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Hi fellow Archers,

I'd like to read about --with details-- what you feel most proud about accomplishing in the course of your Arch Linux Experience so far.

For me, for example, I'd have to say it was writing the BASH script to populate the /mnt directory so that I could edit my /etc/fstab to automount selected partitions from among the 35+ partitions I have on my SATA and IDE channels on the Klingon. I'm not much at writing scripts, so this pushed me in a direction that I needed to go. And it worked! That is part of history now, being installment 2 of "SilverBear Tries his paw at Archery" in the Arch section at sblinux.org.

What about you? What made you feel really good --and still does-- in the course of your mastering the Art of Archery?

If we get some good submissions, we could put them into the Arch Experience section, too.

There are four achievements which really pleased me, but I can't really decide which one is the best:

• Getting the rt73 legacy driver, and the RutilT program, compiled and working (with WPA!) for my Edimax EW-7318USG USB wifi adapters.
• Managing to add an "Edit as Root" context menu choice in Konqueror, by creating /opt/kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit_as_su.desktop:
  

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  [Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=text/*,application/x-desktop
Actions=Editassu

[Desktop Action Editassu]
Name=Edit as Root
Icon=kfm
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"


• Successfully cloning my master Arch installation to five other computers, with minimal fstab and GRUB tweaking.
• Last but not least, noticeably speeding up the start of GUI programs by creating the empty new directory ~/.compose-cache and starting Kwrite to force the creation of an X11 compose cache.

And here are my lingering embarrassments:

• Not getting my HP PSC 500 all-in-one (parallel) device scanning reliably, using HPLIP, XSane and Kooka. Sometimes the device is "busy", "not found", etc and other times it works fine.
• Managing to access my son's Samsung YP-K3 player via Amarok was an achievement, but the failure is that he's got to explicitly run /etc/start_udev for it to be recognized when he wants to use it - I can't get it working after a reboot.

But all in all, I'm really quite happy with progress, maybe 8.5/10!

Farcry wrote::D There are four achievements which really pleased me, but I can't really decide which one is the best:
<<snip>>
[*]Managing to add an "Edit as Root" context menu choice in Konqueror, by creating /opt/kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit_as_su.desktop:

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[Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=text/*,application/x-desktop
Actions=Editassu

[Desktop Action Editassu]
Name=Edit as Root
Icon=kfm
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"


Hi Farcry.

I'm not diminishing the personal value to you of the other things you mentioned. After all that is the topic! But the one I quoted seems to me to be a candidate for a "Tips and Tricks in Arch" list we all can put together as a result of our ongoing group Arch Experience articles. A lot of folks would want that, including me.

I'm heavily into working on the antiX FAQ right now so I probably won't be able to mess with Arch again until antiX 7.2 comes out this weekend. But this is the first thing I'm going to do the next time I boot into Arch.

Excellent!

--SilverBear

Here's a good link which I found on the MepisLovers site:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/ ... menus.html
Wish I had known about this before!