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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...
Arc-gtk-theme source on Arch repo has changed from horst3180 to nicohood. Nico provides us with Openbox support out-of-the-box. Horst did not. We can delete this package for the installation to continue. We do not need it anymore now. Thank you Nico for supporting...
First we are going to take a look at the launch.sh file to start polybar. If you are on ArchMerge 6.3.1 awesome font is installed. You only need to install polybar. If you are on ArchMergeD you need to install them both yaourt -S polybar awesome-terminal-fonts You can...
Very often I refer to the wiki of Arch Linux but in this case this will be our link to get to know polybar. https://github.com/jaagr/polybar Polybar is an alternative panel or bar to use instead of the bars of i3 or tint2 in Openbox. It provides us with an alternative...
Compton is a compositor for Openbox and i3. It will take care of transparency and shadows on your system. It 'beautifies' your system. But sometimes you need to take a picture and you rather not see the background coming through. How can I do this? Openbox has a menu...
This applies to all desktop environments. Our goal is to change the autologin from Xfce to Openbox or i3. If we just want to change for one time than you logout and click on the icon at the top right corner of the login screen. The concept of ArcoLinux is that anyone...
Our script works on the mainstream filemanagers and their desktops. caja - Mate nautilus - Gnome and Budgie dolphin - Plasma nemo - Cinnamon thunar - Xfce4, Openbox and all TWMs deepin-file-manager - Deepin There are more videos and articles about Samba here. This...
End April 2020 we will implement our own logout and lockscreen application called arcolinux-logout-git. We will no longer use oblogout and slimlock. This only concerns the following desktops: awesome bspwm hlwm i3 openbox qtile xfce xmonad After an update, a skel and...
In this video we will install plank cairo-dock latte-dock We will learn that latte-dock works fine on Plasma but not on Xfce. You can autostart these applications with our ArcoLinux Tweak Tool or remove other autostarting applications. We install Plasma on our...
At the moment of writing on firefox and on Arcolinux iso (Xfce, Openbox, i3) all I needed to do was activate drm or digital rights management content. See image. Then restart Firefox.
Do not do this on the ArcoLinux iso (Xfce, Openbox and i3)Setting the keyboard shortcutwill cause conflict in OpenboxGreat tip forArcoLinuxDArcoLinuxBWe have left out the keyboard shortcut to open the (whisker) menu when pressing the super (windows) key because of the...
Use our new script am-rotate-conky to quickly change the conky to the one you fancy today. We have set the keyboard shortcut to CTRL + ALT + Pagedown for the previous conky CTRL + ALT + Pageup for the next conky At the time of writing (Mid July 2019) only the...