NetworkManager is a nice piece of software, congrats to the developers! But there are several catches on Arch Linux:
This should be easy, wouldn’t you think? Of course it isn’t! Here’s a step-by-step instruction:
1. Extract the sound from the video or sound file. Write down the start and and position. For notifications don’t make it more than 3 seconds or it’ll get annoying. Do this with ffmpeg:
$ ffmpeg -i <input-file> -ss <hh:mm:ss.ms> -to <hh:mm:ss.ms> -f wav out.wav
Check with eg. ffplay if you got it right or adjust:
$ ffplay out.wav
2. Most likely you want to increase the volume:
$ ffmpeg -i out.wav -af 'volume=4|5|...> out2.wav
3. Convert to mp3
$ ffmpeg -i out2.wav -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 8 out.mp3
qscale:a 8 is 70-105 kbit/s (default is 16 kbit/s, crappy)
Turned out this is the hard part.
1. Download it to the phone with “Eigene Dateien” (“My Files”?, dunno).
2. Select “Benachrichtigungston” (Notification in english?) and open with ES File explorer or something
3. Browse to the downloaded file and select it
4. OK everything
When selecting the dialog again, use “Medienspeicher”. Now the file name should show up there. Test it!
Stargate alert:
Now What? (O’Neill)
Sorry for Denglish 🙁
Some things were just too annoying with awesome:
Overall, a tiling window manager is nice when you use X just as a console multiplexer, but if you want more, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
So I decided to give KDE another shot. I used it before, but eventually got annoyed by all the useless crap I don’t want nor need, like Akonadi or Nepomuk.
So I replaced
exec awesome
with
exec startkde
in my .xinitrc. First thing I noticed was my CPU fan spinning up. Baloo_file decided to have my 6 CPUs work overtime. I found out that it is the new file indexer of the KDE framework. Don’t want it, don’t need it, but easily fixed. Just turn off the Desktop Search in System Settings. For good measure I also added
chmod -x /usr/bin/baloo_file
Other than that I’m quite happy with it. cvlc -f always starts full screen again, and a tabbed Konsole is so much nicer than a tiled urxvt 🙂 Chromium and youtube also work as expected again.
What I really miss is separate desktops per screen, but from what I read that won’t be implemented soon, if ever. Well, you can’t have everything. Fortunately I found workarounds for most cases.
RAID-Devices
am@hadante ~ $ sudo mdadm -Q --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed May 27 13:52:56 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1463976960 (1396.16 GiB 1499.11 GB) Used Dev Size : 487992320 (465.39 GiB 499.70 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Sat Jun 10 15:26:28 2017 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : archiso:0 UUID : 6d795529:03e05967:c4d50bcf:5dd604b7 Events : 3136 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 130 0 active sync /dev/sdi2 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sda2 4 8 146 3 active sync /dev/sdj2
am@hadante ~ $ sudo mdadm -Q --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu May 2 18:08:00 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 8790405120 (8383.18 GiB 9001.37 GB) Used Dev Size : 2930135040 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Jun 10 15:26:58 2017 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : hadante:1 (local to host hadante) UUID : 0227c805:00c429e6:231a9f6f:168e5a4a Events : 587869 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 7 8 64 0 active sync /dev/sde 5 8 80 1 active sync /dev/sdf 6 8 96 2 active sync /dev/sdg 4 8 112 3 active sync /dev/sdh
From top to bottom:
# journalctl -k | grep md1 Jun 09 15:25:31 hadante kernel: md: md1 stopped. Jun 09 15:25:31 hadante kernel: md/raid:md1: device sdf operational as raid disk 1 Jun 09 15:25:31 hadante kernel: md/raid:md1: device sdh operational as raid disk 3 Jun 09 15:25:31 hadante kernel: md/raid:md1: device sdg operational as raid disk 2 Jun 09 15:25:31 hadante kernel: md/raid:md1: raid level 5 active with 3 out of 4 devices, algorithm 2 Jun 09 15:25:31 hadante kernel: md1: detected capacity change from 0 to 9001374842880 Jun 09 15:27:46 hadante kernel: md: recovery of RAID array md1 Jun 10 13:44:01 hadante kernel: md: md1: recovery done.
Well, well, well… Not very user-friendly. To turn off comments for posts, navigate to the Posts overview and select “Quick Edit” and uncheck “Discussion”. This should be “Post Properties” or something…
Nothing is as easy as it seems. Sigh… 🙁
I was getting strange timeouts when accessing sites via tunneled IPv6 (OpenVPN). Turned out that the sender never got the ICMPv6-Redirect from the tunnel endpoint, i.e. OpenVPN-Server. The ICMPv6-Packet is sent from the link-local address of the gateway (fe80::some:thin:g/64), because it gets dropped in the FORWARD-Chain of the gateway if the policy is DROP.
Setting it to ACCEPT magically makes things work, but that’s equal to turning off the firewall. Allowing traffic from and to fe80::/8 doesn’t help, either. Never figured out why.
What now? The physdev-module comes to rescue! Despite its name it can match the (virtual) tap-interface of the OpenVPN-Server. Just add the following rules to the beginning of the FORWARD-Chain:
ip6tables -I FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-out tap0 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-in tap0 -j ACCEPT
and things run smoothly again 🙂
$ dircolors -p > .config/dircolors
... DIR 01;36 # directory ...
eval $(dircolors .config/dircolors)
Ansi Color codes can be found here