Toggle forum theme
Log In
Tips & tricks
Some tips and tricks available on obarun
Start a Discussion
Supports and Assistance
All Discussions
Tags
General
Supports and Assistance
Bug report
Installation
Tips & tricks
System Administration
Applications
Pkgbuild/Makepkg
Obcommunity
Project Discussion
Take a break
Solved
Forum Statistics
Discussions: 1,338
Posts: 9,469
Latest
Latest
Top
Newest
Oldest
Wayland tips & tricks
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
Applications
ncmprhnsbl
replied
26 Aug
@nfg Try with the new release of seatd (0.8.0-2) available on [obextra]. Then do not forget to add your account to the seat group $ sudo usermod -aG "seat" <accountName> resta...
9
9 replies
H
DM-free Autologin into XFCE upon boot
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
System Administration
Solved
Hyperspace
replied
17 May
I used to be able to enter my XFCE system directly upon booting without a display manager installed, before the 66 update. This meant that I did not have to manually type my u...
2
2 replies
S
VTWM a wm that appears very different and an extreme in minimalism
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
Skatanafas
started
Jan 7, 2023
/usr/share/X11/vtwm/system.vtwmrc copy this to your home ~/.vtwmrc Use the vtwm manual 'man vtwm' Either copy it to you home directory as vtwm will read it as default or use t...
0
0 replies
Autologin and starting X (wm/DE) without a DM
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
Skatanafas
replied
Jan 5, 2023
I do not advise autologin or use it myself, except for testing that this works, but since many people are interested in autologin solutions here it is: As also mentioned by ne...
7
7 replies
Minimalist notifications for current song with cmus and herbe
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
Comrade
started
May 9, 2022
Before I used Obarun I was used to just setting up dunst to tell me the current song playing and calling it a day. Since dunst requires systemd, or at least it does on the arc...
0
0 replies
R
Setting up a shortcut for shutting down?
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
rrx
replied
Feb 6, 2022
With some (arch-based) distros setting up a shut down hotkey combo is as simple as adding a custom shortcut for poweroff or shutdown now from system settings, but I've been sc...
6
6 replies
R
Adding Chaotic-AUR repo to Obarun and making it work
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
eric
replied
Feb 1, 2022
For those unfamiliar, Chaotic-AUR is a self-described automated building repo for AUR packages; if you're currently using AUR to get some of those latest versions of apps as w...
4
4 replies
R
Installing and enabling Bluetooth functionality on Obarun
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
eric
replied
Feb 1, 2022
There's already a forum thread on Bluetooth, but solutions in it are dated, case-specific or selective and scattered throughout the posts. I thought it would be a good initiat...
1
1 reply
Play record audio. sounds. musical notes, scripts/teminal
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
replied
May 22, 2021
I know that a specific frequency is a note but that is not the note an instrument makes when playing the note, and that note is a complex thing of harmonics of the same note ....
2
2 replies
Openbox tweaks and tricks - no dbus - no ck2 - no user services
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
replied
Mar 15, 2021
Minimalist tricks and treats To start you need xorg-xinit and openbox installed: From AUR download, build, and install obmenu-generator You can use pacopts or cower if you don...
6
6 replies
/etc/motd
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
started
Dec 18, 2020
Welcome to a machine running ▄▄ █ █ █ █ ▄ █ █ █▀▀ ▄▄ ▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ █ █ █▀ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █▀ █ █ █ █ ▀ █ █ █ █ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ █ ▄▄ █ ▀█ ███ █ █ ▀█ ▄▄ █ █ ██▄▀▀▄▀█▄█▄█▄▀▀██...
0
0 replies
Obarun Conky - community edition
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
Wat-now
replied
Dec 11, 2020
First of all you need conky, and Arch extra/conky doesn't work So use cower or other Aur helper to get conky-lua-archers Edit the pkgbuilt to turn off unneeded stuff (nvidia, ...
18
18 replies
A
Start a program or script at boot / Autostart
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
replied
Sep 24, 2020
To start an application or shell-script at boot, what would be a recommended way for Obarun? So far I'm looking it up at ArchWiki - Autostart and Start .sh file at login Since...
17
17 replies
Boot/Shutdown console output on obarun
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
ownwaterloo
replied
Jul 24, 2020
Α hint/trick to control console output during booting and shutdown/reboot. Users come in all shapes and forms. Some users dislike looking at too much output on their console w...
2
2 replies
S
active user tree
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
eric
replied
May 12, 2020
Hi, How to make active user tree? What command will do it?
5
5 replies
S
ntp time synchronization
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
replied
Feb 16, 2020
What would be the equivalent of command " # timedatectl set-ntp true " of arch linux in Obarun to synchronize time?
21
21 replies
A
Obarun frugal installation
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
replied
Nov 26, 2019
Hi friends! Is it possible to install Obarun frugally like installing antix or MX.
3
3 replies
Alternative installation techniques
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
saleem
replied
Oct 16, 2019
Re: https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4437# p4437 This doesn't work for all linux distributions, but it works on arch based ones. Have a new partition ready made to b...
3
3 replies
B
Nvidia Optimus prime (render offload)
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
bda65
started
Sep 27, 2019
Hi all, I'm running Obarun on a laptop with Intel and Nvidia GPU, Optimus based. Nvidia released driver which need patched xorg-server 1.20.5 (or wait for 1.20.6). See nvidia ...
0
0 replies
Jeex Mix
Supports and Assistance
Tips & tricks
banned_9-26-2021
replied
Oct 2, 2018
Can you tell us where (what package) includes the Jeex Mix cursor theme? I have tried and tried to figure out where it is and can't.
2
2 replies
Load More
Loading...
This site is best viewed in a modern browser with JavaScript enabled.
Something went wrong while trying to load the full version of this site. Try hard-refreshing this page to fix the error.
Tips & tricks
Some tips and tricks available on obarun
Wayland tips & tricks
DM-free Autologin into XFCE upon boot
VTWM a wm that appears very different and an extreme in minimalism
Autologin and starting X (wm/DE) without a DM
Minimalist notifications for current song with cmus and herbe
Setting up a shortcut for shutting down?
Adding Chaotic-AUR repo to Obarun and making it work
Installing and enabling Bluetooth functionality on Obarun
Play record audio. sounds. musical notes, scripts/teminal
Openbox tweaks and tricks - no dbus - no ck2 - no user services
/etc/motd
Obarun Conky - community edition
Start a program or script at boot / Autostart
Boot/Shutdown console output on obarun
active user tree
ntp time synchronization
Obarun frugal installation
Alternative installation techniques
Nvidia Optimus prime (render offload)
Jeex Mix
Next Page »
Powered by
Obarun