[Solved] Organize the /etc/ /opt/ and /home w/o breaking anything?
+ What are the common organizing tactics that you use?
For example, if you're going to install anything, where do you put it, how do you do it with out breaking anything, etc.
My /etc/ /opt/ and /home folders are getting out of hand.
For my home folder, I have:
Desktop, Downloads, Dropbox (the only ones that I want here), meteor, node, nvm, nplay, pkg, python2-psutil, python26, src, sublime-text-2, try-meteor, packer (file), pacman.conf (file), and dead.letter (file).
How do I move these without breaking anything?
For my /etc/ I have:
adjtime (file), adobe, anacrontab (file), arch-release (file), asound.conf (file), at-spi2, avahi, bash.bash_logout (file), bash.bashrc (file), bash_completion.d, binfmt.d, bluetooth, ca-certificates, ca-certificates.conf (file), chromium, colord.conf (file), conf.d, couchdb, cron.d, cron.daily, cron.deny (file), cron.hourly, cron.monthly, cron.weekly, crypttab (file), cups, dbus-1, dconf, default, depmod.d, dhcpcd.conf (file), drirc (file), enviroment f(ile), fonts, fstab (file), fuse.conf (file), gai.conf (file), gconf, gdm, geoip, group (file), group- (file), grub.d, grub-cutomizer, gshadow (file), gshadow- (file), gssapi_mech.conf (file), gtk-2.0, gtk-3.0, host.conf (file), hostname (file), hosts (file), ifplugd, iftab (file), ImageMagick-6, inputrc (file), iproute2, iptables, issue (file), java-70openjdk, kernel, krb5.conf (file), ld.so.cache (file), ld.so.conf (file), ld.so.conf.d, libnl, libreoffice, locale.conf (file), locale.gen (file), localtime (file), localtime (file), login.defs (file), logrotate.conf (file), logrotate.d, lvm, lxdm, machine-id (file), mail.rc (file), makepkg.conf (file), man_db.conf (file), mdadm.conf (file), mercurial, mine.types (file), mke2fs.conf (file), mkinitcpio.conf (file), mkinitcpio.d, modprobe.d, modprobe.dconf (file), modules-load.d, motd (file), mtab (file), nanorc (file), netconfig (file), network.d, NetworkManager, ncsd.conf (file), nsswitch.conf (file), obex-data-server, odbc.ini (file), ODBCDataSources, odbcinst.ini (file), openldap, os-release (file), pacman.conf (file), pacman.d, pam.d, pango, passwd (file), passwd.OLD (file), passwd- (file), pcmcia, pkcs11, pkgtools, pm, polkit-1, ppp, profile (file), profile.d, protocols (file), pulse, rc.d, rc_keymaps, rc_maps.cfg (file), redis.conf (file), request-key.conf (file), request-key.d, reolv.conf (file), rpc (file), salt, securetty (file), security, services (file), shadow (file), shadow- (file), shells (file), skel, speech-dispactcher, ssl, sudoers (file), sudoers.d, sysctl.conf (file), sysctl.d, systemd, tmpfiles.d, tor, totem, udev, udisks2, updatedb.conf (file), UPower, vdpau_wrapper.cfg (file), wgetrc (file), wpa_supplicant, X11, xdg, xinetd.d, xml, and zsh.
How do I learn what can be deleted here and how do I move things without breaking anything in /etc/? Is there a program that highlights what's important, what can be moved, etc.?
For my /opt/ I have:
android-sdk, dropbox, and tor-browser-en.
This doesn't bother me, but I can see that somewhere in the future where it can get cluttered.
I also have created a folder on my root called ptmp and am using it to store my packertmp-0 files since my tmp folder gave me an error. I want to do things right and not get that cluttered too. So if you know about this check the thread out here
As a new Arch Linux user, coming from Windows 8, everything is great except a few minor annoyances. I give it an 7.8/10 for bring stable.
I will open up new threads for the following, but here are the few minor annoyances I still have:
If I edit what show up on my main menu (with main menu, not menu editor [from gnome]), somehow things get re-highlighted as if I clicked restore to defaults-- so I can't edit what I don't want to show up in my main menu anymore.
I forgot what file I edited that I made Chromium run at startup and now it slows things down by running at startup.
I couldn't exchange nautilus for dolphin (I like dophin better), and couldn't get xmonad going although I got the dependancies installed (Haskell, etc.). It throws me this error:
Please check the file for errors.
/home/jayvan/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
xmonad:
xmessage: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
I can't remove the Universal access applet. I don't need it. This should be removable.
There is no longer a high performance, low performance, balanced option for battery consumption. This should make a comeback.
I somehow edited my information of my user and it's not editable through system settigns. It shows my company, phone number, etc. I manually entered a command that I forgot in the terminal that did this. I'm not sure. This should be easily editable in Gnome 3. I don't know why it isn't.
I've created a news user and don't know how to delete it.
I couldn't get mp3tag to work with packer because it didn't have a PKGFILE. Will be trying to manually make it some time later, but it should be fixed in the AUR.
I would like to uninstall the Epiphany Browser. Desktop Search, Power Statistics but don't know how. I know it's -Rns.
Sublime Text 2 doesn't show up as a desktop item in the applications folder, I have to go to the folder and click sublime_text to launch it.
When I change YouTube to anything higher than 240p, it doesn't play and I have to refresh it.
Grub-sustomizer should come installed with Gnome, especially for those that want to dual boot Android OS (x86) or anyhting else. In fact, in the installation guide there should be a warning that if you plan to install another OS like Android OS (x86) you should partition an extra 16 GB as ext3, or if you want to install another Linux distro to partition an extra 20GB as ext4.
There isn't any multitouch gestures pre-installed that I can configure. I'll see if they even exist.
I haven't check but I'm not sure if there is a good screen capturing app.
Last, so I can switch all my friends to Arch, they've already taken an interest an I plan to do a blog post about it once I feel confident, how can I customize this scrip to install the apps I already have installed?
I'll get to posting these in seperate threads right now.
Last edited by jjshinobi (2013-04-09 19:57:23)
Ohhh man, you're making me nervous! Are you copying your files around your operating system yourself?
jjshinobi wrote:What are the common organizing tactics that you use?
The answer to your question is, I don't organize anything. Instead, pacman keeps track of all the files.
The only files you should need to worry about are what's in "/home". You can organize that however you want. If you have many ebooks, create a directory called "Books". Whatever.
Your story kind of reminds me of my roommate in college. As soon as he finished installing Windows XP, he would go through the entire directory structure and delete anything that was "unnecessary". It kind of scared me.
But fortunately, we don't have to do that with Arch Linux. Pacman takes care of everything, and it's super easy to create your own package.
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