; it is just more stable.
I have all partitions listed in spacefm and use pmount to mount them as user (else spacefm will ask you to mount them as root.
Install pmount https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pmount/
$packer -S pmount
and edit etc/pmount.allow , for example
/dev/sda5
/dev/sda6
/dev/sda8
/dev/sda9
/dev/sda10
/dev/sda11
/dev/sda12
/dev/sda13
/dev/sda14
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdd1
/dev/sde1
/dev/sdf1
/dev/sdg1
/dev/sdh1
/dev/sdi1Every time I use midori it crashes, so I guess it works 'normally'.
See http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=19426#p19426
The best solution is to delete or rename your gtk-3.0 and or gtk-2.0 folder in /home/user/.config and choose your new theme with lxappearance and then reboot. Also:
If you don't like the icon set AwOken (I prefer colour icons) you can change at the same time and the new settings .ini will have both changes.
Couldn't you use an updated packer from the archbang repo?
Please note that only a part, 3 of the dmaging pesticides will be banned and that only during a test period.
as packer is marked as outdated (oh darn)
Packer update works fine if you change pkgvers : http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23437#p23437
Download tarball of packer to folder and create a PKGBUILD named file, copy the content of Mr greenS new PGBUILD to it; open terminal there and
makepkg -sci PKGBUILD
==> Making package: packer cfc8648-1 (Wed May 1 22:07:14 CEST 2013)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Cloning packer git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/paul/Scripts/packer'...
remote: Counting objects: 1121, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (610/610), done.
remote: Total 1121 (delta 377), reused 1103 (delta 361)
Receiving objects: 100% (1121/1121), 208.40 KiB | 325 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (377/377), done.
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
packer ... Skipped
==> Extracting sources...
-> Creating working copy of packer git repo...
Cloning into 'packer'...
done.
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
-> Purging unwanted files...
-> Compressing man and info pages...
-> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package "packer"...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Generating .MTREE file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: packer cfc8648-1 (Wed May 1 22:07:16 CEST 2013)
==> Installing package packer with pacman -U...
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package packer (20130217-1 => cfc8648-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...Packages (1): packer-cfc8648-1
Total Installed Size: 0.05 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [######################] 100%
(1/1) downgrading packer [######################] 100%
==> Cleaning up...
So if you change pkgvers from cfc8648 to 20130501 you will be fine.
Look at the work of python script master Adcomp to see what he does with python: things like ob-autostart, adeskmenu and adeskbar.
I hate those in ten minutes learn ### advertising while it takes years to master those things.
I never felt the urge to learn a program language but if I would choose one it would be python.
This is a nice image_desklet for your desktop that you can let rotate and adjust in size and location and seconds and folder.
As far as I can remember this was made by Adcomp too.
#!/usr/bin/python2
## Thanks to : ## Lucas Rocha - http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/
import gtk
import os
import random
import mimetypes
import gobject
## Images directory
IMG_DIR = '/home/paul/Afbeeldingen/natuur'
## Time between change ( in sec )
TIMER = 60
## Background color : HTML Color or None
BG_COLOR = "#202020"
## Position on desktop
POS_X = 1200
POS_Y = 650
## Image size
WIDTH = 640
HEIGHT = 360
## Show a border : True or False
SHOW_BORDER = True
class App():
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
def __init__(self):
self.window = gtk.Window() ## gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
self.window.add_events(gtk.gdk.BUTTON_PRESS_MASK)
self.window.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit)
self.window.connect("button_press_event", self.onClick)
self.window.stick()
self.window.set_decorated(False)
self.window.set_type_hint(gtk.gdk.WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DESKTOP)
self.window.set_skip_taskbar_hint(True)
if SHOW_BORDER:
self.window.set_border_width(1)
else:
self.window.set_border_width(0)
if BG_COLOR:
self.window.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse(BG_COLOR))
self.img = gtk.Image()
dir_items = os.listdir(IMG_DIR)
self.items = []
for item in dir_items:
mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(item)[0]
if mimetype and mimetype.split('/')[0] == 'image':
self.items.append(os.path.join(IMG_DIR, item))
self.img.set_size_request(WIDTH,HEIGHT)
self.set_image()
self.img.show()
self.window.add(self.img)
gobject.timeout_add(TIMER*1000, self.set_image)
self.popupMenu = gtk.Menu()
menuPopup = gtk.ImageMenuItem (gtk.STOCK_QUIT)
menuPopup.connect("activate", gtk.main_quit)
self.popupMenu.add(menuPopup)
self.popupMenu.show_all()
self.window.move(POS_X, POS_Y)
self.window.show_all()
def set_image(self, widget=None, event=None):
item = random.randint(0, len(self.items)-1)
pixbuf = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size(self.items[item],WIDTH,HEIGHT)
self.img.set_from_pixbuf(pixbuf)
return True
def onClick(self, widget, event, data=None):
if event.button==3: # right click
self.popupMenu.popup(None, None, None, event.button, event.time)
elif event.button==1: # left click
self.set_image()
def run(self):
gtk.main()
if __name__ == "__main__":
my_image = App()
my_image.run()If you left click the next image is shown; if you right click you can quit.
And I believe proprietary drivers will give more performance fading and shadows effects.
I don't play games but even only playing videos I can see better performance with the nvidia drivers.
I has obviously something to do with the theme.
If you give details I will look into it.
I think you should understand what I wrote as a historical analysis; the way economical processes (and the ecological destruction) can be turned around is a mystery for me as I see no way how these forces/people can be blocked as they have all important strings in their hands.
What I understand from some searching ehci-hcd is used by older kernels.
Have you tried the linux-lts?
This https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160993 may be related
I think it has something to do with what software regulates data traffic from usb to pc.
Have you checked in both ubuntu and archbang which driver is used by the usb soundcard via
#lspci -vnnIf you know that the American government is owned by the 1% nothing is strange. It all follows the logic of capitalism; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
This process is being going on from the start of capitalism.
Put riches that are produced or used by a community in a few private hands that force/press more and more money out of them.
Forget about netcfg and only use networkmanager.
.fonts is deprecated.
Open /usr/share/applications/ and see if there are icons shown for pacmanfm and gedit; probably the icon theme you are using doesn't have icons for accessories-text-editor. Look in the icons folder of your theme for a usable one or change theme (/usr/share/icons/)
For pcmanfm you can maybe edit the desktop file of pcmanfm to
Icon=pcmanfmI have pcmanfom-mod installed and
in the desktop file it is
Icon=pcmanfm-mod
Have you disabled the netcfg profile?
Migrating from netcfg
Warning: netctl conflicts with netcfg so disable existing netcfg@<profile> service before installing netctl.netctl uses /etc/netctl to store its profiles, not /etc/network.d (netcfg's profile storage location).
In order to migrate from netcfg, at least the following is needed:
Move network profile files to the new directory.
Rename variables therein according to netctl.profile(5) (most have only become UpperCamelCase i.e CONNECTION= becomes Connection=).
For static IP configuration make sure the Address= variables have a netmask after the IP (e.g. Address=('192.168.1.23/24' '192.168.1.87/24') in the example profile).
If you setup a wireless profile according in the wireless-wpa-configsection example, note that this overrides wpa_supplicant options defined above the brackets. For a connection to a hidden wireless network, add scan_ssid=1 to the options in the wireless-wpa-configsection; Hidden=yes does not work there.
Unquote interface variables and other variables that don't strictly need quoting (this is mainly a style thing).
Run netctl enable <profile> for every profile in the old NETWORKS array. 'last' doesn't work this way, see netctl.special(7).
Use netctl list / netctl start <profile> instead of netcfg-menu. wifi-menu remains available.
Mr Green and the gui girls
sounds like a new wave band in the eighties.
First revival of machismo after the second feminist wave...
Maybe I should build packages and install at time of creating iso?
This seems the solution to me.
Maybe
#blkidwil give useful info?
Woow and than I thought I was pessimistic...