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tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: Desktop manager ?

Does kde 4 work well with arch?

KDE4 is just for developers, and it does not (yet) seem to work well in any distro. Go for e17-cvs.

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Desktop manager ?

skottish wrote:
It's in the community repo under e17-cvs. It's actually 20 packages or so.

You can just do #pacman -S e and it will all install.  Some nice person made it very easy for us all.

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TechDragon

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Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 31

Re: Desktop manager ?

Okay, here is what I have been doing.  I am currently using ubuntu ... i know i know .... however it has allowed me to take your suggestions and install them all and experiment.   

xfce
kde
gnome
enlightenment
K-enlightenment
G-enlightenment
awesome
icewm

the enlightenment available was version e16

Probably like XFCE it seemed clean, and fast.  However, I found myself switching back to gnome at times simply because I knew where stuff was.

KDE 3.5.9 was the only one that crashed, not once but 3 different times.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Desktop manager ?

the enlightenment available was version e16

It sounds like that you don't have the community repo enabled yet. In the file /etc/pacman.conf, there will be a subsection [community]. Uncomment that line [community] as well as the "Include" line. Then run pacman -Sy to update the repos. From there E17 will be available.

Last edited by skottish (2008-03-12 15:45:52)

tlaloc

Member

From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: Desktop manager ?

I feel dumb ...
What is K-enlightenment? Neither pacman nor wikipedia seems to know that. Please enlight me.

TechDragon

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Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 31

Re: Desktop manager ?

K-enlightenment, and G-enlightenment

KDE that uses enlightenment as its windows manager
Gnome that uses enlightenment as its windows manager

Kinda like this
http://opengeu.intilinux.com/Home.html

remember ubuntu uses enlightenment e16

I fully plan on using E17 or XFCE

E17 looks awesome on Youtube

PS I am installing ARCH right now.  It is currently doing pacman -Syu

I do not have anything else installed yet, any advice, I will take.

Last edited by TechDragon (2008-03-12 18:39:10)

schivmeister

Developer/TU

From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: Desktop manager ?

whoa! that's possible? that's possible!

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