Hello, I am a noob when it comes to arch, and some aspects of Linux. I have a computer background, and I've used Linux for several years, but at this point it's been many years since my computer education and I've stayed fairly surface level with my Linux setups (I use Mint LMDE and in the past used Pop!OS. I had a Ubuntu EeePC as a kid add well).

I'm trying to do a minimalist arch install on an old HP Netbook and Acer Chromebook. I did an arch install in a virtual machine and got it working but want some advice from the experts.

I want to goof around and experiment since I don't really need these two laptops. They both have extremely limited emmc storage, the Chromebook has 14GB free and the HP has 32GB. Both only have 2GB of ram and Intel Celeron CPUs.

Do you guys have any advice for the install? I understand the WMs are probably the best way to go but I am not familiar with keyboard centric setups. Is there even a real beginner's tiling setup? Are there any display managers you recommend, and if so why do you recommend it? I only have a surface understanding of display managers so reasoning will be useful in learning more about them.

I was thinking of using f2fs as the file manager due to it being designed for flash memory and I don't care too much about reliability as this is only for fun, unless you have better file manager recommendations.

As for the boot manager , if there are speeder lighter weight options than GRUB, are there any you think would be beneficial to my setup? Would f2fs cause any compatibility issues with a different boot manager?

If there are any glaring areas missing in making a minimalist lightweight install let me know. This is really only intended to be a learning experience so I can tinker.

I was updating my system and something weird has changed. Suddenly Gnome 47 is very slow, the animations are laggy and the mouse also lags behind. But even more weird is that electron apps seem to have changed their colors.

Visual Studio Code is suddenly yellow while Obsidian has a dark brown touch. What is the issue here? I want my old color schemes back :(

hey guys, Im kinda of a noob regarding Linux but I used to use Linux back then and I wanted to start using it again. I choose Arch distro. But, no matter what I do I cannot even enter in the installation process, when I select `archlinux x86_x84 medium` option when I choose my usb drive on boot options, it returns me an error message saying that it did not found my usb:

ERROR: Device `2024-11-01-10-92-22-00` not found
sh: can`t acess tty: job control turned off

I tried switch usb ports, with no luck.

I made the flash drive boot with Rufus with GPT and UEFI.

Can someone help me?

Hey,

I recently installed Arch on an older laptop and set up the GPU drivers. I was trying to test it out by running Minecraft through ATLauncher, but I had no luck, even after following this guide.

Any tips or suggestions?

Edit: Forgot to post screenshots.
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Hello together,

I am using Manjaro for longer time, but now have also an Arch system installed recently, so please be nice since I am just getting into it :)

I wanted to create a virtual environment for python, however my editor (VS code) failed to recognize the virtual environment I created according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Python/Virtual_environment

I am wondering whether I should create it kinda globally for VS code started in any directory to recognize it. However, I did nothing different to my previous Manjaro where everything worked perfectly fine. Can someone give me a hint what I need to do? I would be very thankful!

Kind regards to you all.

I'm using DWM on Arch Linux. I set up the following window rules in picom.conf:

{

match = "focused";

opacity = 0.9;

}, {

match = "!focused";

opacity = 0.4;

},

So the active window is only slightly transparent; the inactive window highly transparent. Works just fine, expect:

Dmenu is taking on the same transparency of the inactive window. This is pretty much the exact opposite of what i want it to do. I tried creating the following rule:

}

match = "name = 'dmenu'";

opacity = 0.9;

},

It doesn't throw any error messages, but neither does it correct the problem. Can anyone advise?

Hello people of the Arch Linux subreddit

^(Scroll to third paragraph to skip unnecessary backstory)

A few weeks ago I switched from Windows to Linux Mint (because Windows 🤮). There were a few issues here and there, but I fixed most of them and it's going pretty smoothly. Now, even though it was a little annoying, it was also pretty interesting to do all the problem solving through the terminal. Granted, I don't remember much of it beyond a few basic commands I memorized, but it was fun nonetheless,

And then I thought for myself "Man, I already have so much stress in life, a little more won't hurt, I should try installing Arch on my machine." Now, don't get me wrong, I'm nowhere near being a computer expert, and especially a Linux expert, but I used a PC for many years and had to fix problems from time to time, so I do have at least a basic understanding of how things work. I figured it would be a fun (albeit frustrating) experience and I would definitely learn a lot from this.

So the big question is: Where to start? Not in the sense of installing Arch and then spending a few hours trying to get a working desktop, but in the sense of learning more about the workings of Linux so that when I do decide to try it (which will happen soon since the best way to learn is practice) , I have an idea about what I am doing

Hii, so just started out with linux(I'm using Ubuntu for the first time in the last week I liked it so I thought of arch linux because of hyprland and stuff) and trying to download arch linux now, anything I should be worried about or consider checking first?

It’s been a great six years on same hard drive. Eventually this nvme drive will no longer work .

I don’t image it - just daily rsync for backups.

My question is for those that have restored from backup before.

Should I install from my packages list first - then copy over my changed configuration files ? Or copy the configuration files ( /etc ) first then install the packages ?

Curious on this community’s thoughts .

By the way (pun intended) never had a problem with arch itself for 6 years straight.

Hey guys! So I'm new to linux which means I don't really know much about it. I just installed arch linux on one of my actual computers. Before that I tried on virtualbox and it worked fine. But now I'm having an issue. So when the system boots up the login menu is messed up basically and when I log in there's just my mouse in extreme scale and a black background. Really don't know what to do. I think it can be my display manager or idk really.

I have it now managed to install Arch, Steam and the Nvidia drivers. I can start the game and it works so far. But the game freezes randomly, so I have to kill it. On the same laptop I have also Manjaro linux, with the same settings in the game for details, resolution, effects and so on, also the same ProtonGE andSteamversion. But there is no freeze in Manjaro.

I have absolutely no idea, where I should start to analyze why I have this freezes on Arch and not in Manjaro. I don't know if and where logfiles for such freezes are saved.

If someone could help, this would be nice. If I can solve that, I can completely migrate to Arch.

• I will be dualbooting Arch Linux and Windows.
• I will be using an unified kernel image.
• I will not be encrypting anything.
• I plan to use systemd-boot as my bootloader but I can consider other bootloaders if needed.

I'm leaning towards /efi because you don't have to resize the EFI partition and it seems to have many more pros than /boot.

Information about the typical EFI system partition mount points: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition#Typical_mount_points

I have this consistent issue that my ethernet interface won't get recognized after I reboot to my arch system from my windows system. I disabled Shutdown-WOL and also enabled it but none of them really solve the issue except when I keep it disabled, but my ethernet adapter only gets recognized when I shutdown from windows and then boot it up again (reboot method doesnt work btw).

I know there have been plenty of posts about it, but most of them are a bit outdated I think (1-2 y ago) and i also tried to follow the guide on the arch wiki but I did all of them except downgrading my driver.

Since I'm relatively new to (Arch) linux I didn't wann try to meddle too much with the drivers and also if you need any more info pls provide the command that I should use to give you folks the info

Hi, I’m not to sure how to connect to Eduroam through arch, I’m new to using Linux and currently running Nmtui to connect to the internet however this doesn’t seem to work with Eduroam. I’m using hyprland if that might help. It’s fine connecting with all the other internet’s but it’s only Eduroam. Thanks for the help

I installed arch yesterday and the setting up was easy and the first 3 hours were Nice but today im having serious issues with the speed, the downloading and uploading even tho i have a really good new gen amd pc (7800xt r5 7600) and a good Wi-Fi, i dont understand why i am getting slow speed and ir anyone can help me i would be honored First time here btw

Whenever I try install arch I get a bunch of systemd errors. They happen in the archiso while I'm trying to install it. It's basically a bunch of different systemd core dumps and then it says that systemd journal failed, they happen even if I don't do anything. I've tried multiple different usbs and redownloaded the iso but it still won't work. I don't know what the problem is because I'm moving from manjaro (dislike the way it's going with stuff but that's my opinion) and that worked fine and also I recently installed arch on my laptop and it worked flawlessly.

Thanks in advance!

I turned back to arch a while ago because windows is getting more crappier every day basically i installed arch and i riced up my kde and the only games i played was minecraft and super mario bros and lego chess i kinda got bored off it so i decided ill install steam since i wiped my external drive i decided to reinstall all my source games because they all bring me enjoyment basically first i got a disk write error and i found a tuto on yt to delete all my games so i did it and it surprisingly worked now when i launch garrys mod or counter strike source it fails and outputs this:

chdir "/run/media/kryst/1TB/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/GarrysMod"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/kryst/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32)
: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/kryst/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32)
: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/kryst/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64)
: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/kryst/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32)
: ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 4000, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 7852 for gameID 4000
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/kryst/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32)
: ignored.
pressure-vessel-wrap[7853]: W: Cannot chmod directory/executable "./bin" in "/run/media/kryst/1TB/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/
var/tmp-W0PVW2/usr" from 0777 (owner: "root", group: "root", non-member) to 0755 (Operation not permitted): assuming R_OK|X_OK is close enough
Adding process 7853 for gameID 4000
pressure-vessel-wrap[7853]: E: Could not create copy "./manifest.dpkg" from "/run/media/kryst/1TB/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/
soldier_platform_0.20241008.104209/files/./manifest.dpkg" into "/run/media/kryst/1TB/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/var/tmp-W0PVW
2/usr": fchmod: Operation not permitted
Adding process 7854 for gameID 4000
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=4000]
Removing process 7854 for gameID 4000
Removing process 7853 for gameID 4000
Removing process 7852 for gameID 4000

im not really sure what fucks it up i already tried giving it permissions using sudo and chown but it gave me operation not permitted so im just here asking for help, also i tried reinstalling steam runtimes and my graphics drivers and also added launch options

My specs are
Amd Ryzen 5 1600 Cpu

32 Gb DDR4 Ram

RX 570 Nitro 8Gb Gpu

External Wifi Adapter (Tp Link Archer T4U)

I have Win 10 and Arch installed on my Thinkpad T490s and whenever i boot into Windows i'm amazed how responsive the touchpad is on this OS. There is basically no delay in the cursor movement. On Arch (i don't think this is a distro thing) there is a noticable delay between the finger swipe and a cursor movement. The best way to describe this is like playing the game with V-Sync on and off. I'm using Hyprland, but i also tried Sway, Gnome and River and didn't see any difference. I did quite a bit of googling but didn't manage to find anything relevant to try to fix this. Disabling pointer acceleration doesn't help at all.

I have 2 workspaces, one which is running dolphin and terminal, and another running firefox, the fastfetch shows that its using 76% of my ram, I have 6 gigs.

So trying to even get to the part of customizing, I was able to install and get it working, but obvious I'd like to change a couple things.. but I can't even get the .toml? Or .css ????? Am I supposed to manually create the .toml? And if so how? Wouldn't it need certain specifications or alike?

I do regreet -h to make sure I know what I'm doing And then regreet -s /etc/greetd/regreet.css But it then says "ERROR regreet: panicked at arc/client.rs:57:17: Missing environment variable 'GREETD_SOCK'. Is greetd running?" Or at least that seems like the part that catches my eye I mean. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, and my only theory is that I need greetd to be running? But how would I even do that..? I've tried looking at the GitHub pages, thinking I might me missing something but it doesn't answer, at least not that I recall

Then again, greetd and regreet seem to work fine at startup, since the screen appears and runs Hyprland as normal when I log in, I just don't want to be flash banged Everytime I open it +I'd rather have it looking pretty

I am having a very annoying issue with my VPN. I am using wireguard which I have set up following the instructions in the arch wiki. I am using the gnome network manager to manage the VPN connection. It generally works okay but every once in a while it loses connection to the WiFi. The VPN still looks connected, but not the WiFi, and of course there is no internet. I have to disconnect the VPN, allow the laptop to reconnect to the WiFi signal and then reconnect the VPN. I have openresolv installed and set the persistent keepalive option to 15 seconds (but even 5s doesn't make a difference). I don't think it is an issue with my VPN provider because other computers on my home network have no problems only arch. Could it be a router issues? Or is it some arch setting that I missed? Any suggestions would be great, thank you!

Hello, I'm new to arch linux and I was trying to use it for a home server, mainly for downloading, so I need to install jdownloader, amule an xrdp for remote acces from my windows pc, but using pacman every one of them gives me an error and says there isn't any packages with that name. Also a bitorrent raccomandation, i've been using utorrent but it doesn't seem there is a linux version.

Hey guys,
When I lock my desktop and come back to login, I type my password in and hit enter, but nothing happens. The GUI button to hit enter also does nothing. I can select switch user, which does function and can attempt to login again to the same user. On previous installs, this would work and allow me to login. But on my current install of Cachy now this doesn't work either. The screen just locks up. I am forced to hard power off and turn back on.

I have reproduced this on multiple installs of vanilla Arch, Arco and currently Cachy.

This only occurs with KDE, and has only been occurring for me since Plasma 6.1 was released.
I was recently using Gnome and did not experience this issue at all, so I assume this is something related to SDDM.

Some other factors. I only have 1 user account. My password only consists of numbers. I am entering my password using the numpad. This only occurs after some time away from the PC. If I lock and immediately try and login, it does not have an issue.

Some guidance would be appreciated. It is a minor annoyance.

I've been dual booting Arch and Windows for some time now, but mostly using Arch, I've gotten comfortable with it and now wanna delete it.
How do i delete the windows partition and add the free space to my root and swap(I haven't made a swap) partition without deleting existing data in Arch ?

 mpv: error while loading shared libraries: librubberband.so.2: cannot open 
 shared object file: No such file or directory

  mpv-1:0.39.0-3

Downgrade will not downgrade due to dependency

 warning: downgrading package mpv (1:0.39.0-3 => 1:0.39.0-2)

resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "librubberband.so=2-64", a dependency of "mpv" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: mpv

I generally know the build process and how to install an AUR package manually, however I usually just use paru to install it. My question here is not how to install the package but how to know if a package is safe.

Other than just checking the comments I have no idea how to tell if its safe and I cant find any guides online that do a good job of explaning

I don't wanna just ignore the aur because there's a lot of apps on there i'd want and I don't wanna just blindly install things (for obvious reasons). Can anybody help me with this?

Hi there!

I tried installing dnscrypt-proxy as described in the arch wiki. systemd-resolved is disabled and stopped and I think i got the configuration right.

But after systemctl start dnscrypt-proxy, systemctl status dnscrypt-proxy gives me the following:

× dnscrypt-proxy.service - DNSCrypt-proxy client
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnscrypt-proxy.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2024-11-09 12:45:04 CET; 1h 13min ago
   Duration: 11.232s
 Invocation: 55f5d81b69d243aa8846e2c08fdc866c
       Docs: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki
    Process: 540 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dnscrypt-proxy --config /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 540 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Mem peak: 24.4M
        CPU: 438ms

Nov 09 12:44:53 archie systemd[1]: Started DNSCrypt-proxy client.
Nov 09 12:44:55 archie dnscrypt-proxy[540]: [2024-11-09 12:44:55] [NOTICE] dnscrypt-proxy 2.1.5
Nov 09 12:44:56 archie dnscrypt-proxy[540]: [2024-11-09 12:44:56] [NOTICE] Network not available yet -- waiting...
Nov 09 12:45:13 archie dnscrypt-proxy[540]: [2024-11-09 12:45:04] [NOTICE] Network connectivity detected
Nov 09 12:45:13 archie dnscrypt-proxy[540]: [2024-11-09 12:45:04] [FATAL] Root privileges are required in order to switch to a different user. Maybe try again with 'sudo'
Nov 09 12:45:04 archie systemd[1]: dnscrypt-proxy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 12:45:04 archie systemd[1]: dnscrypt-proxy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Hey guys, I am trying to customize my gnome desktop environment. I downloaded one theme and I want to apply that. I changed the theme in tweaks but it is not reflecting any changes i system. I am able to change icons but theme is just stuck. Please help

Help... I am trying to install vscode on archlinux and after i open it it just stay in black screen and here is the error from terminal.

/opt/visual-studio-code/bin/../code: /usr/lib/libxkbcommon.so.0: no version information available (required by /opt/visual-studio-code/bin/../code)

I use Qogir as Icon theme, which i like so far. But i dont like that it overwrites/sets the icon for Evolution. I know, i can change the icon, when i copy the *.desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and change the path for the Icon= line. Currently there is only the name of the application "evolution", which shows the Qogir icon. What path should i set, to have the original Icon? I dont have a png or svg for evolution.