While installing and configuring grub-bios files for my new Arch
installation I followed GRUB2 wiki article.
In the section Install grub-bios boot files I opted to the option
Generate core.img alone to generate a /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img file
without embedding any grub-bios bootsector code
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:29:29 +0400, Igor Mosyagin wrote:
Hello there.
Would your system still fail with empty .xinitrc? (mv ~/.xinitrc
~/dangerous_xinitrc touch ~/.xinitrc)
Yes, the system fails with empty ~/.xinitrc.
Actually it supposed to fail according with this snippet from Testing
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:16:37 -0400, Shacristo wrote:
Perhaps you should have it actually start a window manager, eg exec
openbox-session or whatever your preferred wm is.
Well, I've purposely not installed any DE or WM yet. My goal at this
point is to configure default X environment with its
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:46:30 -0400, Shacristo wrote:
Is it actually failing to start or is it executing .xinitrc and exiting?
.xinitrc needs to hand off control to a wm. You can still use twm from
.xinitrc.
Yes, this was the problem - .xinitrc was executing and exiting. And this
is what,
I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and successfully
tested.
Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
I installed terminus fonts, created ~/.xinitrc file and added to it the
following lines as advised:
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:37:58 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Juan R. de Silva
juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and
successfully tested.
Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:45:49 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Juan R. de Silva
juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com wrote:
3. In case net-tools package from core does not provide hostname any
more as well, what would be a solution then for one that would like to
use terminus
I think that links uses the mouse for control (not tested, using elinks
since a while).
i guess you are right. though links manual claims mouse supported with
gpm installed. they are not clear on what this actually means at all.
i resolved it very simple way. i dumped links and installed lynx
I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse
works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log as
root.
When I open another tty and login there as a normal user, the mouse
cursor is available. I mean, it is visible and moves as desired. But I
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:19:02 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse
works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log
as root.
When I open another tty and login there as a normal user, the mouse
cursor
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:46:21 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 19/01/11 20:35, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Juan R. de Silva
juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com wrote:
Best option RIGHT NOW is to pacman -Sg gnome and then manually pacman
- -Suy pkgfoo pkgbar pkgyetanother
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following
instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/
GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads:
Install the base GNOME desktop
# pacman -S gnome
And then: This is a meta-package; which is a group of
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:48:04 -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:
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On 01/18/2011 08:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system
following instructions provided on this page
'https://wiki.archlinux.org
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:35:34 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 06:23 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty
now. :-(
Is there any way to use cut-and-paste to compile the list and then to
copy it into a command line
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