Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. Want to keep a copy of your /etc/hosts sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts-original These are the exact words from the developer, Héctor Molinero Fernández, on his github...
To give better support we need to see your terminal output. This will be great if you are on ArcoLinuxD. Then we do not have a graphical interface. Asciinema is going to record what is happening in your terminal. asciinema rec Type exit to stop recording. You will get...
Samba – arch wiki Quick and easy OPTION 1use the scripts Use the scripts in your home directory provided by arcolinux-bin-git. Run script 1, 2 and 3. Evaluate what happens to your system and change it if needed. This smb.conf is different as the one in the...
Obs-studio is a tool to stream your desktop, sound, webcam, … to youtube and chat with your followers of your channel. Read more about it on Open Broadcaster Software at https://obsproject.com. OBS-STUDIO SETTINGS I added the “Automatically record when...
You may have seen me struggle with the Arch Linux servers in one of my videos.Time to dive into the application reflector. Read all about it on your own computer.Type reflector –help in the terminal and read more.Servers speed and service all depend on your own...
install the desktops anytime anywhereon any Arch Linux based system ARCOLINUX TWEAK TOOLDOES SO MUCH MORE att-sddm att-zsh att-autostart att-mirrorlist att-desktop att-privacy att-themes att-mirorlist att-user att-neofetch att-pacman att-lightdm att-terminals att-grub...
Whatsapp is an app most of us know. You can check out what it is and does on their website. We show you in the video how to install it and explain how to connect your mobile to your desktop. sudo pacman -S whatsapp-nativefier Playlist on Youtube : Communication...
One of the goals of teamviewer is to give people the ability to remotely manage a computer system. Windows, Mac and Linux alike. It does not matter. You can also manage your computer from your ipad or your iphone etc… How do we install it on ArcoLinux? sudo...
We do not recommend Ventoy – too many users report issues with our isos. Etcher seems to be a good all-rounder. Meaning Etcher will work on Linux, Windows and macOS. https://www.balena.io/etcher/ On ArcoLinux we have mintstick installed – in the menu...
Telegram is one way of communicating with ArcoLinux users and the ArcoLinux Team. Discord is another communication tool. Stay on top of things and get information from ArcoLinux all the time. Installing telegram is super easy. Open a terminal and type sudo pacman -S...
Redshift had been deleted from the iso in the past because it did not work. As of 19.03 version it is back on the iso and it includes a fix. People who stay rolling install it like this sudo pacman -S redshift Tip 1 : Make sure /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf contains these...
THERE IS NO NEED TO INSTALL THE LATEST VERSION Let us assume that having the last version of Sublime-Text-Dev is important to you and you can not wait an other day till the maintainer has updated the PKGBUILD. Your update will come in automatically by that time.We...
To know more about Telegram I send you to their website and let you read what telegram is about : https://telegram.orgInstalling could not be simpler.sudo pacman -S telegram-desktopThen you start the application and make sure you are able to use it using your...
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...
Just download and install. The easy installation is at the end of the article. First we visit the Arch wiki page to learn more about GRUB and the tips and trics of GRUB. We navigate to where the grub configuration file is and the grub themes are. /boot/grub/...
If you want to explain something in order to get help there is this application peek. It will generate an animated gif you can then upload to imgur and put the link in the forum. Working in this manner we can see what is going on on your end....
Grsync is installed by default on ArcoLinux. It is the front-end or gtk gui for rsync, which is a command you can use in the terminal. We show you how to copy data from source to...
Thanks to a tip on discord on the suggestions channel we have a new alias.One to see what packages have been installed recently R I P equals Recent Installed PackagesMake sure expac is installed on your...
When navigating the internet you find aliases, configs, .dot files you might like to try. Before you do try to know as much as possible about the code. We are going to study this line of code from Nick Petrov. alias cleanup=’sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman...
Long procedure to update If you want to learn more about your system and keep track of what changed then this procedure is for you. 1 – bupskel Will create a backup folder of /etc/skel prior to your updates 2 – update Will download and install all Arch...
No need to install discord Log into the website If you want to get in touch with other ArcoLinux users or with the ArcoLinux Team you can now use Discord. Help others or be helped by others – it goes two ways Discord will work on your android phone, android...
Stacer is a linux optimization and monitoring tool. We take a look where this package is coming from. It is a debian package and we check out the PKGBUILD to find out the source. It comes from github from a package release. We check the autostart applications if they...
Until ArcoLinux 18.11 Samba was installed on the iso.All ArcoLinux 18.12+ editions will no longer have samba and samba related software. Since we had issues with Samba end of November we investigated Samba and decided not to include it anymore on the iso. If you do...
Simplescreenrecorder has been my standard recording tool for many years and many tutorials. It is reliable and it just works. I do not wish to edit my videos after. No stunning intro’s and stunning endings. Just sharing the knowledge as good and simple as I can...
I came across the Zafiro icon theme on the social media. The icon theme was mentioned. As an Arch Linux user the first thing you do …. is check … is it on the AUR? It is on the AUR! Install it with yay -S zafiro-icon-theme Let us use this icon theme to...
Caffeine is an application you can install to keep your computer “awake” at all times.Tray bar application able to temporarily inhibit the screensaver and sleep mode.You can find the github here : https://github.com/caffeine-ng/caffeine-ngYou can change...
Of course you can dual boot or triple-boot or even more but is it all worth it in the end. A lot of users are faced with a malfunctioning system at some point or other. I know you can learn from these setbacks and google for solutions until it is fixed… BUT What...
The best way is to just follow what I do in this video. Just know that this application is called xfce4-panel-profiles. Starting from 18.10 the newer package and its configuration are already installed. If you want to keep rolling and do not do a clean install then...
This is a command that just works on any Linux system. Type in the terminal the command alias and you will get the list of all possible aliases on that system. Making a new one is super easy. For example when you type inxi you get just 3 lines of information. If you...
You check out if you want viber by visiting their website. Installing could not be easier. Install it first on your mobile (ios or android) – see that you have an account. Then proceed to ArcoLinux and install with yay -S viber You will get popups guiding you...
The application hwinfo provides you (very fast I may add) with all the technical information you could desire. It may be already installed on your version otherwise install it with sudo pacman -S hwinfo To be able to see the short version from the video, try this in...
There is an application that will let you change ONLY the Numix folders from color AND choose also a different kind of folder if you want it. Just point and click and apply. Could not be simplier. It will overwrite the original Numix folder icons. But you can reset it...
There are a lot of applications that are hosted online. Netflix.com Pixlr.com Google drive Onedrive Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint online Google Calendar Google Contacts Google Mail and so many more If you want to have a menu in your Xfce menu to those websites...
In this article we installed jgmenu and talked about this new menu called jgmenu coming from this github. We can add this menu as well to polybar. Polybar is an alternative menu you can use on Openbox, i3, Bspwm and so many more. We will now show you how to get this...
Sometimes you want to burn a Windows iso on an usb to test out this operating system on bare metal and not in a virtual machine. The application woeusb will help you achieve this. More info about the application on the github. In the video we will use the gui or...
In the context of this tutorial we use Samba if we want to share files and folders with other computers in our private network. One computer becomes the Samba Server. It will give the service to share data on that computer with others on the network. Samba is already...
Neofetch is a terminal application that provides information about your system. You can find the github here. A lot of information can be shown and each element has many options. They are all in your neofetch configuration but you check them as well on this webpage....
