How to play DVD menu's with vlc or smplayer

With VLC I can use the menu of a DVD (not all, some protected dvd's won't play).
Open the directory and it will play the menu; I use the arrow keys to select a menu item and enter to start it.
In the playback menu of vlc you can select titles and then the chapters of the dvd.

SMplayer / MPlayer crash, exit code: 127

Errors with mplayer may be related to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130197
I had this problem too. Solved it by extracting libx264.so.118 from
the previous version of x264 in var/cache/pacman/pkg and copying it to /usr/lib/.

The dvd menu in smplayer is activated by shift + arrow up, down left, right and entering or clicking to activate selection.

How to chroot In Arch

Open a terminal and enter root user via su or whichever method you are familiar with and do
as follows:

Run "fdisk -l" in this root term to determine which device the Archbang root partition actually is.

Make the mount point if it does not already exist via "mkdir /mnt/sdxx".
After mount point has been created
Mount this partition like so. "mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/sdxx".

Just an example:
mkdir /mnt/sda5
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
that is, if the ArchBang root partition WAS /dev/sda5 as determined via output of fdisk -l shown earlier in post.

After ArchBang partition is mounted, copy resolv.conf to /etc of ArchBang partition via same root term:
"cp -vf /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/sdxx/etc"

Now chroot into the ArchBang partition.
"chroot /mnt/sdxx"

Run "pacman -Sy" and after repos are updated
run "pacman -S packagename_1 packagename_2 packagename_3 packname_etc"
to install all packages needed.
After packages have been installed, type "exit" to exit chroot.

Note that sdxx would be the actual partition device as found via fdisk -l,
and the commands are inside double quotes, do not use the double quotes on command line.

as explained by Kruppt on the Archbang forum

Mount internal drives as a normal user

What I noticed is that devmon isn't able anymore to automount a partition with the

autostart.sh line: (sleep 15 && devmon --mount /dev/sda16) &

Maybe this is a solution?

If you want to mount an internal drive in KDE or Gnome (maybe on other Desktop Environments too) as a normal user (without the need to type your superuser password), you just have to create the following file in PolicyKit Local Authority:

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-filesystem-mount-system-internal.pkla

[Mount a system-internal device] Identity=* Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal ResultActive=yes 

Problems with consolekit

prevent sda16 from autoloading at start

I have added this to home/paul/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
to launch devmon:
(sleep 5 && devmon --mount sda16) &

But get these errors when doing

ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat2'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2011-11-07T19:18:18.704650Z'
login-session-id = '4294967295'

Note both false values which should be true.
So found this solution at http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-devmon/

On Arch Linux (and possibly other distributions), you may need to add these two lines to the file /etc/pam.d/login:

session optional pam_loginuid.so session optional pam_ck_connector.so

You may need to reboot for this change to take effect.

When gtk 3.0 doesn't look good in some applications

Copying the folder

"/usr/share/themes/themename/gtk-3.0" 

to

~/.config/

works fine .

A handful of good gtk2 themes have already been ported to gtk3. Some that immediately come to mind are:

> Elegant Brit
> Zukitwo
> Atolm
> Hope

source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119251

If Thunar doesn't load partitions or drives

reinstall libgdu:
#pacman -S libgdu
source: http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5434#p5434

Decorate and Undecorate Applications in Openbox

with a simple keybinding in /home/username/.config/openbox/rc.xml

vkeybind key="W-F7"v
vaction name="ToggleDecorations"/v
v/keybindv

The V in front turn 90% forwards and at the end 90% backwards

Also in rc.xml:
vapplicationsv
vapplication class="*"v
vdecorvnov/decorv
v/applicationv

see: http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4144#p4144