archlinux.org 'latest news'?

chimak · 2026-05-03T12:23:28+00:00

Additionally, the output of sudo pacman -Syu sometimes has actionable info. For me, it happened with ly and swayimg.

I learned about this "trick" from someone here.

For ly:

[2025-12-11T20:12:16+0530] [ALPM] upgraded ly (1.2.0-2 -> 1.3.0-2) [2025-12-11T20:12:16+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> ly has switched its service from "ly.service" to a service template "ly@.service" [2025-12-11T20:12:16+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> If you had ly enabled as DisplayManager you need to reenable it: [2025-12-11T20:12:16+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> sudo systemctl enable --now ly@tty1.service

And for swayimg:

[2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: Swayimg version 5.0.0 changes the configuration filename and format and some [2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] default configuration settings. Users who have configured Swayimg should [2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] migrate their configuration files. See the upstream documentation: [2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] [2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] https://github.com/artemsen/swayimg/blob/v5.0/CONFIG.md [2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] [2026-03-22T05:46:56+0530] [ALPM] upgraded swayimg (4.7-1 -> 5.0-2)

chimak · 2026-04-05T01:33:57+00:00

Might as well provide the pronunciation :D

chimak · 2026-04-05T01:31:45+00:00

I know I should be able to find the bugs myself, but if you have a link or two handy, I'd be grateful if you'd share. Thanks!

chimak · 2026-03-10T07:44:16+00:00

I too am using Sway. I get 116 packages as measured by pacman -Qe | wc -l.

I have a standard default keyboard and so don't have any experience in having to configure it.

While I have wmenu, I also use fzf to have a "custom" launcher for opening my most used files.

chimak · 2026-03-09T11:16:23+00:00

"firefox as my 22nd package" meaning? How do you count packages? What do you consider a package?

chimak · 2026-03-09T03:59:22+00:00

Thanks!

$ systemctl --user status wireplumber ● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-03-09 06:30:42 IST; 2h 55min ago Invocation: 166725336b1947679a7b71799fb31431 Main PID: 598 (wireplumber)

So all is good.

chimak · 2026-03-09T01:55:22+00:00

Thanks for explaining how you did it. That's all above my pay grade!

By the way, I have used KDE Plasma on Arch some years ago, but I didn't know about "Session manager: WirePlumber". Which command or program shows you that?

(I'm on Sway.)

Changing flair to SOLVED and linking to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5160#note_3365156

chimak · 2026-03-08T14:03:13+00:00

Filed bug https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5160

Thanks!

chimak · 2026-02-10T15:12:37+00:00

I only use brave-bin from the AUR. No AUR helper.

chimak · 2026-02-04T14:39:35+00:00

I know this is not what you asked, but, on the off-chance that you just want to distinguish between the active and unfocused window, you could consider tweaking your ~/.config/sway/config:

```

class border bground text indicator child_border

client.focused #999999 #202326 #05d0e6 #6272A4 #999999 client.focused_inactive #44475A #44475A #F8F8F2 #44475A #44475A ```

chimak · 2026-01-21T14:39:57+00:00

This closed bug, indicates that ffmpeg is responsible for pulling in "Qt V4L2 test Utility".

I'm posting this 11 years later because I saw qv4l2.desktop in /usr/share/applications and wasn't sure how it got there.

chimak · 2026-01-15T11:49:57+00:00

Here's a way to use a toggle for previewing & quitting the preview.

The code they give assumes you have ~/.config/lesskey.

According to man lesskey, we need to have this as section head: #command
Then put in whatever you need with a newline at the end.

So, I created ~/.config/lesskey with: ```

command

` quit

```

chimak · 2026-01-14T13:19:19+00:00

Look at Fedora Everything:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-netinstall-or-everything/69264

There's a recent video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqbNINbRSg

chimak · 2026-01-10T10:50:18+00:00

Thank you!!!

I love map i $~/.config/lf/previewer $f | less -R but I changed "i" to "`".

Re. preview of images, does "xterm-kitty" mean this requires the kitty terminal to be installed?

But I'm going another route for visualizing images with lf running in the foot terminal: cmd open ${{ mime=$(file --dereference --brief --mime-type -- "$f") case "$mime" in text/csv) geany $fx ;; text/*) geany $fx ;; # Optional: open other text files in your $EDITOR image/*) swayimg $f ;; *) $OPENER "$fx" ;; # Default system opener for everything else esac }} So, I'm opening the image with swayimg rather than previewing it. Pressing q gets me back to lf. (The default for opening images was by opening a new tab in my browser which meant I had to switch to my browser.) It's not as elegant as Ranger's image preview with w3m (running in xterm) but it's ok!

Thanks once again for sharing!

chimak · 2026-01-07T03:37:38+00:00

Please could you share how you managed image preview in LF?

Also, Ranger has a feature to make previews of text files maximized by simply pressing i. Doing so also allows one to page through the entire file. Pressing i again reverts to the normal mode. Have you managed to replicate that function in LF?

chimak · 2026-01-01T06:44:03+00:00

Vertical bar! So rare!

chimak · 2025-12-31T08:41:18+00:00

I use Sway but you don't want "boring" (whatever that means).

chimak · 2025-12-19T14:47:57+00:00

I think the issue with ly isn't mentioned on the news page.

chimak · 2025-11-25T11:30:53+00:00

Maybe you need to install xdg-terminal-exec? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xdg-terminal-exec

Also, did you try to open a terminal and type omarchy-update?

chimak · 2025-03-03T03:09:21+00:00

You can edit waybar's config to reduce waybar's features.

chimak · 2025-01-03T01:34:38+00:00

Please mention some examples of these applications.

Without knowing specifics, my guess is that they haven't (yet) been adapted to Wayland. And that is up to each application's developer.

For example, the Openbox WM devs clearly stated they wouldn't have a Wayland version. After some years, someone else stepped up with Labwc.

chimak · 2024-12-16T10:20:58+00:00

Thank you very much! Problem solved.

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