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NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

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Question about installing a desktop.

Like with Gentoo, would I have to install and configure xorg-x11 before I can install a better desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, or XFCE?

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

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Re: Question about installing a desktop.

Installing xorg manually before would be recommended but not necessary. Configuring xorg is as simple as installing the tool "hwd" and preparing a xorg.conf with it (hwd -x). Then you can look into it and change some things if you like. That's all. No compiling needed if you're talking bout that

Crooksey

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From: UK ~

Registered: 2006-08-14

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Re: Question about installing a desktop.

Just do ...

pacman -Sy xorg gnome gnome-extra

^ For Gnome

pacman -Sy xorg kde

^ For Kde

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Stalwart

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Registered: 2005-10-18

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Re: Question about installing a desktop.

Xorg is thingie that makes KDE and Gnome work. You need to install and configure it to run desktop environment

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NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

Re: Question about installing a desktop.

Yeah, I know what xorg is.

I am on gnome in my Arch installation now.

I asked in case I would have to boot into twm before I could get any window manager to work.

Thanks.