Change order of Forum title? (put "Arch Linux Forums" at the end)

I don't know If this was suggested earlier (although I did a quick search), but when I have several tabs of this forum opened all i see is "(Arch Favicon) Arch..." "(Arch Favicon) Arch...".
I think it would be kind of useful to put it this way instead of "Arch Linux Forums / XYZ":
XYZ - Arch Linux Forums

carlocci wrote:...because I can read "Ar..." and I know exactly where the Arch forums block of tabs ends.
Doesn't the Arch logo favicon give that away?
carlocci wrote:if we put Arch Linux on the right it would MOVE ACCORDING TO THE LENGTH OF THE THREAD TITLE!!! Which is overwhelmingly unaesthetic!
It currently already moves according the the length of the thread title... Except at the moment it moves left instead of right

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[SOLVED] Cookie settings for Arch Linux forum

I really do like the Arch Linux forum.
It is fast, plain and simple; perfect for a distro which is the same
But one thing is bothering me; the cookies.
The arch forum is the only forum for me where the 'new post' colored picture at the left side of the forum parts is not unmarked after reading the new posts.
After I have read all new posts, I do 'mark all topics as read' (the link at the right top) to have this result.
For example phpbb forums do have cookie settings where the forums which are read, automatically turn the 'new post' icon off; it is not colored but the normal color again.
Can it be that some forum settings are not completely right and this should be also the case at the Arch forums?
Hope I have explained it that way you can understand what I mean.
Jan
Last edited by Lontronics (2007-03-03 17:07:04)

Yes, and it has nothing to do with the cookie (except a session).. at least i hope it doesn't cuz that would just make me twice as glad that we switched away from that horrid chunk of code called phpbb.
And on that note, search around a bit, because this has already been explained like three times.

Arch Linux Forums MIXTAPE

Bored archer is bored...
Anyone interested in an Arch Linux Forums "Mixtape"?
Basic rules
- Theme: Computer and/or Arch related (sounds or samples or lyrics or whatever you want)
- Music style: Free
- Track duration: Free
- Deadline: 3 months from now - 11/07
Needed
- A creative Archer for Artwork
Goals
- Fun
- Depending on how much it will suck , we could offer hq downloads for a very small amount to finance donations to Arch.
Entry form below, just add your nick+music style you think you'll do (just to have an idea about how fsck'd up this will be):
bangkok_manouel electronic/breaks
don't leave me alone archers, i'm waiting for you now.

ok great! we're already 4! only 3 to find, should be pretty easy now I hope...
bangkok_manouel electronic/breaks
dyscoria rock
smakked grindcore/noisecore/mathcore
peets
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LOL'd and still LOLing

Thunderbird puts a new message at the end of the thread. Is there any way of changing this preference to listing new message at top of the thread?

Thunderbird puts a new message at the end of the thread.
Is there any way of changing this preference so that new messages are displayed at the top of the thread.
This is is more logical. You need to see new message in thread directly, rather than scanning to end of thread to see what is there.

No it is not possible. The newest message is attached to the message it is in reply to.
The conversations add-on might better suit your needs. see https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/?src=ss

List of Arch Linux ports - to the wiki, just a thought.

So I know that Arch Linux is x86 optimised, and I know there is a mobile and a PPC version... what other versions are there?
There is also Arch Hurd, and another one which I forgot.
Is there a wiki page which summarises the different version?
if there isn't, as they all essentially belong to Arch Linux, shouldn't there be a wiki page?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Related_Projects
The link is on the home page
Edit: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … tributions
Last edited by karol (2010-07-29 11:08:42)

Arch Linux MailServer, Point the Way, Please

Hi guys,
Hope you still remember me, long time no write,
I have been using Arch Linux as a Desktop for years, but have never played much with using it as a server. Now I have my own company and so since I work in the Technology area who better to make the servers for my company than I?
Here is the thing, I have already an Arch Linux WebServer running, and I want to have a MailServer too running on the same machine, just because I have always wanted to, and because the SSL certification I'm trying to get requires an @mydomain.com email for it to be the approver of the SSL, thats why I need to do this. I have two options:
This wiki entry, for Postfix or this entry of a simple mail server
Guys, since I'm new to this, can you point the way that I should follow?
-Thanks in advance,

They both look pretty similar... For a 'simple' / 'traditional' mail server, you can't go wrong with Postfix and friends. I have been running an Arch-based mail server for a couple of years now (hosted @Linode) using Postfix (PostgreSQL Virtual Users) and Dovecot. SQLGrey is pretty much the only anti-spam I have on it and we get very few spam across the 30 or so domains the server handles.
OTOH, if this is just for the SSL Certificate stuff, why not Google Apps (or similar) the domain? https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/standard/new3

How do I put a image logo at the end of my video?

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Does Arch Linux work with the Compaq Presario R3000 series?

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Arch Linux on SmartQ (V5II) -looking to start project-

Upfront I will note that I am not skilled enough to accomplish this alone at my current level. I will learn what I can in order to achieve this task, so any and all links to tutorials and ideas on how to get this working will be taken and put through heavy consideration. Primary concern will be getting a working "livecd" cloned image (basically, all the most standard core packages to get a working Arch Linux with USB Keyboard and mouse support, then build from there till I get X and all the nice features of the V5(II) working, and branch out from there Will probably look into repartitioning the NAND so I can have a complete and full install (probably preserve Android for being boot from SD, which is fine since it's a complete dual-boot which requires rebooting to switch anyway) As of now, I am referencing the development tutorial for SmartQ, tutorials for building firmware images from plugapps (nice Arch port to ARM devices) and whatever information I can gather from someone on the Arch Linux forums who has recently ported it to the newest ARM processor type (v7, if I'm not mistaken). All links will be provided at the bottom of this post.
My guess is that I will have to approach this with a "Linux From Scratch" mindset of compiling the kernel, busybox and whatever else I need to get a working base install (which, from there, I can compile everything else natively on the actual device)to the point where I reach a working system with gui, basic tools, maybe a game or two, and whatever else would constitute being enough for "firmware" status. I guess, my only question ahead of all that is how do I go about making the "base install" firmware to build up from? Secondary question to that is, once I get a nice setup, how do I take that (all being on the actual V5II) and remaster THAT into a firmware that I can then post online for others to test? I already have my homework cut out for me, so I'll be reading what i can to figure this out while anybody and everybody here throws me tutorial links and ideas on how I can accomplish this each step of the way... We shall see where this train takes us.
SmartQ Linux Development Guild: https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddtx8wk … skpm&pli=1
PlugApps Development Portal: http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?titl … evelopment
Arch Forum post for developer who ported Arch Linux to the v7 ARM processor: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59638
can't think of anything else at this point, but I will categorize links the best I can to morph them into somewhat of a workflow process and group the help aids to each relevant step along the way. Anyone interested in helping, feel free to join in on the fun.. Will be looking that the ArchMobile stuff and incorporating what I can into my project... maybe this will help revive the ArchMobile project as well...

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Arch Linux 32x64 bits, Developers and Window Managers Support

Greetings!
After having some time issues due to college that prevented me from this, I wish to have again a rolling-release distro in my computer.
I was in the past a big fan of Gentoo, but now it seems too much work to compile everything from scratch. Also they seemed to have some issues with the developers - the original developer if I understood correctly has quit the project, others were forced to quit due to misbehavior, etc. - and maybe due to some other facts their popularity on distrowatch dropped drastically.
Then this year I've tried Debian Testing... My goodness, that was messy. Tons and tons of bugs on XFCE, like thunar hanging on load and displaying error messages, gedit not removing the ~lock files properly on close, so I had the myfile and ~myfile, and many others. Really, I gave up.
I wish to give Arch Linux I try then. Of course that would be quite stupid to ask if arch linux is the best choice in an arch linux forum, but there are some key points that if you could answer would help me a lot to give it a try:
1. 32x64
"Should I use 32-bit or 64-bit?" is NOT the intended question. Many still prefer 32-bit-pae on a 64-bit capable machine, others prefer 64-bit. I wish to use 64-bit. Made my mind. But I would like to know if the support of 64-bit on Arch Linux is as good as 32-bit and if it comes by default with cross-libs which makes me able to run 32-bit applications natively right out of the box,
2. Developers
About how many and what's their relation with the users? When I've googled for Arch Linux, I've had found a review video on youtube where some guy said in the comments that developer's mind changed a lot in the past 2 years and they introduced many buggy packages that required manual workaround. At the end of his comments, he said "Sympathy? Apologies for the ****? Nope. blame the user for trusting 'pacman -Syu'" Surely I don't know which are these options because I haven't read about pacman yet (just know it's the default package manager) but you get the idea.
Another key question: Is Arch Linux hiring new developers over the time? Replacing the ones that leaves for the many reasons?
3. Window Managers Support
With Gnome3's overall rejection (including mine), we have only two options: Switch to KDE or try other Window Managers. I still wish to have faith on gtk, so the first option is still not considered by me. I don't wish to know "which one is the best", because that's another large discussion just as the 32-bit x 64-bit. Just how good is Arch's support (updated constantly? bug-fixes?) on:
- XFCE
- MATE
- Cinnamon
(Of course there are others like LXDE, Enlightenment, etc. but I've decided to narrow down to XFCE even having quite bad experiences on Debian Testing.)
4. Package Manager
Last, being a rolling-release dist, can I add an option for a specific package to install a specific older version and/or not upgrade when you tell the dist. to upgrade everything? I remember that back on Gentoo I could edit a text file and just type the version of the package I wished to keep and the "update everything" option wouldn't touch the package (worked also to try new versions that were still not stable enough).
Any replies will be very appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
Best regards.

I'll start at the end with #4. Of course on the arch forums you will get people who are biased towards liking arch - but I think if you ask in other communities you will regularly hear that arch's package management system is its greatest strength. Pacman is the primary tool for this, but we also have makepkg for things in the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Arch Build System (ABS) to recompile anything from the main repos with additional/alternate compilation options.
But for your direct question, there is an option to only upgrade to a particular version of a given package. There is an option in pacman's configuration file for just this purpose. However depending on what the package is, this could lead to problems. Users are discouraged from updating most of their system while keeping some older packages - This can lead to issues with shared dependencies. Of course if you build the package from source (AUR or ABS) yourself, such issues would be easy to resolve. Is there a certain package you know you'd want to keep at an older version? If you tell us what it is, we can give more specific information on how easy/hard it would be to accomplish.
#3: Arch is a DIY distro. You choose whatever window manager / DE you want. I can vouche for XFCE working wonderfully in arch. There are also numerous archers who use mate and cinnamon. I have heard of some problems, but (AFAIK) these have nothing to do with compatibility with arch, rather these are due to upstream issues. In other words, cinnamon, mate, xfce, or any other WM should work just as well on arch as on any other distro. I'd bet our wiki for installing and configuring those WMs are better than those of the distros that bundle the WM with the core install. (In addition to package management, you will find the arch wiki is second to none).
#2: I can't answer with any specifics - other than to say they continue to do an excellent job. I am not surprised by the youtube video - not because I'd agree with it, quite the opposite. But as arch is a DIY distro it puts some responsibility on the user to maintain their own system. If one is not prepared for nor willing to do this, they often become frustrated and end up blaming someone else. Often this is the developers, sometimes it is the forum moderators, other times it is the whole arch community. In every case these accusations are absurd. Your questions on replacement of developers is a good question though - there is a history page on the wiki which might give some insight on this, but I suspect others will have better input on this.
#1: I use i686 (32bit) on two of my computers and it works perfectly. It sounds, however, that a majority of the community uses 64bit (which I just updated to on one of my computers). My 64bit system works perfectly as well, but I don't have any 32bit-only apps. Occasionally there are forum threads about some issue or another with "multilib" applications which are 32bit programs run in a 64bit system. Generally these threads seem to be resolved without much hassle. You can search for some of them yourself: Skype seems to be a common topic of such issues.
All in all, I'd reiterate arch's strengths in it's package management and wiki/documentation. Potential weaknesses could be found by users who are unwilling or unable to take responsibility for their own system. I word this is a bit biased manner - there are many people who have no interest in being responsible for maintaining their own system, a majority of all computer users would fall into this category; most of them would be quite unhappy with arch linux. If you were happy with gentoo in the past and only want to avoid constant recompiling then you probably would be one who could be very happy with arch.
Or an even shorter summary: try it out. If you don't like it, switch.

Why is vi (vim) so bad in Arch linux ? "nothing in register.."

Hi.
I use various linux distros - gentoo, suse, ubuntu, fedora and (obviously) arch
I am slowly coming to the decision that Arch is the distro for me and have installed it on my work desktop also.
However there is one major issue I am having with Arch linux.
vim seems pretty much completely unusable in arch linux, not in the way that it is in Debian (i.e the strange arrow keys until you apt-get install vim-enchanced)
Its much worse, I am not able to paste into vim at all ... When pressing middle button to paste the buffer is says - nothing in register.
Also (annoyingly) I am unable to right click and paste into konsole (only when using vim) - instead it gives the message ' (insert) VISUAL '
This occurs from KDE4 and LXDE so it unlikely to be the desktop settings.
I do not have vi pasting issues with any other distro.
Can anyone help me paste ?
Regards

I'm having this problem too. PuTTY WinXP, logging into Arch Linux. I used to be able to use right-click to paste from the Windows clipboard (the scroll wheel uses the wrong clipboard) but now it just changes me to (insert) VISUAL.
I put
set mouse-=a
in /etc/vimrc, but it didn't work; perhaps because I need to logout and login. But typing that incantation from within the editor works fine.
However, I would beg to differ that "In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it". Should I upgrade PuTTY? (currently 0.53b)

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)

Strange screen colors while booting Arch Linux (i686)

I'm trying to install Arch on an old computer via usb live,
when I start the first option "Boot Arch Linux i686" at the beginning seems to work then stops and appears:
Arch Linux 3.17.6-1-arch (tty1)
archiso login: root (automatic login)
at this point the pixels begin to change from black to white. until the monitor becomes completely white and black horizontal line appears at the center.
you have any idea what could be the problem?
Thanks for help
Last edited by Enrico87 (2015-01-28 19:06:27)

Enrico87 wrote:actually i have installed Debian
What?? The first post clearly said archlinux, but if this is debian, you are asking in the wrong place. Did you just use debian because the arch iso was unusable? Did these visual distrubances completely prevent login?
can you link me the article?
Not likely. Is your google broken?
EDIT: in hindsight this post was more abrupt than needed for a new-comer to the forums. Please pardon the tone - but the content was exactly as intended. We are happy to help when it is needed, but archlinux users are expected to be able to do some of their own research. If you really need the wiki link provided to you, you most likely would never be happy with archlinux.
Last edited by Trilby (2015-01-28 20:12:45)

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