Arch Linux: Failed to start Virtual Console Setup

`/etc/vconsole.conf` should be:

KEYMAP=us
FONT=lat9w-16

Distrobox: archlinux with separate networking for installaion of VPN inside a dropbox

distrobox create --nvidia -i archlinux -n abox -H ~/home-abox --unshare-netns --init --additional-packages "systemd"

distrobox: arch linux with systemd

distrobox create --nvidia -i archlinux -n abox -H ~/home-abox --init --additional-packages "systemd"

gentoo arch-chroot not working for gui appliacations

chroot from gentoo to arch:


XAUTHORITY=/root/.xauthcOumRQ arch-chroot /mnt/arch/


More: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/47579/90216 Use xauth info to find the correct XAUTHORITY file path.

Arch: Install dotnet 6.0 and jupyter kernel

wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh
chmod +x ./dotnet-install.sh
./dotnet-install.sh --install-dir /usr/share/dotnet -channel STS -version 6.0.110
/usr/share/dotnet/dotnet tool install -g Microsoft.dotnet-interactive
/usr/share/dotnet/dotnet interactive jupyter install
Also add `/usr/share/dotnet` to `PATH`.
https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/docs/NotebookswithJupyter.md
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0

VNC: Arch linux autostart vnc

Add /home//.config/systemd/user/myvnc@:1.service [Unit]
Description=My VNC

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver %i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Then systemctl --user start myvnc@\:1.service and systemctl --user enable myvnc@\:1.service and

tigervnc: Diable vnc password on Arch Linux

Edit /etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-defaults and add: securitytypes=none

Arch: Toobox and Distrobox error "Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified"

Executing on the host (Arch) xhost + made the gui applications work in both Toobox and Distrobox.

Arch: Microsoft team "Login" button does not work (can't click it).

It my case installing `gnome-keyring` solved the issue: yay gnome-keyring

rdesktop: Arch linux no sound from remote

The package that comes with arch does not support pulse audio: rdesktop-vrdp -help

'-r sound:[local[:driver[:device]]|off|remote]': enable sound redirection
remote would leave sound on server
available drivers for 'local':
oss: OSS output driver, default device: /dev/dsp or $AUDIODEV
I ended up compling rdesktop from https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop: # run `autoreconf` -i first if configure is missing
./configure --with-sound
make
sudo make install
This resulted in pusle support: '-r sound:[local[:driver[:device]]|off|remote]': enable sound redirection
remote would leave sound on server
available drivers for 'local':
pulse: PulseAudio output driver, default device: system dependent
alsa: ALSA output driver, default device: default
oss: OSS output driver, default device: /dev/dsp or $AUDIODEV
libao: libao output driver, default device: system dependent
Use: /opt/myrdesktop/bin/rdesktop -u "user_name" -r sound:local:pulse windows_ip_addr

Krusader: Arch Linux kde "file type options" does not open

Have to install: kde-cli-tools

Arch: System freezes when coping large files from usb

Add the following two lines to /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf (create if not exists)
vm.dirty_background_ratio=1 vm.dirty_ratio=2
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50

To apply use sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf or restart.

Arch: Python 3.6 rpc/rpc.h missing

The solution was to manually specify where `rpc/rpc.h` was for configuration: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/tirpc" ./configure --prefix=/opt/python362 --enable-shared -I/usr/include/tirpc

Arch xfonts 75 and 100

sudo pacman -S xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi

Arch Linux: Krusader no bookmark menager

sudo pacman -S keditbookmarks

Manjaro: CUPS stopped working after upgrade to samba 4.8

This worked: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1784907#p1784907

Arch: List of recently installed and upgraded packages

cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep -i upgraded cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep -i installed

Tilix: Arch config settings file location

The config parameters are stored in dconf. Install `dconf-editor` from aur to edit them
yaourt -S dconf-editor
In the dconf-editor search for "Tilix" to find its settings, or go to /com/gexperts/Tilix

Arch: dell inspiron 1545 Broadcom Limited BCM4312

Have to install this driver: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=broadcom-wl-dkms
sudo pacman -S linux-headers broadcom-wl-dkms



Then after reboot wlp12s0 device was found: ip link
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp9s0: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:25:64:47:bd:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp12s0: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen
1000
link/ether 00:22:5f:d3:14:d2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


Arch: Wine and GPower

GPower 4.1 installs in wine 3.0 and runs, but freezes after executing calculations due to some problems with drawing the results's plot. To fix the freezing, need to install gdiplus and lib32-gnutls:
winetricks vcrun6 lib32-gnutls gdiplus
This fixes the freezes, although the plots can't be still seen.