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[ Xfce ] First Arch Install (lemmy.ml)
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[-] NiceHat@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First Arch install, first Lemmy post ๐Ÿ‘‹

Failed miserably while installing Plasma, so I settled on xfce because it worked and I actually really like it. I'm a long-time Debian user; installed arch on my pinephone and the difference in performance was astronomical. I still prefer KDE but after banging my head against the wall to get this set up it's almost like eating crab legs.

It tastes good cause you have to work so damn hard for it.

Wallpaper and logo: https://imgur.com/a/pzDo5hP

[-] danileonis@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's pretty easy to install, what's your commands?

[-] NiceHat@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My guess is that I just installed things in the wrong order and it generated a bad config somewhere (e.g. installing plasma-desktop before x or creating a user account without the correct permissions. I don't really know.) I started with: sudo pacman -Syu plasma-desktop plasma-wayland-session kde-applications

Edit: I actually just ran the command and can now load plasma on X11. Weird. I installed some other X packages after xfce started working, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Running plasmashell complained: Could not load the Qt platform plugin โ€œxcbโ€ in โ€œโ€ even though it was found.

[-] danileonis@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's likely a missing library, probably something related to libxcb.

[-] bomgar@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Try bottom instead of htop. It looks more impressive ๐Ÿ˜‰

btm for a lot of widgets and btm -b for a htop like view.

[-] NiceHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip! It made me aware of missing locales, which is probably why I was having issues with i3 as well.

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