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Revision as of 12:45, 7 October 2015
Contents
Initial setup
Start by booting up Alpine (see these instructions on how to do that)
When Alpine is up and running, do the initial setup.
setup-alpine
Install packages
Run the setup-xorg-base script to install the xorg base packages and to replace mdev with udev. We can also install xfce4 and the alpine-desktop selected packages while here.
This might take a few minutes depending on your network speed.
setup-xorg-base
apk add alpine-desktop xfce4
Here's another example including some more icon themes, volume manager for thunar and slim (as a replacement for lxde):
setup-xorg-base
apk add alpine-desktop xfce4 thunar-volman faenza-icon-theme slim
Video and Input packages
You will most likely want to install a package suitable for your video chipset and input devices.
For example, if you have an Sis video chipset install 'xf86-video-sis', for Intel video chipset install 'xf86-video-intel'.
apk add xf86-video-sis
and / or
apk add xf86-input-synaptics
To see available video driver packages run:
apk search xf86-video
Use xf86-video-modesetting for qemu/kvm guests. Use xf86-video-vmware for Virtualbox/VMware guests. Use xf86-video-geode for Alix1D.
To search for xf86-input driver packages run:
apk search xf86-input
As good choice for the start is:
apk add xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard
Configure xorg-server (optional)
On most systems, xorg should be able to autodetect all devices. However you can still configure xorg-server by hand by launching:
Xorg -configure
This will result in `/root/xorg.conf.new`. You can modify this file to fit your needs.
(When finished modifying and testing the above configuration file, move it to `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` for normal usage.)
Keyboard Layout
If you use a layout different than "us", you need to:
apk add setxkbmap setxkbmap <%a language layout from /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst%>
In order to make it persistent add this section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Keyboard Default" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" Option "XkbLayout" "<%a language layout from /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst%>" EndSection
Another way to change the keymap when logging into X is to use ~/.xinitrc. The following example loads a British keymap, simply add this line to the beginning of the file:
setxkbmap gb &
Note that you will need the "setxkbmap" package for this to work!
In addition you if you need to create the ~/.xinitrc file, add a second line like exec startxfce4
Create user accounts
Create a normal user account.
adduser -g 'Natanael Copa' ncopa
Optionally, give that user sudo permissions in /etc/sudoers. When doing so, it is important to use the command:
visudo
This ensures that only one user is changing the file at any given time. Visudo has two modes: Command mode and Insert mode. To edit the file, use the arrows to navigate to the appropriate line and enter Insert mode by pressing the 'i' key. To save and exit, enter Command mode by pressing the 'Esc' key, then ':w' + 'enter' to save, and finally ':q' + 'enter' to quit.
Start your desktop
Start lxdm and log in with your new user.
rc-service lxdm start
Once you have verified that it actually works you can make lxdm start up at boot:
rc-update add lxdm
Troubleshooting
If you are unable to login, check /var/log/lxdm.log, there may be output there from X to indicate failed modules, etc.
If your mouse / keyboard is not responding, try to install xf86-input-evdev (that will appeared in lxdm.log if you lack it).
If you Xorg server segfaults in kvm/qemu then add nomodeset as a boot option when booting up.
If you are unable to login, or you see an error "Failed to execute login command", you should check ~/.xinitrc (if you're using .xinitrc) with your preferred text editor (vi, nano, etc) and ensure that it is set to boot into xfce. To do this, the 'exec' line (usually the last line in the file) should read "exec startxfce4". If ~/.xinitrc does not exist, create it and add the exec line. this command will do it:
touch ~/.xinitrc && echo "exec startxfce4" >> ~/.xinitrc