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Q&A How to connect to Zigbee devices?

I think I finally found a topic the Arch wiki doesn't cover :) I have a Zigbee USB dongle and some Zigbee-capable wireless devices. The dongle is supposed to create a network to which the devices ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 24d ago by polydact‭

Question arch-linux zigbee
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Q&A Why does nvidia CTK config need to be manually generated at each boot?

For certain GPU-accelerated tasks, such as Docker containers using GPU, I need to run the following on every boot: sudo nvidia-ctk cdi generate --output /var/run/cdi/nvidia.yaml Without this, G...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux nvidia gpu nvidia-ctk
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Q&A How to enable SysRq key?

I want my SysRq key to be fully functional. When I look in sudo sysctl -a I see kernel.sysrq = 1 in the output. This tells me it should be working. To test, I run echo h > /proc/sysrq-trigger ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux sysrq
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Q&A How to find all files not part of a package on Arch?

How do I find all actual files (not devices, sockets, etc) on my system that are: Not part of a package Not under /home (I assume that packages are supposed to never put files there) on Arch...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Michael‭

Question arch-linux pacman maintenance system-administration
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Q&A Reliably set a wallpaper in i3

Currently I set my wallpaper by having a call to feh in my i3 config. This does set the wallpaper, but it seems buggy. Whenever my monitor configuration changes, the wallpaper gets moved partially ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux i3wm xorg
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Q&A How to clean up junk files in my home directory?

After many years of using Arch, and many applications, my home directory is completely cluttered with junk. Of course, much of this is useful and needed for the normal operation of programs. For ex...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux /home maintenance system-administration
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Q&A Initramfs: "triggering uevents" suddenly takes a really long time

Early in boot, after triggering uevents but before the encrypt hook (decrypting drives) my system takes a very long time, over a minute. Actually, I bet it takes 90 seconds which is the typical def...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux initramfs troubleshooting
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Q&A How to run offlineimap with Python 3.11 on Arch?

Arch switched to Python 3.12 which broke offlineimap. I want to use Python 3.12 as the default on my system, but just offlineimap should run with an alternative Python 3.11 environment. Is it possi...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux python
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Q&A Pacman list files installed by a package

How to show a list of files belonging to a package with pacman?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Iizuki‭

Question arch-linux pacman
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Q&A ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'foo'

When I create the initramfs, I sometimes see messages like: ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xhci_pci' I get many for different modules. What do they mean? Should I in...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Iizuki‭

Question arch-linux pacman initramfs
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Q&A An alternative to pacman sudo nag?

Some pacman functions require sudo. When I forget the sudo, you get: error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. I then have to press the keys: up, home, s, u, d, o, space, en...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by TowerOfTurtles‭

Question arch-linux pacman convenience alias
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Q&A Albert with compositor surrounded by ghost of other windows

On Arch Linux, I installed albert (from AUR) and picom as the compositor. I am using i3 as the window manager. When I bring up the albert window, it is surrounded by the ghost of a window in the b...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux i3wm compositor picom albert
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Q&A How to prevent keyboard layout modifications from affecting external keyboards

Using For the console: /etc/vconsole.conf ---- KEYMAP=dvorak For X Session: .xinitrc ---- setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak & Problem For the console, it applies the dvorak lay...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mcp‭

Question arch-linux console x11 x-session
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Q&A How to identify and separate standalone applications from libraries in Linux package lists?

I want to generate a list of trending Arch/AUR packages that focuses on user-facing applications rather than background libraries and dependencies. I wrote a script that uses the data from pkgstat...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by ShadowsRanger‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by alx‭

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Q&A Nvidia docker runtime: Failed to create task for container

I installed the Nvidia container toolkit so I can use GPU acceleration in Docker containers. However, I can't get the containers to work: $ sudo docker run --runtime=nvidia nvidia/cuda:12.2.0-base...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux nvidia docker
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Q&A How do I globally configure consistent DPI for GUI apps?

How do I configure my system so that all GUI apps use a consistent DPI, without configuring each app individually?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux configuration graphics hidpi
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Q&A How to get a new IP address from DHCP?

How do I make my computer request a new IP from DHCP? I am using Arch with NetworkManager.

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux networking dhcp NetworkManager
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Q&A Static IP on wired LAN

I have an Arch Linux machine connected to a LAN by ethernet. The router runs OpenWRT. DHCP assigns IPs to this machine like 192.168.1.* - quite typical. I want the IP to always be 192.168.1.10. I...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux networking dhcp
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Q&A Do you still need to update archlinux-keyring before pacman -Syu?

For some time pacman used to have a problem where: Occasionally Arch maintainers introduce new GPG keys They start signing packages with the keys Your local pacman doesn't receive these until ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux pacman
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Q&A How do I make media keys work with PipeWire?

My keyboard has keys for mute, volume up, volume down. In i3wm, I used to have these bound with: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pulsemixer --change-volume +10 --max-volume 100 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

Question arch-linux sound i3wm
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Q&A GUI apps stop working until next boot after some system upgrades

My system occasionally has an issue that looks like this: I run pacman -Syu Many things get updated Many GUI apps (including all display managers and Xorg) start refusing to run and throw up O...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

Question arch-linux updates nvidia graphics
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Q&A What does the "Valid" column mean in the output of "faillock"?

I was looking into unlocking my login after too many incorrect password attempts. I found this post about it. Doing faillock -user $(whoami) --reset did indeed unlock the login. However, what exac...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by AdminBee‭

Question arch-linux password
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Q&A How to change keyboard layout without a DE?

I am running X on Arch Linux without a desktop environment, only i3. Sometimes I need to switch between typing in different languages. How do I switch my keyboard layout?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

Question arch-linux configuration x11 keyboard
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Q&A Increase incorrect login attempts before locking account

When I enter the login password incorrectly 3 times, my computer locks me out from attempting a login for 10 minutes. How can I increase the number of attempts?

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by r~~‭

Question arch-linux password
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Q&A How to change the keyboard layout with Gnome and Arch linux?

My goal is to use a french AZERTY keyboard layout with Arch linux and Gnome desktop environment but use US English as "OS language". Note that I am also open to a "working" solution on any other d...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by zetyty‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux keyboard gnome keyboard-layout
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Q&A How can I change the timeout after too many incorrect login attempts?

When I enter the login password incorrectly 3 times, my computer locks me out from attempting a login for 10 minutes. How can I change the timeout?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux password
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Q&A Is PipeWire easier to use than PulseAudio? [closed]

I have always found PulseAudio to be difficult to use and overcomplicated. Recently I also discovered that it is written by Lennart Poettering, whom I dislike. I am now very motivated to use someth...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

Question arch-linux sound
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Q&A PipeWire separates the audio of every program, how do I combine them?

I uninstalled PulseAudio and installed PipeWire. It seems like now, every application gets an independent audio configuration. When I go into pavucontrol I see "Spotify" where I configure the volu...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux sound
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Q&A Download packages for full system upgrade without installing

I noticed that downloading all the pacman packages for a full system install takes a lot of time, so I want to create a systemd time that will periodically download them for me. That way, most of t...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by terdon‭

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Q&A After update, OpenGL does not work until reboot

Whenever I do a big system update, OpenGL stops working until the next reboot. This also prevent OpenGL apps from launching. Example: $ glxgears X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer par...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question arch-linux updates opengl
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Q&A How do I view fonts?

How can I view font files, like .ttf, in Linux? I'd like to see a sample of the font (quick brown fox...) and metadata about it (like exact name).

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by andrew.46‭

Question arch-linux fonts
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Q&A How to install printer driver for Canon PIXMA TR4522 printer in Arch Linux

I have used printers before in Arch Linux, but I can't figure out how to print with a Canon PIXMA TR4522 printer. More specifically, I am having trouble finding the correct driver. I have installe...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Trevor‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

Question arch-linux printer
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Q&A Is it possible to install .deb file on arch-based Linux?

Is it possible to install .deb extension file in Arch-Based Linux? I saw there's no dpkg package. But, if installing .deb file possible than, how?

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Grove‭

Question debian manjaro arch-linux .deb
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Q&A Get current server of pacman

How do I get the URL of the remote repository that pacman uses to download packages? I know that I can tell pacman which server to use by editing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. But in my case, all of t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Matthias Braun‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Matthias Braun‭

Question arch-linux