I have made a good installation of Arch as a virtual machine in Virtual Box. It is fast and works perfectly. Until I try to install a desktop.
I have spent hours and hours studying the Arch Wikis and the Arch forum. I have installed three different desktops: LXDE, Budgie, and Gnome. Multiple times each. The only one that will install and open without crashing the machine is Gnome, and after Gnome opens, the applications are glacially slow. And I mean really slow. It takes five minutes to change directories in the file manager. That kind of slow.
Here is one path I went down today. This is a post from the Arch forum:
1. After installing the base system, create a user with all required groups, including wheel.
2. Reboot and log into your new user.
3. sudo pacman -S lxde (choose whichever packages you want)
4. sudo systemctl enable lxdm
5. Reboot, and lxdm should start - type in your password and boom, you're in lxsession.
I did that exactly, and when I boot up and log in, boom, the black terminal screen freezes.
I have tried to run LXDE from the terminal. I edited the .xinitrc file in my home directory to include "startlxde". When I enter "startx" it freezes.
Has anyone here successfully installed a desktop on Arch? If so, how did you do it?
Richard
I have spent hours and hours studying the Arch Wikis and the Arch forum. I have installed three different desktops: LXDE, Budgie, and Gnome. Multiple times each. The only one that will install and open without crashing the machine is Gnome, and after Gnome opens, the applications are glacially slow. And I mean really slow. It takes five minutes to change directories in the file manager. That kind of slow.
Here is one path I went down today. This is a post from the Arch forum:
1. After installing the base system, create a user with all required groups, including wheel.
2. Reboot and log into your new user.
3. sudo pacman -S lxde (choose whichever packages you want)
4. sudo systemctl enable lxdm
5. Reboot, and lxdm should start - type in your password and boom, you're in lxsession.
I did that exactly, and when I boot up and log in, boom, the black terminal screen freezes.
I have tried to run LXDE from the terminal. I edited the .xinitrc file in my home directory to include "startlxde". When I enter "startx" it freezes.
Has anyone here successfully installed a desktop on Arch? If so, how did you do it?
Richard
