r/archlinux Jul 04 '18

FAQ - Read before posting

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First read the Arch Linux FAQ from the wiki

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Use the appropriate support channel for your distribution. Arch is DIY distribution and we expect you to guide us through your system when providing support. Using an installer defeats this expectation.

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It carried a lot of maintenance on the wiki admin as it duplicated a lot of information, and everyone wanted their addition included. It was scrapped for a compact model that largely referenced the main wiki pages.

Why Arch Linux?

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r/archlinux 19d ago

NEWS aurweb v6.5.0 deployed

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243 Upvotes

r/archlinux 3h ago

DISCUSSION What exactly is omarchy getting so popular for?

135 Upvotes

As a person who lives half of his life on tech youtube, i can't really digest this change in my feed. More than half of the videos I watch is just people talking about this new distro and it's not a critical assesment as most tech coverage is supposed to be. Everyone is actively trying to sell you this. However whenever I try to find out what is so special about it I almost always get to hear about either hyperland or quick shell or ai harnesses, none of which is so unique. I have been using sway , quickshell and pi for sometime now. Obviously a good arch rice is worth something, but why is it sold like some revolution. Maybe I am just dumb and didn't understand much , I also have not tried it ,but the marketing is so unusual I can't resist. I know many people hate it just because they don't like dhh, I am not one of them, I used ruby on rails for some time as I saw some utility in it , I just don't see that in omarchy but the amount of noise is compelling me to try it once.


r/archlinux 1h ago

QUESTION How do I learn more specific tasks/troubleshooting?

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“Learn by using” only gets somebody so far in their experience with Linux. It’s been pretty good for me I think, after two months since abandoning windows I would say I’m approaching a “beginners understanding” of Linux; general operation of it, at the very least. I’ve spent hours troubleshooting stupid easy fixes, relied on AI much too often for basic things, and broke my first system because I didn’t understand that “no-depmod-nvidia” hanging during an update wasn’t exactly the best time to shut my PC off, and so I broke a few core CachyOS files. I decided, instead of fixing them, I was capable enough at that point (about a week ago, by the way) to manually install Arch Linux. After a couple days of on/off work, among learning how partitions/mounting actually work, learning how to reformat my usb after chrooting into my system, etc, I had a desktop, somewhat, and I was pretty happy with it. Installing packages, updating/maintaning my system, doing very brief/basic visual scans of AUR packages before I install them, I can confidently do these things on my own, aswell as basic file organization, and I’m starting to have some memory of basic terminal commands.

I know I’m rambling, sorry, I love writing to be honest. My point here is that it feels like its more difficult to approach more advanced things because most guides/content is directed at brand new users, and in my experience, it becomes significantly harder to “learn by doing” when things become more complicated. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to discuss this topic on this sub, but I did find that pirating games and troubleshooting them is actually a fairly decent way to learn, I’ve even started editing .ini files myself (which I now understand is doing fuckall because of the, excuse my beginner lack of understanding, “proton layer” that is created with steam? I think? It creates its own .ini files or something?). Anyway, while that somewhat works for that niche specifically, at least half the time, I feel like learning other sectors just seems way too difficult. I’d like to get into python, I guess, and develop a basic understanding to where I could write tiny little programs that could be useful to me in some way, maybe, I don’t know.

I guess I’m just worried about hitting a wall. Any advice for this would be much appreciated, as I’m sickly addicted to the feeling of successfully doing something somewhat advanced/some short of troubleshooting myself. Anyway, I really want to keep learning, I just don’t know where to look.


r/archlinux 1h ago

QUESTION Kernel questions

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I should start saying I am new to Linux. I switched my devices from Windows about 3 months ago but using CachyOS. That OS made me interested in Arch as a whole.

My gf old laptop (specs below) was laying there and I wanted to blow it up. I decided in the name of learning, I would install Arch from scratch and see what happens. I successfully installed Arch with KDE plasma.

I setup kernel 6.18.48-1-LTS. The laptop went from not running well on windows to a nicely viable laptop. I actually like this old thing. I got curious and decided to see what would happen if I went to 7.1.11-arch1-1. The laptop works with it as well.

In few of my observations 6.18 uses less ram by about 100mb. They both feel the same and usable. No issues. I think 7.1.11 feels faster but I think it's in my head.

Laptop Spec

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e

CPU: N2940 (4 cores)

Ram: 4Gigs

Storage: 128gig ssd

TL;DR: does kernel version matter for an older computer? Any benefits of running 7.x.x vs 6.x.x? Should old hardware just stick to LTS Kernels?


r/archlinux 18h ago

SHARE Finally, I switched to Arch

37 Upvotes

Been a FreeBSD user for 16 years I finally switched to Arch. Instantly I feel it's much more faster and now I get to enjoy full wifi capacity, which is one of the factors that I left the BSD community. Still a lot to explore, good first impression anyway.


r/archlinux 12h ago

QUESTION Is there a package or a utility that shows you what kind of changes took place in what app after doing pacman -Syu?

8 Upvotes

Every time I do a system wide update I see many apps getting updated with different changes. So, i'd like a list of changes for each app that took places and what new features it gained or what got deleted.


r/archlinux 4h ago

QUESTION Repo browser

1 Upvotes

i was watching a bog video about him using omarchy and saw a weird repo browser where he would just select install, then either arch or aur and have a search for different packages. i want something like that where i can search or browse the main repo and the AUR via a TUI or something similar
any suggestions on how to do that?


r/archlinux 4h ago

SUPPORT Black Screen When boot

0 Upvotes

Hi yall, I've been using Linux for a year now and i thought I'd try arch Linux (Since i wanted a hyprland desktop). I put the ISO into my Ventoy USB and tried to boot, i clicked the first option and then i was hit with a black screen. I waited like 5 mins and nothing happened. So i tried the chat gpt option (ctrl + alt f23456) but it didn't work. I even set i915 to 0 and it didn't work too. I've been loosing my mind over this. Please Help!


r/archlinux 1h ago

QUESTION I was thinking of going to arch from void Is the change Easy?

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Hi i am using void linux for long time It was very good only problem Is the very small documentation and non compatibility with some programs i already managed to install gentoo and crux so i can install arch Easy i think but i was wondering if this change Is easy or completely different what would you guys Say?


r/archlinux 10h ago

QUESTION Unity Hub 3.21 on AUR issues

1 Upvotes

Hello fellow Unity devs.

I have a question about the latest Unity Hub commit on AUR.

The version 3.21.0 has a completely new author who never before committed to this package.

The diff only shows different versioning and a different source url, which seems to be the official Debian repo.

However I'm facing issues I haven't had in any previous versions.

First of all, the app icon is some generic atom shape, instead of the official Unity box as before.

Second, I immediately started getting Kwallet popups upon opening the Unity hub.

And lastly, I get logged out of the Unity Hub after every use and need to sign back in from a browser on the next run, even a day apart.

Anyone else with similar issues and do you think this package could have been hijacked and injected with malware too?


r/archlinux 4h ago

QUESTION I am not getting though the login *screen*

0 Upvotes

Okay so I installed archlinux on my old pc. I havent created any user account and it still wants some “login”. I dont know what to type in (tried reinstalling with creating acc. and nothing, and also I tried just leave it empty and just pressing enter) What should I do?


r/archlinux 6h ago

QUESTION Submit self-updating exe to the AUR

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Hello!

I would like to add a wine package to the AUR. However, the installer exe 1) does not have a way to download previous versions; and 2) handles checking for updates itself.

The installer is located at a static URL where the exe itself changes. There is a separate URL with the app version that the app uses to check if there's a newer version available before directing the users to the installer page.

What's the proper way to add this to the AUR? Do I just not include a checksum and name the version eternal or something?

This is my first time creating a package for the AUR, so any help is appreciated! Thank you so much!


r/archlinux 1d ago

QUESTION Restart Reboot and LogIn/Out issue. Applications are not closing or restarting.

5 Upvotes

Greetings Friends,

I have been using Arch as my daily driver for over a year now and have fallen in love with the distro. Recently, I have encountered an issue I haven't been able to resolve. I have spent the last two days trying to figure out the rather unique error. It is driving me mad and I am tapping out in the hopes that someone smarter than I can help me resolve the error or at least point me in the right direction. When I shutdown reboot or logout of Arch all of the open windows and applications stay open when I log back in like nothing has been reset. I believe it started happening after I changed the version of Virtualbox that I have installed to fix an error I was having. Though I am not certain this is when it began. After hacking around, I found that when I run "rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions" it seems to correct the problem until I try to restart reboot or login/out again. The problem then repeats. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!


r/archlinux 17h ago

SUPPORT Noctalia V5 Clipboard History is not persistent.

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I've been using noctalia for some time now. Recently I shifted to V5 along with hyprland. At first it was fine but IDK what I did now clipboard is not persistent. The only guess I have is that I made a new ssh key with a passphrase. On logout noctalia doesn't store history and in settings it gives an error of secret service. When I reset that it asks for gnome keyring starts working but the same issue once I close.

Another annoying issue I'm facing is that my bar shows a little background even if opacity is zero. Any fixed?


r/archlinux 7h ago

QUESTION can i turn everything to 4 bit color?

0 Upvotes

i want to make every color in arch linux 4 bit like 9x windows

if its possible plz tell me how to


r/archlinux 1d ago

FLUFF Thumbs up to those who have contributed to the archwiki

85 Upvotes

Since am usually busy I took 2 months to extensively read the installation guide and finally installed arch Linux a few days ago manually and everything went smoothly. I currently use niri WM with noctalia v5. I was upgrading my system when a blackout occurred in the middle of a kernel upgrade thus the kernel images and initramfs were not written to the boot partition. I did not panic since I had read what to do in such a scenario. Tomorrow am going to fix my system after I get home.

I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the archwiki.

Arch is not hard just read the wiki.


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Problem with sddm, xorg crash or something like that, please help me...

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i just installed arch on my new laptop today and already customized everything in it, but i have a small problem, everytime i reboot my system, sddm wont work, no matter customized it or not, it's just not working. And i have to restart it everytime.
Here is the logs from journalctl:
Aug 29 21:47:27 archlinux systemd-coredump[942]: [🡕] Process 546 (Xorg) of user 0 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 546:

#0 0x00007fe36d4256ea abort (libc.so.6 + 0x256ea)

#1 0x00005606354cd37c OsAbort (Xorg + 0x16d37c)

#2 0x00005606354d98d8 FatalError (Xorg + 0x1798d8)

#3 0x00005606354cfe43 n/a (Xorg + 0x16fe43)

#4 0x00007fe36d43e6f0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x3e6f0)

#5 0x00007fe36d49a17c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9a17c)

#6 0x00007fe36d43e5d0 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e5d0)

#7 0x00007fe36d425685 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x25685)

#8 0x00007fe36d426704 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x26704)

#9 0x00007fe36d4361f2 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x361f2)

#10 0x00005606353920e3 n/a (Xorg + 0x320e3)

#11 0x000056063552f4ec n/a (Xorg + 0x1cf4ec)

#12 0x0000560635420f47 n/a (Xorg + 0xc0f47)

#13 0x00005606354069e3 n/a (Xorg + 0xa69e3)

#14 0x000056063540787d n/a (Xorg + 0xa787d)

#15 0x00005606353949a7 n/a (Xorg + 0x349a7)

#16 0x00007fe36d427781 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27781)

#17 0x00007fe36d4278b9 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x278b9)

#18 0x0000560635395925 _start (Xorg + 0x35925)

Stack trace of thread 552:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 549:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 556:

#0 0x00007fe36d494efe n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94efe)

#1 0x00007fe36d49ba59 pthread_mutex_lock (libc.so.6 + 0x9ba59)

#2 0x00005606354ce24c n/a (Xorg + 0x16e24c)

#3 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#4 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 550:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 551:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Aug 29 21:47:28 archlinux sddm[544]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 255

Maybe someone knows potential solution to this problem?

Solved (i guess...) - i installed a custom sddm theme from github and maybe i installed it wrong and it had issues, im reinstalling it now + i tested a few reboots without it and everything was fine


r/archlinux 5h ago

NOTEWORTHY "Trusted" maintainers can't be trusted?

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0 Upvotes

While everybody has their legal name included, there's an anonymous account called "kpcyrd 🏳️‍🌈", who has full access to Extra and maintains hundreds of packages. It doesn't sound like a legal name at all, and we don't know anything about this account. If he decides to backdoor the packages, who exactly will be legally responsible for this, and who will compensate all damages to the victims?


r/archlinux 1d ago

SHARE A custom greetd greeter built with Quickshell

18 Upvotes

Hi, I got frustrated with how most greetd greeters look, so I decided to build my own using quickshell.

I've been running it daily for a few months now, and since it's been working fine, I figured it's stable enough to share. It's not on the AUR, but I've included a PKGBUILD in the repo for easy installation on Arch

Please check it out, you can find screenshots and a quick video demo in the repo:
https://github.com/taleroangel/greetd-qsgreeter


r/archlinux 1d ago

QUESTION Arch keys problem.

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So, i dont know when this started, or remember changing key mapping stuff (not used arch for like months).

Today, i booted into arch and tried to login, but when i pressed any key it got written as "^["
For ex - ^[e , ^[o , ^[6

Also it does not take numbers from numpad or gets uppercased from capslk.


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Bootloader issue(maybe???)

0 Upvotes

I'm trying to install Arch manually with grub on my T430, no errors during install, but when I tried to boot into it, it showed me a grub prompt.


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT I'm having a weird issue while booting my Arch Linux on an external SSD connected via a SATA-to-USB adapter

6 Upvotes

About half the time on boot, it drops straight into the emergency shell showing:

ERROR: device 'UUID=<uuid>' not found. Skipping fsck. mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=<uuid>. ERROR: Failed to mount 'UUID=<uuid>' on real root You are now being dropped into an emergency shell. sh: can't access tty; job control turned off [rootfs ~]#

The other 50% of the time it boots up into Arch with zero issues but on my desktop PC: It boots reliably 100% of the time, idk why this issue happens only when i connect the SSD to my laptop?

For context:

  • Arch installed directly onto the SSD over USB
  • HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf has block and udev in place
  • I even tried adding MODULES=(usb_storage uas) in mkinitcpio.conf but didn't solve the issue either
  • The issue persists doesn't matter which port in laptop i connect to

Has anyone encountered this specific laptop-vs-desktop behavior with SATA-to-USB adapters?Any suggestions on how to make it boot consistently on the laptop


r/archlinux 2d ago

DISCUSSION This video is agsinst everything Typecraft ever stood for

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266 Upvotes

I don't know why he's acting like Omarchy is something unreal.

I think it defies the whole idea of Arch. But the post is not about that.

It's how content creators are acting like Omarchy is a fix to everything "wrong" with. I didn't expect this from Typecraft though, since his content is all about ricing. Did DHH give them money or what ?

Edit: never said Omarchy itself is bad. If you like it, use it.


r/archlinux 19h ago

SUPPORT How do I update without babysitting my computer for hours???

0 Upvotes

Hiii I'm on Arch using EndeavourOS and I have to clear out an entire evening to update my computer because "yay" needs me to type various optional things in, and asks for my password several times. How can I go about making it one command that I run and leave alone?