Arch set the keyboard to german or french

Press ALT+F2 and type: setxkbmap de
or setxkbmap fr


To enable locale
To enable or disable them, the file /etc/locale.gen is used. It contains every locale you can enable, and you have just to uncomment lines you want to do so.

So #pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
becomes pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
Remove the # before the locale.

Obapps openbox window settings per app

OBApps is a graphical tool for configuring the per-application settings (window matching) in the Openbox window manager.

More info: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/obapps/index.php?title=Main_Page

Aur: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37166

fun type weblinks

type shooter: http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/ thanks to awebb on the crunchbang forum

Hunspell solves spell checker problems in LibreOffice

Had problems with spell-checking in LibreOffice.
Installing hunspell and hunspell-en and hunspell-nl (Dutch language pack solved this for me.
sudo pacman -S hunspell hunspell-en hunspell-nl

Ratpoison some essential info

Ratpoison kills your mouse; that aspect of it I really like.
But it is difficult to get used to it and even to get it working:
This review explains it very clearly:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/how-to-save-your-linux-screen-space-923730?artc_pg=2

More info

Found this review about the basics of Ratpoison: http://www.linuxgoodies.com/review_rat.html
Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ratpoison
Site: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

What is interesting is to me that is is a mouseless window manager.
What I don't like about it is, that it is a tiling wm.
I like to see one application at a time.

show all image files of a folder with feh

This was added to the FEH Wiki two days ago and I like it.

You get a new addition in the context menu of thunar.

First make the script by putting this code (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Feh#File_Browser_Image_Launcher)in a text file and making executable.
Put it in a desired place.
Go in thunar to Edit, Create Custom actions and add in the command something like:
home/paul/Scripts/feh_thunar_images %f -F -Z

Adapt place and user name of course.
Give it a name: browse images with feh
and a description: shows all images in a folder.
And of course be sure you have feh installed.

wicd sometimes won't connect;hosts file ctkarch changed

Sometimes wicd works in ctkarch sometimes it don't.
As it is working is all my other installation I figue it must be a configuratio issue
Changed
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ctkarch

to

127.0.0.1 paul.localdomain localhost paul