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barbedsaber
October 21st, 2010, 05:03 PM
ok, I have a really old computer that I'm trying to get up and running since my ubuntu laptop's motherboard fried.

I downloaded the arch i686 image, and installed that without too much trouble

booted for the first time, updated pacman (a quick look at the wiki told me to enter
pacman -Sy

installed E17
pacman -S e-svn
(which I want to use rather than gnome because it's an older machine, and I wanted to try something new)

but now I don't know how to make it run my newly downloaded desktop environment.:(

Obviously I didn't have a desktop manager, I have installed SliM and XDM, but I don't know how to make either of them start at boot, so I can select E17 and get a desktop :confused::confused::confused:

also, I need to create my own user account, so that once I have it set up with the packages I want, I can stop using the root account.

thanks for reading.

tarps87
October 21st, 2010, 05:30 PM
To create a new user:

adduser <username>

For the desktop environment try looking here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Step_2:_Install_a_Desktop_Envir onment

In short edit /etc/inittab at the top you will see:
id:3:initdefault:
commet out and uncomnet the line:
id:5:initdefault:
e.g.
#id:3:initdefault:
id:5:initdefault:

now at the bottom of this file uncomment your login manager.

After creating a new user login in using this user and type:

nano ~/.xinitrc
and add the line
exec <desktop environment>
e.g exec startlxde
for lxde
I can not remember the command for E17 (might be enlightenment)

uRock
October 21st, 2010, 05:38 PM
Reopened and moved to the Cafe.

Good luck,
uRock

Spice Weasel
October 21st, 2010, 07:56 PM
"xinit enlighenment"

JP121
October 22nd, 2010, 12:04 AM
If you look at the arch wiki, there should be some line you need to add to the x11 configuration file. Then you just type startx