As mentioned earlier, I’ve set up an unofficial arch user repository to share my builds with everybody. Today I will elaborate a little more on the provided packages. If you look at the current package list: x264 ffmpeg mplayer ffmpeg-mt mplayer-mt mpd netembryo rxvt-unicode you might be wondering why I provide these packages. All but [...]
I’ve just packaged and added ffmpeg-mt and mplayer-mt to my arch user repository for all of you out there without hardware accelerated video playback. For more information about my personal repository, including usage instructions, view my repo page. To activate n threads in mplayer, use the following command: mplayer -lavdopts threads=n moviefile Instead of constantly [...]
While XMonad can be controlled entirely by the keyboard, it can still be a useful feature to change your workspace with a mouse click. I’ve been looking for this for quite some time and finally figured out how to get clickable workspaces in XMonad with dzen2. You’ll need 3 things: xmonad dzen2 >= rev. 267 [...]
In my pursuit for a fast and functional workstation environment, I am slowly migrating away from GNOME based applications towards less complex and lightweight applications that work well together with XMonad. An obvious candidate for replacement is GDM, the GNOME Display Manager. It’s basically a graphical login program that launches the correct desktop environment and/or [...]
Arch Linux has a very decent system for building packages called ABS or Arch Build System. It basically comes down to one file called the pkgbuild where you put all the necessary information to construct a package. Everything else is taken care by makepkg, the tool that reads, compiles and builds the package accordingly. Because [...]