Caledonia Arch Linux Wallpaper

Hey guys, I made this quick Arch wall paper to match my KDE theme which is called Caledonia (created by Malcer, not me at http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=142424).
Let me know what you think and if you'd like to see any changes.
Last edited by MikeEnIke (2012-01-24 21:01:03)

kdar wrote:maybe make a variant with smaller logo?
I was actually thinking the same thing. I think I'll put a small one up in the top right. Also, I just realized imgur uploaded that as a jpg and it looks like garbage. I'll reupload tonight with a PNG version.

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Arch Linux Wallpaper 1080p (Rendered with Blender Cycles)

Title pretty much says it all. I've included the source .blend (Blender) file for those that want to tweek it.
Wallpaper:
Blender Source File: Download

Haikarainen wrote:
This is really beautiful! I read you rendered it using blender, is this available for linux also or is it windows/mac only?
Criticism: Tux stands out too much, doesn't feel like he fits in. I think it would be really cool and better if you worked on his materials, perhaps making him look like a plushy? You know a little furry.
Thank you Yes, Blender works very well on Linux, you can get it from the official arch repo ($ sudo pacman -S blender). This image was modeled and rendered entirely on Arch Linux using Blender + Gimp for some touch-ups (I would never make an Arch Linux wallpaper on Windows/Mac, that's sacrilege ).
Thanks for the criticism as well. Like I mentioned above, I'm working on a couple improvements and different designs already. I'll keep your suggestion in mine while designing them.

Arch Linux wallpaper pack #1

I've put together a pack of wallpapers with the new logo, using the excellent wallpaper designs from Venom339. The pack sports 15 different designs (preview), all 1680x1050 widescreen. We may add this to an official section eventually, but in the meantime you can grab it here:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~thayer/art/ar … ck1.tar.gz
These are all released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike). If you like the colourful patterns, be sure to check out Venom's gallery because these are just the tip of the iceberg.
Last edited by thayer (2008-01-19 19:34:43)

Thanks for the comments, everyone but the credit really goes to Venom339. His wallpaper designs were top notch long before I added the Arch logo
zyghom wrote:but what about 1920x1200 ?
My goal was just to get the ball rolling for the community. The original (logoless) versions of these wallpapers are at Venom's deviant site, and he's made them available in all sizes. Feel free to grab your favourite patterns and have at it!
kasa wrote:are we gonna get also GDM - KDM artwork in the future?
I still have some stuff that I haven't had a chance to get to...they might appear in the near future. Similar to what I said above though, the logo SVG's are available here, so everyone has the opportunity to make whatever they fancy.
Thanks again everyone and if you really like the wallpapers, be sure to leave a comment for Venom339. I'm sure he'd appreciate it!
Edit: stupid typos!
Last edited by thayer (2008-01-18 17:41:30)

Learning blender: Made simple Arch Linux wallpaper

Hi,
a few days ago I started to learn blender and I made a very simple wallpaper:
I guess there are lots of similar wallpapers around but I wanted to show mine off anyway
Hope you like it

Thanks for the tip, but I was thinking about making the shadow less overpowering at the beginning, but decided to let it this way, you will notice, that the shadow is centered and the actual logo is a bit off. That gives balance while moving the motive away from the center. I learned that images most of the time look more interesting when the motive is not exactly centered.
Maybe I exaggerated the shadow a bit^^
About the light source: It's actually above the logo, what you see at the bottom is the reflection on the ground. Seems it's not placed very well.
From your post it seems to me you think I did draw this, but this is a 3d model.

Another Blue Arch Linux Wallpaper

ive just made a little wallpaper for archlinux users ^^
check it out and tell me what you think
http://eldamar.deviantart.com/art/ArchL … e-82040857

eldamar wrote:Yeah its 1280x1024, i'll make some more versions for other resolutions later.
Yeah; it is now, but when I posted, it really was 600×480
It looks nice, but it seems you used another font?

Simple Arch Linux Wallpaper Generator

Hello everyone. I was always annoyed about nice looking, but old wallpapers not available in my resolution. So I wrote a wallpaper generator in C, which can create the same, sharp impression of my simplistic wallpaper on nearly every possible screensize.
You can grab the code at https://github.com/thillux/WPGenerator and create my wallpaper in your favourite resolution.
For a first look, visit http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/553/wallpaperrj.png (1920x1200, 2 MB) or
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8862/wallpapersk.png (1920x1200, 161 KB).
Last edited by thillux (2012-08-27 23:06:23)

I implemented only one wallpaper. You can only change the amount of lines and circles.
Edit:
I've made some parameters for that in the recent version.
./WPGenerator --width WIDTH --height HEIGHT --circles NUM_CIRCLES --waves NUM_WAVES
With
./WPGenerator --width WIDTH --height HEIGHT --random
you can choose them randomly.
I wrote this to get myself in touch with the cairo library. Thought it would be nice to have the possibility to create the wallpaper in your resolution without asking the wallpapers creator to do it for you, even in some years with new screen resolutions. I'm not pleased to see cool stuff created in 2001 only in 1280x1024. For sure, such a generator may never can output what others are capable of to do with Gimp, Photoshop and friends. If you are interested in other wallpapers, I can generate some more.
It would also be possible implement a feature to create a wallpaper with a monthly calender or a field for news from something like an RSS feed and call the program every $(your time here) to update it.
So if you like the basic idea, please let me hear about your criticism or provide feature requests.
Last edited by thillux (2012-08-27 10:44:32)

New Arch Linux Wallpaper

As a result of the poll I created the new Wallpapers. Here is the preview (I couldn't resist and added the one with the "new" logo too):
Different resolutions are available here (original logo) and here ("new" logo).

freigeist wrote:
stonecrest wrote:The top wallpaper is super sexy. Btw, clicking on the gnome-look download links gives a "Not found" error
Are you sure? I have just verified the links...
It must just be me, someone else said it worked fine too. I don't know why, but this is all I get.

Arch Linux Wallpaper

Made using photoshop, i have windows purely for the reason that i use photoshop. Afraid i dont have time to learn GIMP, eitherway heres the image :D
Last edited by brova (2010-06-04 21:58:53)

graysky wrote:@toxygen - is that conky on your desktop? Can you post your .conkyrc if so. If not, what is it?
that's actually kde's cpu/network/ram monitor plasmoids,with transparent themes. i miss conky sometimes though weather is lcd weather plasmoid, and now playing plasmoid on top.
i do use conky for the smallish hostname/uptime/package list at the bottom
and my laptop, which is where i think the wallpaper looks best:
thanks again brova
Last edited by toxygen (2010-06-08 06:27:01)

Default Arch Linux wallpaper?

How about it?
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=78028

dyscoria wrote:The next iso release should definately be called 'Taco', no doubt about it! Every other thread has a mention of either tacos or burritos
omg, he's not here yet? where is he? ;-)

Arch Linux Carbon Wallpaper

Hi everyone,
just wanted to share this wallpaper I made with GIMP, following a tutorial I found on abduzeedo.com (or http://abduzeedo.com/rawz-light-effects-photoshop, to be more specific), a blog for graphics design. The tutorial was originally intended for Photoshop and with me being not at all experienced with GIMP (or Photoshop, for that matter), the result turned out to be a lot more simplistic than it was meant to be at first. But then again, I guess that suits an Arch Linux Wallpaper better anyway.
The Arch Linux logo is taken from http://www.archlinux.org/art/.
I opened a new thread for this as I couldn't seem to find a thread dedicated to wallpapers.
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Last edited by cimple (2011-11-06 00:59:48)

Sure, go ahead and do whatever you want with it! I'd even add it as a theme myself, I don't know how to add stuff to the AUR though and right now I'm a little too busy to get involved in that. A GDM theme would be awesome as well (mainly because that's what I use) but I think I'll give that a shot myself later. I've always (always as in "for about a year") wanted to do a theme for GDM anyway - the wallpaper would have to be changed a little for that though (put the logo off-centre).
If you need to apply changes to the image, tell me and I'll upload it in GIMP's editable format!

Iceland Thermal Springs Lava Cave Arch Linux Desktop Wallpaper

It's been a long time since I've contributed anything to Arch. Very disappointed in myself. Something I've never done is artwork. Never considered myself an artist.
Daniel Isenmann, on the other hand is an artist, with fantastic photography skills. On seeing his iceland photo I immediately saw potential for an Arch Linux wallpaper. I don't have the gimp skills I would like, but I'm not unhappy with how it turned out:
http://buchuki.deviantart.com/#/d48n3cf
I've posted a few resolutions here:
http://archlinux.ca/art/
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Dusty
Last edited by Dusty (2011-09-03 07:26:11)

Hey, that's kind of neat. How did you do it?
Can I suggest that you make the URL less conspicuous/different font and closer to the bottom of the screen?

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Here I have just used Arch Linux color scheme.
1280x1024
1920x1200
More about artwork and other variations here: http://www.eidor.info/work/darzs/
It is in latvian language, but there are a lot of pictures.
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Not bad... I like that it's dark but with colour. Seems a bit "sad" to me though.

Arch linux - creation (wallpaper)

Creation:
from nothing comes substance, bulk, core, mass, phenomenon,
Arch Linux.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=98356

ArchGh0ul wrote:
hatten wrote:feel for making a 1280*1024? Then it would be even more awesome! (As if that would be possible)
It already is at 1280x1024...
Here it is without the logo
http://omploader.org/tMWYzZQ
i meant the one in the first post =P

How to setup grub2 with arch linux and xen, lvm on luks

OK, so I tried downloading this package from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xen-git/ , but that has patching problems as noted in the comments. It looks like the packagebuild sets up all the xen stuff for you, but I can't seem to get the package to install because of the error's while patching. If anyone can point me in the right direction on what all the extra files in the PKGBUILD are for or how to debug problems with PKGBUILDs not working because of patches.
So next I just tried to compile the latest xen from git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git (with ./configure, make, make install) and that seemed to go fine, but I'm a bit confused:
1. Do I have to do any additional configuration for xen when working with arch linux? On ubuntu I could just compile the source, update grub, and make sure to start the x services at runtime.
2. How do I set up grub to load xen with this setup? Right now this is my /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:vgStorage"
# Preload both GPT and MBR modules so that they are not missed
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"
# Uncomment to enable Hidden Menu, and optionally hide the timeout count
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=5
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
# Uncomment to use basic console
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx"
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors. Used by normal and wallpaper
# modes only. Entries specified as foreground/background.
#GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black"
#GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"
# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
#GRUB_BACKGROUND="/path/to/wallpaper"
#GRUB_THEME="/path/to/gfxtheme"
# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
#GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"
~
I've tried throwing in a line like: XEN_HYPERVISOR_CMDLINE="cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:vgStorage", but nothing new shows up on the grub boot menu.
First time trying to set up a non-ubuntu system, please help!

As for XEN.... well you could always try QEMU/KVM or LXC.
As for the LVM2-on-LUKS/dm-crypt
My /etc/mkinitcpio.conf looks like this...
MODULES="aesni_intel ata_generic ata_piix nls_cp437 ext4 intel_agp i915 dm-snapshot"
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect block keymap encrypt lvm2 filesystems keyboard fsck shutdown"
/etc/defaults/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:root:allow-discards"
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
The running grub config looks like this
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
9 insmod part_gpt
10 insmod part_msdos
53 if loadfont unicode ; then
54 set gfxmode=auto
55 load_video
56 insmod gfxterm
57 set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
58 set lang=en_US
59 insmod gettext
60 fi
61 terminal_input console
62 terminal_output gfxterm
63 set timeout=3
84 menuentry 'Backup, Arch Linux grsec kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-grsec kernel-true-12341234-8080-8080-8080-332200882255' {
85 load_video
86 set gfxpayload=keep
87 insmod gzio
88 insmod part_msdos
89 insmod ext2
90 set root='hd1,msdos2'
91 if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
92 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos2 BBAAEEAA-FFCC-CCFF-FFCC-AABBCCEEBBAA
93 else
94 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root BBAAEEAA-FFCC-CCFF-FFCC-AABBCCEEBBAA
95 fi
96 echo 'Loading Linux grsec kernel ...'
97 linux /vmlinuz-linux-grsec root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvroot rw cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:root:allow-discards quiet
98 echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
99 initrd /initramfs-linux-grsec.img
100 }
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Numerical UUID is the UUID of the ROOT partition.
Alphabetical UUIS is the BOOT partition
hd1,msdos2 AND ahci1,msdos2 are how the Grub Bootloader numbers the drives not Linux.
I have my BOOT partition on a USB stick, and it is the Second partition.
So, that would make it, Device 2 and Partition 2
Device numbering starts at 0
Partition numbering starts at 1
Oh, and note that you don't need ":allow-discards" ... at all but certainly if you don't have an SSD. Also note that I included the line numbers so it is very clear that I didn't post the whole thing, but instead what I thought was relevant. Finally, I am loading modules that I don't even need, but what the hell... if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Last edited by hunterthomson (2013-12-04 08:31:45)

Arch Linux and Splashy, a big update

edit 2:
If you don't want to build from sources have a look at this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 03#p371403
edit:
UPDATED LINK:
http://slexiw.netsons.org/files/splashy-stuff7.tar.gz
About me:
I'm a professional developer (mainly c/c++) with 10 years of development experience. I've never programmed in bash before so this is my first experience. My Linux knowledge isn't good either but i learned a lot thanks to Arch Linux.
About the thread:
I need a boot splash for a mini-pc I'm building and i want, of course, use Arch Linux. The current status is pretty depressive, initscripts-splash are outdated and there is no real support for user-mode boot splashing system (like splashy).
A few suggestions (IMHO) for the Arch Linux developers:
-Integrate the splash system in the official initscripts. If you write a wrapper like start_daemon and stop_daemon to be used in /etc/rc.multi and /etc/rc.shutdown, we can limit the changes to just /etc/rc.d/functions and at least the initscripts-splash will be more maintainable and the whole code more clean.
-Patch killall5 to add the support to ignore pids. The patch is really small and the one used by Ubuntu is http://patches.ubuntu.com/s/sysvinit/ex … ids.dpatch. There is a package in AUR that uses a different patch: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16445. I tested it and so far it worked fine, no problems to be reported.
Why do we need a patched killall5? Splashy gets killed early during the shutdown process and the whole purpose of having a splash system is defeated. Currently Splashy cannot handle the reboot/shutdown.
Enough talking, now back to the real stuff. I've modified the initscript-splash package (completely rewritten) and the splashy package (almost completely rewritten).
I've also written a new package to support splashy themes. I'm using these packages for my system and i never had any problem so far.
initscripts-splash:
Rewritten to fit my needs for Splashy. Based on initscripts-2008.05-1 (in testing, if you are not using the testing repo you should better wait till the package hits core).
It only supports MY Splashy package, no other splash system is supported, not even the "old" Splashy package from AUR.
splashy:
Based on the great work done by the maintainers and the contributors of the package in AUR. A lot has been rewritten and it's actually a lot different.
splashy-themes:
Simple package with just 1 theme (for now), depends on archlinux-wallpaper and uses a little hack to use the wallpapers provided. I will provide new themes as soon as i have time.
Splashy now supports:
Progress bar
Text output
Shutdown/Reboot
Still working on resume/suspend and "verbose on error".
Installation tutorial:
-Download, compile and install sysvinit-mod from aur: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16445
-Remove your old initscripts or initscripts-splash package, remember to back /etc/rc.conf and /etc/inittab before.
-Download, build and install initscripts-splash from http://slexiw.netsons.org/files/initscr … ash.tar.gz
-Download, build and install splashy from http://slexiw.netsons.org/files/splashy.tar.gz
-Download, build and install splashy-themes from http://slexiw.netsons.org/files/splashy-themes.tar.gz
-You may want to restore your old /etc/rc.conf and /etc/inittab now.
-Add SPLASH="splashy" to the end of /etc/rc.conf.
-Edit /etc/splashy/config.xml to select the theme you want (to list the installed themes do "ls /usr/share/splashy/themes/", use the directory name as the theme name).
-Add the "splashy" hook to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (mine is after v86d and before autodetect)
-Rebuild your initramfs: mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img
-Add "splash" to the kernel command line, if you are not using uvesafb (v86d hook) add vga=791 too. You should also add "quiet".
If you are still confused follow this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Splashy
Looking for suggestions, bug reports and patches!
Thank you for reading this, you've done what i couldn't do, i can't believe i wrote all that cr*p.
Last edited by lexiw (2008-05-29 15:28:49)

phrakture wrote:
lexiw wrote:-Integrate the splash system in the official initscripts. If you write a wrapper like start_daemon and stop_daemon to be used in /etc/rc.multi and /etc/rc.shutdown, we can limit the changes to just /etc/rc.d/functions and at least the initscripts-splash will be more maintainable and the whole code more clean.
Now, we've gone through this a couple of times, and I don't actually want to integrate splash SPECIFIC stuff in the initscripts.
However, we have the ability to override functions used by the initscripts. All we need to do is extrapolate out the pieces that you would need so that you can override them.
So, if you would be willing to provide a patch against git (http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initsc … ;a=summary) which extrapolates the pieces you need, we could get that applied, and you simply need to dump your overriding functions in /etc/rc.d/functions.d/. NOTE: submit the patch to the bug tracker, it will get lost if you just post it on the forums.
Alternatively, you can just tell us (http://bugs.archlinux.org/) which pieces you want extrapolated, but this will take much longer, as I don't think anyone dealing with this stuff is really gung-ho about splash support.
I will probably provide a patch after i studied the code a little deeper The /etc/rc.d/functions.d/ solution seems the right way to implement it.
phrakture wrote:
lexiw wrote:-Patch killall5 to add the support to ignore pids. The patch is really small and the one used by Ubuntu is http://patches.ubuntu.com/s/sysvinit/ex … ids.dpatch. There is a package in AUR that uses a different patch: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16445. I tested it and so far it worked fine, no problems to be reported.
Why do we need a patched killall5? Splashy gets killed early during the shutdown process and the whole purpose of having a splash system is defeated. Currently Splashy cannot handle the reboot/shutdown.
This seems a little silly to me. I'm sure there's 10 or 20 other ways you could implement the same functionality without needing to patch a quasi-critical binary just for splash support. The patch affects all users. Splashy does not.
I could not find an alternative solution by myself, as i stated my Linux knowledge isn't more than average. If you could provide me some hints I'll be happy to do some further research on the issue and provide a patch. I'll be glad to drop the sysvinit-mod dependency.
Without the right know-how i just went the "mainstream way" and did what Debian/Ubuntu did.
Edit:
I didn't know you could ovveride functions, this will be a great boost for the initscripts-splash project Thank you!
Last edited by lexiw (2008-05-22 17:35:15)

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