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:cry: No idea if this topic has been posted before, but at the risk of being flamed here goes... Just installed my a base Arch Linux 0.7.2 system. Everything went very smooth. Did a pacman -Syu and updated everything, still ok.
I then went to install Xorg, and followed the instructions in the wiki for installing it and this is where I hit a snag. xclock is missing. I have tried to pacman it with xorg-xclock and even xclock on its own, but to no avail
This doesn't stop the X server from loading though, but I have followed the instructions to get GDM working but this fails also. I can't quite catch the exact error as it clears the screen and goes to a bash log in prompt.
Is there a complete comprehensive newbie friendly guide to installing a base Arch Linux System which includes Xorg and GDM or KDM and Gnome and KDE setup?
Any helpful tips will be gladly recieved as I really want to get my Arch Linux system up because Gentoo is a bit too hard for me at the moment
Cheers
EmyrB
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have you create an xorg.conf?
Please post your ~/.xinitrc
Have you tried to turn it off and on again?
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xclock is part of xorg-apps.
please post the steps you've made, and the error you get.
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it wants to start xclock because it is using the default xinitrc.
located here /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
remove the lines
# start some nice programs
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
or install xorg-apps
pacman -S xorg-apps
or install a DE
xorg wiki > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
desktop > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Environment
post install wiki > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ation_Tips
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just install xterm:
pacman -Sy xterm
that should be enough!
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Hi and thanks for all your comments.
I have created Xorg.config by following the Xorg wiki linked in somairotevoli reply and created one manually and through hwd.
I shall try later and install xorg-apps and I will try and catch the error message it displays with GDM. I installed Gnome as well, so I do have a DE.
Cheers
EmyrB
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