arch notes

ARCH LINUX NOTES. By: Matthew_Moore

Creating and Formatting Live USB images with DD

To View Drives use

sudo fdisk -l

Creating a Live USB  ( Drive Needs to be unmounted )

sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync

Formatting USB back to Normal

sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdx -I

To copy a CD/DVD to a .iso 

cd /dev; ls -ld sr* cdr* dvd*
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/dvdcopy.iso
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Enable AUR support for Arch Linux

Edit Pacman.Conf file
sudo [text editor] /etc/pacman.conf

Example:
sudo mousepad /etc/pacman.conf

First enable/uncomment

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Add Repo

[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

install

sudo pacman -Sy yaourt
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Creating a Local Repo for AUR pakcages

Add local source in your pacman.conf file

[local]
SigLevel = Never
Server = file:///home/user/work/local/

Create Local Directory /home/user/work/local/
Download AUR Tarballs and build the packages in 
this directory.  

Then Open Terminal and CD into this directory and 
execute this following command to make it a database.

repo-add local.db.tar.gz *xz

Then in your Packages list in your Build Directory
add a list of the AUR packages you wish to install
from the Local Repo.


##AUR Packages

List here
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GUI frontends for Pacman ( Octopi )

yaourt -S pamac-aur

yaourt -S octopi
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Stand-alone Update Notifications Applet

yaourt -S kalu
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Install Optional Fonts ( needed for Some Websites )

sudo pacman -S opendesktop-fonts

yaourt -S fontconfig-ttf-ms-fonts

yaourt -S ttf-google-fonts-git
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Install Flash and other Multimedia Codecs

sudo pacman -S a52dec faac faad2 flac jasper lame libdca libdv libmad libmpeg2 libtheora libvorbis libxv wavpack x264 xvidcore gstreamer0.10-plugins flashplugin libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdnav gecko-mediaplayer dvd+rw-tools dvdauthor dvgrab cdrdao
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To get volume settings and audio controls working on XFCE

sudo pacman -S pavucontrol pulseaudio-alsa

To enable keyboard Volume Buttons install Volumed daemon

yaourt -S xfce4-volumed

A reboot is required.

Once isntalled. Add the XFCE audio mixer to your XFCE panel by right clicking on panel and selecting add new items. 

Then right click on the Applet and select properties.  
Change Sound Card to Plyback: Built-in Audio.

right click again and select Run Audio Mixer. Change the sound card
here to Playback: Built-in Audio. Just like before 

Now your Audio and Volume controls should all function normally. 

It is also recomended that you add pulse audio volume control or pavucontrol to your panel for quick accsess to device settings. 

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Install Archive Managment for Arch Linux

for the XFCE desktop use
sudo pacman -S zlib p7zip unzip zip zziplib

yaourt -S engrampa-thunar

for the cinnamon desktop use 
sudo pacman -S nemo-fileroller zlib p7zip unzip zip zziplib
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Install all XFCE extras

sudo pacman -S xfce4-goodies
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Install Printer/Scanner support in Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S libcups cups ghostscript gsfonts system-config-printer simple-scan

Start Deamon 
sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl enable cups-browsed.service
sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl start cups-browsed.service

Software for HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, inkjet, and Photosmart Printers

sudo pacman -S hplip

To Fix CUPS Server errors in Manjaro / Antergos

sudo pacman -Rdd foomatic-db foomatic-db-nonfree
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Bluetooth Support Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-cups bluez-utils

Enable Driver

sudo modprobe btusb
sudo systemctl start bluetooth
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth

Install Bluetooth Manager

yaourt -S blueman
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Enable auto login for LXDM
sudo [text editor] /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

Example
sudo mousepad /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

uncomment and set autologin username to enable

Example:

change this

[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
# autologin=dgod

to this

[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
autologin=matt
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Installing Virtual Box and Enabling Full features and permissions

sudo pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-host-modules

yaourt -S virtualbox-ext-oracle

Then load the Vbox driver with this command.
sudo modprobe vboxdrv

To give yourself permissions so virtualbox can access Shared folders and USB devices  use this command, 

sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers

To load the VirtualBox module at boot time, refer to Kernel_modules#Loading and create a *.conf with the line:
vboxdrv

in location
/etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
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OTHER FIXES AND WORKAROUNDS:

Fix Thumbnails in file manager

sudo pacman -S tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10 poppler-glib libgsf libopenraw

sudo rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/
mv ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/Thunar.bak
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

Then logout and back in or Reboot. 
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Enable Teamviewer Daemon in Arch/Manjaro:

sudo systemctl start teamviewerd

sudo systemctl enable teamviewerd

( if it needs to be restarted )

sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
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Hide Windows Partitions on DualBoot:

Create a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-partitions.rules and add one line per partition you want to hide like so:
( change "sda*" to match the partition you wish to hide )
	
KERNEL=="sda1",ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda2",ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

You should be able to dynamically activate it as root:

  # udevadm trigger --verbose
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Manually Override and enable Trackpad palmcheck:

Add the following command to your startup applications

syndaemon -k -i 2 &

-i 2 sets the idle time to 2 seconds. The idle time specifies how many seconds to wait after the last key-press before enabling the touchpad again.
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Disable Screen Blanking (beyond disabling the screensaver)

Add the following commands to your start up applications.

xset -dpms &
xset s noblank &
xset s off &
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Enable Notifications for XFCE Mail-Watcher Extention.

Run on click: thunderbird
Run on New Messages: notify-send "New mail" "You have new messages in your inbox" -i xfce-newmail
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To display System Checks during The Bootup proscess. Edit yourGrub.conf file with this line of text:
 
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/b7b16ca7-81c7-4614-a29f-83765d83577a"
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Commands for Managing System Clock.

(Veiw Crrent status)  timedatectl status

(enable ntp) sudo pacman -S ntp
             sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

(List Timezones)  timedatectl list-timezones

(set Timezone "Example")  sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York 

(Manually set system Time "Example")  sudo timedatectl set-time "2013-08-11 23:56:16"


Note:  To Fix Clock errors when dual booting, Select Local time when installing Manjaro
       ( This is done by default if using GUI install) Then Open Terminal and Set the TimeZone as UTC. Using the followng command. 

         sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC

There is a bug that causes the System time and the Local time to be reversed. Setting
The TimeZone to UTC Results in Correct time Being diplayed on the Desktop.
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