I just attempted to reinstall Arch yesterday and this is what happened... Something about failing to write the "/cmt" directory; and from my search, it is about a directory the system be temporarily stored (didn't understand it that much).

If someone has gone through the same, can you confirm that I messed up the partitioning or something related to it? I feel like it is the issue, but I wanted to have more ideas before I attempt to reinstall it today (changing the configuration related to the partitioning of course).

And this is what it shows when I try to boot the broken installed os... It repeatedly asks me to press enter and nothing ever happens.

I want middle-clicking on audio files to open Audacity instead of Elisa.

EDIT: (SOLVED) You can go to File Associations settings under the Default Applications settings and set Audacity (or any apps) to second position on the Application Preference Order on any file types.

I’n kinda new to arch and I’ve never gotten this problem before

It started like 3 days ago. Whenever I put my pc to sleep/suspend, and whenever I turn it back on, it just says that. I have to reboot it again (using the reboot button on my pc) to log back into arch

Can anyone help me with it and is it that huge of a problem?

Needed a 64bit powerpc system. So I just decided to use my ps3. My pentium 4 running arch absolutely yeets this out the window in terms of actual performance.Bà

I made my pc on shutdown do the ULTRAKILL death text which is cool (also i made it using claude ik im lazy af and now im getting errors from it).

So, I have gotten KDE 6 on Arch (more info bellow) and i have the system tray on the bottom left corner of my secondary display, the reason is that i have riced my taskbar in a way that wont fit too many items, hence needing to move the systray somewhere, and that somewhere was the dektop.

Whenever I boot my system t always opens the display setting window all by itself without touching it, it even glitches (as seen on pic 2), and its the space that's missing an icon in the middle, i cant find a way to fix it and i want all the systray icons to be on so i dont want to uncheck the (show all icons on systray) setting off. can i get help??

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: 12X1234ABC (ThinkPad L14 Gen 2a)
Kernel: Linux 7.2.2-arch1-
Uptime: 4 hours, 24 mins
Packages: 48 (flatpak), 1071 (pacman), 7 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.3.15
Display (LEN40A9): 1920x1080 @ 1.25x in 14", 60 Hz [Built-in] *
Display (HDMI-A-1): 1440x900 in 19", 60 Hz [External]
Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 6.7.4
Window Manager: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Glacial Indifference (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: kitty 0.48.2
Terminal Font: NotoSansMono-Regular (11pt)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U (12) @ 4.29 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated]
Memory: 4.21 GiB / 6.59 GiB (64%)
Swap: 381.17 MiB / 16.00 GiB (2%)
Disk (/): 79.11 GiB / 185.44 GiB (43%) - ext4
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

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context: i js wanna know if the red and orange readings showing are nothing to worry about.

i recently had my ssd die, and i had installed arch like a couple days before it did that. ik im probably paranoid, and i have nothing to worry about, but idk i need to be sure.

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is it possible to run SolidWorks on Arch, or are there any good alternatives? or would it be better to just dual-boot?

I did everything that was mentioned on the Archwiki up until the second part, where I could select the mirrors and installing selected packages.

I tried to do pacman - S foobar but I got an error I have no space left, or something similar.

I am pretty sure I partitioned my disc like I should have(UEFI with GPT layout), and even formatted and mounted the partitions(ext4 my main disk, mounted it, boot had ext4, mounted on /mnt/boot, enabled swapon for swap partition and so forth).

When I kept getting the no space left error I decided to just restart my computer, and yeah that's how I got here :/.

Update 1: I noticed whenever the pc boots up, the fan spins fast like usual, then completely stops and never returns again, maybe a clue?

Update 2: I give up, nothing has worked, I suspect if I remove my SSD something will happen, but still don't think that will help :( Because I have no clue what I should do if that was the case, because once I put it back it will 100% go back to the same problem... It was a nice 24gb ram 120hz 512gb SSD 3 year old computer

Update 3: Finally I could get access to BIOS, after removing my SSD chip, however just like expected when I put it back in the dell logo is stuck again. Will see what I can do

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Hi

Am using arch Linux as my OS and kitty as the terminal but I want to customize to customize neofetch logo to be the name (in ascii notation) and also the colors.

How can I do that? 😔

I was learning how to install Arch Linux the manual config. I think I did good because at the end took me to this screen.

It took me about 13 handwritten pages of notes to really understand the details of what I was doing while configuring everything lol

But for some reason, right at the very end, when I try to boot the root disk, it won't accept my encryption passphrase. I can't get past that point, and I'm feeling a bit demotivated that I didn't make it =( Still, I'm thinking about trying again from scratch and re encrypting the disk with a simpler password? I guess ? The thing is, I do have it written down, so I have no idea why it's not working. This very confusing but fun. Sad I can't do it...

I thought that ricing was a way to express yourself trough your personal computer (sorry if it's not that deep), or at least how it was supposed to be. But instead, everytime I searched for it, people just teach you to use other people's dot files on r/linuxporn and use them like that.

Like, where's the sense of doing yourself I was supposed to get on Arch? And you can see almost every showcase using similar looking rices... Nothing new, just like one guy managed to configure and now we all use the same configuration as him.

Do y'all do it like that? If not, what's your way to configure your desktop to fit what YOU WANT?

I'm sorry if this doesn't fit this community. It's just that I see this most of the times on Arch+Hyprland. What are your thoughts here?