how do I set some setting? fonts,audio,nautilus,time zone

nadavvin · 2007-01-05 08:31:37

Hello

There is some setting which I don't know how to set:

· The font in the console too big or too small. if I set the font to nine is too small and if I set it to ten is too big.
· When Arch loadboot the audio is mute and all the volume values are the minimum.
· How do I set that nautilus is open directories in explorer style?
· In /etc/rc.conf there is "TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific"".
Where is the list of all the possible values which I can set there?
· If I switch user and login to my user the GDM throw me back to the current session in tty7 instead open new session in tty8.

I didn't check in login to other users.

thanks for your help
Nadav

ploxiln · 2007-01-05 09:05:22

some of those are easy, some not

-timezones are in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

-to have volume levels saved and restored, install alsa-utils, and add the 'alsa' bootscript to rc.conf

-the nautilus setting which you seek can be found by clicking System/Preferences/File Management in the gnome menu, on the second tab which is titled 'Behavior'

nadavvin · 2007-01-05 13:25:57

thanks.

-to have volume levels saved and restored, install alsa-utils, and add the 'alsa' bootscript to rc.conf

How do I do it?

The init scripts of Arch re different from the way of the most distro do it.

Misfit138 · 2007-01-05 13:32:53

nadavvin wrote:

thanks.
-to have volume levels saved and restored, install alsa-utils, and add the 'alsa' bootscript to rc.conf
How do I do it?
The init scripts of Arch re different from the way of the most distro do it.

nano /etc/rc.conf

scroll down to DAEMONS
Add "alsa" with a space in front and behind to the line of daemons.

"Make sure to install alsa-utils first.
#pacman -Sy alsa-utils

erikl · 2007-01-05 13:34:23

nadavvin wrote:

thanks.
-to have volume levels saved and restored, install alsa-utils, and add the 'alsa' bootscript to rc.conf
How do I do it?
The init scripts of Arch re different from the way of the most distro do it.

At line #86 in (/etc/)rc.conf put alsa into 'DAEMONS'.
Something like this:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng ....... alsa mpd)

nadavvin · 2007-01-06 14:39:01

thanks.

I want to install culmus fonts.

In other forum wrote me to execute:

makepkg
sudo pacman -A http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/culmus/culmus.tar.gz

but:

makepkg 
==> ERROR: ./PKGBUILD does not exist.

What create the "./PKGBUILD"?

picpak · 2007-01-06 15:46:31

Here's the correct way to install that program:

1) Make sure you are in your root account. Open up a terminal and run su. Type in your password.

2) Run abs as root. You only need to do this once.

3) Create a new directory in /var/abs/local/ named after the package you are going to create (in this case, /var/abs/local/cumlus. You can do so by running

mkdir /var/abs/local/cumlus

.)

4) Go to http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/culmus/culmus/ , download PKGBUILD and cumlus.install, and put them into /var/abs/local/cumlus. You can do so by running

mv ~/PKGBUILD ~/cumlus.install /var/abs/local/cumlus

.

5) Go to the /var/abs/local/cumlus directory, and run makepkg. You can do so by running

cd /var/abs/local/cumlus
makepkg

.

6) A pkg.tar.gz file will be made for you to install with the command

pacman -A *.pkg.tar.gz

.

(Taken from http://archlinux.org/static/docs/arch-i … tml#source )

This process is simplified by using the AUR. Just search for your program, download the files from there and put them into the folder of the name of the program in /var/abs/local.

nadavvin · 2007-01-06 16:31:55

Why does it take so long time to do almost nothing???

# abs
Connected to cvs.archlinux.org
Updating collection arch/cvs
 Edit base/grub/PKGBUILD
 Checkout base/grub/intelmac.patch
 Edit daemons/samba/PKGBUILD
 Edit daemons/samba/samba
 Checkout daemons/samba/samba.conf.d
 Edit devel/gdb/PKGBUILD
Finished successfully
Connected to cvs.archlinux.org

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 9528 root      18   0  4340 1404 1100 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.02 abs

nadavvin · 2007-01-06 17:45:12

and after a lot of time I get:

 Checkout extra/kernels/kernel26suspend2/kernel26suspend2.preset
 Checkout extra/kernels/kernel26suspend2/logo_linux_clut224.ppm
 Checkout extra/kernels/kernel26suspend2/logo_linux_mono.pbm
 Checkout extra/kernels/kernel26suspend2/logo_linux_vga16.ppm
Inactivity timeout

nadavvin · 2007-01-06 19:33:08

Why should I download all the cvs server content in order to build one package?

picpak · 2007-01-06 20:29:28

Actually, you know what...I don't know. I had always seen that command referenced in the installation guide, so I assumed it was required.

(I'm a bit of a n00b too btw...look at my registration date)

Cerebral · 2007-01-06 22:12:20

the 'abs' command is only required if you're interested in getting PKGBUILDs from [current], [extra], [unstable], or [community] - not if you're building from the unsupported AUR.

picpak · 2007-01-06 23:56:51

Thanks for clearing that up.

(That really should be added to the install guide.)

mr.MikyMaus · 2007-01-07 00:27:18

I found the aurbuild tool very useful for building aur packages. Installing aur packages by hand is very easy but I guess I'm just too lazy

-miky

nadavvin · 2007-02-26 09:30:09

I change the timezone to Israel but now the time is 23:21 instead of 11:21.

LOCALE="he_IL.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Israel"
KEYMAP="il"
CONSOLEFONT="iso08.16"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-8_to_uni"
USECOLOR="yes"

What is the problem?

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#1 2007-01-05 08:31:37

how do I set some setting? fonts,audio,nautilus,time zone

#2 2007-01-05 09:05:22

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#3 2007-01-05 13:25:57

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#4 2007-01-05 13:32:53

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