In this post I give a solution for a better look of QT applications in an Openbx environment. Some things get easier
Adding in

~/.config/Trolltech.conf

...
[Qt]
style=GTK+
...

QT applications start to look like good looking gtk applications.

Jpeg2pdf convert images to pdf Arch

 To install from AUR: packer -S jpeg2pdf
In terminal: jpeg2pdf -a  /home/paul/booklet  pdfbooklet.pdf

Replace systemd with patched udev

On the Archbang forums you can read a lot about the problems some of us have with the systemd replacement of initscripts in Arch.
Aline  used an forked udev script  from the gentoo community and provides more info how to remove systemd from your Arch installation without problems.
I'm quoting Aline now, whom I thank again for her contribution:

This is my PKGBUILD from the udev fork: http://pastebin.com/L5ZTkBVC
And this is the old PKGBUILD from initscripts: http://pastebin.com/LAjxTpEZ
I've installed both, rebooted. There are a lot of packages that is linked against udev libraries, so I had to rebuild all of then. For this I use yaourt + customizepkg-new from aur. For most of the packages I only had to create a empty file in /etc/customizepkg.d/. For example xorg-server, I have a empty file /etc/customizepkg.d/xorg-server

Customize-pkg you can download here:
customizepkg-new: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31646
For more details see also: http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=18037#p18037


Other relevant links about alternative solutions:
about udev-lts from Jubei: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148429 
and http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=18160#p18160
about Ignite, asimple and robust init replacement
Allow disabling the build of all of systemd, leaving just udev: http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg05503.html
We have to wait and see what will surface as the most easy, reliable  and  lasting solution.

Savedefault option leads to error 15 file not found

We are talking her about a known grub bug, well at least in Arch
The savefault means that when you boot into Windows for example, the next time the default booted OS will be Windows again.
It is the savedefault flag that causes the bug, the "file not found error 15" and also "filesystem unknown type 0x7".

It can be solved by doing as root in terminal:
#grub-set-default 0

Adapt colours in gtk-theme

For years I adapted a Madbox theme to a Madpablo theme.
Today I changed some colours in that theme. Themes can be installed system wide in usr/share/themes or locally in /home/username/.themes. In the theme folder you will find the files you will need to edit. In line 8 of the gtkrc you will find the gtk_color_scheme:
I changed;
 nbase_color to #A9A28F (from warm yellow to olive),
nbg_color to #E4DDCB (was #D8D8D8, GREY)
and nselected_fg_color to #F8CCAC (salmon).

In index.theme I changed  bg_color to #E7DECF.
I use gcolor2 to pick and find the colours I want to use.

An image_desklet on your desktop above your wallpaper

Somewhere else I already put forward ADComps changing wallpaper: http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=10436#p10436
This is about a smaller image as part or above your wallpaper.
The best way to describe it is a rotating image desklet.
It was put forward here by ADComp: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/20061/#p20061
I always found it a great little script but it seems to be forgotten and had to be a little bit updated: http://pastebin.com/Ggs57V59
What you need to edit: link to image directory: line 12
Time to change image: line 15: in the script I have opted for 100000 seconds, so for a hardly rotating image (especially when you only have one image in the folder); just to make clear you also can choose for that, a non rotating image for a while.
Save the script as image_desklet and make it executable.
Put it in /home/user/.scripts with a symbolic link to /usr/bin

ln -s /home/paul/.scripts/image_desklet /usr/bin/image_desklet

Or directly in /usr/bin.
And put

image_desklet &

as a separate line in /home/user/.config/openbox/autostart.sh.

Voyagers Conky Control in Arch

 Conky Control is a very nice config tool for conky that you can find shipped with Voyager Linux, an Xubuntu based distro with  a very beautiful configuration, themes etc. : http://voyager.legtux.org/

See conky control in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XelYd66FE0s from 1:45
You need to have conky-lua installed: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31589

packer -S conky-lua

You can download the conky scripts here: http://ompldr.org/vZWoxMA
Put the extracted Conky folder in /home/user/.scripts

Backup your old folder/home/user/.conky.
Download the second folder (.conky)  from here and extract it and put it in /home/user/
http://ompldr.org/vZWoxYg
Create a symbolic link (adapt username):

sudo ln -s  /home/paul/.scripts/Conky/conky /usr/bin/conkycontrol

Now all you have to do is create a menu item in your OB menu or/and a keyboard shortcut to rc.xml
Menu, place it under:

menu id="preferences" label="Preferences"

See also for more code:here

If you have trouble getting ConkyCircle, option 14 right, look at this post: http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=16237#p16237