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lzfy

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Registered: 2007-02-11

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Arch and XFCE

Hi, I'm trying to create an Arch install with XFCE. So far I have succesfully partitioned the hard drive, installed xorg and XFCE. I can run XFCE without any problems. No I want to configure it so I can:
- Play all kind of multimedia files
- Burn CD/DVD's
- Install GTK engines (Murrine, Rezlooks etc...)
- Add users
- Login as Root

The most important thing is Playing multimedia files and installing GTK themes.

I really love Arch because it works so fast.

PS. I did search the WIKI but I coulnd't find something usefull.

Last edited by lzfy (2007-02-11 13:28:03)

noriko

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Re: Arch and XFCE

1~ pacman -S mplayer codecs mplayer-plugin
2~ paman -Ss burn
3~ pacman -Ss 'gtk(.*)switch'
3~ pacman -Ss 'gtk(.*)theme | pacman -Ss rezlooks | pacman -Ss murrine
4~ useradd --help
5~ su | login root | myhost$ root; passwd: [default=blank]

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lzfy

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Re: Arch and XFCE

1~ pacman -S mplayer codecs mplayer-plugin

Is there a way to play files without installing Mplayer? or is the package "codecs" not a part of Mplayer. If so does this package install all the necessary codecs?

3~ pacman -Ss 'gtk(.*)switch'

Can you please tell me what this command installs?

3~ pacman -Ss 'gtk(.*)theme | pacman -Ss rezlooks | pacman -Ss murrine

Hmm. I tried searching for murrine and rezlooks packages from the main page but I coulnd't find them. What's the best way to search for packages?

4~ useradd --help

Is there a graphical app to do this?

5~ su | login root | myhost$ root; passwd: [default=blank]

I mean login as root at the GDM screen. Currently it doesn't allow me to login as root.

Thanks for your help

lucke

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Re: Arch and XFCE

Arr, you shouldn't login to a desktop environment as root.

You can use "adduser" to add users, it's interactive.

upsidaisium

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Re: Arch and XFCE

3~ pacman -Ss 'gtk(.*)switch'

Can you please tell me what this command installs?

i get this output from this command:

[root@littlemac john]# pacman -Ss 'gtk(.*)switch'
extra/gtk-theme-switch 1.0.1-2
    Gtk theme switcher
extra/gtk-theme-switch2 2.0.0rc2-2
    Gtk2 theme switcher
community/gtk-chtheme 0.3.1-3
    This little program lets you change your Gtk+ 2.0 theme. A better
    alternative to switch2
community/gtk2_prefs 0.4.1-1
    A GTK2 theme selector and font switcher

so nothing has been installed.. it just lists some useful apps for changing gtk themes and preferences.  you will probably only need gtk-theme-switch2 and gtk2_prefs.  if you need to set the theme for older gtk applications, then install gtk-theme-switch as well.

edit: and to answer your question about searching for packages.. you can search on the arch website, or you can use pacman:

pacman --sync --search [package]
(shortform: pacman -Ss [package]

the murrine engine is the package: gtk-engine-murrine
and rezlooks: gtk-rezlooks-engine
(both are in the community repository)

Last edited by upsidaisium (2007-02-11 19:11:22)

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pelle.k

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Re: Arch and XFCE

You will have to do som work yourself. This isn't ubuntu (no pun intended). If you haven't figured out what "pacman -Ss" do yet; do some research.
If Arch linux is going to be _your_ desktop OS, i suggest you learn to 1. man <command> 2. <command> --help. I also suggest you visit the archlinux wiki.

To sum it up, you don't need a theme switcher in xfce. It's already there.
You need to be a member of audio, storage and optical groups. (usermod -aG <groups> <user>)
totem-xine or gxine will pull all xine codecs as a dependancy. (pacman -S <packages>)

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lzfy

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Re: Arch and XFCE

@pelle.k
You're right but I did some research but I couldn't find the right information. I do know what pacman -Ss means, I just didn't read the post too good I guess

The problem is that if I do pacman -Ss murrine or pacman -Ss gtk-engine-murrine I it doesn't find anything.

Arr, you shouldn't login to a desktop environment as root.

I know, the problem is that I installed GDM and added the it to rc.conf without creating any other user. CTRL + F1 or F2 didn't work, so I couldn't get into the system again   But that problem is fixed now

JoeC

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Re: Arch and XFCE

@pelle.k
You're right but I did some research but I couldn't find the right information. I do know what pacman -Ss means, I just didn't read the post too good I guess

The problem is that if I do pacman -Ss murrine or pacman -Ss gtk-engine-murrine I it doesn't find anything.

I believe someone said it but you need to enable the community repo in /etc/pacman.conf

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lzfy

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Re: Arch and XFCE

@pelle.k
You're right but I did some research but I couldn't find the right information. I do know what pacman -Ss means, I just didn't read the post too good I guess

The problem is that if I do pacman -Ss murrine or pacman -Ss gtk-engine-murrine I it doesn't find anything.

I believe someone said it but you need to enable the community repo in /etc/pacman.conf

  All fixed now...

lzfy

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Re: Arch and XFCE

It's all working now but I get an error message when I try to install the "codecs" package. It says:
Checking for file conflicts
libstdc++5: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: exists in filesystem
libstdc++5: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7: exists in filessystem

pelle.k

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Re: Arch and XFCE

I'm not sure on how "wise" it would be, but you could --force (pacman -Sf) this. Again, this is explained if you "man pacman" (or pacman -Sh).
This is probably because you did something wierd during you trials with installing some package.

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lzfy

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Re: Arch and XFCE

Hmm, actually I didn't do anything "weird", just installed xorg and gnome. In VMWare I made a new arch install, installed xorg and after that tried to install kde but I get the same error message. Anyway I will keep trying to see what is causing this.

pelle.k

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Re: Arch and XFCE

If this is no "production machine" install, go ahead and --force install it. The files are already there, so it'll be the same as not installing them...

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Re: Arch and XFCE

I know, the problem is that I installed GDM and added the it to rc.conf without creating any other user. CTRL + F1 or F2 didn't work, so I couldn't get into the system again   But that problem is fixed now

Prolly a bit late, but the heck. If you are on a X-Server display, you have to press CTRL+ALT+F-key to switch terminals. Also, you can configure GDM from the "Actions" menu and switch on root-login there.