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Quick and easy way to get an awesome grub start screen
Since the images in Virtualbox are too small I have taken pictures with my smartphone. Hence the stripes and reflection. Bear that in mind. Depending if you are on ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxB make sure you have grub-customizer installed. Then install our grub package...
fix for failed to start light display manager on 06/02/2019
February 6th 2019 we get an update in that breaks our installation. I had seen what packages were installed and I did notice lightdm in there. LIGHTDM is one of your major packages - it starts out display or login manager. Other important packages to keep track off...
Fix for hanging loading location data screen in calamares
During the installation Calamares tries to make contact with a server to know your timezone.Calamares checks your timezone with this code (February 2019).[crayon-5c67a4d1cabf9968701808/]Calamares tries to make contact with a specific...
Which nvidia cards are supported by which nvidia driver
I just found, by accident really, a nice list of all the graphical cards from Nvidia and their drivers. If the link is gone, we still have this page. https://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html May this list help someone The Arch wiki about nvidia is here :...
How to get two polybars in Openbox, Bspwm, i3, Xmonad and others
Polybar can be installed on different desktops. It is a personal choice.You can use it in bspwm (standard applied)i3openboxxmonad (standard applied)Polybar is fun since it has so many modules.You can make it transparent.Before we build polybar we make sure we will use...
How to give a shadow to the openbox menu
The compton.conf of openbox is in ~/.config/compton.conf.Make a backup of that file and then experiment with its settings. You still have a backup in /etc/skel.We delete a line that is holding the shadow back on the menu.Look for the shadow-exclude part and delete...
All information regarding compton and compton.conf
End of January 2019 compton has received a major update from version 4 to 5. We use it on 5 of 12 desktops at the time of writing. awesome bspwm i3 openbox xmonad Needless to say it has a big impact. Compton will provide you the following functionality : shading...
How to install virtualbox 6 on W10 and set the correct settings to install ArcoLinux in virtualbox
You can install an operating system in a virtual machine like virtualbox, vmware, boxes, qemu,... and others. BUT Operating systems should run on "real metal". They need to be installed on your laptop or desktop. All the RAM and all the power of the CPU and GPU should...
How to make a script to build the pocillo-gtk-theme to be able to re-install it later
This article is linked to this article :https://arcolinux.com/build-the-software-yourself-just-because-you-can-or-install-it-from-aur/We will show you how easy it is to make a script.We use the github https://github.com/erikdubois/arcolinux-nemesisto get a head start,...
Build the software yourself just because you can or install it from AUR
Following up a tip of an ArcoLinux user we take a look at Pocillo-gtk-theme.https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/pocillo-gtk-themeThis theme seems to be developed by the UbuntuBudgie team is, who build it on the pop-os themehttps://github.com/pop-os/gtk-themewho build it...
