Re: [arch-general] busted system after update
Many of use have been there! Earlier this year I overwrote /etc/shadow with pacnew in a moment of madness.
[arch-general] PSA: OpenVPN no longer runs scripts as root
OpenVPN now runs scripts as the user `openvpn`, not as root. This tripped me up recently, because I use the `update-systemd-resolved` script, but it can't do its thing without root. Just thought I'd put this out there in case anyone else was having issues.
Re: [arch-general] adding Polybar to offical Repos
On 2020-07-22 14:54:13, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: is is possible to include Polybar to the official packages under extra or community? if not could u plz explain? Polybar requires optional modules to be already installed before you compile it. Once built with those, it won't run without those dependencies installed. So to have a pre-compiled version you would need to either force-install every optional dependency with the Arch package (no longer 'optional', and kills extendability), or make decisions on which features to include/exclude (no longer 'customisable'). Unless this changes I don't see that polybar is compatible with Arch packaging. However, the AUR is an ideal place for it.
Re: [arch-general] I3 installation
On 2019-06-26 13:44:41, Khorne wrote: On June 26, 2019 1:42:15 PM GMT+02:00, Ben Oliver via arch-general wrote: On 2019-06-26 17:05:31, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: Hey Archers, I have a fresh installation now. Can you please guide me to install I3 gaps wm? I have seen sites but they are confusing me.. i need detaied step by step instruction please The wiki is quite good: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3 For i3 gaps you need the package from the AUR. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/i3-gaps/ [...] That is very much *not* an AUR package. Agh! I don't know what I was thinking! In that case it's even simpler than what I said. Apologies. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [arch-general] I3 installation
On 2019-06-26 17:05:31, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: Hey Archers, I have a fresh installation now. Can you please guide me to install I3 gaps wm? I have seen sites but they are confusing me.. i need detaied step by step instruction please The wiki is quite good: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3 For i3 gaps you need the package from the AUR. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/i3-gaps/ To install an AUR package, follow this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages Once i3-gaps is intalled, generally you will want to run it from a Display Manager. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_manager For what it's worth, I use LightDM. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM Hope this helps! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?
On 2019-06-25 09:35:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Yes, they exist. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html is a comprehensive introduction that will give you terms to feed Google, and his https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/08/13/securitykeys.html compares some of the keys then on the market. Yubico do well, IIRC. FWIW I can also vouch for the NitroKey Pro. It's not U2F, but then barely anything I use supports U2F. You can store TOTPs on it for 2 Factor (but it's limited to 15, which is not enough for me, so I'm still using andOTP on my phone...). The main use I have for it is as a GPG smartcard. It lets you carry your GPG key around with you everywhere, or a subkey if you wish. This unlocks loads of possibilities, like being able to decrypt my password store, signing and encrypting emails, files etc etc. I also use it for SSH authentication. It's allowed me to use GPG a lot more than I otherwise would have. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [arch-general] gscan2pdf - could it be included in the official arch repositories?
I can vouch for it too. I have to scan all the mail at work and before we got a printer that scanned to FTP I went through loads and loads of options trying to find some suitable scanning software. Eventually I settled on gscan2pdf because it seemed to be one of the few that could reliably make multi-page PDFs.
Re: [arch-general] Good gif recorder
I have a little script in my PATH that does kind of what Nicolas mentioned. I stole it from somewhere but I can't remember the source, sorry. I should probably switch to webm or something but this has worked well for me so far when it comes to just recording 1-6 second UI/UX stuff. http://ix.io/ywg
Re: [arch-general] Suppressing specific pacman warnings
https://lowendbox.com/ is a good place to shop around on.
Re: [arch-general] Archlinux i3wm i3-scrot copy clipboard
Would this work? bindsym Print exec scrot 'screenshot.png' -e 'xclip -selection c -t image/png $f' (note that this binds it to the print screen key) On 21 February 2017 at 16:38, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: > Hi, I love with muy installation. Archlinux + i3wm but I like take > screenshots with tool i3 called i3-scrot but I don't see option to copy > clipboard, only save screenshots in folder...
Re: [arch-general] [OT] Favorite/best desktop in archlinux
I agree with all the above. XFCE is my go-to when I need a lightweight and reliable DE. Otherwise I'm strictly a WM guy - tried xmonad, liked it, but then found out that i3 has the setup I was using as default, so I switched. Plain text config files are also nice (although I imagine somewhat limiting if you actually know Haskell).
Re: [arch-general] fail to export gpg private key
This may or may not be related, but a recent caused lots of permissions errors in my gnupg homedirs. Happened on three machines.
Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM
I used Slim for years only to find out it was abandoned when I tried to use it in a fresh install (and therefore checked the wiki). Moved to LightDM and have not noticed any major difference, but I don't do anything fancy with my login screens...
Re: [arch-general] ML is being sent to Spam by Gmail
I have been meaning to write here about this issue too, 70% of ML stuff has been going straight to spam. A way to quickly create filters is to click the little drop down arrow at the top of the message, next to the 'to Foo'. Next to the 'mailing list:' title, there's a button that says 'filter messages from this mailing list'.
