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"The D programming language, also known simply as D, is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language by Walter Bright of Di…

R is a system for statistical computation and graphics. It consists of a language plus a run-time environment with graphics, a debugger, access to certai…

Installation Disk cloning and restore The dd command is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool. It can be used to copy from source to destination, blo…

Usage Keyboard shortcuts In i3, commands are invoked with a modifier key, referred to as $mod. This is Alt (Mod1) by default, with Super (Mod4) being a p…

Qt is a cross-platform application and widget toolkit that uses standard C++ but makes extensive use of a special code generator (called the Meta Object …

Tips and tricks Login shell The default behavior of su is to remain within the current directory and to maintain the environmental variables of the origi…

vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it,…

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and network…

st is a simple terminal implementation for Xorg by suckless. It is intended to serve as a lightweight replacement for xterm or urxvt. It currently suppor…

The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.o…

Note:Profile-guided optimization requires that a package be built and installed twice. The first phase initiates profile generation in $PROFDEST/pkgbase.…

fdm (fetch and deliver mail), is a simple program for delivering and filtering mail. Comparing it to other same-purposed applications shows that it has s…

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a computer file system architecture and a family of industry-standard file systems utilizing it. The FAT file system is a …

GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software. GNU is composed wholly of free software, most of which is licensed under the…

mpv is a media player based on MPlayer and the now unmaintained mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and s…

Front end slimbookbatteryAUR is a different GTK interface that works with additional drivers like AMD and NVIDIA. ThinkPads only Controlling the charge t…

dma (Dragonfly Mail Agent) is a tiny Mail Transport Agent (MTA). It is able to accept mails and deliver it to local or remote destinations; however, if y…

Background LVM building blocks Logical Volume Management utilizes the kernel's device-mapper feature to provide a system of partitions independent of und…

XFS is a high-performance journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc. XFS is particularly proficient at parallel IO due to its allocation gr…

iwd (iNet wireless daemon) is a wireless daemon for Linux written by Intel. The core goal of the project is to optimize resource utilization by not depen…

In computing, tee is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) using standard streams which reads standard input and writes it to both standard out…

Installation Configuration cmw is configured by editing ~/.cwmrc. There is no default cwmrc file; all defaults – including the keybinds – are defined in …

Installation Starting Configuration Configuration is done via a single XML file. There is native support for customizable panels and buttons, and a syste…

PAM provides a way to develop programs that are independent of authentication scheme. These programs need "authentication modules" to be attached to them …

dwm is a dynamic window manager for Xorg. It manages windows in tiled, stacked, and full-screen layouts, as well as many others with the help of optional…

Arch Linux with macOS or other operating systems macOS: the main partition containing your macOS installation, either HFS+ or APFS. Recovery: If not usin…

Configuration The main PHP configuration file is well-documented and located at /etc/php/php.ini. It is recommended to set your timezone (list of timezon…

Configuration The configuration files are located under /etc/kea. The content of the configuration files uses JSON structures. For special configurations…

Described as "The last word in filesystems", ZFS is stable, fast, secure, and future-proof. Features of ZFS include: pooled storage (integrated volume ma…

This makes Lua ideal for configuration and extensions of other programs, also because of its great interoperation with C. The basic Lua interpreter is le…

GTK, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for pro…

Installation gvim — which also provides the same as the above vim package with GTK/X support. Note: The vim package is built without Xorg support; specif…

Xdm manages a collection of X displays, which may be on the local host or remote servers. The design of xdm was guided by the needs of X terminals as wel…

Set background-size to the resolution that GDM uses; this might not necessarily be the resolution of the image. For a list of display resolutions, see Di…

KDE is a software project currently comprising a desktop environment known as Plasma, a collection of libraries and frameworks (KDE Frameworks) and sever…

"I've met people who thought git is a front-end to GitHub. They were wrong, git is a front-end to the AUR." — Linus T. Git is the version control system …

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to…

PulseAudio is a general purpose sound server intended to run as a middleware between your applications and your hardware devices, either using ALSA or OS…

A getty is the generic name for a program which manages a terminal line and its connected terminal. Its purpose is to protect the system from unauthorize…

TDE is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop mod…

Because the vast majority of the ArchWiki contains indications that may need clarification for users new to Arch Linux (or GNU/Linux in general), this ru…

Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. An entire d…

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 fol…

"The D programming language, also known simply as D, is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language by Walter Bright of Di…

R is a system for statistical computation and graphics. It consists of a language plus a run-time environment with graphics, a debugger, access to certai…

Installation Disk cloning and restore The dd command is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool. It can be used to copy from source to destination, blo…

Usage Keyboard shortcuts In i3, commands are invoked with a modifier key, referred to as $mod. This is Alt (Mod1) by default, with Super (Mod4) being a p…

Qt is a cross-platform application and widget toolkit that uses standard C++ but makes extensive use of a special code generator (called the Meta Object …

Tips and tricks Login shell The default behavior of su is to remain within the current directory and to maintain the environmental variables of the origi…

vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it,…

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and network…

st is a simple terminal implementation for Xorg by suckless. It is intended to serve as a lightweight replacement for xterm or urxvt. It currently suppor…

The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.o…

Note:Profile-guided optimization requires that a package be built and installed twice. The first phase initiates profile generation in $PROFDEST/pkgbase.…

fdm (fetch and deliver mail), is a simple program for delivering and filtering mail. Comparing it to other same-purposed applications shows that it has s…

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a computer file system architecture and a family of industry-standard file systems utilizing it. The FAT file system is a …

GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software. GNU is composed wholly of free software, most of which is licensed under the…

mpv is a media player based on MPlayer and the now unmaintained mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and s…

Front end slimbookbatteryAUR is a different GTK interface that works with additional drivers like AMD and NVIDIA. ThinkPads only Controlling the charge t…

dma (Dragonfly Mail Agent) is a tiny Mail Transport Agent (MTA). It is able to accept mails and deliver it to local or remote destinations; however, if y…

Background LVM building blocks Logical Volume Management utilizes the kernel's device-mapper feature to provide a system of partitions independent of und…

XFS is a high-performance journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc. XFS is particularly proficient at parallel IO due to its allocation gr…

iwd (iNet wireless daemon) is a wireless daemon for Linux written by Intel. The core goal of the project is to optimize resource utilization by not depen…

In computing, tee is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) using standard streams which reads standard input and writes it to both standard out…

Installation Configuration cmw is configured by editing ~/.cwmrc. There is no default cwmrc file; all defaults – including the keybinds – are defined in …

Installation Starting Configuration Configuration is done via a single XML file. There is native support for customizable panels and buttons, and a syste…

PAM provides a way to develop programs that are independent of authentication scheme. These programs need "authentication modules" to be attached to them …

dwm is a dynamic window manager for Xorg. It manages windows in tiled, stacked, and full-screen layouts, as well as many others with the help of optional…

Arch Linux with macOS or other operating systems macOS: the main partition containing your macOS installation, either HFS+ or APFS. Recovery: If not usin…

Configuration The main PHP configuration file is well-documented and located at /etc/php/php.ini. It is recommended to set your timezone (list of timezon…

Configuration The configuration files are located under /etc/kea. The content of the configuration files uses JSON structures. For special configurations…

Described as "The last word in filesystems", ZFS is stable, fast, secure, and future-proof. Features of ZFS include: pooled storage (integrated volume ma…

This makes Lua ideal for configuration and extensions of other programs, also because of its great interoperation with C. The basic Lua interpreter is le…

GTK, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for pro…

Installation gvim — which also provides the same as the above vim package with GTK/X support. Note: The vim package is built without Xorg support; specif…

Xdm manages a collection of X displays, which may be on the local host or remote servers. The design of xdm was guided by the needs of X terminals as wel…

Set background-size to the resolution that GDM uses; this might not necessarily be the resolution of the image. For a list of display resolutions, see Di…

KDE is a software project currently comprising a desktop environment known as Plasma, a collection of libraries and frameworks (KDE Frameworks) and sever…

"I've met people who thought git is a front-end to GitHub. They were wrong, git is a front-end to the AUR." — Linus T. Git is the version control system …

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to…

PulseAudio is a general purpose sound server intended to run as a middleware between your applications and your hardware devices, either using ALSA or OS…

A getty is the generic name for a program which manages a terminal line and its connected terminal. Its purpose is to protect the system from unauthorize…

TDE is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop mod…

Because the vast majority of the ArchWiki contains indications that may need clarification for users new to Arch Linux (or GNU/Linux in general), this ru…

Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. An entire d…