Wednesday, August 28, 2013

How to install bluetooth manager on Archlinux

If you have bluetooth and want to use it on Archlinux you need to install the needed packages. Bluetooth on linux using Bluez protocol stack...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

How to Add Android-x86 to Archlinux Grub List

If you want to use Android-x86 for full feature, it's recommended to install on hdd instead using Vbox or Another emulator. But the pro...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

How to install arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc on Archlinux (GCC compiler for arm)

If you want to compile arm kernel : android or etc, you need to install GCC compiler for arm. arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc. The package available o...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Fix "Filter Failed" when printing using HP Deskjet 1000 on Archlinux

Someday ago, when printing a document using HP Deskjet 1000, my cartidge suddenly empty, so i remove the paper when printing. Then i can...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

How to Install Gnome 3 on Archlinux with some Basic extensions

GNOME 3 provides a modern desktop environment, rewritten from scratch, using the GTK3+ toolkit. GNOME 3 is available on official Archlinux r...
Monday, June 17, 2013

How to Setup Time & Date (GUI) on Archlinux

By default if you want to change system time & date, you can use timedatectl command. You can follow from archwiki to set the time.
Friday, June 7, 2013

Dock Application for Archlinux (Cairo Dock & Avant Window Navigator)

If you want to get dock like Mac OS X, there are some dock application you can try. You can install Cairo Dock & Avant Window Navigator.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin exists in filesystem when upgrading archlinux (2013/6/3)

Well, last night i upgrade archlinux on my PC Desktop (32bit) & Netbook (64bit). I got some file exists in filesystems error when doing ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

PyPanel, lightweight panel for WM on Archlinux

PyPanel is lightweight panel written in Python and C for X11 windowmanagers. It can be easily customized to match any desktop theme or tast...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

LXDM Configuration on Archlinux (Theme, Autologin, Default DE)

LXDM is lightweight display manager aimed to replace gdm/kdm in LXDE distros. The UI is implemented with GTK+. It is still in early stages ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

How to Install & Configure Mozilla Thunderbird (Email Client) on Archlinux

Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client,news feed client and newsgroup designed around simplicity and fullfeaturedness while avoiding bloat....
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Using fingerprint for login/su/sudo with Fprint on Archlinux

My Toshiba Portege M600 have a fingerprint feature on it. To enable fingerprint, you can use pam-Fprint software. pam-Fprint  is a simple P...

How to Install Plymouth on Archlinux

Plymouth is a project from Fedora providing a flicker-free graphical boot process. It relies on kernel mode setting (KMS) to set the native...

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

To eyecandy your XFCE desktop, you can get the theme on XFCE-look.org sites, there are lot of theme, icon, etc. Before that, you must creat...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

How to get conky transparent with XFCE 4.x on Archlinux

When using LXDE, Fluxbox & Icewm, I can get transparancy for conky by enabling composite using xcompmgr or enabling compiz fusion. But ...

How to Configure XFCE Desktop on Archlinux

After Installing XFCE desktop on Archlinux , Now time to configuring it. On XFCE is very easy because most all configuration done via GUI.

How to Install XFCE Dekstop Environment on Archlinux

Xfce is a desktop envorinment for UNIX-like operating systems. It's lightweight, fast and uses low resources on system, while still b...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Idesk - icon Manager for window manager (icewm, fluxbox, openbox, etc)

iDesk gives users of minimal wm's (icewm, openbox, fluxbox, etc..) icons on their desktop. The icon graphics are either from a svg or ...

How to install & configuring conky on Archlinux

Conky is a free system monitor software for the X. It is runs for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. It is released under the terms of the GPL license...

How to Install & Configuring Fluxbox Window Manager on Archlinux

Fluxbox is another window manager for X11. It is based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code, but with significant enhancements and continued develo...
Monday, May 13, 2013

How to install & Configuring Awesome window manager on Archlinux

Awesome is lightweight window manager and a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensibl...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

How to Install Yaourt for Installing AUR packages on Archlinux

Archlinux have User Repository a.k.a AUR. To install from them, you can do it manually by download the PKGBUILD and makepkg to build the pa...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

How to Install & configuring Zekr on Archlinux

Zekr is Quran study tool for simply browsing and researching on the Holy Quran. It is a Quran-based project, planned to be a universal, ope...
Monday, April 29, 2013

How to Install Naver LINE on Archlinux

LINE is application from Naver. LINE is free call/messenger application for mobile devices. It's available for Android, Iphone, Blackber...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

How to Install Kingsoft Office / WPS office on Archlinux with English Language

WPS office for Linux is free office suite, which includes free word processor, spreadsheet program and presentation maker. These three prog...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

How to clone archlinux installation to another pc (another ways)

Hi, i have a archlinux installed on my primary PC, then i want to clone it on my netbook. I'm using "copy-paste" methods to c...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

How to install HP Deskjet 1000 on Archlinux

Last week i buy a new printer, it's HP Deskjet 1000. On the box only included with windows driver on CD. On windows 7 the printer looks ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

How to Install & Configure ICEWM window manager on Archlinux

Based on Wikipedia , IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Maček. It was coded from ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

How to Install & Configure SLIM login manager on Archlinux

If you want to install alternative login manager that light weight and simple, you can try SLiM. SLiM is a Simple Login Manager. SLiM i...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

How to Install Lamp (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) web Server on Archlinux

LAMP is Linux Apache MySQL and PHP application for web servers. To setup the web server here's my method to running up web server on Ar...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

How to Install Webcam Software on Archlinux

If you want to use webcam on Archlinux, By default, most of webcam devices is detected on Archlinux. But to using webcam you need a additio...

How to mount iso/img file on Archlinux without root user

To mount ISO/Img file on archlinux you can use normall way, using "mount". But it needs root user password. How about using normal...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

How to install dosbox and running the games/apps on Archlinux

Dosbox is a DOS emulator to run old dos games, althought it's specially for gaming purpose, but it can run a software like qbasic, lotus...

How to change LXDE theme on Archlinux

Is LXDE theme can be modify? Yes, LXDE can use GTK 2.0 Engine theme, but where to get LXDE theme?, there's no lxde-loox.org, but you ca...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

How to record desktop into GIF using byzanz on Archlinux

If you see my posts before, you will see some picture that i embed on post is animated (gif format). I create it using byzanz software. Thi...
Monday, January 28, 2013

How to install ABBYY Fine Reader 5.0 (OCR) on Archlinux

If you buy a scanner and have ABBYY Fine Reader 5.0 Bundle on it, you can install it on Archlinux, and have function for Optical Character ...

How to install scanner and OCR tools on Archlinux

Setting up scanner on archlinux is easy. But before you buy/using any scanner for linux. You must check the devices is compatible or not fo...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

How to Install PacmanXG4 - Pacman & AUR GUI software manager on Archlinux

Yesterday i was post about GTKPacman, but today i found a better Pacman GUI Manager on Archwiki. It's pacmanXG4. Yet another GUI for pa...

How to install LXDE Admin on Archlinux - GUI Configuration For LXDE Desktop

LXDE admin is A collection of tools to configure your desktop under LXDE. With this application, you can configure your LXDE desktop on arch...

How to install gtkpacman (GUI Pacman Software manager) on Archlinux

If you searching about GUI Package manager for Pacman Archlinux like synaptic, yum software manager, etc. You can try gtkpacman. GTK Pacman...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

How to install Kompozer a WYSIWYG Html editor on Archlinux

Searching WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor on Archlinux. Then you can try kompozer . This application is available on Arc...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

More about LX Panel on Archlinux LXDE

LXPanel, is a default panel on LXDE desktop. Some post ago i write about window list/task bar Box style icon on LXPanel, on this post i wan...

How to install PDF reader (Adobe reader, xpdf, foxit reader, okular, epdf, etc) on Archlinux

If you want to read PDF file you need a PDF reader. There are lot pdf reader application on Archlinux. Like adobe reader, foxit reader, oku...
Monday, January 21, 2013

How to Change Right Click Menu on LXDE into openBox mode and vice versa

By default if you installing LXDE on Archlinux, openBox is installed by default as Window Manager on LXDE. On desktop you can also switch t...

How to connect Android Devices on Archlinux via ADB (android debug bridge)

After you install the android SDK & Platform tools. (see my post about it here. ). Now try connecting to the real devices via Android ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

How to install Android SDK, Android Platfrom tools (adb, aapt, ddms, fastboot, etc) on Archlinux

If you using archlinux and want to develop android application. Then you must install Android SDK. To install manually you can download the...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

How to install Archlinux ARM on Any Android Phone/Tablets via Chroot Mode

Installing Archlinux in Android Devices. Some devices, such as allwinner devices have archlinux port natively. But how about common androi...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

How to create swap partition on Archlinux

If you forgot to create swap partition on Archlinux. You can create it manually. For me swap is needed although i have more rams. This happ...

How to add another OS (ubuntu, windows, dual /multi boot,etc) on Archlinux Grub

By default if you install archlinux, there's only one OS to choose (Archlinux) on GRUB. To add another OS if you want to dual booting, ...

How to change LXDE task bar / window list into Smooth task/Dockbarx/Win7 style on Archlinux

If you want to change windows list / task bar on LXDE into Smooth task (KDE) style, dockbarx (gnome), or win7 windowlist. LXDE have this fe...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

How to install Faenza Icons on Archlinux

Are you bored with default arch icon. You can try Faenza Icons, this icon is a box style icon theme. This icons looks cool. this icon theme ...

How to extract archives (tar.gz, zip, rar, etc) GUI mode on archlinux

To extract packages on archlinux, by default you can use command line like tar. But there's another easy way using file manager. But you...
Monday, January 14, 2013

How to take screenshot on LXDE desktop on Archlinux

By default LXDE doesn't have ability to take screenshot using printscreen. You need another application to capture the screen. I usually...

How to install Gparted on Archlinux

Gparted is partition tools software, this software can create, manage, resize, format, delete partition, etc. This software available on arc...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

How to install xscreensaver on Archlinux

Need some screensaver on archlinux, i recommend xscreensaver, this apps is screensaver manager for linux operating system. From the author,...

How to install & change LXDE icon theme on archlinux

Most of desktop environment, the location of icons folder is same. On /usr/share/icons, or on the home user at .icons folder (hidden files)...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

How to Change start menu icon on LXDE Panel Archlinux

Bored with default LXDE start menu, you can change it with icon that you like. Create or download your start icon menu. PNG format with tra...

How to access & automounting internal disks & usb media (Linux, FAT32, NTFS) via File Manager on Archlinux

To be able access internal drive/ usb media using any file manager you must install gvfs & polkit-gnome. And for NTFS / Fat32 you must i...
Friday, January 11, 2013

How to install libreoffice on Archlinux

Best office suites for most linux distribution is Libreoffice. You will get word proccessor, presentation, spreadsheet, drawing, and databas...

How to install audacious music player on archlinux

If you want alternative music player that look like winamp, then audacious is similar. Audacious is lightweight music player. This apps ava...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

LXMusic - LXDE Music Player on Archlinux

When you install LXDE desktop environment, the LX Music will be installed too. LX Music, is music player for LXDE desktop. It use xmms2 as ...

How to install flashplayer & multimedia codecs on Archlinux

By default if you want to run some multimedia apps like music, song, video, flash player etc, you need to install the codecs and flashplayer...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Installing Common Fonts & Font viewer on Archlinux

To make your fonts on Archlinux looks better you need to install additional fonts. If you didn't install it, the fonts will make your d...

How to install software/packages from AUR (Arch User Repository)

Archlinux User Repository (AUR). If you are looking for a software but not available in the official repository. You can still search the s...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Install Firefox Browser on Archlinux

Mozilla Firefox is a popular browser in the world, firefox available on official archlinux repository. This my favourite browser.

How to install GUI Network Settings (Network manager) on Archlinux

After you install desktop Environment, the internet connection still do manually, to make auto with GUI configuration, i usually using netwo...

How to install LXDE Desktop on Archlinux

Hello, after long time in black mode, today i want to share how to install LXDE desktop on Archlinux. LXDE is Lightweight X11 Desktop Envir...
Monday, January 7, 2013

How to set local time on Archlinux

After installing archlinux, if your time date still not correct, you can set it manually using "timedatectl" command, or automati...

How to install sound drivers on archlinux

Sound on archlinux depends on alsa drivers, to enable it, you must install alsa utilites first on archlinux system.
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Installing Intel VGA Driver on Archlinux

Intel have good support for many linux distribution. When i try another linux distribution all of them when booting into my machine with in...

Installing open source ATI/AMD/RADEON VGA driver on Archlinux

I have a notebook Acer Aspire One 722 with ATI VGA chipset on it. There are two options using propietary or open source driver. But i recomm...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Installing Nvidia Driver on Archlinux

The nvidia driver is available on Archlinux repository. And it is recommended to use package from repository to prevent problem when upgrad...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Add user to sudoers on Archlinux

When you create user on archlinux, by default your user have no super user access, and if you fresh install sudo still not installed by defa...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

How to create user & manage usergroups on Archlinux

After you install Archlinux, there's only root user by default, to run any desktop like KDE, LXDE, and another desktop environtment, you...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

How to run 32bit application on Archlinux 64 bit

How to run 32bit application on Archlinux 64 bit. To be able run 32 bit application on 64bit version of Archlinux, you need enable multili...

How to install x window system (X11) on Archlinux

After installing archlinux, there is nothing, the first way i want to test the x window system(X11), X11 is basic GUI desktop there's no...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

How to install Archlinux Net Install

Not like previous iso, the new Archlinux 2012 media is more simple than before ;-), the AIF is now removed, and you must install it manua...