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I'm having trouble getting the minecraft client to work in Manjaro Linux, An Arch Linux distro.

I'll keep trying to figure it out by myself but I figured posting a thread here and on the Manjaro / Arch forums might speed my efforts.

Please, And Thank You in advance

howdy, have Manjaro on my netbook.
firstly you need to see what JVM is installed if any, from memory OpenJDK comes packaged but this is the just of it.

1). Open a Konsole (terminal) and type ;
java -version
This will spit out version info on what current java environment is set, if it throws an unrecognized error..

if that version request throws an error type;
sudo pacman -Ss JDK7-openjdk

this will (should) deliver you one option for download, to download it and install type:
sudo pacman -S JDK7-openjdk

once that is done: using the file browser open on your home directory, right click and select;
actions> open terminal here.

Now type into the konsole;
wget http://tiny.cc/9hc2qw
and wait for the download to finish *the tiny link i give here aims as https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar (shorter is just easier)

(wget may save this as a different pull that "minecraft.jar") if its saved it as 9hc2qw use;
mv 9hc2qw minecraft.jar

check to see the files;
ls

you can launch minecraft as suggested (best method);
java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame

If you have a optimus (nvidia/intel) use;
optirun java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame

To create a shortcut or launcher on one of your desktops use the same command just add the dir (folder) where the minecraft jar is living.
java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp /home/user/Downloads/minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame

Running Minecraft with Manjaro here. Java 6 iced tea and Sun's Java work for me. Java 7 does not. If you're still having trouble, post more details.