Described as "The last word in filesystems" , ZFS is stable, fast, secure, and future-proof. Being licensed under the CDDL, and thus incompatible with GPL…

Vim Vim is a terminal text editor. It is an extended version of vi with additional features, including syntax highlighting, a comprehensive help system, n…

Everything should work out of the box, since Arch Linux uses systemd and SDDM defaults to using systemd-logind for session management. Autologin SDDM supp…

If you arrived here after following a link to what was supposed to be an article, it means that it has been archived: you can browse its revisions by foll…

xinit and startx take an optional client program argument, see #Override xinitrc . If you do not provide one they will look for ~/.xinitrc to run as a she…

IBus IBus ( Intelligent Input Bus ) is an input method framework , a type of application that allows for easily switching between different keyboard layou…

Java Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. …

Wine can be installed by enabling the multilib repository and installing the wine (development), wine-stable AUR (stable) or wine-staging (testing) packag…

The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for L…

Redundant Array of Independent Disks ( RAID ) is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components (typically disk drives or partitions th…

Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chunks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to th…

Rust Rust is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language sponsored by Mozilla Research. It is designed to be a "safe, concurrent, pra…

rEFInd rEFInd is a UEFI boot manager capable of launching EFISTUB kernels. It is a fork of the no-longer-maintained rEFIt and fixes many issues with respe…

Selecting the right driver Depending on the card you have, find the right driver in Xorg#AMD. At the moment there is Xorg radeon driver support for South…

Unbound Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. According to Wikipedia : Unbound has supplanted the Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( …

The pacman package manager is one of the major distinguishing features of Arch Linux. It combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build…

Covers how to add a swap partition to an encrypted system, if required. The swap partition must be encrypted as well to protect any data swapped out by th…

To create a repository, first check out the gitolite-admin repository as a client. $ git clone gitolite@ server :gitolite-admin Append a new repository to…

Firejail Firejail is an easy to use Setuid sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted…

Gitosis Gitosis is a tool which provides access control and remote management for hosted Git repositories. It allows for fine-grained management of read a…

Reason: Only Wired and Wi-Fi plugins are described. (Discuss in Talk:ConnMan ) ConnMan comes with the connmanctl command-line interface, see connmanctl(1)…

Dovecot Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Dovecot primarily aims to be …

Wiimote This article will go through the basic steps required to have a working Wiimote in Linux for general use. It will not go into much detail for some…

Reflector Reflector is a Python script which can retrieve the latest mirror list from the Arch Linux Mirror Status page, filter the most up-to-date mirror…

Warning: Arch Linux only has official support for systemd . [1] When using SysVinit, please mention so in support requests. On systems based on SysVinit, …

Dotfiles User-specific application configuration is traditionally stored in so called dotfiles (files whose filename starts with a dot). It is common prac…

eCryptfs This article describes basic usage of eCryptfs . It guides you through the process of creating a private and secure encrypted directory within yo…

Plymouth Plymouth is a project from Fedora and now listed among the freedesktop.org's official resources providing a flicker-free graphical boot process. …

XWiimote This article is about the Nintendo Wii Remote Linux kernel driver. This driver is part of upstream Linux since version 3.1. It is an easy to use …

Powerpill Reason: This page was written before pacman natively supported parallel downloads and should mention that since v6 this is no longer the only op…

Although there is no firm rule, it is common thinking that a new drive should have zero bad sectors. Over time, bad sectors will develop and although they…

Note: The terms used in this article are very specific to avoid confusion: Monitor refers to a physical display device, such as an LCD panel. Screen refer…

systemd-boot systemd-boot, previously called gummiboot (German for "rubber dinghy"), is an easy-to-configure UEFIboot manager. It provides a textual menu…

Touchscreen If you ever tried to set up a touchscreen device in linux, you might have noticed that it is either working out of the box (besides some calib…

Timers are systemd unit files with a suffix of .timer . Timers are like other unit configuration files and are loaded from the same paths but include a [T…

Tip: To understand the context around the choices and switches, one can turn on detailed debug information for systemd-resolved as described in systemd#Di…

systemd-nspawn systemd-nspawn is like the chroot command, but it is a chroot on steroids . systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-we…

systemd-timesyncd is a daemon that has been added for synchronizing the system clock across the network. It implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP …

If one experiences no audio output via any means while using ALSA , attempt to unmute the sound card. To do this, launch alsamixer and make sure each colu…

Described as "The last word in filesystems" , ZFS is stable, fast, secure, and future-proof. Being licensed under the CDDL, and thus incompatible with GPL…

Vim Vim is a terminal text editor. It is an extended version of vi with additional features, including syntax highlighting, a comprehensive help system, n…

Everything should work out of the box, since Arch Linux uses systemd and SDDM defaults to using systemd-logind for session management. Autologin SDDM supp…

If you arrived here after following a link to what was supposed to be an article, it means that it has been archived: you can browse its revisions by foll…

xinit and startx take an optional client program argument, see #Override xinitrc . If you do not provide one they will look for ~/.xinitrc to run as a she…

IBus IBus ( Intelligent Input Bus ) is an input method framework , a type of application that allows for easily switching between different keyboard layou…

Java Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. …

Wine can be installed by enabling the multilib repository and installing the wine (development), wine-stable AUR (stable) or wine-staging (testing) packag…

The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for L…

Redundant Array of Independent Disks ( RAID ) is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components (typically disk drives or partitions th…

Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chunks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to th…

Rust Rust is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language sponsored by Mozilla Research. It is designed to be a "safe, concurrent, pra…

rEFInd rEFInd is a UEFI boot manager capable of launching EFISTUB kernels. It is a fork of the no-longer-maintained rEFIt and fixes many issues with respe…

Selecting the right driver Depending on the card you have, find the right driver in Xorg#AMD. At the moment there is Xorg radeon driver support for South…

Unbound Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. According to Wikipedia : Unbound has supplanted the Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( …

The pacman package manager is one of the major distinguishing features of Arch Linux. It combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build…

Covers how to add a swap partition to an encrypted system, if required. The swap partition must be encrypted as well to protect any data swapped out by th…

To create a repository, first check out the gitolite-admin repository as a client. $ git clone gitolite@ server :gitolite-admin Append a new repository to…

Firejail Firejail is an easy to use Setuid sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted…

Gitosis Gitosis is a tool which provides access control and remote management for hosted Git repositories. It allows for fine-grained management of read a…

Reason: Only Wired and Wi-Fi plugins are described. (Discuss in Talk:ConnMan ) ConnMan comes with the connmanctl command-line interface, see connmanctl(1)…

Dovecot Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Dovecot primarily aims to be …

Wiimote This article will go through the basic steps required to have a working Wiimote in Linux for general use. It will not go into much detail for some…

Reflector Reflector is a Python script which can retrieve the latest mirror list from the Arch Linux Mirror Status page, filter the most up-to-date mirror…

Warning: Arch Linux only has official support for systemd . [1] When using SysVinit, please mention so in support requests. On systems based on SysVinit, …

Dotfiles User-specific application configuration is traditionally stored in so called dotfiles (files whose filename starts with a dot). It is common prac…

eCryptfs This article describes basic usage of eCryptfs . It guides you through the process of creating a private and secure encrypted directory within yo…

Plymouth Plymouth is a project from Fedora and now listed among the freedesktop.org's official resources providing a flicker-free graphical boot process. …

XWiimote This article is about the Nintendo Wii Remote Linux kernel driver. This driver is part of upstream Linux since version 3.1. It is an easy to use …

Powerpill Reason: This page was written before pacman natively supported parallel downloads and should mention that since v6 this is no longer the only op…

Although there is no firm rule, it is common thinking that a new drive should have zero bad sectors. Over time, bad sectors will develop and although they…

Note: The terms used in this article are very specific to avoid confusion: Monitor refers to a physical display device, such as an LCD panel. Screen refer…

systemd-boot systemd-boot, previously called gummiboot (German for "rubber dinghy"), is an easy-to-configure UEFIboot manager. It provides a textual menu…

Touchscreen If you ever tried to set up a touchscreen device in linux, you might have noticed that it is either working out of the box (besides some calib…

Timers are systemd unit files with a suffix of .timer . Timers are like other unit configuration files and are loaded from the same paths but include a [T…

Tip: To understand the context around the choices and switches, one can turn on detailed debug information for systemd-resolved as described in systemd#Di…

systemd-nspawn systemd-nspawn is like the chroot command, but it is a chroot on steroids . systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-we…

systemd-timesyncd is a daemon that has been added for synchronizing the system clock across the network. It implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP …

If one experiences no audio output via any means while using ALSA , attempt to unmute the sound card. To do this, launch alsamixer and make sure each colu…