Common Applications

syncthing

Install syncthing.

pacman -S syncthing

Start user service.

systemctl --user enable --now syncthing

Increase max-user-watches.

nano /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288

Onboard Virtual Keyboard

Install onboard.

pacman -S onboard

For secondary labels run.

gsettings set org.onboard.keyboard show-secondary-labels true

Conky

Install conky.

pacman -S conky

I use a script with conky to check email with the perlMail::IMAPClient and IO::Socket::SSL, on arch needs: perl-mail-imapclient (AUR), and perl-io-socket-ssl.

pacman -S perl-io-socket-ssl
aursync --update --temp --chroot perl-mail-imapclient

Steam using Flatpak

Add flathub.

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install steam for user.

flatpak install --user flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam

Run Steam, data for flatpak will be in ${HOME}/.var.

flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

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