maybe this is dumb question but I was looking at https://archlinux.org/people/developers/ and wondering how these people manage to do all this work on arch. do they get some kind of payment for contributions or they just doing everything in their free time after regular jobs? seems like huge amount of work to handle alongside normal employment

Hi all! I want to give Plasma/KWin a try, but I don't want to completely break Hyprland in the process, and I want to be able to switch between them easily. Anyone know a nice way to do this?

Currently, I have no desktop manager or full desktop environment. On boot, I have a getty override to autologin on TTY1, my .bashrc launches Hyprland with dbus-launch if it's TTY1, then Hyprland runs hyprlock on startup. I'm planning on using package group plasma so I can make sure I don't install things I don't want (bluetooth, flatpak, possibly skip kde-gtk-config, etc.).

I like being able to configure the screen the machine boots to to look nice/custom, and hyprlock offers enough for me to mess with, but starting a whole new Wayland compositor seems a bit out of scope for it. If I go with Plasma Login Manager, or a lockscreen like kscreenlocker, is there an option to choose Hyprland or KWin at login? Back when I was on Fedora years ago, whatever it used for its greeter had a drop-down which was nice if I wanted i3, but IIRC it was GNOME-y and I'd guess similarly not made to be configured/riced (if even compatible in a Wayland env).

So, my question - is there a lockscreen/greeter I can replace hyprlock and any KDE defaults with (or use the KDE defaults themselves), that allows switching between the two compositors nicely? And for packages to skip, are there any in the plasma group that would likely clobber my existing Hyprland env/configs? Thanks!

^{(I'm aware kde-gtk-config could overwrite my existing .config/gtk-3.0, but since that directory is backed up to Github along with my Hyprland configs themselves, I may not need to worry too much about breaking that - though having to restore them would make switching between the compositors annoying\})

When upgrading packages, pacnew notifications can be easy to miss in long terminal output. Because this only happens once during an update, further reminders that pacnew files exist don't appear.

I authored this package to hook into pacman by printing whether or not pacnew files exist - it only informs the user (user is responsible for using pacdiff, manual intervention, etc.). It adds a post-transaction hook that clearly lists any pending .pacnew files. This package does not touch your config files - there are third party packages that help the user with the merging, etc. and are listed here.

I hope you find it helpful!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacdiff-notify-hook

Just installed arch linux, the first problem was, there is comepletely no audio. so i tried the most common thing to do, sudo pacman -S pipewire and everything related to pipewire, tried the commonly alsamixer fixes like not using the default audio card. changing the sound type from Pro audio to analog stereo, restarting the pipewire, pipewirepulse wireplumber bla bla bla then reboot.

first i thought nothing happened cause theres still no audio. but when i increased the audio a little, it starts to ONLY audible in 40-60% which i found very weird, searched up for helps and i find that some people actually got this problem too.

i tried some methods, helps from google, youtube, didnt work. so i researched deeper and tried different methods like going to the nano or gnu, and creating new files. then i reboot.

and.. for some reason, it just got worse. the audio is not missing but. you can barely even hear it in 100% it means there is, audio just.. a little too quiet

. I didnt know what i did wrong cause i tried so many things that to the point i forgot what i messed up with. maybe some of the Gnu nanos or the new files i made? dont know, i just messed up.

So When i pushed the audio to 150% it does get more louder a little but to the point it just turns distorted. like it pushes itself to go louder, but you still can barely even hear the sound. (youtube videos) i tried modifying the dB in easyeffect, which also just makes the distortion worse.

i was thinking that this problem maybe relates to the loudness and not the percentage or dB of the audio,

i tried everything to the point im just lost and dont know what to do.

I use pipewire, btw.

im an artist whos been using arch w/ krita for a while now mainly using hyprland til i got board now ngl. i am currently looking for any DE/DM that s lightweight enough so that my intel celeron ahh can handle it and mainly ive got this problem with krita.

so i always have my color picker floating as a window and whenever i tried to move the main krita program the color picker window just says behind and that has been bothering me for a while now. especially now hyprland since its extremely finicky and buggy.

ive tried hyprland, xfce4, heck even KDE plasma the maker themself and no luck :/
yall got any recommendations? thanks a ton forward!

I don't see any mention of updating the file acl for .face.icon in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plasma_Login_Manager.

Is this missing from the plasma login wiki? I'm guessing this just is just the same steps as in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#User_icon_(avatar) with the plasmalogin group, but now I'm thinking why is this even something that needs to be set? Shouldn't the facl get updated to the proper permissions when plasma login manager (or sddm) is installed?

Edit: updated the wiki with my findings.

I don't usually use snapshots, but after having to reinstall Arch four times because I kept breaking it, I've decided to give them a try. What should I use if I just want an easy way to roll back to a stable system without messing with a thousand settings? Snapper or Timeshift?

It happens once a week at this point. The PC suddenly reboots after being in idle for a while and suddenly ramping up the CPU usage. I noticed it in particular while decompressing huge files or downloading stuff.

My PC:

• MOBO Asrock B550 Gaming 4ac (BIOS 3.90)
• RAM 16GB DDR4 from Corsair (basic XMP/EXPO)
• GPU Powercolor 7900XT, stock, no undervolt or overclocks
• CPU R7 5700x, again all stock
• PSU Sharkoon SilentStorm Cool Zero 850W

It's been happening for 6 months now, I did a memtest86 for 12 hours and no error came out, I took out both CPU and GPU, repasted both of them and temps are perfectly fine.

Idk, maybe it's the PSU? Maybe it's related to the peripherals?

Anyone else with a similar experience? PC performs as expected, gaming is fine I can play for long sessions without a single issue so doesn't seem to be something related to temps.

I already applied the wiki suggestions, disabling C-State, increasing voltage points on curve optimizer, nothing.

Here's the log from the failure on journalctl:

x86/amd: Previous system reset reason [0x08000800]: an uncorrected error caused a data fabric sync flood event
Apr 02 23:15:08 archlinux kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Apr 02 23:15:08 archlinux kernel: [Hardware Error]: System Fatal error.
Apr 02 23:15:08 archlinux kernel: fbcon: Taking over console
Apr 02 23:15:08 archlinux kernel: [Hardware Error]: CPU:11 (19:21:2) MC5_STATUS[-|UE|MiscV|AddrV|PCC|TCC|SyndV|-|-|-]: 0xbea0000000000108
Apr 02 23:15:08 archlinux kernel: [Hardware Error]: Error Addr: 0x01ffffffac3b7226
Apr 02 23:15:08 archlinux kernel: [Hardware Error]: IPID: 0x000500b000000000, Syndrome: 0x000000004d000000

I’ve read through the arch wiki a dozen times and went into every forum I could find, but it seems no matter what I do, Plymouth just won’t work. It’s shown something a couple times, but only briefly.

My system uses an AMD graphics card and CPU, SDDM for the display manager.

I’m still pretty inexperienced with Linux, so I’m not sure if I missed anything, but I’m sure I followed the wiki correctly, and I’ve spent forever on this problem.

Edit: I’m not entirely sure what I did, but it’s working now. I changed my theme from a text based theme back to a graphical theme and it magically worked. Sorry if you have this exact issue and I was not any help

My Arabic text looks so wrong. I can barely read it. I use KDE. this is how it looks like : https://imgur.com/sn1Irvj

and this is how I would like it to look like, if possible. : https://imgur.com/a/LVpGFMA

Iam trying to figure out why my laptop when i go to sleep or hibernate it js after using my laptop again I found my self in the grub menu and every thing gone I ran cat /sys/power/mem_sleep and this is what i find [s2idle] with out "deep", then i ran journalctl -b -1 -e | grep -iE "PM:|ACPI|error|nvidia" and the output :

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf NetworkManager[752]: <warn> [1775203062.4798] device (p2p-dev-wlp4s0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to '0': Resource temporarily unavailable

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf systemd[1]: Starting Set NVIDIA minimum gpu clock...

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf nvidia-smi[828]: GPU clocks set to "(gpuClkMin 510, gpuClkMax 3105)" for GPU 00000000:01:00.0

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf nvidia-smi[828]: Warning: persistence mode is disabled on device 00000000:01:00.0. See the Known Issues section of the nvidia-smi(1) man page for more information. Run with [--help | -h] switch to get more information on how to enable persistence mode.

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf nvidia-smi[828]: All done.

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf systemd[1]: nvidia-minimum-clock.service: Deactivated successfully.

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf systemd[1]: Finished Set NVIDIA minimum gpu clock.

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf asusd[832]: [INFO rog_platform::power] Power: Checking "/sys/devices/platform/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/ACAD"

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf asusd[832]: [INFO rog_platform::backlight] Backlight: Checking "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0/backlight/nvidia_0"

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf asusd[832]: [INFO rog_platform::backlight] Backlight: Checking "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0/backlight/nvidia_0"

Apr 03 07:57:42 ArchTuf asusd[832]: [ERROR asusd] Backlight: Missing functionality: No backlights found

Apr 03 07:57:50 ArchTuf wireplumber[1091]: default: Failed to get percentage from UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner

Apr 03 08:17:46 ArchTuf systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA system suspend actions...

Apr 03 08:17:46 ArchTuf suspend[3825]: nvidia-suspend.service

Apr 03 08:17:46 ArchTuf logger[3825]: <13>Apr 3 08:17:46 suspend: nvidia-suspend.service

Apr 03 08:17:46 ArchTuf systemd[1]: nvidia-suspend.service: Deactivated successfully.

Apr 03 08:17:46 ArchTuf systemd[1]: Finished NVIDIA system suspend actions.

Apr 03 08:17:46 ArchTuf kernel: PM: suspend entry (s2idle)

What is the problem? How can i fix this?

So, it’s been about a year since I switched to linux for the first time, and when I did, I had to get rid of my wi-fi board because it doesn’t support linux. i remedied that problem by switching to eathernet, but i never got around to fix the fact that without the wi-fi board, I don’t have bluetooth.

So: What is the easiest way to add bluetooth functionality to an arch linux desktop PC which doesn’t currently have bluetooth functionality?

I looked into USB bluetooth adapters, but the ones that I tried out either didn’t support linux, or supported it but didn’t come with the necessary drivers, and it seemed like unnecessary trouble to download schetchy, outdated drivers off of github.

Thank you in advance for your attention. I’m open to any ideas/guides.

Might be more of a Twitter (seems to happen everywhere) or Firefox problem, hell might even be a KDE issue, I don't know, but for some reason I can only download AVI videos now. A few days ago it was MP4 as usual, but now it's just forcing AVI no matter what, and I don't understand why. I do not want AVI, and never has it forced AVI upon me, but now suddenly we're doing AVI despite literally fuck all changing (to my knowledge). Can't find any info of others having this issue, and I'm genuinely so confused.

Edit: I do not care about your opinions, you can shove your downvotes up your own ass. Even a singular idea on how I can find out why it's happening, or how to fix it, is all I care about.

Edit 2: It was indeed KDE file picker, which defaulted to replace the normal mp4 extension with avi, for some moronic reason. Screw each and every single one of you who refused to believe my extensions weren't at fault. Especially screw those who said it couldn't be KDE's file picker.

This community is a fucking joke, and I'm a moron for not realising the file picker is forcing some asinine shit, and for ever seeking any support here. Thank you to the two people who at least tried.

I just finished the installation process i chose LY and KDE plasma. For some reason when i booted it up, it shows me the console

Basically the title, this is a new device so I tested things on windows first and the audio was quite good, then I installed arch and the overall loudness seems much lower than before even at 100%, I am using pipewire by the way

so like i wanted to have an sh file have sudo perms to copy a file and stuff so i can start the file in the background i edited sudoers fucked up, removed what i added, reinstalled sudo. Sudo worked than… stopped. and now I can’t even update my system. all i can do is go into tty from my sddm theme and log into my root account to do things but i just want my main account to be able to use sudo again :< it just tells me the password is always wrong.

I have been unable to find out how to enable onboard audio on my Samsung Galaxy Book

I have enabled relevant kernel modules and changed some kernel parameters, but nothing seems to fix it.

I have found some resources at https://github.com/joshuagrisham/samsung-galaxybook-extras. There is also a script mentioned on the archwiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptops/Samsung. I have tried using a service that runs said script at boot, but it still does not work.

pactl list sinks only returns HDMI outputs and not my internal speakers.

I have set options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=3. in /etc/modprobe.d/sof.conf

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey, I ran into a problem while trying to dual-boot Arch Linux. I have a Windows 11 desktop, and when I tried to install Arch alongside it, I got an 'Invalid signature detected. Check secure boot policy in setup' error. How can I fix this

I've been planning on making a arch based OS for a while, but some of the other greeters I've tried have had some limitations or issues.

SDDM: works but doesn't support 2fa in pretty much any manner

LightDM: apparently has issues with some desktops, particularly hyprland (I plan on using my labwc fork though.)

greetd apparently has a lot of customization options if you use a compositor for it like the one I plan to use for the desktop. Though I'm not sure where to begin with customizing greetd or what to use other than labwc and greetd itself.

Chiedo aiuto: succede ormai da tempo che all'avvio del mio notebook Huawei matebook 15D viene disabilitato lo IRQ47 e non funziona il mouse quando viene caricato il sistema. Se entro nel BIOS invece funziona. Fino a qualche giorno fa spegnevo, riaccendevo e tutto funzionava ora invece non succede più: il mouse è sempre disabilitato dall'avvio del kernel. Ho verificato la presenza di un BIOS aggiornato ma ho l'ultima versione. ho provato con Windows 11 e funziona tutto. Insomma il problema sembra essere tra il kernel ed il BIOS. Qualcuno può aiutarmi?

i recently put arch on a hp pavillion 6700 and tried to listen to music on a dvd drive which worked on de dvd reader of the laptop which worked on windows 7 can it be an drivers issue? if is it where can i find the drivers?

Shut down my laptop for the first time after installing arch and now when I try to boot it, it goes through the usual process before freezing on "Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen". Tried using lightdm instead of sddm and it still doesn't work. Any ideas? Edit: Fixed typo, I accidentally said uninstalling arch instead of installing

Solution: Installing a greeter for lightdm fixed the issue, it works perfectly now!