Hey, guys. I look for a calendar that would support sync with my Apple calendar and preferably had VIM keys support. I currently use rencal, but I would like something that I don't have to grab from the AUR.

I am a logician (in philosophy, not compsci) and like math. I wanted to try this distro because Windows sucks and I want to force myself to learn informatics. I like Vim and how it looks, btw. I used Ubuntu Mate some years ago, but didn't like how it looks and I'm so bad designing the OS by myself.

I saw blackarch and Omarchy. Any of them is good for a beginner? Any other? For what reasons?

Now I can say "I use Arch btw" lol 😏😏😏

OS: Arch Linux

Compositor: Hyprland

Dot: Caelestia (full)

check out the full video here: https://youtu.be/2nzpylsME1k?si=IbQyJJiyoHSbFKeH

Thank you to everyone who helped a newbie like me fix, probably the most minor problems on arch that I found troublesome. As of today I finally finished ricing my waybar that I'm happy with.

Would this setup work with EACv2? I've rolled my own keys on my Arch setup, along with LUKS, some DKMS modules (like the ones needed for VMWare Workstation).

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

i would like to share my own aur helper i made, it can download, update, clean the cache and purge packages. i took inspiration from the nala package manager used on debian based distros.

its available on github and the aur

criticism is welcome ^^

i use artix btw

Rainy cold Sunday, perfect to shrink and grow some partitions 😱 turns out 100G was a bit small for the root fs

Microsoft sent me an email thanking me for being an windows insider for 12 years, the email had a collection of wallpapers, I immediately downloaded them as I felt they would look great with KDE. Got everything color matched with my peripherals and I gotta say this is sweet.

NOTE: Transparency in uploaded images has been added via blue my shell extension for gnome

ScreenGuard :

is a digital wellbeing application for Linux which runs completely natively on the device , actively tracking window usage and stores the data in a local sqlite db. No server involvement. And packing multiple screentime CONTROL features as well bundled together unlike basic window tracking software for Linux.

It is currently limited to GNOME Wayland and all other DEs can use it on x11 . Which means ScreenGuard natively supports GNOME and x11 based DEs like Cinnamon and i3

This Release has the following improvements and additions :

⚙️ Full Settings Hub

Five-tab settings screen (General · Limits & Pomodoro · Diagnostics · Updates · Data):

Theme — Light / Dark / System.

Notifications & Sounds — Master toggles plus per-event control for six categories (daily goal milestones, app limits, focus mode, etc.). Three built-in sound presets or pick your own .ogg/.wav/.mp3.

Database management — Storage stats, selective date-range deletion, full purge with double confirmation.

🎯 Daily Screen Time Goal

Set a personal daily goal from the dashboard (preset or custom hours + minutes).

Redesigned usage bar: teal progress under goal, teal+orange split with a goal-line marker when over.

Desktop notifications at 50%, 100%, and every 50% overtime.

🍅 Pomodoro Focus — Cycles, Breaks & Pause

Focus ↔ Break alternation with configurable cycle count (1–20) and break duration (1–60 min).

Pause / resume buttons; remaining time persists across pause.

Custom duration picker with quick-select chips (5 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 50 / 90 / 120 min).

Desktop notifications for each phase transition and session completion.

🛡️ Focus Enforcement — Data-Safety First

Strict auto-close is now opt-in. Default behaviour minimizes the app and shows a persistent warning overlay instead of killing it — no more unsaved-work loss.

Warning overlay offers +1 min save grace, +15 min, Edit Limit, and Close App.

Dedicated focus-block screen when a distraction-listed app is opened during a session.

🎮 Steam & Proton Game Support

Real game names resolved from Steam library manifests; per-game icons from the active icon theme.

Usage fully tracked; limit and focus rules apply to games.

Escalating native kill chain (SIGTERM → process-tree SIGKILL → wineserver -k → pattern-kill) handles Proton games that ignore normal signals.

Fullscreen games now leave fullscreen before minimize.

🔔 Native Notifications & C Helpers

screenguard-notify (C) — talks directly to D-Bus org.freedesktop.Notifications; works reliably on systemd and non-systemd inits (OpenRC, runit, etc.).

screenguard-killer (C) — the escalating close chain described above.

screenguard-watchdog (C) — lightweight daemon supervisor with crash restart and exponential backoff.

🔄 In-App Updates

Checks GitHub Releases for new versions (daily / weekly, configurable).

One-click download & install for your install type (.deb, .rpm, or tarball).

Optional beta channel toggle; post-update "Updated ✓" banner on next launch.

🩺 Crash Diagnostics & Daemon Onboarding

Local JSON crash logs viewable in Settings → Diagnostics; optional anonymous Sentry reporting (opt-in).

First-launch dialog explains the background daemon and offers autostart setup.

Persistent banner when the daemon isn't running, with quick "Start Now" and "Always Autostart" buttons.

🖼️ UI Polish

Per-app native desktop icons in dashboard and app lists.

New ScreenGuard app icon (32px–512px + SVG) in the system menu and taskbar.

Settings gear button on the dashboard app bar.

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Lots of features and tested multiple times for bug fixes. Also thanks to the community for the active suppot

The project is documented properly in the Github Wiki here: https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard/wiki

And the link to the latest release: https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard/releases/tag/v0.1.1

Thank you everyone for your cooperation and consideration which has shaped this tiny personal project into a much larger pursuit for me.

Upcoming roadmap in short:

V0.1.2- major UI changes and design element improvements majorly

v0.1.5- Support for KDE Wayland and aim to have a greater portion of the daemon transition to modular C based daemons

v0.2.0- other major DEs and better optimised daemon

For better in detail info into future views of project have a look at the Roadmap section of wiki.

My first install was about 380MB. Now, with changing btrfs from ext4 and multi- subvolume it went up by 500MB. Should I go back to ext4? What do you guys use.

I recently installed and configured AppArmor on my Arch Linux system with the help of my friend Mr. GEPETEH.

After checking the status of my applications, I noticed that several are listed as unconfined. From what I understand, this means they don't currently have an AppArmor profile applied to them.

Some examples are Brave Origin and Microsoft Edge. Most of these applications were installed through Flatpak.

What do you guys recommend?

Please keep the comments constructive. We are here to learn.