Re: [arch-general] busted system after update

2020-11-16 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
Many of use have been there! Earlier this year I overwrote /etc/shadow with pacnew in a moment of madness.

[arch-general] PSA: OpenVPN no longer runs scripts as root

2020-11-10 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
OpenVPN now runs scripts as the user `openvpn`, not as root. This tripped me up recently, because I use the `update-systemd-resolved` script, but it can't do its thing without root. Just thought I'd put this out there in case anyone else was having issues.

Re: [arch-general] adding Polybar to offical Repos

2020-07-22 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
On 2020-07-22 14:54:13, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: is is possible to include Polybar to the official packages under extra or community? if not could u plz explain? Polybar requires optional modules to be already installed before you compile it. Once built with those, it won't run withou

Re: [arch-general] I3 installation

2019-06-26 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
On 2019-06-26 13:44:41, Khorne wrote: On June 26, 2019 1:42:15 PM GMT+02:00, Ben Oliver via arch-general wrote: On 2019-06-26 17:05:31, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: Hey Archers, I have a fresh installation now. Can you please guide me to install I3 gaps wm? I have seen sites but they

Re: [arch-general] I3 installation

2019-06-26 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
On 2019-06-26 17:05:31, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: Hey Archers, I have a fresh installation now. Can you please guide me to install I3 gaps wm? I have seen sites but they are confusing me.. i need detaied step by step instruction please The wiki is quite good: https://wiki.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
On 2019-06-25 09:35:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Yes, they exist. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html is a comprehensive introduction that will give you terms to feed Google, and his https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/08/13/securitykeys.html compares some of the keys then on the

Re: [arch-general] gscan2pdf - could it be included in the official arch repositories?

2017-10-26 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
I can vouch for it too. I have to scan all the mail at work and before we got a printer that scanned to FTP I went through loads and loads of options trying to find some suitable scanning software. Eventually I settled on gscan2pdf because it seemed to be one of the few that could reliably make mu

Re: [arch-general] Good gif recorder

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
I have a little script in my PATH that does kind of what Nicolas mentioned. I stole it from somewhere but I can't remember the source, sorry. I should probably switch to webm or something but this has worked well for me so far when it comes to just recording 1-6 second UI/UX stuff. http://ix.io/y

Re: [arch-general] Suppressing specific pacman warnings

2017-04-05 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
https://lowendbox.com/ is a good place to shop around on.

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux i3wm i3-scrot copy clipboard

2017-02-21 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
Would this work? bindsym Print exec scrot 'screenshot.png' -e 'xclip -selection c -t image/png $f' (note that this binds it to the print screen key) On 21 February 2017 at 16:38, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: > Hi, I love with muy installation. Archlinux + i3wm but I like take > scr

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Favorite/best desktop in archlinux

2016-11-07 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
I agree with all the above. XFCE is my go-to when I need a lightweight and reliable DE. Otherwise I'm strictly a WM guy - tried xmonad, liked it, but then found out that i3 has the setup I was using as default, so I switched. Plain text config files are also nice (although I imagine somewhat limi

Re: [arch-general] fail to export gpg private key

2016-07-06 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
This may or may not be related, but a recent caused lots of permissions errors in my gnupg homedirs. Happened on three machines.

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
I used Slim for years only to find out it was abandoned when I tried to use it in a fresh install (and therefore checked the wiki). Moved to LightDM and have not noticed any major difference, but I don't do anything fancy with my login screens...

Re: [arch-general] ML is being sent to Spam by Gmail

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
I have been meaning to write here about this issue too, 70% of ML stuff has been going straight to spam. A way to quickly create filters is to click the little drop down arrow at the top of the message, next to the 'to Foo'. Next to the 'mailing list:' title, there's a button that says 'filter mes