While installing and configuring grub-bios files for my new Arch
installation I followed GRUB2 wiki article.
In the section "Install grub-bios boot files" I opted to the option
"Generate core.img alone" to "generate a /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img file
without embedding any grub-bios bootsector
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:46:30 -0400, Shacristo wrote:
> Is it actually failing to start or is it executing .xinitrc and exiting?
> .xinitrc needs to hand off control to a wm. You can still use twm from
> .xinitrc.
Yes, this was the problem - .xinitrc was executing and exiting. And this
is what,
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:16:37 -0400, Shacristo wrote:
> Perhaps you should have it actually start a window manager, eg "exec
> openbox-session" or whatever your preferred wm is.
Well, I've purposely not installed any DE or WM yet. My goal at this
point is to configure default X environment with i
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:29:29 +0400, Igor Mosyagin wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> Would your system still fail with empty .xinitrc? (mv ~/.xinitrc
> ~/dangerous_xinitrc && touch ~/.xinitrc)
Yes, the system fails with empty ~/.xinitrc.
Actually it supposed to fail according with this snippet from "Te
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:45:49 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Juan R. de Silva
> wrote:
>> 3. In case net-tools package from core does not provide hostname any
>> more as well, what would be a solution then for one that would like to
>> us
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:37:58 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Juan R. de Silva
> wrote:
>> I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and
>> successfully tested.
>>
>> Following instructions here https://wiki.arch
I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and successfully
tested.
Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
I installed "terminus" fonts, created ~/.xinitrc file and added to it the
following lines as advised:
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp
> I think that links uses the mouse for control (not tested, using elinks
> since a while).
i guess you are right. though links manual claims "mouse supported with
gpm installed". they are not clear on what this actually means at all.
i resolved it very simple way. i dumped links and installed l
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:19:02 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse
> works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log
> as root.
>
> When I open another tty and login there as a normal
I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse
works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log as
root.
When I open another tty and login there as a normal user, the mouse
cursor is available. I mean, it is visible and moves as desired. But I
can
I've just completed my Arch GNOME base installation and basic
configuration and would like to share the experience, if anyone is
interested. :-)
1. I performed base Arch install from within my host system - Ubuntu
10.04 following the Wiki instructions. I must say that was extremely
enjoyable
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:06:27 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following
> instructions provided on this page
> 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ GNOME#Base'. As you can see it
> reads:
>
>
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:57:40 -0700, Patrick Burroughs wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 20:06, Juan R. de Silva
> wrote:
>> I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system
>> following instructions provided on this page
>> 'https://wiki.archlinux.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:46:21 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 19/01/11 20:35, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Juan R. de Silva
>> wrote:
>>>> Best option RIGHT NOW is to pacman -Sg gnome and then manually pacman
>>>> -
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:35:34 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 06:23 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>> Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty
>> now. :-(
>>
>> Is there any way to use cut-and-paste to compile t
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:48:04 -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:
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> On 01/18/2011 08:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>> I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system
>> following instructions pr
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following
instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/
GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads:
"Install the base GNOME desktop"
# pacman -S gnome
And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of pack
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