Just wanna say I just bought an old used Lenovo Thinkcentre just so I can start putzing around with Linux again thanks to your channel. Really appreciate the time and energy you’ve put into these. You’re a likable dude too, and that helps!
Heads up to thinkpad users (i.e. laptop users), depending on if you have a descrete graphics card installed, you may have issues with Xorg not properly understanding which device (integrated graphics or nvidia/amd gpu) it is supposed to use. This will manifest itself as a black or frozen display, in both your chosen display manager (lightdm, ssdm, etc) and your window manager/desktop environment (plasma, gnome, i3, etc). You will need to open a different tty via ctrl-alt-F2/F3/F4/F5 and edit your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file to set up the correct device for Xorg to render screens with. Your best help is to run startx or xinit and read the error logs until you pin down the issue with Xorg. I just wanted to clarify this for other users since i thought for a while it was a display manager problem. And also because there is a lot of older information out there that recommends fixes that didn't work for me.
Been on and off Linux for years, my first exposure was Ubuntu 6.06 in 2006. After Windows 7 stopped getting life support this year I've been leaning into Linux more and more. Mint is now becoming my main driver and for fun I decided to do an Arch install following your guides. Very clear and straight forward videos, I now have Arch running successfully in a VM, thank you! Keep up the good work!
Hell yeah much respect DT, I can do the base install but getting the window manager installed and configured is where I fall short every time. So thank you very very much!!!!!!!
Hit dd five times to delete the last 5 lines: novice Hit 5dd to delete 5 lines in 3 keystrokes: intermediate Hit dG to delete from cursor to the end of the file: expert
Been using Arch for years, every time I do an install I still follow the wiki in case anything changes. In the last year, I've started using tmux and w3m (or any cli browser) to keep the wiki in the bottom half of the screen which seems really obvious now that I've been doing it but I never saw anything mention that. Might be a good tip for some folks DT. Glad you're on the other side of the storm brother.
Handy hint: when using vim and you use dd to delete multiple lines of text, if you dd the first time for the first line from then on you can simply use the period key to repeat the same action. I was so happy to use this after repeating the same key actions. Great videos DT :)
This helped me so much after my void minimal install :) Thanks man. You have a great way of explaining stuff generally. I used bspwm, feh and xterm on void, but still used you as pretty much a direct guide.
If you're using dwm and x will not start properly even though the .xintirc is in your home directory and you added exec dwm at the bottom of it just like in this tutorial, try using another window manager and enviroment. For some reason x would not accept exec dwm as a command. Tried fixing it for an hour, checked everything, but it just didn't want to. However as soon as I tried it with xfce4 it worked on the first try. Dunno if anyone else will run into this problem, but I just wanted to leave a comment in case someone does. Great tutorial btw! :D
So funny to be so worried about the decisions you make in WHAT you install, but ultimately what's important here is the philosophy and what you (the user) decides to ultimately go with because you can find installations for specific packages pretty much everywhere but DT has helped me learn all the "layers" to building a linux environment from the ground up.
I like the fact that you did an install of an Xorg setup and not something like KDE or Gnome since what you did seemed to be more of a process and required more things to do. While KDE and Gnome kinda just do all that extra stuff for you.
A tip for intel users: avoid using the intel drivers, instead use the modesetting drivers provided by the kernel for intel graphics. intel graphics drivers(xf86-video-intel) mess up a lot with especially with recording software like OBS. To properly set it: open/create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and type: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" EndSection now restart the pc. to check if settings are applied, type: inxi -G and look for driver: modesetting one more note: you can use --needed to avoid reinstalling the existing pkgs in a group: pacman -S base-devel --needed
@kot aah and that's why always use a compositor like picom....also setting screen tearing on both the graphics driver and the compositor can be really buggy
I did a clean install on my desktop a few months ago, and finally decided to make use of git for my dwm and st, it's so convenient being able to screw around and figuring out what I like because version control makes it easy. I need to develop a better habit of making use of these kinds of tools. Things like these might be obvious to many, but I don't even know anybody who runs linux who I can discuss these kinds of things with.
Been making Arch VM's in virtualbox again and again for the past week. Now I think i'm ready to install on a spare system I have. My only previous experience with any Linux distro was on a raspberry pi about 5 years ago.
Bruh You da shit!!! You helped me so much with this video(the first time I've ever seen any of you vids before)!! Things that I've spent days and weeks fukn around with you have answered in a few short minutes. I KNEW finding the rught person would make this possible but didn't expect to find you accidentally on UA-cam. So again TYVVM
Thanks DT! I've been doing some research on installing/running Arch on my Raspberry Pi 4 lately as I'm tired of dealing with the official OS's ancient packages, and their 64 bit version is still "beta". Arch on arm, particularly on the Pi 4 in 64 bit, can be tricky to get working properly, but your videos will be very helpful once I achieve that.
I got stuck for like 4 hours wondering why dwm wouldn't start for me because I had the enable 3D acceleration ticked in Virtual Box. Glad to finally figure that out
I've been waiting for this very video for a long long time. And now here it comes! I could not thank you enough. BTW, can you make a ricing video after this? Like polybar, audio and etc.
Hey this is awesome, and I just finished my install with KDE plasma and i3 (I am learning i3), but to really bring in the major part of the market, laptop users, and for laptop users PRIME offloading is very important, it would be cool to see a tutorial on PRIME offloading and maybe a VM passthrough tutorial, the two easy ways of achieving 3D acceleration
It was such a boring thing to set up and then I discovered mhwd (Manjaro hardware detector) Just install it on Arch and its sets everything up in one command
@@bodlouk7011 only one command? That sounds boring and one wouldn't know what actually happen and why. I am all for automatic tools, but I really also want to know what it does. That is why front ens developers rally need to learn to hack some JavaScript, HTML and CSS manually before using tools and/or frameworks.
Enable 3D acceleration doesn't affect any startx functions. It's simply just a virtual box error, just power off and open again will solve the problem. Plus, if you disable 3D acceleration, picom glx backend doesn't work, which means picom blur-background won't work at all. Took me 3 days to fix this. ☺☺☺
hey DT - I type yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-get nerd-fonts-monoki and I get -> could not find all required packages: st-distrotube-git (Target) dwm-distrotube-git (Target) dmenu-distrotube-git (Target) Am I spelling something wrong?
i wasted a whole day to make a hybrid installation of arch on my thumb drive and now i can use a program called usb image tools to backup and restore it. tried openbox and now i am trying dwm
Lol experimented on my main rig on real hardware but i left my data partition alone and was very careful not to mess with it. Boots hell of a lot faster than ubuntu. Now time to get gnome and sweet theme for it.
@@dogol284 The packages he installs are his own custom build for his systems, the regular packages still exist within the aur. You can install the regular packages yourself, and if you're really wanting his dotfiles you can git clone them through his github page. Overall, read the arch wiki installation and post installation guide, there are a multitude of ways of building your system, the packages will work normally, it just won't have his patches/theming.
@@kenielf could you kinda walk through it step by step? I am complete beginner here and I am pretty much stuck at 10:29 when he installed his own thing
@@jonathanlee4653 Yes, of course! Do you have any way I can contact you to make things easier? Like discord or something for example? Or would you prefer me to just say it here? Is it his setup exactly or do you have anything else in mind?
Just some been there done that 'effed that up already. Install at least two desktop environments. Even if you never use it and preferably from different families, if your primary system breaks you don't have to but into your GTK desktop or cinnamon or one of the Forks we got out of Gnome 3 you can get into KDE or qt or whatever to at least figure it all out. Or you just roll the dice that the next roll fixes it and you can go back.
I'm probably going to take the time to build my own nothing against A guy taking the time but part of my arch build is I want to make the entire thing myself! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!
Awesome video, DT! I had wondered why you didn't install base-devel in the previous video during the initial pacstrap command. It's been a little while since I installed Arch, and I wondered if that was a change from before (like having to specify linux and linux-firmware).
I wasn't really following the wiki while recording, so it might have suggested during the chroot. Either way though, install it then, install it later, makes no difference.
Starting your WM with xinit has at least one major security issue. If an attacker manages to crash your X11 session they are presented with a logged in shell from your user. Then it's just one sudo or other security issue away from getting root access or at least tinker with all your files. A login manager won't have this problem so you should probably use one.
lol! I also use Manjaro, but I kinda got used to pacman and going to AUR and from there installing stuff. Yeah I know, not the most optimal thing, but heh, it gets the job done
I had fun watching this and I decided not to install Arch and just admire it from far. It's too much hassle and I don't even have the patience to customize BunsenLabs. Love your accent sir :)
I have much better luck with VirtualBox in Windows with a Linux guest by setting the display to VBoxSVGA with 3D acceleration off (ignore error). And set System> Acceleration to KVM. But you have a Linux host so I'm not 100% sure, but it should still be smoother.
Hey DT, great video, but $ yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git nerd-fonts-mononoki -> Could not find all required packages:
@@zer0reaction313 Maybe i will try installing the software that he has, but the original software. using git clone or something. i think Mr Taylor's software is software he configured himself to his liking. it like importing or downloading someones Customized Emblems or Classes in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
I relized now that arch is not for me, I am using Debian 12, it is a great , stable, and use a great desktop (gnome 45) I am not the guy who use neofetch many times in the day, in my fancy customized desktop
They removed the files from the AUR. Check out his video on that, or if you want. You can find the files in his gitlab which is mentioned in his description
I found the new reference video, and I figure that at 6:09 of this video I have to clone this repo and keep going. BUT, cloning the gitlab repo produces the following error: GitLab The requested URL returned error: 503. Which goes over my head on how to solve. This is the referred link: ua-cam.com/video/CYqd2AHXosk/v-deo.html
Thank you DT! Can you please make an updated video about Picom configuration (for Intel HD Graphics) to fix screen tearing? Specially when scrolling in the browser!
Hi Abhilesh, I think I have met exactly the same problem as you and I just fixed it. Look at my guide if you like: github.com/Wangwj98/My-Manjaro-i3wm-Ricing
Would have been nice to have tried it out. Never once have I been able to get arch to install on my solid state drive. Hell at least it would see it, Slackware would not even see it. Had to go with Fedora as that seems to be the only distro that I have tried that it will install on.
The reason why I don't do that is because I don't ever wanna be restricted on storage on any partition. I want it to all be dynamic, if you know what I mean. Also I like doing a fresh install and running a git clone and stow command, because it's so fun.
Why do you want to do that? I know they have tried to run X without root privs, but it has not been easy, and I don't know of they succeded. Anyway, you can run a X server in a X server. Like Xnest X server. Nice way to try out X11.
I'm thinking about giving Arch a try. What window manager should I use? I've only ever used XFCE, and would like to try something new that is still light on resource usage.
ty so much for the tutorial , i did install arch linux with awesomeWM and i like it but i have some visual blockiness " like blocks when i hover over buttons". i searched a lot but i didnt find any solution if anyone knows how to fix it . i wish you share it with me. thank you so much
The time i used dwm i had only 2 things i couldn't figure it out quickly was the other languages fonts like japanese and how i could change keyboad layout because i wanted to type some stuff in russian and i still don't know how to change it (without a desktop environment)
In your xsessions or xinitrc run the command " setxkbmap ru ", also read the man page you can make a keybinding to toggle between different keyboard layouts.
@@VishnuNarayananB yeah i must have a shortcut to select keyboard since it would be hard to type back in another alphabet, i think. Only now i'm starting to use arch and that's my first "read the manual" response, thanks! (no irony)
Use UTF-8, and you get all characters you need for any language, even Sindarin. Just install fonts that supports UTF-8 and you are home. You might change LANG to support messages in programs. You can even have different languages in different programs, just set LANG before you start them.
@@AndersJackson that's nice to hear! i though i could just remove the # in /etc/locale.gen but the wiki said to only do that in necessary fonts, since i want my system in the english language and the other things likes calendar in portuguese, i just removed the # in pt_BR and en_US, so thanks for showing a way to solve it!
I just want to know how to make my new dwm install have desktop backgrounds that change every minute. I guess I need to learn how to use all the x stuff in order to have control over this sort of thing.
@@pranjalmet4546 what I actually did was make an alias for feh with the option -z which selects a random image from a directory. It also activates on opening a terminal.
Hey DT, first of all love your channel. new supporter here! Just wondering is there a uninstall script for DTOS? would love to play around with it! :) and I was also wondering if there are dotfiles just to pull individual configs from? I love DTOS and would love to piece it together!
14:11 Was having a similar issue. My problem was i installed linux and linux-lts, but only nvidia driver. I knew nvidia-lts was required for LTS but didn't think i'd be booting that kernel except for TTY emergency situations. Grub for whatever reason was default booting linux-lts so i was getting this failure to startx. [$ sudo modprobe nvidia] revealed the issue of nvidia LTS module not being found. Ez fix for me, just had to install nvidia-lts (apparently you can install both nvidia and nvidia-lts). Now i just need to see how to force the non-lts kernel to take priority in grub. (When i tried sway + wayland it just worked without issue xD)
I have a question: On mint, I found this random generic usb wifi, plugged it in and mint recognized it and using its wifi.. Is arch the same way? Or do I have to install something else? I just installed arch a week ago and I'm still trying to figure out everything
It should just recognize it but it's a pain to use wifi without installing something like NetworkManager. But the base install won't include any networking tools I don't think (could be something like wpa_supplicant which somepeople like but I think it is just a pain). If you use a wired connection during installation and make sure to include NetworkManager when you pacstrap you'll be able to use 99.9% of usb wifi adapters.
@@arthurbttf when i was using dwm i downloaded nemo because i couldn't figure how to mount a pen drive, and nemo (or any other major file manager) does this automatically, even though i just wanted to copy a simple text file to my pc (litte edit:) through the terminal
@@MpSniperM1911 That's important to know, thank you! When I installed arch I was surprised that even though i3, polybar and kdeconnect were running, memory usage was less than 400M. Definately good for an old core 2 duo
@@arthurbttf yeah that's the ram usage i want to have! My only problem when i was installing arch on my notebook is that i couldn't figure a way to install a 64bit version in BIOS mode, i mean, the grub options that i know is "x86_64-efi" and "i386-pc" when setting up, even though in the BIOS itself i can see options like "boot from EFI" i can't use it for some unknown reason, also arch doesn't show that i have EFI support so i just have to deal with it, (after the exclamation point it's just my complain)
Hey DT, would you be able to tell us how to get fullscreen here, regardless of monitor size, with virtualbox? I've tried installing guest additions packages with pacman, and enabling full-screen mode just wont work. I can get it somewhat close with xrandr, but I'm using a 2560x1440 screen and there is no setting for that... In VMWare Player I could usually get fullscreen with a "systemctl restart vmtoolsd.service". Any help would be highly appreciated! Also, great videos man, I've learned a ton from you in the short time I've been watching! Edit: Ah nevermind, I went and installed arch on an old laptop using your guide and got it running really really smoothly. Just trying to get used to dwm, only having experience with i3, really cool that you have to actually edit the program code to change options, really cool, but very wierd. I think I like it!
xrandr has some default modes that you can set your screen to, but you make your own 2560x1440 mode and then use xrandr to change to that mode. Then you can just add the commands to the WM or DE config file to make sure that your screen starts at that resolution
@@JagroopSingh-wd6kj wow ok great thanks for the tips, I'll web search around with that in mind as I am new to virtual box and plan on testing out some more Linux distros with it in the near future!
Just wanna say I just bought an old used Lenovo Thinkcentre just so I can start putzing around with Linux again thanks to your channel. Really appreciate the time and energy you’ve put into these. You’re a likable dude too, and that helps!
I literally bought the same computer for the same reason lol
I got a year azure subscription with my education account. Very helpful to learn linux
Heads up to thinkpad users (i.e. laptop users), depending on if you have a descrete graphics card installed, you may have issues with Xorg not properly understanding which device (integrated graphics or nvidia/amd gpu) it is supposed to use. This will manifest itself as a black or frozen display, in both your chosen display manager (lightdm, ssdm, etc) and your window manager/desktop environment (plasma, gnome, i3, etc). You will need to open a different tty via ctrl-alt-F2/F3/F4/F5 and edit your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file to set up the correct device for Xorg to render screens with. Your best help is to run startx or xinit and read the error logs until you pin down the issue with Xorg.
I just wanted to clarify this for other users since i thought for a while it was a display manager problem. And also because there is a lot of older information out there that recommends fixes that didn't work for me.
@@Shadetheartist1 thank you for making the effort to post this
How's it going a year later?
Been on and off Linux for years, my first exposure was Ubuntu 6.06 in 2006. After Windows 7 stopped getting life support this year I've been leaning into Linux more and more. Mint is now becoming my main driver and for fun I decided to do an Arch install following your guides. Very clear and straight forward videos, I now have Arch running successfully in a VM, thank you! Keep up the good work!
arch on a vm and mint as main system!?!?!
WHY???
@Sayon Huh...good answer...=o
@@-r-3542
What was the answer?
3:05 Initial pkg installation
6:12 Installing YAY
7:28 Don't miss base-devel
8:05 makepkg (yay=AUR Helper)
8:45 Installing WM, Terminal Emulator and others
11:29 Copying xinitrc file 12:19 Editing xinitrc
18:15 startx after login
Thanks for making timestamps for this video.
Hell yeah much respect DT, I can do the base install but getting the window manager installed and configured is where I fall short every time. So thank you very very much!!!!!!!
Hit dd five times to delete the last 5 lines: novice
Hit 5dd to delete 5 lines in 3 keystrokes: intermediate
Hit dG to delete from cursor to the end of the file: expert
With every video, the DT Wiki expands. I come here half the time I want to learn something interesting (like org modes).
Been using Arch for years, every time I do an install I still follow the wiki in case anything changes. In the last year, I've started using tmux and w3m (or any cli browser) to keep the wiki in the bottom half of the screen which seems really obvious now that I've been doing it but I never saw anything mention that. Might be a good tip for some folks DT. Glad you're on the other side of the storm brother.
I love this series. It shows that you can still build a simple system without all the bloat and mystery of heavy distros.
DAY 1: Generators and electricity is bloat.
DAY 2: I miss you coffee, hot shower and operating system the Linux Foundation does not use.
I got the both of both worlds
You are agreed to my thing in a different way
@Brahma Sharma hot showers do though, since it has to heat the water
@@loganreynolds8688 there are solar-heated hot showers.
@@netbotcl586 Solar as in heated directly by the sun, or by solar panels?
Handy hint: when using vim and you use dd to delete multiple lines of text, if you dd the first time for the first line from then on you can simply use the period key to repeat the same action.
I was so happy to use this after repeating the same key actions. Great videos DT :)
did my first arch install today. wasn’t so bad, but took two attempts. Then dwm suite. On a thinkpad x200…in 2023 😊
This helped me so much after my void minimal install :)
Thanks man. You have a great way of explaining stuff generally.
I used bspwm, feh and xterm on void, but still used you as pretty much a direct guide.
If you're using dwm and x will not start properly even though the .xintirc is in your home directory and you added exec dwm at the bottom of it just like in this tutorial, try using another window manager and enviroment. For some reason x would not accept exec dwm as a command.
Tried fixing it for an hour, checked everything, but it just didn't want to. However as soon as I tried it with xfce4 it worked on the first try.
Dunno if anyone else will run into this problem, but I just wanted to leave a comment in case someone does.
Great tutorial btw! :D
So funny to be so worried about the decisions you make in WHAT you install, but ultimately what's important here is the philosophy and what you (the user) decides to ultimately go with because you can find installations for specific packages pretty much everywhere but DT has helped me learn all the "layers" to building a linux environment from the ground up.
I was just finishing doing pacstrap on the /mnt directory when you uploaded this :D Nice one DT!
I like the fact that you did an install of an Xorg setup and not something like KDE or Gnome since what you did seemed to be more of a process and required more things to do. While KDE and Gnome kinda just do all that extra stuff for you.
A tip for intel users: avoid using the intel drivers, instead use the modesetting drivers provided by the kernel for intel graphics. intel graphics drivers(xf86-video-intel) mess up a lot with especially with recording software like OBS. To properly set it:
open/create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
and type:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection
now restart the pc.
to check if settings are applied, type: inxi -G
and look for driver: modesetting
one more note: you can use --needed to avoid reinstalling the existing pkgs in a group:
pacman -S base-devel --needed
Thanks for the tip!
@NOZY mesa is for 3D acceleration and xf86-video-* drivers are for 2d acceleration. More info can be found on the arch wiki page for intel graphics
@check it but intel graphics also cause OBS and other screen recording issues
@kot aah and that's why always use a compositor like picom....also setting screen tearing on both the graphics driver and the compositor can be really buggy
thank you sooo much. have a 5500 graphics card (i THINK, have no idea what it is) and had no idea how to configure it.
I did a clean install on my desktop a few months ago, and finally decided to make use of git for my dwm and st, it's so convenient being able to screw around and figuring out what I like because version control makes it easy. I need to develop a better habit of making use of these kinds of tools. Things like these might be obvious to many, but I don't even know anybody who runs linux who I can discuss these kinds of things with.
I'm the only one in my house that can use a computer proficiently doing anything other than firing up a web browser. I feel you, man.
Thank you. Very helpful. I have been focused on learning Arch and I really enjoy watching your videos.
Man, linux is so satisfying once you start figuring things out.
Your channel is a gem! Thank you for all the great content!
Been making Arch VM's in virtualbox again and again for the past week. Now I think i'm ready to install on a spare system I have.
My only previous experience with any Linux distro was on a raspberry pi about 5 years ago.
How did that go for you? Did you end up getting into Linux some more after that or was it really your last experience with Linux in general?
Bruh
You da shit!!! You helped me so much with this video(the first time I've ever seen any of you vids before)!! Things that I've spent days and weeks fukn around with you have answered in a few short minutes. I KNEW finding the rught person would make this possible but didn't expect to find you accidentally on UA-cam. So again
TYVVM
Thanks DT! I've been doing some research on installing/running Arch on my Raspberry Pi 4 lately as I'm tired of dealing with the official OS's ancient packages, and their 64 bit version is still "beta". Arch on arm, particularly on the Pi 4 in 64 bit, can be tricky to get working properly, but your videos will be very helpful once I achieve that.
Thanks to you I’ve sorted with mint and I’ve not missed windows at all
I got stuck for like 4 hours wondering why dwm wouldn't start for me because I had the enable 3D acceleration ticked in Virtual Box. Glad to finally figure that out
I've been waiting for this very video for a long long time. And now here it comes! I could not thank you enough.
BTW, can you make a ricing video after this? Like polybar, audio and etc.
Hey this is awesome, and I just finished my install with KDE plasma and i3 (I am learning i3), but to really bring in the major part of the market, laptop users, and for laptop users PRIME offloading is very important, it would be cool to see a tutorial on PRIME offloading and maybe a VM passthrough tutorial, the two easy ways of achieving 3D acceleration
Prime is a combination of integrated and discrete video cards? Like Intel Nvidia optimus?
Yes discrete Nvidia to guest and Intel at host
It was such a boring thing to set up and then I discovered mhwd (Manjaro hardware detector)
Just install it on Arch and its sets everything up in one command
@@bodlouk7011 only one command?
That sounds boring and one wouldn't know what actually happen and why.
I am all for automatic tools, but I really also want to know what it does.
That is why front ens developers rally need to learn to hack some JavaScript, HTML and CSS manually before using tools and/or frameworks.
@@AndersJackson I did it by hand 1000 times and I am pretty happy to have it automatized by people that know better than me
"Arch-linux is not time consuming if you come prepared"... What is time consuming is the preparation... but it is also a great learning experience
Enable 3D acceleration doesn't affect any startx functions. It's simply just a virtual box error, just power off and open again will solve the problem. Plus, if you disable 3D acceleration, picom glx backend doesn't work, which means picom blur-background won't work at all. Took me 3 days to fix this. ☺☺☺
This is nostalgic for me. I used to use xv -setroot -quit or something like that to set my wallpaper with fvwm or olvwm. I wish xv was still a thing.
I have been using ls -al for 15 years and your ls -la is fucking with me hard.
I love the thorough solid explanation
i started using i3 3 days ago and so far i love it
hey DT - I type yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-get nerd-fonts-monoki and I get
-> could not find all required packages:
st-distrotube-git (Target)
dwm-distrotube-git (Target)
dmenu-distrotube-git (Target)
Am I spelling something wrong?
ua-cam.com/video/CYqd2AHXosk/v-deo.html
Really useful - thanks DT
I use the command line version of timeshift so I can always revert back if I mess something up.
i wasted a whole day to make a hybrid installation of arch on my thumb drive and now i can use a program called usb image tools to backup and restore it. tried openbox and now i am trying dwm
Lol experimented on my main rig on real hardware but i left my data partition alone and was very careful not to mess with it. Boots hell of a lot faster than ubuntu. Now time to get gnome and sweet theme for it.
After some frustration figured out that atm (may 2021) none of the distrotube packages are on aur for whatever reason... so kinda broken
He had did a video as to why if I recall correctly.. before the title of it escapes me though. It was some time late April/Early May of this year..
What am I supposed to do?
@@dogol284 The packages he installs are his own custom build for his systems, the regular packages still exist within the aur.
You can install the regular packages yourself, and if you're really wanting his dotfiles you can git clone them through his github page.
Overall, read the arch wiki installation and post installation guide, there are a multitude of ways of building your system, the packages will work normally, it just won't have his patches/theming.
@@kenielf could you kinda walk through it step by step? I am complete beginner here and I am pretty much stuck at 10:29 when he installed his own thing
@@jonathanlee4653 Yes, of course! Do you have any way I can contact you to make things easier? Like discord or something for example?
Or would you prefer me to just say it here? Is it his setup exactly or do you have anything else in mind?
Just some been there done that 'effed that up already.
Install at least two desktop environments. Even if you never use it and preferably from different families, if your primary system breaks you don't have to but into your GTK desktop or cinnamon or one of the Forks we got out of Gnome 3 you can get into KDE or qt or whatever to at least figure it all out.
Or you just roll the dice that the next roll fixes it and you can go back.
Dt thanks for wallpapers tip. Awesome collection. :)
Yeah but it's way too much. i only use one wallpaper at a time.
yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git nerd-fonts-mononoki doesn't work.
error: could not find all required packages:
dwm-distrotube-git (target)
st-distrotube-git (target)
dmenu-distrotube-git (target)
😓
I solved it with this: ua-cam.com/video/CYqd2AHXosk/v-deo.html
@@AlejandroArroyaveValencia thanks for coming back and pointing us in the right direction.
Your videos are gold!
I'm probably going to take the time to build my own nothing against A guy taking the time but part of my arch build is I want to make the entire thing myself! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!
Thanks DT!
:D
Oh that version of VIM looks ok. If you've seen and were able to read any version of Godot's programming environment, that's not too bad.
Awesome video, DT!
I had wondered why you didn't install base-devel in the previous video during the initial pacstrap command. It's been a little while since I installed Arch, and I wondered if that was a change from before (like having to specify linux and linux-firmware).
I wasn't really following the wiki while recording, so it might have suggested during the chroot. Either way though, install it then, install it later, makes no difference.
Starting your WM with xinit has at least one major security issue. If an attacker manages to crash your X11 session they are presented with a logged in shell from your user. Then it's just one sudo or other security issue away from getting root access or at least tinker with all your files. A login manager won't have this problem so you should probably use one.
If you want to delete all lines that follow -- and you're at the end of the file just do: dG
Thank you for this!
Love Your Content 👍
Yay is in the standard repos for Manjaro. I've been using Manjaro so long so I took it for granted that proper Arch doesn't have it.
lol! I also use Manjaro, but I kinda got used to pacman and going to AUR and from there installing stuff. Yeah I know, not the most optimal thing, but heh, it gets the job done
For the first time, I could setup arch from scratch.
But what window manage you use? You remain using dwm?
I had fun watching this and I decided not to install Arch and just admire it from far. It's too much hassle and I don't even have the patience to customize BunsenLabs. Love your accent sir :)
Thank you, Derek.
I have much better luck with VirtualBox in Windows with a Linux guest by setting the display to VBoxSVGA with 3D acceleration off (ignore error). And set System> Acceleration to KVM. But you have a Linux host so I'm not 100% sure, but it should still be smoother.
can you please make video about creating own AUR repo ?
Base install I did once again last night took me 9 to 10 minutes, depends on the Internet speed and our typing speed lol😅🤣🤣
Hey DT, great video, but
$ yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git nerd-fonts-mononoki
-> Could not find all required packages:
ua-cam.com/video/CYqd2AHXosk/v-deo.html
Same problem
@@GodofDumps you can remove distrotube only dwm-git...
@@TrjLee So it would be $ dwm-git st-git dmenu-git ?
Apparently your packages are not there in the AUR. Did you change the name or something?
@@zer0reaction313 it did not solve it for me it says the key is not valid, and when I try to locally add the key it doesn't let me
@@lm2668 oh i spoke too soon. it tells me that i cannot sign the keys locally as well, of what the message says
@@zer0reaction313 Maybe i will try installing the software that he has, but the original software. using git clone or something. i think Mr Taylor's software is software he configured himself to his liking.
it like importing or downloading someones Customized Emblems or Classes in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
I relized now that arch is not for me, I am using Debian 12, it is a great , stable, and use a great desktop (gnome 45)
I am not the guy who use neofetch many times in the day, in my fancy customized desktop
Mn that room setup,, where all the magic happens
8:34
Could not find all the required packages
dwm-distrotube-git (Target)
st-distrotube-git (Target)
dmenu-distrotube-git (Target)
They removed the files from the AUR. Check out his video on that, or if you want. You can find the files in his gitlab which is mentioned in his description
@@tiddonees2087 thanks a lot
I found the new reference video, and I figure that at 6:09 of this video I have to clone this repo and keep going. BUT, cloning the gitlab repo produces the following error: GitLab The requested URL returned error: 503. Which goes over my head on how to solve. This is the referred link: ua-cam.com/video/CYqd2AHXosk/v-deo.html
Hello !
When i type shift+alt+enter in dwm, it did not react. Can you help me to fix this ?
@@lavapenguin Ok thank you mate !
you can use pacman to install yay as well.
Thank you DT!
Can you please make an updated video about Picom configuration (for Intel HD Graphics) to fix screen tearing? Specially when scrolling in the browser!
Hi Abhilesh, I think I have met exactly the same problem as you and I just fixed it. Look at my guide if you like: github.com/Wangwj98/My-Manjaro-i3wm-Ricing
if using picom, use glx backend and enable vsync. tada! i do the xorg way though.
bro, I loved your Xmonad configuration (bar)! Do you have it on AUR as well as the DWM-Distrotube? Salve de Brasil!!!
You can find my xmonad and xmobar configs on my GitLab.
hi dt can you explain some "basic must have software you must have" like aur, compasitor.
Thank you
awesome video thank you
tip - @13:00 use 5dd to delete 5 lines
I receive an error stating that it is unable to find all required packages: dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git
Exact same issue...
I have same issue, can anyone answer what is problem ?
@ I think you still need to add in the font as he never fixed it
@@YourLocalMedic i think he removed the packages.
the packages were removed, just go to his arch repo on his gitlab and do what it says in there
Would have been nice to have tried it out. Never once have I been able to get arch to install on my solid state drive. Hell at least it would see it, Slackware would not even see it. Had to go with Fedora as that seems to be the only distro that I have tried that it will install on.
sound good bro !!
ampersand ... :)
Also, VBoxSVGA works better, no 3D.
Thanks man!
You bet!
yay no longer finds your distrotube packages rendering this video useless from 10:00 onwards :(
Solution explained in this video ua-cam.com/video/CYqd2AHXosk/v-deo.html
make a separate /home partition so you dont have to clone your dotfiles and wallpapers when you reinstall.
That is actually a really good suggestion. I Always so that on an real installation. But in Virtual test machines I don't care.
The reason why I don't do that is because I don't ever wanna be restricted on storage on any partition. I want it to all be dynamic, if you know what I mean. Also I like doing a fresh install and running a git clone and stow command, because it's so fun.
@@AndersJackson ofc not in virt machines but on ur real pc
Next part with filemanager dependencies please!
If you take a look at the left gauge, sound level is very high. Pushes my ears )
19:55
you could just add
```
session=${1:-dwm}
exec $session
```
to your xinitrc/xsession to select the DE using: startx DE
Hi, how do you print those colored asciiart randomly in your terminal?
Go to my GitLab and check out my Shell Color Scripts repo. Or on Arch, yay -S shell-color-scripts
@@DistroTube thanks! just cloned it and it looks amazing :)
@Distrotube can you do a tutorial for startx and twm
Thanks for the video.
Does anybody know how to start X in unprivileged mode with a systemd user service? Seems not to be so easy.
Why do you want to do that?
I know they have tried to run X without root privs, but it has not been easy, and I don't know of they succeded.
Anyway, you can run a X server in a X server. Like Xnest X server. Nice way to try out X11.
I'm thinking about giving Arch a try. What window manager should I use? I've only ever used XFCE, and would like to try something new that is still light on resource usage.
it gives me an error when i try to install xorg and other packages
Can you do a video on how to take all your config file and save it for future installation
just use paper and pen and write note
ty so much for the tutorial ,
i did install arch linux with awesomeWM
and i like it but i have some visual blockiness " like blocks when i hover over buttons". i searched a lot but i didnt find any solution
if anyone knows how to fix it . i wish you share it with me.
thank you so much
The time i used dwm i had only 2 things i couldn't figure it out quickly was the other languages fonts like japanese and how i could change keyboad layout because i wanted to type some stuff in russian and i still don't know how to change it (without a desktop environment)
In your xsessions or xinitrc run the command " setxkbmap ru ", also read the man page you can make a keybinding to toggle between different keyboard layouts.
@@VishnuNarayananB yeah i must have a shortcut to select keyboard since it would be hard to type back in another alphabet, i think. Only now i'm starting to use arch and that's my first "read the manual" response, thanks! (no irony)
Use UTF-8, and you get all characters you need for any language, even Sindarin.
Just install fonts that supports UTF-8 and you are home.
You might change LANG to support messages in programs. You can even have different languages in different programs, just set LANG before you start them.
@@AndersJackson that's nice to hear! i though i could just remove the # in /etc/locale.gen but the wiki said to only do that in necessary fonts, since i want my system in the english language and the other things likes calendar in portuguese, i just removed the # in pt_BR and en_US, so thanks for showing a way to solve it!
Just a small suggestion, please increase the font size on the terminal.
How can I turn up the System performance on the top bar ?
You should have installed wayfire and turn on all the fx, that way you could piss everyone off :p
Interesting shell)
I just want to know how to make my new dwm install have desktop backgrounds that change every minute. I guess I need to learn how to use all the x stuff in order to have control over this sort of thing.
Maybe you need to add a command in Dwm config using feh or nitrogen you can search for it on wiki
@@pranjalmet4546 what I actually did was make an alias for feh with the option -z which selects a random image from a directory. It also activates on opening a terminal.
Hey DT, first of all love your channel. new supporter here! Just wondering is there a uninstall script for DTOS? would love to play around with it! :) and I was also wondering if there are dotfiles just to pull individual configs from? I love DTOS and would love to piece it together!
Hello, I'm a newbie in archlinux.
Can you tell me how to customize a top bar menu like yours? Do you have any build conf for that?
Thanks @DistroTube
14:11 Was having a similar issue. My problem was i installed linux and linux-lts, but only nvidia driver. I knew nvidia-lts was required for LTS but didn't think i'd be booting that kernel except for TTY emergency situations. Grub for whatever reason was default booting linux-lts so i was getting this failure to startx. [$ sudo modprobe nvidia] revealed the issue of nvidia LTS module not being found. Ez fix for me, just had to install nvidia-lts (apparently you can install both nvidia and nvidia-lts). Now i just need to see how to force the non-lts kernel to take priority in grub. (When i tried sway + wayland it just worked without issue xD)
If you hit "dd" in Vim 5 times you're doing it wrong. ;)
5kd would be enough, if i recall correctly
You could just do d4j to remove 4 lines in vim 😁
> Not using 4dd
Yes, we get it. There's a thousand ways to do one thing in vim
I have a question:
On mint, I found this random generic usb wifi, plugged it in and mint recognized it and using its wifi.. Is arch the same way? Or do I have to install something else?
I just installed arch a week ago and I'm still trying to figure out everything
It should just recognize it but it's a pain to use wifi without installing something like NetworkManager. But the base install won't include any networking tools I don't think (could be something like wpa_supplicant which somepeople like but I think it is just a pain). If you use a wired connection during installation and make sure to include NetworkManager when you pacstrap you'll be able to use 99.9% of usb wifi adapters.
@@richmondrobinson3259 Thank you!
@@arthurbttf when i was using dwm i downloaded nemo because i couldn't figure how to mount a pen drive, and nemo (or any other major file manager) does this automatically, even though i just wanted to copy a simple text file to my pc (litte edit:) through the terminal
@@MpSniperM1911 That's important to know, thank you!
When I installed arch I was surprised that even though i3, polybar and kdeconnect were running, memory usage was less than 400M. Definately good for an old core 2 duo
@@arthurbttf yeah that's the ram usage i want to have! My only problem when i was installing arch on my notebook is that i couldn't figure a way to install a 64bit version in BIOS mode, i mean, the grub options that i know is "x86_64-efi" and "i386-pc" when setting up, even though in the BIOS itself i can see options like "boot from EFI" i can't use it for some unknown reason, also arch doesn't show that i have EFI support so i just have to deal with it, (after the exclamation point it's just my complain)
Hey DT, would you be able to tell us how to get fullscreen here, regardless of monitor size, with virtualbox? I've tried installing guest additions packages with pacman, and enabling full-screen mode just wont work. I can get it somewhat close with xrandr, but I'm using a 2560x1440 screen and there is no setting for that... In VMWare Player I could usually get fullscreen with a "systemctl restart vmtoolsd.service". Any help would be highly appreciated! Also, great videos man, I've learned a ton from you in the short time I've been watching!
Edit: Ah nevermind, I went and installed arch on an old laptop using your guide and got it running really really smoothly. Just trying to get used to dwm, only having experience with i3, really cool that you have to actually edit the program code to change options, really cool, but very wierd. I think I like it!
xrandr has some default modes that you can set your screen to, but you make your own 2560x1440 mode and then use xrandr to change to that mode. Then you can just add the commands to the WM or DE config file to make sure that your screen starts at that resolution
@@JagroopSingh-wd6kj wow ok great thanks for the tips, I'll web search around with that in mind as I am new to virtual box and plan on testing out some more Linux distros with it in the near future!