Arch Linux Commands & Helpful Content

Locations

sddm theme location

• /usr/share/sddm/themes/

xfce theme location

• ~/.local/share/themes Theme
• ~/.icons Icons & Cursor

Commands

Uncompress

• tar -xvf

Packages Installations

• makepkg -sic

View Folder Size

• du -ah --max-depth 1

View disk available

• df -h

Pacman

Show a list of non official packages

• pacman -Qm

Reinstall all the packages of main repository

• pacman -Qqn

List of usseless dependencies

• pacman -Qdtq

Clear Cache

• pacman -Scc

Force Installing

• sudo pacman -S package --overwrite *

Run program after boot

• sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/myscript.service/

[Unit]
Description=This will run after Boot

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=[program location]

• systemctl enable myscript.service

Give folder permissions

• chmod o=rwx *

Give folder owner

• sudo chown -R Person *
• sudo chgrp -R Person *

Change grub order

• sudo vim /etc/default/grub
• GRUB_DEFAULT="2"

Update-grub

Show Windows in grub

• sudo vim /etc/default/grub
• #GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
• update-grub

Updating discord

Download the update

• Official Site

Uncompress

• tar -xvf discord.tar.gz

Manually installing

• sudo cp -r Discord/* /opt/discord/

Giving access to you

• sudo chmod +rwx /opt/discord/discord.desktop

Creating a link to default discord shortcuts access

• sudo ln -s /opt/discord/ /usr/share/

Formating a disk

List the disks

• fdisk -l

Select the disk you want to format

• fdisk /dev/sd?
• o, n, default...

Save

• w

Add signature to linux read

• sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sd??

Give Permissions

• sudo chown -R person /run/media/person/diskID
• sudo chgrp -R person /run/media/person/diskID

Disable Lapto/Notebooks Lid Close Suspension

• sudo vim /etc/systemd/logind.conf
• Remove # and change to "ignore"

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore

• systemctl restart systemd-logind