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4on6

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Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 172

[Solved] Installing StumpWM

Hi List,
I followed the the wiki-instruction to install stumpwm with sbcl and quicklisp - as root:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Stumpwm

Now I'm left with several dot files and lisp files in the home folder of root, not my regular user. Is that considered to be ok? If not, is it save to simply move these files to my own home folder, or did the installation process leave some hard links to the their location?

In a more general way: when I'm supposed to install something as root, does that mean I log in as regular user and use sudo, so that dot files etc end up in /home/user/, or should I log in as root, with the dot files ending up in /root/?

Furthermore, step 12 from the wiki:
- put the stumpwm binary path into your .xinit
left me a bit confused. where should this .xinit reside - /root/ or /home/user/ - and how does it look to put the binary path in there?

cheers

Last edited by 4on6 (2011-11-18 17:07:38)

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [Solved] Installing StumpWM

Hmm, I haven't used stumpwm before, but the instruction to use only root strike me as a little odd. At the very least, I think the wiki should justify this.

jiyuu

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Registered: 2010-04-13

Posts: 63

Re: [Solved] Installing StumpWM

The wiki indicates to use root only to install sbcl. All other step should be done as normal user else your user will never see the files installed by quicklisp.

milomouse

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Registered: 2009-03-24

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Re: [Solved] Installing StumpWM

Not sure about anyone else but the way I installed that worked is with "sudo pacman -S sbcl", and "clx" and "cl-ppcre", (also editing my ~/.sbclrc file as instructed) and then I went to the stumpwm-git PKGBUILD directory and did "sudo makepkg --asroot -si" and everything worked here for my user.  I have my .stumpwmrc and associates files in user config dir (usually ~/ for most people), and the common-lisp files are in my root ~/.cache folder.

Putting the stumpwm binary location in your .xinit should usually mean putting it in your user ~/.xinitrc file by as adding "exec /usr/bin/stumpwm" (binary location can be found by typing 'which stumpwm' in a terminal) at the very end/bottom of file.  I think this is what you were asking, if not then I apologize.

Last edited by milomouse (2011-11-18 15:49:11)

4on6

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Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 172

Re: [Solved] Installing StumpWM

Thanks to everybody, the question was probably not very clear, since the problem was not entirely clear to me. Now, combining the advice given, I have stumpwm up and running, and it has a really nice look&feel.