Arch-Linux

Installation Install and enable the cron daemon. sudo pacman -S cronie sudo systemctl enable --now cronie.service systemctl status cronie.service # should be active (running) Setup To edit crontab, run crontab -e If you get an error like this, /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 127 pass the following commands: set -Ux EDITOR emacs set -Ux VISUAL emacs This defaults to emacs across different Fish sessions. Then with crontab -e add jobs like this. ...

The previous post about fast navigation involved getting to the right directory in the file explorer. Zoxide achieves that functionality for the terminal. To install, run the following. (fzf, fuzzy finder, is optional.) sudo pacman -S zoxide fzf Next, initialize the shell. For Fish, add the following to ~/.config/fish/config.fish. zoxide init fish | source This step differs for other shells: Shell File Line Bash ~/.bashrc eval "$(zoxide init bash)" Zsh ~/.zshrc eval "$(zoxide init zsh)" Fish ~/.config/fish/config.fish zoxide init fish | source Once configured, Zoxide will note your use of cd. It will remember the places you visited. You will be able to then jump straight to the relevant directory. ...

Background I have been using the Search functionality within the Dolphin file manager for KDE Plasma increasingly recently; however, the speed with which the results would show up left much to be desired. I went looking for faster options and chose Baloo indexing with KRunner, which runs a lot faster than Dolphin crawling through the directories on every search. Setup Step 1: Check the current state balooctl6 status If it says “not running” or “could not be opened,” proceed below. ...

The Cost of Decentralization I have been a happy Artix Linux user for several months. I had got the setup to be exactly as I liked. The choice of the distribution was prompted by a desire to contribute to the cause of keeping Linux decentralized. (See videos form Youtux.) Artix helped me retain the use of the package ecosystem of Arch while using an init system that isn’t systemd (something monolythic and centralizing) (I was using OpenRC), and without being tied to the wayland display server (which, again, seems to be pushed upon us by corporate forces in Linux (I was using XLibre, although, sadly, Artix just reverted to X.org). It needed more configuration than some of the other distros I have used. But for a one-time setup, I did not mind that. ...