I was wondering if GTK3 is going to make for better themes in the future. Most of what is out now and almost all of GTK2 themes are not very good IMHO. Is GTK3 all that much different than GTK2? How come none of the themes currently out have the polish of Mac or Windows and no I don't mean windows d ...
I've been looking for a decent dark theme for Unity, but they seem quite scant. Here's what I found so far:Plastiq (http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/12/plastiq-amazing-gtk3-dark-theme-for.html) - not a real dark theme, leaves a lot of stuff with white/light backgrounds.Elegant-Arch (http://www.upubuntu. ...
Something has happened with Graveman in Arch.It no longer allows me to use my DVD-RW or CD-RW recorders for any recording. This seems to be happening only with version 0.3.12.4-2, as the previous package (0.3.12.4-1) worked for months with no issues. I've tried all the latest stock kernels and udevs ...
Sorry for asking an install Q - but I havn't been able to find a nice install guide to arch. I followed through the basic install and only installed the base packages. Everything works fine. I'd like to go now and install fluxbox, will pacman -S fluxbox simply do? Right now if I 'startx' I get the e ...
So after trying Vector, Im now trying Arch linux, it looks great. My problem is It loads up but then just reboots, it never goes into setup. I used Deepburner. ...
Here is the Menu.lst file and would I also have to configure the fstab also and then I'm going to install SUSE will it detect the partitions if I don't configure it.It looks like I don't have to configure the fstab/etc/fstabYour filesystem settings and mountpoints are configured here. The install pr ...
i just got done with my install of arch, and have done the following:pacman -Sy fluxboxpacman -Sy gdmpacman -Sy gnomebut i still cant boot into GDM, or fluxboxwhen i do "fluxbox" in the script it says cannot connect with XServer reverting back to level "C" ...
I just switched from Gentoo to Arch (and I'm loving it!), but I have two minor problems:1) My clock is an hour behind. I have HARDWARECLOCK="UTC", TIMEZONE="US/Central", and I use ntpd on startup. Any ideas how to fix this?2) Pypanel doesn't work; python-xlib seems to be broken. ...
I got arch installed and when i reboot it comes up to the screen that saysArch Linux 0.4 (Dragon) (myhost) (vc/1)myhost login:now it says to enter root as user and enter no password, but nothing happens when I do this, whats the problem ...
ok I'm looking for a new distro any thoughts crux or arch pros and cons please. ...
I downloaded arch voodoo, with torrents form the archlinux website.When i go to burn the downloaded iso image it looks like its burning just fine but when its done and i eject the cd then put it back in to see if its burnt properly BUT it tells me that the DVD is empty and there is nothing on it.The ...
after having problems with the new Ubuntu i desided to chage distros i choice arch and may i say wow it is amazingif the installer was a bit more newbie friendly i really think this distro could take the ubuntu grown and be number one on distrowatch pacman what apt-get wishes it was just my 2 cents ...
Thinking about giving Arch a go on my day to day box (laptop) but had a few questions for the experienced. How "up-to-date" do they keep they packages in their core? How unstable are testing and unstable? Do you ever find that pacman breaks or overwrites your own configurations? Any help i ...
I would like to give Arch Linux a try. I need a little help though in the choices Index of /archlinux/iso/latestI desire to make a CD ISO image of the latest stable release of Arch Linux. I am using HTTP. If somebody can help guide me with the choices, I would really appreciate it very much.Thanks i ...
I did some research, read around the Arch wiki and was intrigued enough to wipe eeebuntu from my netbook in an attempt to get Arch up and running. After some initial idiocy I got it going, put LXDE and SLiM on it to have myself a GUI, picked up SeaMonkey as a browser, and installed the latest flash ...
I'm very new to Arch Linux and I'm trying to give a user account the rights to mount a USB flash drive. I'm not sure what group I have to add to the user, any suggestions. ...
I have a question about which driver I should be using with Arch Linux...My lspci returns01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]And the documentation located at Beginners' Guide - ArchWiki suggests...ATI Graphics CardsATI owners have multiple options for d ...
Is Arch Linux Stable?I ask this question because of quotes like this from the Arch Linux WikiOfficial Arch Linux Install Guide - ArchWikiQuote: ...
I'm running Arch/Gnome and I have a simple question. How can a user(not root) get permission to eject a cd/dvd.I can mount and umount the cd/dvd and usb for any user but I can't figure out how to eject working for non-root users...Any suggestions.. ...
I compared cd dvd players compatibility list on both debian and arch linux. Arch has about 5 proprietary cd/cvd players and debian has about 18. Is there a workaround so I can use those listed on debians list. Or may I import the correct driver? ...
I have my bios set to boot cdrom first then hdo. I get an atapi stage 2 repeated 2 or three times than it auto reboots and repeats the same message. I had just aborted an installation, where, in the configuration step, rc.conf was blank. I am installing another distro to clean or format my hard driv ...
When, I try sound-juicer, and I put a music cd in the drive...I get error message, no cdrom found. Data cd/s respond normally, even get icon on desktop, and files open up on it. I have been trying to solve this problem with web searches, and thought I had it solved. One fix, I tried was booting from ...
Ok, I'm pretty sure someone's going to laugh at me for this one, but what is the answer to the Arch Linux forum registration question?Quote: ...
Yeah, so I am trying to install Arch linux (Which I have done before) and I installed it successfully two different ways, my normal way (With a boot, /, swap, and home partition) and once by following the idiot guide (/, var, swap, and home partitions), as well as trying both procedures in both the ...
everyone, recently been trying to install Arch onto my usb and have run into some trouble I'm using the chrysocome method and installed the dd.Whenever I start the writing process usingdd.exe if=archlinux-2010.10.17-netinstall-x86_64.iso of=//./h:it writes, but when it finishes my USB is corrupted a ...
Would anyone happen to know how I can do an install from a Arch net install disc (burned from the latest stable)?The difference being that the disc network connection wizard only has an option for Ethernet. This is a very poor design in my opinion, because not everyone uses the same internet connect ...
Arch users . As I explained in my first post, I've chosen Arch Linux as my first distro and successfully installed it along with Openbox. I've tried to sign up for the Arch Linux official forum but I'm having a problem in the "Your answer" field. As my terminal in Openbox is not working I ...
Err, sorry for that. I was in a hurry and didn't get to typing out my message. Ahem.I'm trying to set up ntfs mounting on Arch (current) and KDE as a DM. This is the code I get when I attempt to mount any drive other than my linux partitions. Code: ...
everytime I tried to install wine in arch/chakra I get a error, how do I go about doing this? I've been using pacman -S wine is there another way to do this? thanx... ...
I've been thinking about it for a while, and I decided that it was finally time to try to install Arch Linux. But I've got a problem. Once I choose to boot Arch to install it, the usual white text starts flying up the screen. But then this message pops up:Code: ...
there Linux forums!I have gotten pretty bored with Ubuntu 10.04 and with life, so I thought I would give myself something to do...INSTALL ARCH! lolPretty much I have no idea where to start because I don't know what to download since it is pretty complex.Im willing to learn though! My specs of my com ...
i ve installed arch a while back but i was always unable to boot normally so i used booting cd's like i boot and others i figured out that grub cant boot from logical partition in which i placed the grub /boot, i need help enabling grub to boot p.s : i am dual booting with windows 7 thnx ...
I am looking for a more up-to=date but stable distro to use. I am coming from Ubuntu. I would like to know if Arch linux update their repositories often or do they work on the backport method like Ubuntu? ...
Anyone using Arch? I've been playing with it for a week now, and I have to say that after trying many other distros, this one is a winner for me. I got tired of bloated distros and I don't like wasting time on complex installations and configurations, and oh yeah, I needed good package management. A ...
i am thinking or running arch linux on my system beside debian...........any feedback would be appreciatedhow does arch compare to debian ? ...
I updated all packages on my Arch slice and managed to prevent my slice from rebooting (some kind of bootup filesystem issue that I could not fix). Long story short, using backups and rebooting, I isolated the problem to the initscripts package./etc/rc.conf (my original) & /etc/rc.conf.pacnew (t ...
I am experiencing an issue with a new Arch slice. All the packages are stock installs using pacman. I am using nginx and php-cgi with multiple vhosts.With one particular vhost (a wordpress site) I get this error in my nginx error log around twice a day:2009/04/01 00:35:23 [error] 11085#0: *60823 rea ...
I've tried to install some packages, including courier-imap and dovecot from [extra] repos on my Arch Linux slice, and the packages were not there. Is anyone having the same problem? Here's what I get when I do a pacman -Ss for courier: # /usr/bin/pacman -Ss courier community/courier-pythonfilter 1. ...
[root@hostname sphinxsearch]# sphinx-indexer -c sphinx.conf dk_mainSphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoffusing config file 'sphinx.conf'...indexing index 'dk_main'...sh: php: command not foundFATAL: failed to open /opt/lampp/htdocs/doku/data/sphinxsearch/dk_main.spl: N ...
having a problem whereby the timezone settings on my Arch slice are resetting to PDT each time the slice is rebooted.I have changed them to GMT by symlinking the relevent files in - anyone know of a permenant fix? ...
On of the most common requests is for an Arch Linux Slice....tada!We now offer Arch Linux as one the available distributions.I've tested it as thoroughly as I can but I can't (for obvious reasons) try every possible permutation of scripts, loads, etc. As such, if you do have any suggestions or comme ...
all just a quick question. As the title implies I'm sort-of stuck. I've done the wiki and google but no answer. I installed Arch from cd, rebooted and received this:"""ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/hda3' unknownERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the root ...
I'm using the gentoo development tree, and I was wondering, Is it stable enough to use while bootstrapping and emerging the system? I'm upgrading gcc to 3.4 at the moment and I've gotta use ~arch, plus I prefer the bleeding edge . ...
I want to use OpenVZ, and I decided to use Gentoo as my host OS. I just installed Gentoo according to the handbook, and I'm pretty sure it's installed correctly and very close to what was suggested there. Anyway, now I want to install OpenVZ and I'm going by this how-to Gentoo Linux Documentation -- ...
Lately, I found some Arch Linux at http://www.archlinux.org/. Do someone have any experience with it? I've heard, that on some forum they was telling only good things about it... ...
I'm just starting out with Linux, but as a advanced OS X user I'm no newcomer to UNIX. Also, I'm majoring in computer science, so I can't afford to shy away from technicalities, nor would I want to. As such, I want to learn from ground up; I don't want a 'user-friendly' distribution to hold my hand ...
There was a nice pdf document on Peoplesoft architecture, which seems now disappeared (page 404 error).Is there a new link ? Don't we any more chance to find it, do we ?http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/applications/peoplesoft_ent/PeopleSoft_enterprise_arch.pdfNicolas. ...
I decided to install openSUSE 11.0 from DVD last night, during the install I selected install grub to root partition of openSUSE ... thought I would keep my Linux Mint grub menu which already called openSUSE 10.3. Everything went well until I tried to reboot and grub refused to access the openSUSE m ...
I have a small question.....i ran two commands and both gives me two different answer for the same question....$>arch$> i686 and then if i ran the the following command it tells me something else$> echo $PATH$>i486 whom do i belive???????????:dazed: ...
The title really spells it out. I have LXDE on an Arch system. I want to remove it but keep openbox. Do I have to do a complete re-build, or can I remove just LXDE? ...