• Arch on a Raspberry Pi 4

    1 min read · distros rpi

    The Official Instructions for a Raspberry pi 4 do not allow for working sound from the headphone jack, unless you use the aarch64 Installation.


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  • autologin

    1 min read · distros arch

    Automatic Login Edit /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf by typing: 1sudo systemctl edit getty@tty1 The put in the following, changing [ USER ] to your username. [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin [ USER ] -s %I 115200,38400,9600 vt102 Automatically Start X In .bashrc. 1 if [ …


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  • fonts

    1 min read · distros

    Basics Update font-cache: 1su root 2fc-cache List fonts: 1fc-list Grab the part of the font name you need for Xresources: 1fc-list | cut -d: -f2 Add field 3 for styles.


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  • Install yay

    1 min read · distros arch

    Requirements Install Arch partitions 1pacman --sync --noconfirm --needed base-devel gcc git 2git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git 3cd yay 4makepkg -si The flags are mostly the same as in pacman. But running yay without flags will do the update like yay -Syu and with package name it will search packages in the …


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  • pacman

    1 min read · distros

    Requirements Install Arch partitions Packages are kept in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Delete unused old packages with: 1sudo pacman -Sc Signatures are handled by the pacman-key, initially set up with: 1sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux And refreshed with: 1sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys If you have usigned keys, you can …


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  • pacman - Extras

    1 min read · distros

    Requirements Install Arch pacman Unattended Actions 1pacman -Syu --noconfirm pacman and yay Text Colouring Getting the colors is done by editing the /etc/pacman.conf and uncommenting the line Color. By adding the line ILoveCandy you will unlock some terminal animations, like pacman eating dots while installing some …


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