From alanfishy at lavabit.com  Fri Feb 22 10:11:04 2013
From: alanfishy at lavabit.com (alanfishy at lavabit.com)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:11:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Assist] How do you install LXDE on a base-devel system?
Message-ID: <57115.5.15.73.158.1361527864.squirrel@lavabit.com>

Hello! New beginner user here. I managed to follow the wiki and install a
base-devel system with working internet connection but I need a graphical
interface.
The wiki is not clear for me at this point and would like some help.


Can someone please detail the steps to install a login manager, lxde and
also configure it so that it starts every time I start the machine? Do I
have to install x11 also?


Thanks in advance!







From habstinat at gmail.com  Fri Feb 22 18:32:43 2013
From: habstinat at gmail.com (Harry Prevor)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:32:43 -0500
Subject: [Assist] How do you install LXDE on a base-devel system?
In-Reply-To: <57115.5.15.73.158.1361527864.squirrel@lavabit.com>
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On 2/22/13, alanfishy at lavabit.com <alanfishy at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Hello! New beginner user here. I managed to follow the wiki and install a
> base-devel system with working internet connection but I need a graphical
> interface.

Great!

> [snip] Do I
> have to install x11 also?

Yes; X11 is a dependency of LXDE. I'll show you how to do that too.

> Can someone please detail the steps to install a login manager, lxde and
> also configure it so that it starts every time I start the machine?

In Parabola, the latest version of pretty much everything you could
ever want can be installed with pacman, and then configured using the
wiki.

You mentioned two things: A login manager, and lxde. As I wrote
earlier, the general steps for getting anything to work in Arch are:

    1. Choose a package.
    2. Install using pacman.
    3. Configure using the wiki.

For step one, there are a few login/display managers out there, but a
popular choice is SLiM. As you may have guessed, you can install it
with pacman:

    pacman -S slim

Let's take a look at Parabola's wiki article for SLiM to configure it:

    https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/SLiM

Because your installation is new, you're using systemd by default, and
there's no reason to change that. To enable the SLiM service using
systemd, do:

    systemctl enable slim.service

You'll need to make a ~/.xinitrc file (even though you don't have LXDE
installed yet) -- just use nano to create it (as your regular user,
not as root!):

    nano ~/.xinitrc

Add the contents of the sample file on the wiki, but replace "exec
[session-command]" with "exec startlxde". Then press Ctrl-O to write
the file, and Ctrl-X to exit.

That's all you /need/ to do for SLiM, but feel free to do anything
else you see on the wiki to customize it to your liking.

Now, onto LXDE, which can be installed in the same way:

    pacman -S lxde

(you may need to select all packages in the group when prompted.) And
of course, there is a wiki article for this too:

    https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/LXDE

Execute the two commands mentioned on the wiki as your normal wiki to
copy Openbox files over. Also as mentioned on the wiki, you'll want to
install a few common LXDE programs:

    pacman -S gamin leafpad obconf epdfview

You may need to install the xorg-xinit package too; TBH I'm not sure
if it's installed with the rest.

Now, simply reboot to be brought to SLiM. Log in, and you'll be
brought to LXDE. Don't be afraid of trying the tips and tricks;
they're there for a reason!

Now that you're set up, hopefully you know how to use the wiki and
pacman to install packages easily in the future. :-)

-- 
Harry Prevor

From alanfishy at lavabit.com  Sat Feb 23 19:54:57 2013
From: alanfishy at lavabit.com (alanfishy at lavabit.com)
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:54:57 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Assist] How do you install LXDE on a base-devel system?
Message-ID: <64490.5.15.67.175.1361649297.squirrel@lavabit.com>

Thanks a lot!