Archify Bootprocess
- August, 15 2009
- triplem
To make a nice boot-process, I have had to install fbsplash. The install is pretty seemless and easy. To make the whole process really nice, my menu.lst is configured as follows: title Arch Linux (boot logo) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/577947c2-06ad-4bce-825f-a882228f724d ro quiet console=tty1 vga=795 splash=silent,theme:arch-black,fadein,fadeout initrd /kernel26.im...
Gnome and Pictures
- August, 15 2009
- triplem
I am currently in the process of Arch-iefing my Gnome Desktop. Therefor I wanted to exchange the standard Gnome Foot Icon on the Main Menu through the Arch logo. This is not really easy, and could just be done using the following process: Run all of the following commands as root cd /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places Make a backup of the original logo mv start-here.png start-here-old.p...
Arch Linux - switching from KDE to GNOME
- August, 14 2009
- triplem
Since I am a long time Gnome user (well, I have used Ubuntu for almost 5 years), I thought, if I am going to install a new distro (Arch Linux in this case) I switch my Desktop Environment as well. Therefor I installed KDE. Let me tell you, that I was not really happy with this decision, and that’s why I have chosen to de-install KDE (version 4.3) and install GNOME 2.6. I followed the instr...
Archify Gnome
- August, 14 2009
- triplem
I wanted to make my laptop truely archified. Therefor I installed first of all the murrine engine for GTK and, to have some themes available the corresponding theme collection: pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine pacman -S murrine-themes-collection After this, I downloaded the splashscreen from gnome-look.org (I later recognized, that this is not really needed anymore, since the splash ist just sho...
Arch Linux Thinkpad W500 (Sound)
- August, 13 2009
- triplem
I have now successfully installed Arch Linux on my Thinkpad W500. Sound was a problem. I do have the following Soundcard in the Laptop: [root@athene modprobe.d]# cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Codec: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) Codec: Conexant ID 2c06 To get this up and running I edited the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-sound.conf (keep in mind, that there is probably already a file ...
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