Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-27 Thread Brendan Long
On 01/26/2010 06:37 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Fagianiandfagi...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Yeah I will review the Wiki again in more detail. I have never installed anything from AUR but assume it's pretty straight forward. I will try your

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:55 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: On 01/26/2010 06:37 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Fagianiandfagi...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Yeah I will review the Wiki again in more detail. I have never installed anything from

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:43 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: 2010/1/27 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:55 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: On 01/26/2010 06:37 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Fagianiandfagi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-27 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
One thing that haven't been mentioned: Have you installed any ttf fonts, or do you only have the font packages in the xorg group? If you haven't installed any extra ttf fonts, then do so, dejavu, bistream, ms fonts and the freefonts are usually good choices.

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-27 Thread Brendan Long
On 01/27/2010 03:47 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:43 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: 2010/1/27 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com [snip] Bad advise, IMHO. yaourt is a helper, not meant to be a pacman replacement. To Andrea, you should learn to download the PKGBUILD and

[arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-26 Thread Carlos Williams
This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only install what I need. I am have been using an Ubuntu 10.4 workstations and got everything working on my

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-26 Thread Damien Churchill
2010/1/26 Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com: This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only install what I need. I am have been using an Ubuntu

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-26 Thread pyther
On 01/26/2010 02:26 PM, Damien Churchill wrote: 2010/1/26 Carlos Williamscarlosw...@gmail.com: This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-26 Thread Andrea Fagiani
On 01/26/2010 07:26 PM, Damien Churchill wrote: 2010/1/26 Carlos Williamscarlosw...@gmail.com: This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-26 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Fagiani andfagi...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest taking a look at the Font_Configuration http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration article in the Wiki, it's got a lot of useful tweaks. Also, I found myself very comfortable with the Cleartype