Notes and scripts for dev box management.
These notes refer to running Arch Linux on the ASUS UX301LA. Other branches of this repo track previously used setups, for reference.
This removes Windows completely and replaces it with Arch. It assumes UEFI boot and GPT partitioning.
These notes serve as a reminder of the specific things done for my setup. It includes links to resources that cover the process more completely and generally.
Boot into Windows and create a 16GB recovery USB that can be used to restore to factory state. The following articles are useful (and do apply to ASUS systems):
- Understanding hard drive partitions on Lenovo systems with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8
- Methodology to create Recovery Media and reload a Lenovo Think system with Microsoft Windows 8 preload
Following the USB Installation Media guide, download the latest install ISO and write it onto a USB stick with:
dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX && sync
Enter the boot settings menu by holding <F2>
at boot, and:
- Leave the SATA Mode Selection as RAID
- Disable Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology
- Disable Secure Boot Control
- Create a new boot option
(for the inserted Arch installer USB, booting the file
EFI/boot/loader.efi
) (this option may appear without manual creation)
Boot the Arch install USB by holding Esc
on boot and choosing the Arch installer.
Following the Arch Beginner's Guide, perform the following steps for the base install:
Confirm you're booted into UEFI mode by checking that EFI variables are available:
efivar -l
Inspect the current disks, partitions and RAID setup (more RAID info here):
lsblk
mdadm -D /dev/md126
mdadm -E /dev/md126
Prepare the disk (with GPT partitions). Using:
cgdisk /dev/md126 # or gdisk, which shows a partition table scan on start
...delete all partitions and create two new partitions:
- EFI system partition
of 512M (code
EF00
oref00
) - Linux partition for Arch using the rest
Set up crypto for root disk:
# backup: rsync -avxHSAX /source/ target
# cat /dev/zero > /dev/md126p2
cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/md126p2
cryptsetup luksDump /dev/md126p2
# consider backup with: cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup --header-backup-file <file> <device>
# close with: cryptsetup luksClose /dev/md126p2
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md126p2 cryptroot # appears under /dev/mapper/cryptroot
# NOTES:
# * useful extra info (including suspend2disk/resume): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/System_configuration
# * suspend to RAM should work but not flush key
# alternative: https://github.com/vianney/arch-luks-suspend
# alternative: hibernate (to disk) might work better
Format the new partitions:
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/md126p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/cryptroot
Mount:
lsblk /dev/md126
ls -al /dev/md
mount /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/md126p1 /mnt/boot
Establish a WiFi Internet connection:
iw dev
wifi-menu wlp2s0
ping google.com
Move a preferable mirror to the top of the list:
vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Install the base system:
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
swapon /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3
Generate an fstab
file:
genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
vi /mnt/etc/fstab # Set last param of EFI partion to 0 (don't check)
Optimise for SSD:
vi /mnt/etc/lvm/lvm.conf # :s/issue_discards = 0/issue_discards = 1/
# Add kernel parameter: elevator=noop (maybe not...)
# Change from nfq scheduler to noop.
# Create: /mnt/etc/udev/rules.d/60-schedulers.rules
# set deadline scheduler for non-rotating disks
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="deadline"
# Reduce swappiness (thus less SSD wear)
# Create: /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
vm.swappiness=10
#
#
Chroot to base system:
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
Set the locale (en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8
):
vi /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
locale # to check available vars
Set localtime link to appropriate zone file:
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne /etc/localtime
Set the hardware clock to UTC:
hwclock --systohc --utc
Grab some useful stuff
pacman -S iotop htop
NTP time synchronization with Chrony:
pacman -S chrony
sudo systemctl start chrony.service
sudo systemctl enable chrony.service
Set the hostname:
echo myhostname > /etc/hostname
And in /etc/hosts
:
127.0.0.1 .... localhost myhostname
::1 .... localhost myhostname
Install packages for wireless networking:
pacman -S iw wpa_supplicant dialog
Set the root password:
passwd
Install rEFInd:
pacman -Ss refind-efi
vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf # add lvm2 AFTER block and BEFORE filesystems
mkinitcpio -p linux
refind-install
Unmount partitions and reboot:
exit # (from chroot)
umount -R /mnt
cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/cryptroot
reboot # make sure install media is removed
Reconnect to the Internet:
wifi-menu wlp2s0
Sudo:
pacman -S sudo
Create group and user, allow to sudo:
groupadd chris
useradd -m -g chris -G chris,wheel -s /bin/bash chris
chfn chris
passwd chris
vi /etc/sudoers # allow users in wheel group to sudo
CPU microcode updates (need to tell Grub to load the initrd as described on the wiki):
pacman -S intel-ucode
Sound:
pacman -S alsa-utils
X Windows, 3D and video driver, touchpad, hardware accelerated video decoding:
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit
pacman -S mesa
pacman -S xf86-video-intel
pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics
pacman -S libva-intel-driver
# establish custom config dir (some of this will later be modified)
cd /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
ls -l 10-evdev.conf || cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf .
ls -l 50-synaptics.conf || cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf .
Enable TLP for power managment:
pacman -S tlp
systemctl enable tlp
systemctl enable tlp-sleep
Fix brightness function keys:
vi /etc/default/grub # set `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi="`
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Extra entropy from CPU timings:
pacman -S haveged
systemctl start haveged
systemctl enable haveged
Install GNOME:
pacman -S gnome
pacman -S gnome-tweak-tool
systemctl enable gdm.service
For Bluetooth:
pacman -S bluez-libs bluez-utils bluez-firmware
For PulseAudio preference editing:
pacman -S paprefs
pacman -S pavucontrol
Enable network manager:
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
Lower WiFi MTU (to avoid path MTU black holes experienced with some websites):
vim /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/20-mtu
chown root:root /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/20-mtu
chmod 755 /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/20-mtu
#!/bin/bash
INTERFACE=$1
STATE=$2
if [ "$STATE" = "up" ] && [ "$INTERFACE" = "wlp2s0" ]; then
ifconfig "$INTERFACE" mtu 1492
fi
Do the xorg Intel tearing fix:
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
There is a GNOME tearing fix, but the xorg one seems to work better (and works outside of GNOME).
Enable multlib
by uncommenting the [multlib]
section in /etc/pacman.conf
and updating the package list with pacman -Syyu
(will also do a system upgrade).
Then, for 32-bit 3D video acceleration:
sudo pacman -S lib32-intel-dri
Install extra packages:
sudo pacman -S base-devel
sudo pacman -S openssh
sudo pacman -S openssl
sudo pacman -S bash-completion
sudo pacman -S git tk tcl gsfonts
sudo pacman -S bzr
sudo pacman -S ruby
sudo pacman -S gvim
sudo pacman -S screen
sudo pacman -S tmux
sudo pacman -S strace
sudo pacman -S xclip
sudo pacman -S traceroute
sudo pacman -S subversion
sudo pacman -S stow
sudo pacman -S wget
sudo pacman -S curl
sudo pacman -S firefox
sudo pacman -S flashplugin
sudo pacman -S chromium
sudo pacman -S opera
sudo pacman -S vlc
sudo pacman -S ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-base-plugins gstreamer0.10-good
sudo pacman -S extundelete
sudo pacman -S ext4magic
sudo pacman -S gnumeric
sudo pacman -S liferea
sudo pacman -S xchm
sudo pacman -S python-pip
sudo pacman -S python2-pip
sudo pacman -S jdk7-openjdk
sudo pacman -S apache-ant
sudo pacman -S arandr
sudo pacman -S s3cmd
sudo pacman -S sox
sudo pacman -S espeak
sudo pacman -S ack
sudo pacman -S gdal
sudo pacman -S fatrat
sudo pacman -S gparted
sudo pacman -S dosfstools
sudo pacman -S jfsutils
sudo pacman -S f2fs-tools
sudo pacman -S btrfs-progs
sudo pacman -S exfat-utils && pacaur -Sy exfat-git && sudo modprobe exfat
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g
sudo pacman -S reiserfsprogs
sudo pacman -S xfsprogs
sudo pacman -S nilfs-utils
sudo pacman -S polkit
sudo pacman -S gpart
sudo pacman -S mtools
sudo pacman -S filelight
sudo pacman -S unrar
pacaur -Sy rar
sudo pacman -S phantomjs
sudo pacman -S elinks
sudo pacman -S ghc
sudo pacman -S cabal-install
sudo pacman -S haddock
sudo pacman -S happy
sudo pacman -S alex
sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh
sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-en-GB
sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-de
sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-fr
sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-ru
sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-zh-CN
sudo pacman -S hunspell
sudo pacman -S hunspell-en
sudo pacman -S hunspell-de
sudo pacman -S wireshark-gtk
sudo pacman -S sqlitebrowser
sudo pacman -S i3-wm dmenu i3lock i3status
sudo pacman -S go
sudo pacman -S iotop iftop
sudo pacman -S sysstat
sudo pacman -S keepass
sudo pacman -S docker lxc lua-filesystem lua-alt-getopt && sudo systemctl enable docker && gpasswd -a $USER docker
sudo pacman -S qalculate-gtk
sudo pacman -S gimp
sudo pacman -S kdesdk-okteta # hex editor
sudo pacman -S gnu-netcat
sudo pacman -S time
sudo pacman -S pv
sudo pacman -S parallel
pacaur -Sy entr
pacaur -Sy brackets-bin
pacaur -Sy mobac
sudo pacman -S expect # for unbuffer
sudo pacman -S gptfdisk
sudo pacman -S rsync
sudo pacman -S redis
pacaur -Sy redis-desktop-manager
sudo pacman -S youtube-dl
pacaur -Sy coursera-dl-git
pacaur -Sy bmon
pacaur -Sy sysdig
sudo pacman -S moreutils
sudo pacman -S nfs-utils
sudo pacman -S inkscape uniconverter
sudo pacman -S imagemagick
sudo pacman -S zsh
sudo pacman -S dnsutils
sudo pacman -S file-roller # GUI archive manager for GNOME
Install from the AUR the AUR tools:
TODO: AUR helpers are needed earlier on
Install extra AUR packages:
pacaur -Sy google-chrome
pacaur -Sy google-talkplugin
# good free fonts
sudo pacman -S ttf-liberation
pacaur -Sy ttf-google-fonts-git
sudo pacman -S ttf-linux-libertine
sudo pacman -S ttf-freefont
# CJKV
sudo pacman -S opendesktop-fonts
sudo pacman -S wqy-microhei
sudo pacman -S wqy-zenhei
sudo pacman -S ttf-arphic-ukai
sudo pacman -S ttf-arphic-uming
pacaur -Sy ttf-tw
pacaur -Sy ttf-mplus
sudo pacman -S ttf-baekmuk
# Apple, non-free
pacaur -Sy ttf-mac-fonts
pacaur -Sy briss
pacaur -Sy sublime-text
pacaur -Sy atom-editor
pacaur -Sy dropbox
pacaur -Sy nautilus-dropbox
pacaur -Sy ansible
pacaur -Sy zeal-git
pacaur -Sy shutter
pacaur -Sy qgis-git # this version without grass
pacaur -Sy jq
pacaur -Sy v8
pacaur -Sy randomsound
pacaur -Sy lastpass
Let wheel
users run wireshark in its group (sudo -g wireshark wireshark
):
echo '%wheel ALL=(:wireshark) /usr/bin/wireshark, /usr/bin/tshark' | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/wireshark
Set up default applications for Gnome:
pacaur -Sy gnome-defaults-list
cp /etc/gnome/defaults.list ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
Take responsiblity for inode/directory
away from filelight:
sudo vim /usr/share/applications/org.kde.filelight.desktop # comment out MimeType line
sudo vim /usr/share/kservices5/filelightpart.desktop # comment out MimeType line
sudo update-desktop-database
Music
sudo pacman -S gstreamer
sudo pacman -S gst-libav
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-base
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-good
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-bad
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-ugly
sudo pacman -S gst-vaapi
sudo pacman -S rhythmbox
sudo pacman -S libdmapsharing
sudo pacman -S brasero
sudo pacman -S puddletag
sudo pacman -S beets
sudo pip2 install requests # for fetchart plugin
sudo pip2 install python-itunes # for fetchart plugin source
sudo pip2 install flask # for web plugin
sudo pip2 install pyacoustid # for chromaprint/acoustid plugin
sudo pacman -S chromaprint # for chromaprint/acoustid plugin
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-python # for (crashy) bpd plugin
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-vaapi
sudo pacman -S mpd
mkdir -p ~/.config/mpd/playlists
touch ~/.config/mpd/{database,log,pid,state,sticker.sql}
ls ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf ||
cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf &&
vim ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf
systemctl --user enable mpd.service
systemctl --user start mpd.service
sudo pacman -S mpc
sudo pacman -S ncmpcpp
sudo pacman -S gmpc # also works well with mopidy
sudo pacman -S ario
sudo pacman -S sonata
pacaur -Sy gbemol
# mpd client for android - MPDroid https://github.com/abarisain/dmix
This is a native HipChat client (but it's better to just use the web one):
pacaur -Sy hipchat
Zeal (Dash-like docset viewer):
pacaur -Sy zeal-git
E-books:
sudo pacman -S calibre
sudo pacman -S mcomix
Terminal sharing:
pacaur -Sy tmate
Kindle:
Installing Kindle under Wine provides a source from which the DeDRM plugin can extract liberated e-books.
These installers are required:
- Kindle for PC
- ActivePython 2.7.X for Windows (x86)
- PyCrypto 2.1 for 32bit Windows and Python 2.7
- DeDRM tools
And should be installed as follows:
sudo pacman -S wine wine_gecko wine-mono winetricks
WINEARCH=win32 winecfg # to set up a default wineprefix (leave it as Windows XP)
winetricks # select default wineprefix, install component vcrun2008
wine KindleForPC-installer.exe # register with Amazon account
msiexec /i ActivePython-2.7.6.9-win32-x86.msi
wine pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe
E-book files will appear under ~/My Kindle Content/
.
The DeDRM Calibre plugin is tools_v*.zip/DeDRM_calibre_plugin/DeDRM_plugin.zip
(additional installation info in tools_v*.zip/DeDRM_calibre_plugin/ReadMe_First.txt
).
Install and setup VirtualBox:
sudo pacman -S virtualbox
sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules
sudo pacman -S qt4
sudo pacman -S net-tools
sudo pacman -S virtualbox-guest-iso
sudo depmod -a # update the kernel dependency modules database
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
echo vboxdrv | sudo tee -a /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
echo vboxnetadp | sudo tee -a /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
echo vboxnetflt | sudo tee -a /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
echo vboxpci | sudo tee -a /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers
virtualbox &
sudo pacman -S vagrant
Install and setup MariaDB (mysqld):
sudo pacman -S mariadb
sudo systemctl enable mysqld.service
sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
mysql_secure_installation
sudo systemctl restart mysqld.service
pacaur -Sy mysql-workbench
Install and setup PostgreSQL:
sudo pacman -S postgresql
sudo pacman -S pgadmin3
sudo su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_AU.UTF-8 -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo su - postgres
createuser --interactive # role: chris, superuser: y
createdb chris
exit
pacaur -Sy uuid
pacaur -Sy postgresql-uuid-ossp
sudo systemctl restart postgresql
Install and setup MongoDB:
sudo pacman -S mongodb
sudo systemctl start mongodb
Get Windows product key from the BIOS data:
sudo pacman -S iasl
mkdir acpi && cd acpi
sudo acpidump > acpi.dat
acpixtract -a acpi.dat
hexdump -C msdm.dat # key is the last XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Install bitcoind
(see the wiki):
sudo pacman -S bitcoin-daemon
sudo useradd -m bitcoin
sudo cp /usr/share/doc/bitcoin-daemon/examples/bitcoind.conf /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
sudo chown bitcoin:bitcoin /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
sudo chmod 600 /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
vim /etc/systemd/system/bitcoind.service # see below
sudo systemctl start bitcoind
sudo systemctl status bitcoind # take recommended password and put it in config
sudo vim /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
sudo systemctl restart bitcoind
bitcoind
service definition:
[Unit]
Description=Bitcoin daemon service
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=bitcoin
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bitcoind
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Other Bitcoin and crypto stuff:
pacaur -Sy multibit
pacaur -Sy electrum python2-zbar
pacaur -Sy sx-git
pacman -S tor vidalia
pacaur -Sy pybitmessage
Android file access:
sudo pacman -S gvfs gvfs-mtp
Android dev env:
# install sdk and platform
pacaur -Sy android-sdk
pacaur -Sy android-sdk-platform-tools
pacaur -Sy android-sdk-build-tools
pacaur -Sy android-platform
# make sdk usable as a normal user
sudo groupadd sdkusers
sudo gpasswd -a chris sdkusers
sudo chown -R :sdkusers /opt/android-sdk
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/android-sdk/
# IDE
pacaur -Sy android-studio
# Android Debug Bridge
sudo pacman -S android-tools
sudo pacman -S android-udev
sudo gpasswd -a chris adbusers
# extra Java build stuff
sudo pacman -S maven
Printer/scanner setup:
sudo pacman -S cups ghostscript gsfonts avahi
pacaur -Sy epson-inkjet-printer-stylus-office-tx610fw-series
sudo systemctl start avahi-daemon.service
sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service
sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl start cups-browsed.service
sudo systemctl enable cups-browsed.service
sudo pacman -S system-config-printer python-pysmbc
# then run GUI app "Print Settings"
pacaur -Sy iscan iscan-plugin-network
sudo vim /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf # add line 'net {IP_OF_SCANNER}'
# then run GUI app "Image Scan! for Linux"
# EPSON STYLUS PHOTO RX560
sudo pacman -S gutenprint
Video editing:
sudo pacman -S avidemux-cli avidemux-gtk
OCR (see guide on the wiki):
sudo pacman -S tesseract tesseract-data-eng
pacaur -Sy gscan2pdf
pacaur -Sy pdftk
PDF editing
pacaur -Sy masterpdfeditor # closed source, free for non-commercial use
Google Earth
pacaur -Sy google-earth
sudo pacman -S lib32-intel-dri
Emacs
sudo pacman -S emacs
Crate.io
pacaur -Sy crate
sudo systemctl start crate
sudo systemctl status crate
open http://localhost:4200/admin
VNC and remote desktop:
sudo pacman -S libvncserver freerdp remmina
# install order is important and a reboot may be needed for remmina to show all protocols
Photos:
sudo pacman -S digikam kipi-plugins kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs phonon-qt{4,5}-vlc
Gnuplot:
sudo pacman -S gnuplot
# copy emacs config from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dotemacs if appropriate
Another PDF reader (as alternative to crashy GNOME Evince):
sudo pacman -S kdegraphics-okular
OpenVPN client:
sudo pacman -S networkmanager-openvpn
BitTorrent client:
pacaur -Sy qbittorrent
qBittorrent can be configured to use a specific interface, such as tun0, however, if that is unavailable on start, it will fall back to the default interface.
sudo vim /usr/share/applications/qBittorrent.desktop # set Exec as follows...
Exec=bash -c "ls /sys/class/net/tun0 && qbittorrent %U || notify-send 'The tun0 interface is not up'"
An alternative bittorrent client:
sudo pacman -S deluge pygtk librsvg
Rust programming language:
pacaur -Sy rust-nightly-bin
pacaur -Sy libtinfo # for building rust from source
Scala programming language:
sudo pacman -S scala
# a JRE is needed too
Extra fonts: copy *.otf
files into ~/.fonts
and run fc-cache
.
Font viewer:
pacaur -Sy gnome-specimen
Consider adjusting DPI settings in dconf-editor
under /org/gnome/desktop/interface/text-scaling-factor
and scaling-factor
.
Or, use xrandr
's --scale
or --transform
options.
Install user files and tools, into home directory, including:
- Ruby (via
rbenv
) - NodeJS (via
nvm
) autoenv
- Powerline
Add extra startup applications as *.desktop
files in .config/autostart/
.
Set up keyboard mapping and caps lock remap:
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
, replace the keyboard section with:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Xkb_Layout" "us"
Option "Xkb_Variant" "altgr-intl"
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection
The altgr-intl
variant of US keyboard layout allows various European letters
and symbols to be typed. Refer to this diagram.
As stated on the wiki page Keyboard configuration in Xorg, GNOME will override some Xkb settings, so:
- Set
ctrl:nocaps
withdconf-editor
as described on the wiki under GNOME > Modify Keyboard with XkbOptions - Add a keyboard layout ("English (international AltGr dead keys)") via
Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources > Input Sources > +
For multiple keyboards, see: Two keyboards on one computer.
Backup:
sudo pacman -S duplicity python2-boto
Accounting:
pacaur -Sy ledger
pacaur -Sy gnucash-xbt
-
2015-04-11, after upgrading GNOME from 3.14 to 3.16 Mouse cursor missing It happens when the screen has been off. This thread seems related: Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace seems to bring the cursor back (or switching user back to the current user).
-
Noticed on 2015-05-09 that the trackpad doesn't do two-finger horizontal scroll. Also it's really sensitive and turning it off in GNOME doesn't work.
-
Since update around 2015-04-12, gnome going idle makes the mouse pointer disappear. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110023
-
Tearing reappeared at some point. Try alternative fix.
-
Copying into system clipboard (e.g. in vim) doesn't copy to tmux clipboard
-
Copying multiple lines in tmux generates random text in adjacent panes.
-
Nexus 5 audio access remains a problem. I tried:
- adding a udev rule -
This didn't help, and is probably unnecessary because it is covered by the default rules in
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/69-libmtp.rules
. - creating a
.is_audio_player
file - This made Rhythmbox show existing music, but writing music to the device failed withUnable to send file to MTP device: PTP Layer error 02ff: get_storage_freespace(): could not get storage info.
The workaround is to do manual music management via the filesystem.
- adding a udev rule -
This didn't help, and is probably unnecessary because it is covered by the default rules in
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High DPI and mixed DPI setups not handled well. See:
-
try mopidy
-
subpixel rendering and autohinting with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality read: http://www.binarytides.com/gorgeous-looking-fonts-ubuntu-linux/
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for making boot USBs: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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check out dm-crypt
-
sort old data
-
consider switching to a https mirror list via https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
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finish chrony for time sync
-
cron alternative for intermittent processing/network
-
add back skype with some lockdown
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Write PKGBUILDs for:
-
Clipboard manager: http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/?page_id=2
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encrypting the boot partition: http://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/
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Check out Filebot (TV and movie renamer)
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Check out XFCE recommended apps
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/General_Recommendations
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/lm_sensors, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_Speed_Control