Phase 1 : installing Arcolinuxd Let us install ArcoLinuxD together step by step. You can install it on ssd or in a virtual machine like virtualbox, vmware, boxes, qemu, … We will use VirtualBox as our standard virtual...
Read MoreStarting with a clean install of ArcoLinuxD we install the Budgie 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....
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 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 MoreYou can use any display manager or login manager you want. There is no need to change to gdm because you are going to install the desktop gnome… but you can. It is the freedom of choice. And it is even not that hard. We...
Read MoreWe can use a different shell in your system. The standard shell is bash. You can read more about bash or Bourne-again Shell here. But you can also use Zsh. Read more about zsh here. Zsh is already installed but not activated....
Read MoreShown on i3 Can be done on any desktop Use meld as a tool to compare your projects over time and easily compare the differences in your files or folders. Use meld as a tool to compare the ArcoLinux packages in /etc/skel with...
Read MoreWe show you where you can normally set any application to autostart in Budgie. Use the gnome-tweak-tool. But this tool does not provide help for commands just for .desktop files from /usr/share/application so we need to do a...
Read MoreWhen on ArcoLinux you can set your touchpad with the gui of XFCE settings or keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + M. This will work on Xfce and Openbox. If you want to have this solution on i3 you will need to delete a hashtag in the...
Read MoreSome information about ArcoLinuxD.com website. We continue to make articles about ArcoLinuxD and about its many many desktops. Chronologically we started with Budgie i3 xfce openbox cinnamon mate gnome awesome bspwm We want to...
Read MoreThe scripts on https://github.com/arcolinuxd are constantly improving. When we use ArcoLinuxD we will install a base Arch Linux and then it is up to us to decide what desktop environment you would like Xfce, Openbox, i3wm,...
Read MoreWhen we install the package arcolinux-termite-themes-git we will get 79 termite themes. The themes will be installed in /etc/xdg/termite. What we need to do manually now, is to copy/paste those themes over to our personal...
Read MoreConky is a free software system monitor. It is available for Linux. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures,...
Read MoreInstalling software can be done via gui (graphical user interface) like pamac and gnome-software explained here. But it can be done via terminal as well. Our Arch fun starts on the AUR or Arch User Repository. Check out what...
Read MoreIn ArcoLinuxD we install all our software with scripts. Scripts can be easily edited. Delete lines, add lines. Install the software YOU like. That must be the first step to install the applications you do want. But eventually...
Read MoreAll what we need to do is change the content of the file .bashrc and add neofetch to it. In the tutorial we see that XFCE wants to open a .sh file with libreoffice. Nothing could be more wrong. I will show how you can change...
Read MoreInstalling these arc themes is actually quite simple. This package belongs to our own ArcoLinux repository and can be downloaded via 1 sudo pacman -S arcolinux-arc-themes-git I show you where on your computer this is stored i.e....
Read MoreYou can use the pamac application to show what files have been installed and where. I will use it to see what this foomatic is all about. We encountered that package in the tutorial about...
Read MoreLet us install the application pamac to update, install and investigate packages from Arch repo’s and AUR repo’s. I will show you my settings. It is up to you if you follow...
Read MoreIt would be great if we were able to print from ArcoLinuxD. In order to do that we need to install cups and drivers for your printer. It might be possible that you will need to look for drivers on the AUR to be able to...
Read MoreIf you have/need bluetooth support for any electronic device – not only a headset – you need to install some packages and even activate a service in order to make it...
Read MoreWe have installed all needed packages for sound on our system. Let us have some music while we work and install spotify from AUR. We compare packer, yaourt and pacaur in order to install it. You can install LOTS of music...
Read MoreLet us get some sound on our computer. We can use the scripts from https://github.com/arcolinuxd/arco-budgie or we can figure it out together via the Arch...
Read MoreWe want to have a nice desktop to look at in the coming tutorials. Let us install variety, icons, themes and cursors and make a script of it to be (re)used at a later...
Read MoreAfter typing in the terminal 1 sudo reboot we end up in the graphical environment – Lightdm with Budgie in this case. Let us make some exercises in scripting. We have installed lightdm as display manager and budgie desktop...
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