Tiling window managers often start a conky to the right or to the left to help a first time user. The conky will show you the necessary keybindings to navigate in a TWM. We show you the workflow how to remove the conky. We do not want to start it up again after every...
Most desktops have their own apps/settings to re-arrange your monitors. Tiling Window Managers often do not have it. There are different ways to cope with that. Xrandr and Arandr are great tools to analyze your hardware. Then it is up to you how and where you launch...
When you install software on your computer, you type in the terminal sudo pacman -S … sudo yay -S … When you write these commands in a file and make it executable, you get a script. Scripts are there to assist us when we re-install ArcoLinuxD or Arch...
Some information about ArcoLinuxD.com website. We continue to make articles about ArcoLinuxD and about its many many desktops. We started creating articles about desktops in a certain order. Hence the numbering. But ad hoc we keep writing articles and keep numbering...
Depending in what learning stage you are (ArcoLinux learning phases), what iso you are on ArcoLinuxD or Arch Linux or what distribution you are using …IF you are also using LIGHTDM as your login manager, you may see a “dynamic user” when logging in....
Installing virtual box on your Arch Linux or ArcoLinux computer should start with a visit to the Arch wiki and Nemesis scripts. The Arch Wiki gives you an abundance of knowledge. Follow this url and start reading : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox You...
Variety is our wallpaper changer. It can also get wallpapers from a variety of sources. When writing this article the best provider of new wallpapers desktoppr is still down for maintenance. We change the source of the wallpapers to a local source.Everyone has a...
My personal way to keep save from data loss is keeping my data in the cloud. There are people who copy/paste (grsync) everything to a harddisk or usb. There are people who use timeshift and other tools.At some point in your life you find a workflow that fits you. This...
We check first my dmesg. In previous article and video we discussed the messages we are getting lately. They all start with audit and it makes it hard to read the dmesg these days. We show you how you can get your previous dmesg back. When you perform many clean...
NO distro is 100% to your liking. You need to uninstall applications, install applications and tweak and config to reach YOUR sense of perfection. After any ArcoLinux iso I will install my personal github called : ArcoLinux-Nemesis. You can find that github here : ...
Feb 2019 – 101 plank themes to choose from In this video we will show you how easy it is to change any given plank theme. We use the numixx plank theme as example. We open it in the folder /usr/share/plank/themes/Numixx with Atom but open that specific folder as...
This procedure will work on ArcoLinux ArcoLinuxD ArcoLinuxB Arch Linux All you need to remember is that we work with lightdm display manager. You can find the lightdm configuration files in /etc/lightdm. Edit the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with sublime text. Choose to...
Discord is a slick looking application and a means to communicate very quickly with ArcoLinux users and developers. We can share printscreens and links via this medium. Installing can be done from AUR or 3party repo so either yay -S discord or sudo pacman -S discord...
Conkyzen (am-conkyzen – application where you can select all the conkies), the conkies (arcolinux-conky-collection-git) and the conky application (conky-lua-archers) are already installed on your system. Plasma has its own widgets. But if you want to have your...
Long procedure to update If you want to learn more about your system and keep track of what changed then this procedure is for you. 1 – bupskel Will create a backup folder of /etc/skel prior to your updates 2 – update Will download and install all Arch...
Check the version of Dropbox on AUR and 3Party repoInstall the most recent version Since we use dropbox as a service constantly on all our installations of all the desktops we have added dropbox to the 3party repo. This version will not be auto updated. It is a manual...
One of my goals is to be up and running as fast as possible on ANY DESKTOP of ArcoLinux. Syncing your settings, extensions and bookmarks to your firefox cloud account can be an asset in that matter. All I need to do is install the extension lastpass and login to my...
Obs-studio is a tool to stream your desktop, sound, webcam, … to youtube (and other services). sudo pacman -S obs-studio Read more about it on Open Broadcaster Software at https://obsproject.com. This application is certainly NOT A MUST for the average user. Only...
Like Firefox, Chromium and Google Chrome we can sync our bookmarks, settings and so much more to the cloud. The advantage is that after ANY CLEAN INSTALL we can get all our settings and extensions back with just a login and a password. This way I could have installed...
In order for me to be able to upload to my youtube channel I need to have my login and password. They are stored safely online with the tool from lastpass.com. We launch Vivaldi and show you how to install the extension lastpass. It comes from the Google store. You...
ArcoLinux is a rolling release. Some of the updates will be installed in /usr/share. Nothing to do then.Some of the updates will be installed in /etc/skel. The user decides whether he wants to take action or not. sudo pacman -Syyu or upall There was a message about...
Check the manual of any application. In this case man neofetch We need to tell neofetch to use the option – -source to load another image or logo. We get our ArcoLinux logo’s with the package from the conky’s : arcolinux-conky-collection-git. It is...
We add neofetch to the terminal. We want to see to see the technical information Neofetch provides and the logo of Arcolinux. Add neofetch to .bashrc (or .zshrc). W3m and imagemagick need to be installed to have the logo of ArcoLinux in...
You can use any display manager or login manager you want. There is no need to change to gdm because you are going to install the desktop gnome… but you can. It is the freedom of choice. And it is even not that hard. We have chosen for lightdm a few months back...
We can use a different shell in your system. The standard shell is bash. You can read more about bash or Bourne-again Shell here. But you can also use Zsh. Read more about zsh here. Zsh is already installed but not activated. And there are other packages you might...
Shown on i3 Can be done on any desktop Use meld as a tool to compare your projects over time and easily compare the differences in your files or folders. Use meld as a tool to compare the ArcoLinux packages in /etc/skel with your own and decide what changes you will...
When on ArcoLinux you can set your touchpad with the gui of XFCE settings or keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + M. This will work on Xfce and Openbox. If you want to have this solution on i3 you will need to delete a hashtag in the config file. #exec –no-startup-id...
The scripts on https://github.com/arcolinuxd are constantly improving. When we use ArcoLinuxD we will install a base Arch Linux and then it is up to us to decide what desktop environment you would like Xfce, Openbox, i3wm, Budgie ,… and so many others. Getting...
When we install the package arcolinux-termite-themes-git we will get 79 termite themes. The themes will be installed in /etc/xdg/termite. What we need to do manually now, is to copy/paste those themes over to our personal ~/.config/termite folder to work efficiently....
Conky is a free software system monitor. It is available for Linux. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power,...
Installing software can be done via gui (graphical user interface) like pamac and gnome-software explained here. But it can be done via terminal as well. Our Arch fun starts on the AUR or Arch User Repository. Check out what other people find great. Votes and...
In ArcoLinuxD we install all our software with scripts. Scripts can be easily edited. Delete lines, add lines. Install the software YOU like. That must be the first step to install the applications you do want. But eventually you will want to try out new applications...
All what we need to do is change the content of the file .bashrc and add neofetch to it. In the tutorial we see that XFCE wants to open a .sh file with libreoffice. Nothing could be more wrong. I will show how you can change that preference for any future action. W3m...
Installing these arc themes is actually quite simple. This package belongs to our own ArcoLinux repository and can be downloaded via sudo pacman -S arcolinux-arc-themes-git I show you where on your computer this is stored i.e. /etc/pacman.conf Then select your theme...
