Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 18:47:40 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Du, 10 aug 14, 17:30:20, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > > III. INSTALL X
> > >
> > > A. Quick & Dirty, but bloated: 'apt-get install xorg'
> > > B. Lean & Mean: 'apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xinit'
> >
> > Are you sure about this? As far as I can tell this will not install
>
> For B? Yes. Basically, that's all I installed to get X running, but
> without a window manager, you couldn't do anything with it. The window
> manager came next.
xserver-xorg-core and xinit are insufficient by themselves. To have
startx bring up X you need /usr/bin/X, which is in the xserver-xorg
package. But xserver-org depends on one of xserver-xorg-video-* and
one of xserver-xorg-input-* (I use xserver-xorg-input-evdev).
Even now we have not finished because xinit (used by startx) wants to
run an xterm by default. An x-terminal emulator is required and no WM
will pull it (or xserver-xorg-video-*, xserver-xorg-input-* and
xserver-xorg) in.
> > any of the xserver-xorg-video- or xserver-xorg-input- packages. One
> > would need at a minimum xserver-xorg-input-evdev and the -video-
> > package corresponding to the video adapter (or one of -vesa or
> > -fbdev, but these give poor performance).
>
> You might not believe it, but I basically had no problems with this
> step-by-step install, and the system just hums along quite nicely.
> Very snappy. Very stable. Never crashed.
Your notes are amongst the best I have seen on this topic of a minimal
desktop install. My objective has sometimes been a little different and
I've dispensed with the standard system utilities and got one or two of
its packages later.
Also, it can quite nice for users not to have type 'startx' and nodm
is a lightweight solution to that.
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