Desktop-notes

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Revision as of 09:02, 27 September 2017 by Clandmeter (talk | contribs)

These are my personal xfce4 desktop notes.

  1. Do a minimal Alpine install
  2. Enable community repo in repositories
  3. setup-xorg-base
  4. apk add xfce4
  5. apk add chromium
  6. apk add slim
  7. apk add paper-icon-theme paper-gtk-theme
  8. apk add font-noto
  9. apk add xf86-video-intel (for intel video only)
  10. apk add xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev
  11. add local user and add to sudo list
  12. Add /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-intel.conf to have tear free scrolling:
 Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "TearFree"    "true"
 EndSection
 
  1. reboot system
  2. rc-service start slim
  3. verify xorg starts correctly and you can login to slim
  4. rc-update add slim