No Way Know How

changed to numix-cinnamon theme (for workspace switcher numbers, opaque taskbar, general dark theme) I'm trying to get this stuff all saved as configs and backed  up to github, but there are various aspects of system config I wouldn't necessarily be able to reproduce if my system borked need to get proper snapshot backups in place really

start Looking to update the firmware on the 8bitdo. http://www.fc30.com/eng/Firmware-update.html  & http://download.8bitdo.com/Manual/FC30_Pro_Manual_ENG_v1.0.pdf Have nothing for Linux http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/update-8bitdo-firmware-linux suggests  fwup update fwup is in the AUR but depends on  fwupdate  which in turn depends on  pesign did it work? Of course not!  fwupd  gives command not found. Looked at the  github page  and tried  fwupdmgr get-devices  instead: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.fwupd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.fwupd': timed out next back to the  AUR page  where a comment describes my issue but the package maintainer’s proposed solution (comment out a line in some file somewhere) does not work. Am abandoning this approach for now. Not priority. I thought I had updat...

I have a feeling I'm not managing my arch mirrorlist very well. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#List_by_speed back it up: (NB don't do this on xps now as it only contains the 6 fastest!) # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup uncomment all: # sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup rank and output 6 fastest: # rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

dwarf therapist (for arch) is not compatible with df past v.43.03 downgraded to this version, but got errors because libGLEW.so.1.10 is now long replaced by 2.0. So: $ pwd /usr/lib32 $ sudo ln -s libGLEW.so.2.0.0 libGLEW.so.1.10 now complains that the index file is corrupt, but making progress as per the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwarf_Fortress#Troubleshooting advice, I went to http://robertqualls.com/2013/06/24/getting-dwarf-fortress-to-work-on-linux.html and changed the persmissions settings in the /bin/dwarffortess and /usr/bin/dwarffortress and /opt/dwarffortress (more?) None of which worked. It does run with sudo, but as the post suggests, this is not a good ideal, so I'd like to find a fix.