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Now you get the point why some people claim that Arch is easy.

With absolute control you can do everything you want whit just a few commands.

You shuld try build your own desktop environment, I strongly suggest you to try openbox with something simple like lxpanel

 

I don't like KDE, will try XFCE first in virtual box (will do a complete new install) to see if i like that. If not i will go back to cinnamon again . Also wich display manager is the best ? GDM ?

 

You could give SLiM a try, it's very light compared to GDM. Also there's a way not to use any DM, just login in the tty, and X will start and launch your DE. Put "exec cinnamon-session" in your ~/.xinitrc, then "startx" into your ~/.zprofile, or bash, depending on your shell.

 

Do you mean login manager?

That's a tricky question, depend on what you consider best.

The most full featured?
The most lightweight?
The one with less dependencies?

KDM depends on kde libs, suits well with KDE (what genius I am!)
Same for GDM an Matte or Gnome, or XFCE.

Suppose you want use Matte in a pure GTK enviroment, but want use KDM as login manager.
No problem, but it will install a ton of KDE dependencies, just to run one app that you will use just for one thing, log in.

My favourite is SLiM (Simple Login Manager), the name says all, slim and get the job done.

As I can see, you are toward to lightweight desktop managers (Matte, XFCE), instead of the hearvy ones (KDE, Gnome).

If you want go totally hardcore, login to console and startx, no need to login manager.

 

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Guys i need some help and i can't register in the arch forum duo that stupid output you need to answer "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g"

I managed to isntall everything but i cant login with SLIM (failed to execute login command), i read over the arch wiki but does not fix anything pffff. I want slim in combination with my cinnamon.

 

It's a command that you need to run in a terminal.

I strongly advise you to never, under any condition, run any command that you don't understand what it will do.

In this case, the above chain of commands will generate a random number.

As example the command

Code:

sudo nohup rm -Rf * 2>&1

Will delete everything without questions.

Just a quick explanation of what these commands do:

date display current date and time,

Code:

date -u +%V

show the week number.

uname, show some information about the system, without parameter shows "Linux"

sha256sum calculate the sum of the output, and sed command cut the "-" from the output.

the answer should be:

Code:

2aa4cb287b8a9314116f43b5e86d892d76a9589559aa69ed382e8f5dc493d955

 

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Thanks to both of you,

Ran into another problem. I want to dualboot my windows 7 with arch (MBR), just insert the arch disk and booted. Wanted to partition my disk but there is no option at all, i can only delete my old one

cfdisk /dev/sda works but has limited options
cgdisk /dev/sda does not work for me


Disk /dev/sda
/dev/sda1 - bootable
/dev/sda2 - Windows 7

Options downstares: Bootable / Delete / Quite / Type / Help / Write


Guess i need to dig in the arch wiki "again"

 

or install gparted and do it the easy way

 

I did it within windows and it worked. Installed the entire system in dualboot right now, need to install xorg, display manager (will try slim first again in vmware) and some other stuff

Funny thing is GRUB is listing Windows 7 as Vista

 

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