![]() Three xterms were loaded and the xclock at the top right corner. Xorg-xclock is the clock plugin for X windows environment. Install these to test whether you can load graphic environment or not. Xorg-xinit is the initialization program of X, loading X environment can be done with xinit command which is located in /usr/bin/xinit Pacman -S xorg-server xorg-utils xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit If these are not installed you will find you have no mouse nor keyboard control in X environment. #xf86-input-synaptics (for laptop synaptics mouse) Pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse To load the vbox drivers manually from console:Įdit /etc/rc.conf MODULES() was the default. The installation of vbox guest additions will have vboxguest, vboxsf (file sharing driver) and vboxvideo (video card driver) I need guest additions because I need video driver to run desktop environment. Latest News RSS Feed budgie-desktop > 10.7.2-6 update requires manual. Installing this also force upgrade my kernel from 3.0.0 to 3.2.4. Also glance through the Arch Wiki if you want to learn more about upstream Arch. I do not like to do this, the only way to install virtualbox guest additions via pacman is to install this archlinux specific vbox guest package. Note: dbus must be inserted BEFORE networkĭAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng dbus network netfs crond alsa) ![]() Load the dbus daemon whenever Arch boots up.Įdit the /etc/rc.conf and include dbus in the DAEMONS array. This is an interprocess communication program, I am not exactly sure what does this mean, but roughly it works this way i think:ĭbus is the hub, programs are the spokes, when one programs want to talk to another program, the program sends message to dbus and dbus will relay to the destined program…(well roughly it is like this)ĭbus is very important…did not know about this until I installed Arch… Arch-LXDEīefore I install any desktop environment I installed a few things and did a few works.Īvoid upgrade Arch mindlessly unless it was really necessary…ArchLinux is not difficult to install but it is very easy to break, I have broken it many times until I finally reach this stage □ The experience was rewarding, I just refused to give up subconsciously. LXDE includes openbox as its windows manager. I find LXDE installation is the easiest among other desktop environments. ![]()
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