Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 i use static ip - solved it now - was human error :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted March 14, 2013 Veteran Share Posted March 14, 2013 I might try this again later i aint tried it since they moved to Systemd so not sure if much has changed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rk_b0mb Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Arch is great. I'm not really likeing KDE--it seams to be really needy and tweak happy compared to my experience with it on Kubuntu. I'm going to try Gnome 3 tonight to see if it's any better. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 just have ti decide on a DE now :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitmz Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 im running chakra at work and cinnarch at my laptop (personal). i might say that arch is really impressive... i was fooling around with gentoo and sabayon earlier but im back to arch now lol cinnamon!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
]SK[ Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 i use static ip - solved it now - was human error :blush: Ah ok. Well you can just copy the ethernet-static example from /etc/network.d/examples into /etc/network.d and edit it to your liking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 yes did that and all is good :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 yes did that and all is good :) Glad it's working. I would recommend Cinnamon as the DE. Make sure you also install "Yaourt" off of the AUR. Use this instead of pacman once installed as it does all the same as pacman but also scans the AUR. So that way you can install things not on the official repos but also the user one too. Yaourt has a couple dependencies but I think most have been moved into official repos, if not they can be grabbed on the AUR too. It's pretty straight forward to install 1. Download the TARBALL off the AUR for Yaourt 2. CD to wherever it downloaded 3. Untar -xzf yaourt.tar.gz 4. CD into the extract folder 5. makepkg -s (-s means get all the dependencies if not present) 6. su and login 7. pacman -U [compiled xz file] There ya go, there may be other dependencies you need to install first from the AUR but just do the steps above for them. Make sure 1-6 are not done as root otherwise you get a bunch of errors and warnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 thanks, have xfce on there atm to mess about with :) guessing I can remove it with pacman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 thanks, have xfce on there atm to mess about with :) guessing I can remove it with pacman yea can use the -R command to remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 I used -Rs and put cinnamon in, just looking at all the other stuff now, fonts need tweaking as they look bad, need a terminal, and of course MPlayer :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I used -Rs and put cinnamon in, just looking at all the other stuff now, fonts need tweaking as they look bad, need a terminal, and of course MPlayer :) I use the stock gnome terminal looks the nicest in my opinion. I also use gnome-tweak-tools and set it to use dark theme for all apps setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I used -Rs and put cinnamon in, just looking at all the other stuff now, fonts need tweaking as they look bad, need a terminal, and of course MPlayer :) The stock GNOME Terminal is nice, but my favorite is definitely terminator. Terminator is also available in the Arch community repo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 pacman is erroring on me when I try to build yaourt, says sudo isnt installed, which isnt an issue, but then gives me error: target not found: package-query>=1.0 if I try to add that pacman tells me target not found. Do i have to do a sync or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 pacman is erroring on me when I try to build yaourt, says sudo isnt installed, which isnt an issue, but then gives me error: target not found: package-query>=1.0 if I try to add that pacman tells me target not found. Do i have to do a sync or something? package-query is on the AUR so you have to download it and run the steps you are doing for yaourt. Tarball->Extract->makepkg->pacman -U That's why yaourt is so nice as it can get things from the AUR if it's not on the official repos unlike pacman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 grrrrr :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 grrrrr :angry: I feel your frustration, but once you get yaourt built and setup it is clear sailing as the aur becomes just another repo. Plus I like yaourt because you don't have to run as root unlike pacman. You have to type your password but it doesn't require you to be logged in as su or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Aur is compiled now :) Now to get the touchpad working and all will be fine :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 Not as good as i thought it would be, chrome sticks on loading pages when I have adblock installed, Cant view thumbnails of movies or pictures over samba, even though I have the required thumbnailers installed, its only one saving grace is that it is fast to install :/ Then again I wonder if it is cinnamon at fault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Not as good as i thought it would be, chrome sticks on loading pages when I have adblock installed, Cant view thumbnails of movies or pictures over samba, even though I have the required thumbnailers installed, its only one saving grace is that it is fast to install :/ Then again I wonder if it is cinnamon at fault Could be cinnamon, never used the thumbnail stuff, also use Chromium instead it has a tendency to work a little better than basic chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 sorry meant chromium, thumbnails work fine on local stuff, and does work on some items on samba, but the seems to stop, might try a different DE and see :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 sorry meant chromium, thumbnails work fine on local stuff, and does work on some items on samba, but the seems to stop, might try a different DE and see :) Could also be the filemanager, which one are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art_X Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 Nemo i believe, i have put in Nautilus, but cant seem to see how to change it to use it :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Nemo i believe, i have put in Nautilus, but cant seem to see how to change it to use it :/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open Could also just uninstall nemo (or launch nautiuls manually). I've always just used Nautilus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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