No Way Know How

Added sftp://root@192.168.1.107/media shares  to ~/.gtk-bookmarks  to create a shortcut to pi media centre in the thunar sidebar (shortcut view only). Upon subsequent reboot that has disappeared, which I need to investigate. Added  KERNEL=="dm-*",ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1" to  /etc/udev/rules.d/99-dmapper-hide.rules to remove lvm partitions from the thunar sidebar. I was concerned that I'd have to comment this out and reboot if I wanted access to, say, my Arch install's home folder, but no fear: sudo lvdisplay /dev/linuxVG lists the lvm partitions (where lunuxVG is my volume group) sudo mount /dev/linuxVG/OS3-home /mnt/arch_home mounts the volume at a previously created directory. I also want to get rid of the unused Network shortcut, but the only way I've found so far involves recompiling thunar, which I can't be arsed with. Preferable would be to use samba to connect to an actual windows network with, if that's the way to

Lots of stuff's been done in the last week or so. Opened the parents' router ports when I was up to allow me to access their mac by VNC viewer if they get into any technical strife. Fresh Arch install on the laptop. The last time I did this I just plonked a desktop package right on there - KDE I think - and I was not pleased with the results. I thought with Arch that the difficulty was all with the installation and once that was done I lost interest. Now I'm realising that all the post-installation config is the "interesting" part. I'm not going to list all the learnings during that process - I've made notes on the system which I might copy in here in a separate post (note to self - do this as I go next time!). Have spent most of my time so far getting xorg, Openbox and SLiM installed and configured. Oh, and tint2. I'm halfway towards a #!-looking desktop and conky's functional. What else... got the Pi attached to the external hard