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How to do a complete Arch Linux install with XFCE, LightDM, Udisks, Yaourt, and other essentials Arch Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution and installing Arch Linux teaches you a lot about how system works under the hood, after you've installed Arch you'll start to appreciate command line and Arch's install procedure. I used to like distributions such as Parrot and Ubuntu because they already had packages installed and configured for me, but the point of installing Arch is to learn about Linux system. Learning core components of Linux and knowing which packages you've installed will also help you in fixing problems which might arise in the future, also building a system from command line is fun. Like Arch, XFCE Desktop Environment is also lightweight, minimal, and not resource hungry. Though XFCE is simple and lightweight it has some modern features, and if you customize it like me, It'd look really cool while taking about 200 MB to 300 MB of your m...

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions VirtualBox Guest Additions provides drivers and applications that optimize the guest operating system including improved image resolution and better control of the mouse. Official Installation Procedure To install enter the following command. sudo pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils  I have Linux kernel so I'll choose virtualbox-guest-modules-arch , when asked. Installing Other Essential Applications You can choose between vlc and parole they're both good. screenfetch will print out system specs for you on the terminal. sudo pacman -S firefox parole screenfetch Customizing Arch Linux   Lets install good stuff! This is how I customize My preferred icons -- Paper icons My preferred theme -- Arc Dark or Arc Darker My preferred mouse -- Simple and Soft My preferred Font  -- Ubuntu 10 Lets install them sudo pacman -S ttf-ubuntu-font-family arc-gtk-theme xcursor-simpleandsoft sudo yaourt -S paper-icon-...

You might be installing Arch and having a root account right now, and you want to add a sudo user. Lets add my username to your machine so I could use it too. First, we need to make a new user then we will give the user sudo privileges useradd -m -G users -s /bin/bash fellchase Now we've to set up password for new user passwd fellchase Be CAREFUL now, ideally you should use visudo to edit this but I'm a nano user so I can use it too. nano /etc/sudoers Make sure you don't mess up this file by adding unnecessary tabs and spaces!!! Just type this line fellchase ALL=(ALL) ALL Below this line root ALL=(ALL) ALL Now use CTRL + X to exit hit 'y' to confirm and then hit ENTER Now reboot and then login using fellchase & try to use sudo, It should work

The normal method to Automount file systems at startup in Linux always has something to do with terminal, nano, editing fstab files, finding UUIDs and all, otherwise you have to download a package for doing this for you. Normal Mounting procedure in Ubuntu I use Manjaro Linux XFCE and I faced the same problem I didn't want to mess up with my fstab and other files and was trying to find another way of doing this. I seen Thunar can mount filesystems without permission or without asking any credentials, so this article should help most of the Manjaro users to mount their file systems automatically at startup. I found out that Thunar uses udisksd to do this We'll be using udisksctl in Manjaro to do this. udisksctl is a command-line program used to interact with the udisksd daemon process. If you just want to mount your desired filesystem at startup this command will help you out and you've to just launch it at startup! udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdXN Similarly ...

Typecatcher is an awesome tool to download and use Google Fonts offline, It's available on AUR & maintained by chelqo as on 8th April 2017. It might have some dependency problems in your distribution so first we need to make sure that, we have all dependencies, please note that Typecatcher package requires following packages as dependencies, which are not installed as dependencies while installing from AUR in some cases. In that case you have to get those dependencies installed, on your own. In my case following dependencies were missing python-gobject  webkitgtk I installed following versions of the missing dependencies to get typecatcher working. python-gobject  3.22.0-2 webkitgtk  2.4.11-4 Commands to install missing dependencies. sudo pacman -S python - gobject sudo pacman -S webkitgtk Even after installing the missing dependencies typecatcher refused to run on my system and displayed the following error message. Traceback (most recent cal...