@Mjafko Depending on your desktop, usually when you are setting up your displays you can choose which is your primary desktop by a checkbox

@gaurav.dighe What’s your laptop model and stuff? Could be a hardware specific issue. My surface pro 3 type cover 4 is running fine so even with my “moon” hardware I would think yours might be even more “moon” tech.

@dergongr This is likely only an issue for the live cd as AMD has been busting their but now for over a year pushing their Linux support. The open source drivers are pretty good and if you so choose there’s the AMDGPU-pro stuff you can add to it as well. I’m willing to bet the fan control is only workable in a full system with proper drivers. I reference this article and from listening to many of my podcasts talking about it.

@logly Just trying to make sure I understand what you’re asking… When you press the space bar on the virtual keyboard nothing happens?

@mmm I run on a Surface Pro 3 and my touch screen has worked even when the keyboard didn’t. I’d be willing to be with the updated Arch Linux kernel you should be fine. If not I’d work with people to get drivers up and running.

The longest standing issue that was fixed for me was in 4.11 kernel where my touchpad multitouch and touch clicking finally works OTB.

Greetings, I’ve followed the arch wiki on making a dot desktop file to login to big picture mode without a window manager, however it simply crashes back to LightDM. I’ve used sddm in the past where it would “work” but there were many things wrong with it like no network access, keyboard wasn’t working, the graphics resolution was super janky where it was off on one side and you couldn’t see it, etc. I’m just curious maybe what else I need to add to my file show below. The file name is steam-big-picture.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Steam Big Picture Mode
Comment=Start Steam in Big Picture Mode
Exec=/usr/bin/steam -bigpicture
TryExec=/usr/bin/steam
Icon=
Type=Application

If I run this file directly while I’m in my mate desktop it works fine, also I changed my symlink for steam to -> steam-native … Much less problems overall but ya…

@Ruper dang… even with your monitor in the intel graphics spot? Something really weird is wrong here it seems…

I guess I should have specified that I was talking about the regular Antergos installer

@Ruper You should be able to plug in your monitor to the integrated graphics port and get an install that way (using the regular Antergos ISO). I had to do that for my GTX 1070 before I could get the nvidia package installed. Afterwards, you can (while still plugged into the integrated card) install the xf86-video-ati driver most likely. I suggest you follow the wiki here and get your stack built up right with mesa and stuff and you should be good to go.

Disclaimer, after you install the packages, I believe the install process blacklists the intel card so you can switch the monitor connection after you get the pkg installed.

PS: I also had an AMD 4850 before my GTX 1070 and it worked fine after getting the drivers and such. the Opensource AMD drivers are getting very good these days.

EDIT: added reference to the right ISO

@judd it depends on the DE from what I have noticed as it pertains to wayland. KDE is pretty good on 5.10 as I was having some application crashes on 5.9 but the KDE team has been doing amazing work the last several releases and they’re adding useful features and fixing bugs like crazy. The gnome side it’s pretty good in wayland but overall the smoothness of gnome doesn’t touch plasma. Mutter is just slow from my experience and according to the Chris Fischer who owns Jupiter Broadcasting.

Now, I am using Xorg mainly with plasma 5.10 since there are some lingering issues I reported recently on the bug tracker for wayland on 5.10 with the settings menus and such but much fewer crashes than 5.9 . Thankfully with sddm and other lock screens you can always choose what yo want and test DE’s out so easily