Troubleshooting

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TROUBLESHOOTING

Some tips to solve issues. In the future I may create some script to apply these steps automatically.

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PT-BR KEYBOARD KEYS NOT WORKING

This may work on other languages. Do all the following steps as ROOT.

• Create a file called 00-keyboard.conf inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.

  sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

• Open the file and paste the following commands:

  Section "InputClass"
          Identifier "keyboard default"
          MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
          Option   "XkbLayout" "br"
          Option   "XkbVariant" "abnt2"
  EndSection

• Reboot

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DEAD KEYS NOT WORKING FOR QT APPS

• Open the Terminal.
• Run the command locale
• Take note of the LANG parameter.
  Example:

  LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8.UTF-8
  ...

• Now run the following command, replacing the pt_BR.UTF-8 part with the one you took note (you don't need the repeated UTF-8 part)

  grep pt_BR.UTF-8 /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir

• Take note of the Compose path.
  Example:

  pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose      pt_BR.UTF-8
  ...

• Run the following command:

  touch ~/.XCompose

• Go to your home folder, open the .XCompose file and paste the following content, replacing the pt_BR.UTF-8 part with the Compose path you took note.

  include "%S/pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose"

• Reboot

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ACTIVATING NUMLOCK ON BOOTUP

• Install numlockx:

  sudo pacman -S numlockx

• Open the file ~/.config/openbox/autostart and add the command numlockx &, like this:

  #!/bin/bash
  
  # Run the default autostart commands. Do not remove this.
  "/usr/share/ainad/openbox/autostart.sh"
  
  # Place your custom commands below
  
  # Activate numlock buttom
  numlockx &

• Save and close;
• Open the file /etc/sddm.conf.d/sddm.conf as ROOT;
• Remove the # from the Numlock parameter, like this:

  [General]
  Numlock = on

• Save and close;
• Reboot

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ENABLING AUTO LOGIN

• Open the file /etc/sddm.conf.d/sddm.conf as ROOT;
• Remove the # from the [Autologin] session and its parameters, like this:

  [Autologin]
  User = <user-name>
  Session = openbox

• Now replace the <user-name> for the user name that you want to auto login, like this:

  [Autologin]
  User = andre
  Session = openbox

• Save and close
• Reboot

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DISABLE POPUP SCREEN ASKING PASSWORD TO UNLOCK KEY SESSION

• Install Seahorse

  sudo pacman -S seahorse

• Open the application menu and search for keys and passwords.
• Open the program
• Right click on the Password > Login and select Change Password
• Inform you current password
• Next, leave the new password in blank
• Confirm that you do not want to inform a password
• Close the program and reboot
  

  NOTE: You can uninstall Seahorse after this, if you want:

  sudo pacman -R seahorse

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MISSING ICONS ON APP MENU

• FreeFileSync

  • Edit the file /usr/share/applications/FreeFileSync.desktop
  • Replace the parameter Icon=FreeFileSync.png to Icon=FreeFileSync
  • Save and close.

• RealTimeSync

  • Edit the file /usr/share/applications/RealTimeSync.desktop
  • Replace the parameter Icon=RealTimeSync.png to Icon=RealTimeSync
  • Save and close.

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AUDIO POPING OR CLICKING

Source: https://major.io/2019/03/04/stop-audio-pops-on-intel-hd-audio/

Check if you are using an Intel High Definition Audio chipset by running:

lspci | grep Audio

The result may be something like this:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

As you can see, I was using Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller. If you have something like that, do the following:

• Create a file called disable-audio-powersave.conf inside /etc/modprobe.d/.

  sudo touch /etc/modprobe.d/disable-audio-powersave.conf

• Open the file and paste the following commands:

  options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

• Save, close and reboot.

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CURSOR THEME CHANGING AFTER ADWAITA UPDATE

Do this if you have problems with the cursor theme always changes back to Adwaita theme instead of the chosen one.

• Remove the symlink /usr/share/icons/default/cursors.

  sudo rm -rf /usr/share/icons/default/cursors

• Reboot if needed.