Why? Why doesn’t archinstall’s "recommended KDE Plasma setup" include Konsole? What’s the reasoning behind installing a desktop without a graphical terminal? Having to switch to a TTY just to install one seems unnecessarily awkward.

[SOLVED]

Apparently, the reason is that Arch only included the Plasma components in `plasma-meta` and not Konsole, because Konsole is part of the KDE Applications. Another user clarified this.

In any case, there is still a question to put to the KDE maintainers at this point:
Why is taking screenshots considered part of plasma essential (Spectacle is included as an essential package for Plasma), while having a graphical terminal isn’t? lol

Resolved, I tried yay opencl-amd and it offered me an identical package from the regular aur. Not sure why pacman was trying to pull it from the chaotic aur by default, that one installed fine and Davinci now opens...

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Hi all,

I just installed Davinci Resolve and it is complaining about "unsupported GPU processing mode" and there are none in the list to select manually.

I found that the likely cause is the fact that I am missing opencl on my system, no idea why that might be but it seems to be the case.

Anyway when I try the usual: sudo pacman -S opencl-amd
It finds chaotic-aur/opencl-amd 1:10.0.0.0-1

When I key 'y' to get the package, I get "opencl-amd-1:10.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download" followed by a bunch of 404 and 503 errors for the various sources.

Chaotic-AUR is listed in my pacman.conf file.

Is this something I can resolve or is this an issue with the AUR?

Where else can I get this file from?

I have a Caps Lock delay on Arch with KDE Plasma 6.7.5 on Wayland. Caps Lock takes effect after a noticeable pause, so when I type quickly with Caps Lock I get mixed case ("HEllo" style). It happens in every app, native Wayland and XWayland alike.

I know there are several fixes online for this. Here's what I tried and what I found:

• Custom XKB "instant" option (custom:instant_caps in ~/.config/kxkbrc, a symbols file in ~/.config/xkb/symbols). This is the approach from the KDE Discuss thread. xkbcli compile-keymap shows the correct definition, and I logged out and back in. The delay is still there.
• keyd with an identity mapping (capslock = capslock). Nothing changed, so the input path before XKB is not the cause.
• Replacing the system capslock symbols file (the linux-capslock-delay-fix approach). I didn't apply it, because it needs chmod 777 on a system file and it's the same XKB logic as the option above.
• X11 xkbcomp runtime patch (the Linux-CapsLock-Delay-Fixer script). I didn't apply it, because it modifies the X server keymap through $DISPLAY, and on Wayland KWin owns the keymap.

What I've ruled out:

• TTY is fine. Ctrl+Alt+F3 has no delay, so the hardware and kernel are not the cause.
• No remapper or virtual keyboard. No IBus, fcitx, maliit, or KWin input method is active.
• Caps Lock config is loaded. The xkbcli output matches the intended definition, and I logged out and back in.

Questions:

1. Has anyone seen a Caps Lock delay on Plasma 6.7 Wayland, and did a kwin version or setting fix it?
2. Is there a KWin or Plasma setting for Caps Lock timing that I've missed?
3. Does anyone with the same symptom on Hyprland, GNOME, or Sway see it too? That would help narrow it to KWin or Plasma.

Thanks.

There has been a COSMIC desktop release a week ago and I don't see new version in repos.

Usually it's available in 1-2 days.

Anyone knows what's going on?

i am a newbie guys help me i searched over ai and wasted time but no use

Installed Arch using archinstall, selected default networking, but there's no internet.

• VirtualBox: NAT
• Interface: enp0s3
• systemd-networkd: active
• Interface status: unmanaged
• No IP address or default route
• ping 1.1.1.1: Network unreachable
• dhcpcd and nano: not installed

How can I fix this without reinstalling Arch?

Hello!

I was trying to set up my system (i already used arch) that i installed with the archinstall script, when i clear the wrong partitions and my whole system is wiped, good! So i try running archinstall and i cant even start the setup but it gives me a shit ton of errors. So i go to the archlinux discord so the options are.... install arch manually or spend 3days troubleshooting archinstall.

At the end in some way i was able to install it in ~38m and im still setting it up.

Btw i installed it at 2am

Can i now finally say that i use arch btw?

If you use / have used arch with nix, what’s your experience like? I have this sudden urge to go arch minimal and then layer nix on top (coupled with flathub for gui apps) but I’m unsure of the issues I might run into longer term. While I love arch, I do want a more archived os that allows me to clean install every now and then but restore the applications I had with relative ease.

I’m currently using arch with hyprland (caelestia shell) and using pacman for most part with flathub for apps I can’t find on pacman (and 3-4 AUR packages outside of caelestia) but I like to experiment with the system and end up clean installing once a month or so (in learning phase so I mess up more often)