Re: [arch-general] Pacman for user-only packages

2015-04-14 Thread bob
Yes , you can set up a local repo, packer (aur manager) also has config for custom folder. Pacman -U package rolls back to chosen package. you could download PKGBUILD and use makepkg and pacman to manage it yourself. Many possibilities w pacman Bob

Re: [arch-general] Inkscape fails to open svg files

2015-06-03 Thread bob
Hi,could you open inkscape from terminal and see what is the output is when you save.best regardsBob From: Murari To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 6:08 AM Subject: [arch-general] Inkscape fails to open svg files Hi all, An update between the 17t

Re: [arch-general] AUR, ABS and outdated/orphaned packages

2015-06-11 Thread bob
Great work, Michael! From: Michael Beasley To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:50 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] AUR, ABS and outdated/orphaned packages On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:38:17PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:04

Re: [arch-general] i3 and .zprofile

2015-10-27 Thread bob
Hi,I use xfce4 with i3 (dual session)in my i3 config I just start urxvt, in my .xinitrc I just have: exec startxfce4I can start xterm or xfce4-terminal also as I need.in my .Xresources : #include ".Xresources.d/xterm"#include ".Xresources.d/urxvt-unicode" and the configs in the .Xresources.dI us

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

2015-12-29 Thread bob
I use i3 with xfce4 session, It took me a while to figure out, but in the session and startup dialog for xfce4 you canchoose a display chooser on login, I disable all xfce4 sessions except xfce4-panel and xfsettingsd, install i3 with urxvt and all the plugins for urxvt (tabs, perls etc). In my