alot of questions

serrghi · 2008-02-20 10:19:04

Hi! Ive installed Archlinux with Openbox a week ago, im fairly new to linux.
My system is Asus A6Ja w/ ATI Radeon Mobility x1600.

#I have som questions, Ive set my timezone to "Europe/Oslo" in rc.conf, but the time outputted in my pypanel is 6hrs off. how do i set my clock?
#ANSWER(peets): Set HARDWARECLOCK = "UTC" in rc.conf and changed the bios clock to +0 timezone.

#VNC: When i was using ubuntu, setting up VNC was a piece of cake. How do i install VNC in archlinux? ive searched pacman but it came up with alot of different packages, and im #not sure which one to get. I want to be able to login to my laptop (which is as home) from my job, at my job we use Windows but we have VNC so that shouldnt be a prob, it #worked when i had ubuntu at home. So my question is, how do i set it up at home, and which package to use?
#ANSWER: Used x11vnc, but still some unresolved issues (explained in later post)

Icons: Im using Thunar as filemanager, but i havent been able to make the icon packages to work. Im pretty sure i followed the guide at the wiki thourougly. Any ideas/tips?
#(The tips from hk2717 didnt work sadly)

Hellaconk & rtorrent:
How do i implement these into conky? Ive tried to implement hellaconk without luck, spammed my log with abunch of errors, ithink it was because i didnt have anything in my hellanzb queue. And how can i output what torrents are seeding and which are downloading and various speeds in conky? (if even possible ) The reason i use rtorrent is because azureus sucked. (It refused to download anything, i tried to download archlinux image for a friend using azureus but it stood on 0kbs and refused to do anything.)

PyPanel: How can i add a battery icon to my pypanel displaying % of battery left? And how can i add a volume manager connected to alsa on the panel?

For some reason my soundcard is muted everytime i start up my system (alsa) ive saved my settings according to the wiki, but my system doesnt care. Its muted everytime i start my system.

#Also, is it possible for Sonata to update recent listened songs on last.fm as amorok does? (some plugin or something?)
#ANSWER(RaisedFist): Sonata->Configure->Extras->Enable Audioscrobbler

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"#" infront of my q's are answered.
As you can see alot of questions, i would really apriciate any replies

Last edited by serrghi (2008-02-21 07:53:13)

hk2717 · 2008-02-20 12:39:16

Thunar Icons: Download the icon pack and extract it to ~/.icons folder. Let me take gTango as an example, make sure it looks something similar to this: "~/.icons/gTango/index.theme". Then, if there is a .gtkrc-mine file in your home folder, add or edit this line to it:

gtk-icon-theme-name="gTango"

If this file does not exist, you should edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
Restart Thunar and the icons should change correspondingly.

Sonata: I don't think it is possible. As a minimal music client and a frontend to mpd, I doubt Sonata will ever adopt this function.

wuischke · 2008-02-20 12:50:00

It should be possible with mpd, see http://search.cpan.org/~ealleniii/Music … ler/MPD.pm

RaisedFist · 2008-02-20 13:02:55

Sonata already has support for last.fm:

peets · 2008-02-20 15:24:49

rc.conf wrote:

# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo

If HARDWARECLOCK is set to UTC, the time displayed will be that of your hardware clock (the one you set in your BIOS) PLUS whatever modifier it needs to add to get your localized time (depending on what timezone you gave)

Here's what I have in mine:

HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Canada/Eastern"

My hardware clock is currently at 15:16, but my local time (UTC -5:00) is 10:16.

I think I set it to UTC because it was easier for some daylight savings time matter or synchronization with internet time or something rather.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TIMEZONE
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Net … e_Protocol

serrghi · 2008-02-20 16:05:42

ive changed the icon files accordingly, did just as you wrote hk2717 but no effect.

serrghi · 2008-02-21 07:47:48

Ive installed x11vnc, and added "x11vnc -q -usepw &" to my .xinitrc and it works great, BUT when i logout from my vnc sessions, the program shuts down, and if i then want to reconnect to my vnc sessions its not possible because x11vnc isnt running. any ideas?

And im still wondering about the questions thats unquoted if anyone have any ideas.

mcmillan · 2008-02-21 20:40:42

For some reason my soundcard is muted everytime i start up my system (alsa) ive saved my settings according to the wiki, but my system doesnt care. tongue Its muted everytime i start my system.

This sounds like you don't have alsa listed under the daemons in /etc/rc.conf . That is in the wiki but I figured I point that out explicitly in case you missed it. If that isn't the case I'm stumped

hk2717 · 2008-02-22 02:20:37

serrghi wrote:

ive changed the icon files accordingly, did just as you wrote hk2717 but no effect.

Make sure the icon pack you downloaded is complete. Some icon packs don't include index.theme or something else so they do not work.

If you are running thunar as a daemon, you should restart the daemon make the change to icons take effect.

You could try pacmanfm or other GTK2 file managers with icons. If they could display the icons properly, then it is a thunar issue.

Also, you may verify your GTK2 installation.

These are the only things I can tell from my rather limited experience.

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