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gh0stzk / dotfiles

BSPWM environment with 18 themes. With a theme selector to change on the fly.
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thank you for sharing. how do i start after the installation #307

Closed shi4h closed 2 months ago

shi4h commented 2 months ago

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0xN1nja commented 2 months ago

run startx

shi4h commented 2 months ago

after installing the dependencies on your document, are these two dependencies still missing xorg-xinit and xterm. because I didn't recognize them with startx

0xN1nja commented 2 months ago

yeah, install them.

map588 commented 2 months ago

@0xN1nja Once installed, startx just spawns the default xterm. I am having the same problem as @shi4h. Where exactly in this repo are you modifying a .xinitrc or something? How does the installer script change the init sequence to launch xorg with bspwm?

0xN1nja commented 2 months ago

add exec bspwm to ~/.xinitrc then run startx

0xN1nja commented 2 months ago

Did you install a display manager like lightdm? afaik the installer script doesn't install a display manager.

map588 commented 2 months ago

No I did not. That makes sense. The reason I asked is because I had used this script on another machine and it worked great, even on Void linux! (with some modification), but it was not a clean install, and I had a display manager.

So is having lightdm installed the "canonical" way of using this script? and I definitely do not remember modifying my .xinitrc or similar, so I am concerned that the script is attempting to change the initialization of Xorg and I'm not aware of it. Nothing is mentioned in the instructions afaik, it just says run the script. @0xN1nja

0xN1nja commented 2 months ago

Install lightdm:

sudo pacman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

and enable it on boot:

sudo systemctl enable lightdm

Then reboot.

gh0stzk commented 2 months ago

No, you do not need to have lightdm or any other login manager as a requirement. My script does not install or intervene with that. To install it is assumed that you already have a functional installation with the software of your choice.

map588 commented 2 months ago

Would you mind writing that in the Wiki or README instructions? @gh0stzk

gh0stzk commented 2 months ago

Would you mind writing that in the Wiki or README instructions? @gh0stzk

Yeah i will add it.