Improving garuda-common-settings - manual intervention required

Actually I did not include it because fish is most likely not included on every system.. but I just added that. Thanks for bringing this up again :slight_smile: (fixed the derped locate line in this commit already)

Here some information on the function. Its certainly useful if the autocomplete feature of fish is used.

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Is there a way to verify if ZRAM is working? Before, System Monitor was showing more space under "Memory", but now it only shows the space as much as in RAM only. Am I suppose to do anything else manually? Sorry if I had missed anything or understood wrongly.

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[πŸ”΄] Γ— free -h
total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7,5Gi       2,7Gi       549Mi       1,6Gi       4,3Gi       2,8Gi
Swap:          7,5Gi       1,4Gi       6,2Gi

Your ZRAM should show as Swap device equally large as your RAM :eyes:
Likewise, there should be a device called zram0, not sure but it should be the same on your device:

systemctl status dev-zram0.swap
● dev-zram0.swap - Compressed Swap on /dev/zram0
Loaded: loaded (/run/systemd/generator/dev-zram0.swap; generated)
Active: active since Thu 2021-07-08 16:31:27 CEST; 2 days ago
What: /dev/zram0
Docs: man:zram-generator(8)
man:zram-generator.conf(5)
Tasks: 0 (limit: 9236)
CPU: 4ms
CGroup: /system.slice/dev-zram0.swap

Jul 08 16:31:27 T470-void systemd[1]: Activating swap Compressed Swap on /dev/zram0...
Jul 08 16:31:27 T470-void systemd[1]: Activated swap Compressed Swap on /dev/zram0.
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How to know if I am up to date and using the last and right version ?
I update often trough the GUI and also using sudo pacman -Syu

for now, I have not updates to install...But may be I missed something when you released that
I am on the dragonized version...

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Nothing to do = you have the latest packages. So you should be golden :blush:

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Thanks Team i have no idea what is Zram so i ail be looking on Arch Wilki.One question please .I must be updating correctly as i havn't had to d o a full install for 4 months now lol How often should sudo pacman Syu be updated please.

I am a little confused i ran this update now i get a message do i want to remove these 48 packages.That seems alot ,is this normal please. Ohj well i took a stab and clicked y .seems ok

Hi there i tried to do the update sudo pacman -Rns (pacman -Qtdq)
https://bin.garudalinux.org/?c5462b0fc8329e7e#ALu9qr9G2ZC7ws6hVU7JYdukwhbrKj9H18vB7t6zWDjE

pacman -Rns package-name

Removes package completely with all its configuration files.

pacman -R package-name

Removes ( Uninstalls ) packages mentioned.

pacman -S p1 p2 p3

You can install multiple package at one command like above

Intall paru . Will be usefull for faster download.

Use Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) package-manager , which is Pamac ( Add / Remove Software ). You will not break your system.

Enable Parallel download to 10 in Pamac ( Preference in menu ) and pacman ( /etc/pacman.d/pacman.conf )

A new features system tray icon has been introduced to update important hot fixes automatically on background and gives important notification to forum here if any update or Bug needed to be patched manually.

It has been made easy for update. In Konsole ,just type

update

pacman -Sy updates packages available.

pacman -Syu updates every package ( reinstall if it is up-to-date )

READ GUIDE & FORUM BEFORE START USING. AND READ WIKI AFTER YOU LEARN TO BREAK YOUR SYSTEM

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I'm glad you didn't update like this:

sudo pacman -Rns (pacman -Qq)
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How would I do to limit the Swap(Zram)? I try to play a game that uses a lot of memory, but I can't open it because the physical memory is also being consumed.

I'm using an atlhon 3000ge with 8Gb and my Swap didn't come out of it:

total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem.: 5923 3343 141 324 2439 1732
Swap: 14934 614 14319

Looks a bit more like 6 gigs?

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iGPU?

inxi -Faz

show more details.

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updatedb has been really useful to me, but it's only done on updates, not on installing or removing packages.

I think pacman-updatedb-hook would make it better :slight_smile:

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That would be an idea, the only downside I see is that people who might not be using mlocate will get longer update times. I don't know if that's worth it :eyes:

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No. As per the manual and also my experience, it doesn't re-write the whole database every time. It only syncs new entries.

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locate and updatedb hook are very familiar from the past and I thought they were some default Arch thing.
Do we know which utilities or programs use locate by defult when searching files?
Dolphin has no dependency on it.
I think that only few (normal?, newbies?) users would use terminal commands to search.
If find, grep and others (with recursive flags) don’t use locate, it seems it is used with locate itself, or…? :exploding_head:

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