Yes it works and there is no error messages.
I’m not sure where those error messages come from, but I guess the reason is that yad (or Welcome because of yad) closes some file descriptors while it is running.
But as said, not sure.
I got no errors and no problems with the Welcome option on this setup. It even defaulted to meld, which suprised me! Now, if only I could get meld to ‘activate’ its preferences, like font size! It is strictly a magnifying glass job to flip through the pacnew collection…
Configuring meld for root seems impossible? At least I haven’t found a way. For ordinary users configuring is automatic.
You can change meld to some other diffing program in file
/etc/eos-script-lib-yad.conf.
I’ve been trying to avoid that - I like meld! Of course - the auto-magnify mode in xfce is a work-around, but less than ideal… I tried logging in as root, but still can’t make the preferences editable - weird! Can’t find a config file either.
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@freebird54
You might like the latest Welcome update… 
The root config issue is solved.
And all users, now Welcome’s pacdiff supports vim and code too! 
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I like how the window is working now even though i don’t really understand how to use this much. No error messages. 
What information do you need? About pacdiff? Meld?
I just have meld installed. I’m just not sure what you do when it brings up a list?
First of all, what to do with pacdiff is very specific to the file you are managing.
For example, mirrorlist and its .pacnew, you don’t have to merge anything, because your mirrorlist should already be OK after ranking.
So you can keep the .pacnew file (pacdiff: (S)kip), or remove it (pacdiff: (R)emove). Both options are OK.
The mirrorlist.pacnew file exists to show all currently available mirrors. There may be new or removed mirrors in .pacnew, but most probably not affecting your mirrorlist. If you need to re-generate mirrorlist, do it with reflector or reflector-simple.
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I just removed it.
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By the way, if you happen to have a .pacnew file for e.g. /etc/passwd, /etc/group, or similar essential files, do not try to merge them! Merging them may make your system refuse any login attempt!
So just a small word of warning…
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VERRRY nice to have it working. I’d gather (by looking in the .conf file) that the solution was hidden in using su to activate it? Here I was speculating that pkexec might do better 
Good thing its not me coding these things!
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after the new update me reflector isnt anymore ranking my mirrorserver by speed:
Time% reflector --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[2020-12-16 10:34:33] INFO: rating 5 mirror(s) by download speed
[2020-12-16 10:34:33] INFO: Server Rate Time
[2020-12-16 10:34:38] WARNING: failed to rate http(s) download (https://archlinux.mailtunnel.eu/community/os/x86_64/community.db): Download timed out after 5 second(s).
[2020-12-16 10:34:38] INFO: https://archlinux.mailtunnel.eu/ 0.00 KiB/s 0.00 s
[2020-12-16 10:34:44] WARNING: failed to rate http(s) download (https://archmirror.it/community/os/x86_6
Welcome aboard!
This is an upstream issue of reflector: Reflector Simple issues....?
But you should add country option(s): --country "country name" of your country or some near by countries.
Hallo!
Its a Reflector issue i think, but whats the Differenz?
And i tried with country but also the Same issue.
And thank you For you respond!
Command reflector --list-countries give a list of supported country names and their country codes. Both names and codes can be used for specifying a country.
See also the output of command: reflector --help
Please try the following list of reflector options (assuming you’re in Italy):
-a5 -n10 --sort rate -cIT,AT,CH,DE,FR -phttps
If these give you working mirrors (note: there may be some failures if some mirrors are not currently available), then you may use the --save option.