Ease eye-strain with Redshift

For those of you who use your computer late into the evening, Redshift may ease eye-strain and help you go to sleep too!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Redshift

default grub theme

if your grub is changed after update, run this in terminal

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/Antergos/Cnchi/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
su
cp -R Cnchi-master/grub2-theme/Antergos-Default /boot/grub/themes
echo 'GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/themes/Antergos-Default/theme.txt"' >> /etc/default/grubgrub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

conky

                    So I've been working on getting conky to work properly on gnome. First thing to do is install along with conky is conky-lua and the conky mananger. The mgr makes it easy to try and edit different configs for conky. I really like the blue rings but I wanted to change some sensors to ones that were useful to me. I have 4Gb of ram so monitoring swap was not needed as the indicator stayed at 0%. Media and Modem were the other 2 I really didn't need to monitor. I added temp, battery and wireless strength.

                  Here is the conkyrc with my edits



# Conky settings #
background no
update_interval 1

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale yes

double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

text_buffer_size 2048
#imlib_cache_size 0

temperature_unit fahrenheit

# Window specifications #

own_window yes
own_window_type conky
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

minimum_size 200 250
maximum_width 200

alignment top_left
gap_x 35
gap_y 55

# Graphics settings #
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

# Text settings #
use_xft yes
xftfont caviar dreams:size=8
xftalpha 0.5

uppercase no

temperature_unit fahrenheit


default_color FFFFFF

# Lua Load  #
lua_load clock_rings.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre clock_rings

own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_colour 000000
TEXT
${voffset 8}${color 4EC6DE}${font caviar dreams:size=16}${time %A}${font}${voffset -8}${alignr 50}${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=38}${time %e}${font}
${color FFFFFF}${voffset -30}${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=18}${time %b}${font}${voffset -3} ${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=20}${time %Y}${font}${color 4EC6DE}${hr}
${voffset 140}${font caviar dreams:size=10}${alignr}Rittman${font}
${font caviar dreams:size=12}${color FFFFFF}${alignr}${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KBJJ temperature temperature 30} °F${font}
${image ~/.conky/simple_picture_name.png -p 64,125 -s 70x20}

${color 4EC6DE}${goto 70}${voffset 10}CPU1${color 4EC6DE}${goto 86}${voffset -15}CPU2
${color FFFFFF}${goto 110}${voffset 10}${cpu cpu0}%${color FFFFFF}${goto 85}${voffset 15}${cpu cpu1}%
${color FFFFFF}${goto 12}${voffset 28}${memperc}%
${color 4EC6DE}${goto 12}RAM
${color FFFFFF}${goto 70}${voffset 30}${acpitemp} F
${color 4EC6DE}${goto 70}Temp
${color FFFFFF}${goto 6}${voffset 33}${fs_used_perc /}%${color FFFFFF}${goto 65}${voffset 0}${fs_used_perc /home}%${color FFFFFF}${goto 125}${voffset 0}${battery_percent C23B}%
${color 4EC6DE}${goto 6}root${color 4EC6DE}${goto 65}home${color 4EC6DE}${goto 125}battery
${color FFFFFF}${goto 25}${voffset 28}${downspeed wlp16s0}${color FFFFFF}${goto 105}${voffset 0}${downspeed wlan0}
${color FFFFFF}${goto 25}${upspeed wlp16s0}${color FFFFFF}${goto 105}${upspeed wlan0}
${color 4EC6DE}${goto 20}wireless${color 4EC6DE}${goto 115}ethernet
${color FFFFFF}${voffset 0}${goto 65}${wireless_link_qual wlp16s0}%
${color 4EC6DE}${voffset 0}${goto 65}signal

${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Uptime: ${uptime}
${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Processes: ${processes}
${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Running: ${running_processes}

${color 4EC6DE}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}${nodename}
${color 4EC6DE}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}${pre_exec cat /etc/issue.net}  $machine
${color 4EC6DE}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}Kernel: ${kernel}


and here are my edits to the lua
 
        name='acpitemp',
        arg='',
        max=212,
        bg_colour=0xffffff,
        bg_alpha=0.2,
        fg_colour=0x4EC6DE,
        fg_alpha=0.8,
        x=100, y=390,
        radius=30,
        thickness=5,
        start_angle=-100,
        end_angle=180

    },
        {
        name='battery_percent',
        arg='C23B',
        max=100,
        bg_colour=0xffffff,
        bg_alpha=0.2,
        fg_colour=0x4EC6DE,
        fg_alpha=0.8,
        x=150, y=455,
        radius=25,
        thickness=5,
        start_angle=-90,
        end_angle=180
    },
        {
     
        name='downspeedf',
        arg='wlp16s0',
        max=100,
        bg_colour=0xffffff,
        bg_alpha=0.2,
        fg_colour=0x4EC6DE,
        fg_alpha=0.8,
        x=50, y=510,
        radius=25,
        thickness=4,
        start_angle=-90,
        end_angle=180
    },
        {
        name='upspeedf',
        arg='wlp16s0',
        max=100,
        bg_colour=0xffffff,
        bg_alpha=0.2,
        fg_colour=0x4EC6DE,
        fg_alpha=0.8,
        x=50, y=510,
        radius=20,
        thickness=4,
        start_angle=-90,
        end_angle=180
    },
    {
        name='wireless_link_qual',
        arg='wlp16s0',
        max=100,
        bg_colour=0xffffff,
        bg_alpha=0.2,
        fg_colour=0x4EC6DE,
        fg_alpha=0.8,
        x=90, y=560,
        radius=25,
        thickness=4,
        start_angle=-90,
        end_angle=180
    },
        {
        name='wireless_link_qual',
        arg='wlp16s0',
        max=100,
        bg_colour=0xffffff,
        bg_alpha=0.2,
        fg_colour=0x4EC6DE,
        fg_alpha=0.8,
        x=90, y=560,
        radius=20,
        thickness=4,
        start_angle=-90,
        end_angle=180
    },
}

here is the complete file

http://pastebin.com/frw87kVe

after install

My Notes:

to get back the lock button in gnome 3.10, just install gdm, and enable it via:

sudo systemctl disable lightdm
sudo pacman -S gdm
sudo systemctl enable gdm

nautilus not opening as root

edit your sudoers file (BE CAREFUL!)
#nano /etc/sudoers
change this line:
#Defaults env_keep += "HOME"
to
Defaults env_keep += "HOME DISPLAY XAUTHORITY"
save(ctrl+x) and reboot

installer not working

$ wget http://antergos.info/testing.sh
$ chmod +x testing.sh
$ sudo -E ./testing.sh

New Installer

Antergos is a arch-based distro that aims to be user-friendly. It is fairly new and the installer I am using is the testing version which has come a long way. They recommend using either the suse usb maker or dd (I went with dd). My computer, a HP/Compaq 6510b, booted into gnome with the wireless working which is needed because the installer downloads fresh. The sound works and this laptop has touch controls for sound and wireless which are working. The installer (cnchi) came up automagically.

Desktop choice of Cinnamon,KDE,Gnome,MATE,openbox,xfce,Razor-qt

The next screen you choose to enable AUR, bluetooth, extra fonts, extra gnome apps, LibreOffice, Printer support, proprietary software, simple firewall

      the install took about 15 min, then rebooted into my new system.

                           the package mgr for Antergos is packmanXG

                                              and there is a lot it can do.

                        but it is arch so you can do it all with the command line

                  Over the past few weeks I've tried the gnome version of ubuntu,fedora,openSUSE and debian and none of them were as responsive as Antergos. I must say though, I don't mind using the terminal but having a graphical interface makes looking for programs eaiser. Between the offical arch repo and the arch user repo, I found all the programs I use in other distros. As I've always heard good things about arch but taking the better part of a day just to get to a usable desktop is a bit much for me. Antergos gives me what I want without the hassle! And if you get stuck, they have a very frendly and helpful forum.
                  On the inside it comes with chromium, music/video players and as I chose to include proprietary software, all media played without fuss. I like Clementine for audio and VLC for video and using pacmanXG is fast and easier than some of the 'others' that seem to take forever to finish. LibreOffice software is included but I removed it and installed Kingsoft along with abiword and gnumeric. I use Google Chrome instead of chromium and getting it, Dropbox,Copy and SpiderOak installed was fast and they were up and running in no time. I have a small home network and the arch wiki was very helpful in getting samba going.
                All in all, I am very impressed with this distro and will be sharing it with all my friends. It's ease of installation is a big plus in my book and using arch as a base, they have a large selection of software for their users.

-max

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