Discord is a slick looking application and a means to communicate very quickly with ArcoLinux users and developers. We can share printscreens and links via this medium. Installing can be done from AUR or 3party repo so either 1...
Read MoreConkyzen (am-conkyzen – application where you can select all the conkies), the conkies (arcolinux-conky-collection-git) and the conky application (conky-lua-archers) are already installed on your system. Plasma has its own...
Read MoreCheck the version of Dropbox on AUR and 3Party repoInstall the most recent version Since we use dropbox as a service constantly on all our installations of all the desktops we have added dropbox to the 3party repo. This version...
Read MoreOne of my goals is to be up and running as fast as possible on ANY DESKTOP of ArcoLinux. Syncing your settings, extensions and bookmarks to your firefox cloud account can be an asset in that matter. All I need to do is install...
Read MoreObs-studio is a tool to stream your desktop, sound, webcam, … to youtube (and other services). [crayon-5c0ecccb2d1fb744606267/] Read more about it on Open Broadcaster Software at https://obsproject.com. This application is...
Read MoreLike Firefox, Chromium and Google Chrome we can sync our bookmarks, settings and so much more to the cloud. The advantage is that after ANY CLEAN INSTALL we can get all our settings and extensions back with just a login and a...
Read MoreIn order for me to be able to upload to my youtube channel I need to have my login and password. They are stored safely online with the tool from lastpass.com. We launch Vivaldi and show you how to install the extension...
Read MoreArcoLinux is a rolling release. Some of the updates will be installed in /usr/share. Nothing to do then.Some of the updates will be installed in /etc/skel. The user decides whether he wants to take action or not. 1 sudo pacman...
Read MoreIn this tutorial we are going to change the fonts. Normally we use noto fonts. But we can change the fonts as well. We will use the terminus fonts. Here are some terminal commands in regards with fonts 1 fc-list | grep Terminus...
Read MoreThis time we are going to change the font size. You have to change it in your theme lua. So it is to be changed in every theme. In the rc.lua you can change also the tagnames. We change the size of fonts and change the width and...
Read MoreSometimes you need to manually intervene to change the resolution in Awesome. He did recognize my screen resoltution on virtual box but NOT on bar metal aka my ssd. There is an easy way to set the right resolution with arandr....
Read MoreWe want to force Awesome to open an applicaton on a specific tagname and a specific screen. Dual screen users can use these settings. Or Multi screen users for that matter. As example we want to launch Atom always on screen 1...
Read MoreWe can set rules to set applications to float or tile. There are also rules to maximize applications. There is a long list of rules to check out. We will set a rule to maximize gpick and we will use xprop to find out the class....
Read MoreRc.lua is one of the most important files of Awesome. This time we take a look at the keyboard shortcut keys. We have declared variables at the top like browser, terminal, mailclient etc… You change these variables and...
Read MoreSuper + W or right click on the menu you get the awesome menu. We can not change the icons. We do not use the menu but we left it in for you. Closing the menu is done with escape or again right mouse click. You can change the...
Read MoreIn this tutorial we will change the tagnames. We go over the variables that are declared in the rc.lua as well before we start changing the tagnames. You can change the icons any way you see fit. We use the awesome font to get...
Read MoreAwesome is based on the LUA programming language. We will change the lua code and let awesome crash. Just one comma in the wrong place crashes the system. Then you will an error messagen and get the standard awesome...
Read MoreThe wallpaper “Galactus” comes in and we will use it to change our desktop accordingly. We choose a new icon theme and kill the conky. Atom is going to be my editor because of the lua syntax highlighting. We first...
Read MoreWe will use lxappearance to change the theme, icons and cursors. In the menu you can find it in “customize look and feel”. I rather like to use rofi with Super +F12 and choose ‘lxappearance’. We will...
Read MoreVariety changes the wallpapers but also provides new wallpapers. Nitrogen changes the wallpapers but does NOT provide new wallpapers. Your updates for Awesome will come in at /etc/skel. Then we need to compare what we have and...
Read MoreWhen we update awesome you will get a new package in. It will be saved to /etc/skel. We will never save it to your home directory. We use meld to compare what I have and what comes in from ArcoLinux. Nitrogen –restore has...
Read MoreNcmpcpp is a great way to play music from your music library from the terminal. There are lots of articles about ncmpcpp on the websites. Use the music note icon to launch and stop ncmpcpp. Right mouse click on the music note...
Read MoreWe will use atom (and extra packages : lua syntax, pigments and minimap) to change the themes. Search for the word “theme” and change the theme by changing the number. We changed the weather to New York in the blue...
Read MoreWe will change the weather widget. It is now set to the weather of Belgium, Antwerp. We take a look at the top of theme.lua and checkout the variables that are defined at the top. Search for weather in the theme.lua to find the...
Read MoreCheck the manual of any application. In this case 1 man neofetch We need to tell neofetch to use the option – -source to load another image or logo. We get our ArcoLinux logo’s with the package from the conky’s...
Read MoreWe add neofetch to the terminal. We want to see to see the technical information Neofetch provides and the logo of Arcolinux. Add neofetch to .bashrc (or .zshrc). W3m and imagemagick need to be installed to have the logo of...
Read MoreNavigating around in a windows tiling manager is different than in other windows managers. We have tagnames to put applications on and we learn the most important shortcuts. There is a very important shortcut to set your tiling...
Read MoreWe explain the advantage of variety. It sets your wallpaper but it also gets new wallpapers from desktoppr.co. Make an account there and sync the wallpapers to your dropbox. In autostart.sh we launch variety. If you do not want...
Read MoreEvery desktop has its own “headquarters”. A folder, where all the settings reside… 1 ~/.config/awesome With Super + S you get an overview of all the shortcuts that are available. Do not like the shortcuts....
Read MoreWe have installed our ArcoLinuxD with this tutorial and we have a github ready to backup our settings and scripts. Let us install ArcoLinuxD AWESOME together step by step. After logging in we type this command to get the best...
Read MoreStarting with a clean install of ArcoLinuxD we install the AWESOME desktop on top of it and install all our applications on it. This desktop can be yours. Many tutorials are available. If you want you can learn to use github....
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