2012-07-02

Complaints about desktop environments on Arch Linux

GNOME
Though I installed gnome in accordance with official wiki on Arch, GDM did not started properly. I could not find a solution.

MATE
It took long time to load components after log-in. I cound not find a solution.

KDE
It worked well. But it is very feature-rich to me.

XFCE
It worked well. WFWM has the ability to tile a window automatically when it is moved to the edge of the screen by resizing it to fill the top half of the screen. This was annoying to me. But finally I got a solution from XFCE wiki on Arch website.

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  1. Today, I reinstalled Arch Linux on my pc. I selected XFCE. But it does not work well. When I click logout menu, XFCE hangs. I don't know why. This problem did not exist a few days ago.

    Please refer, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1124141

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    1. I've got the threads of the above url were updated. Maybe there is a solution.

      https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1124549#p1124549
      https://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required-1/
      https://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required/
      https://www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-manual-intervention-required/

      After clean reinstall, I had a few trial-and-errors. Finally, I got my solution. I did the followings when I was in the system update step after clean install.

      # mv /etc/profile.d/locale.sh /etc/profile.d/locale.sh.bak
      # pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem
      # cp /etc/mtab /etc/mtab.bak
      # mv /var/run /var/run.bak
      # mv /var/lock /var/lock.bak
      # pacman -Syu
      # reboot

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    2. Oh, I missed option '--force' in the command 'pacman -Syu'.
      Run 'pacman -Syuf' instead of 'pacman -Syu'

      So modified whole commands are the followings.

      # mv /etc/profile.d/locale.sh /etc/profile.d/locale.sh.bak
      # pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem
      # cp /etc/mtab /etc/mtab.bak
      # mv /var/run /var/run.bak
      # mv /var/lock /var/lock.bak
      # pacman -Syuf
      # reboot

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    3. After I did the above upgrade method, MATE worked well. I guess GNOME will work well, too.

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