This will install KDE in all it's glory with tons of bloat. sddm is the default login/session manager for KDE. The two font packages make the font's pretty. Skip this if you don't use NetworkManager. Installing Plasma and KDE: pacman -S sddm plasma kde-applications plasma-nm ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation sddm The Plasma shell which is in fact the Desktop, the KDE applications and a graphical login/session manager. In this part three major components are installed. Before committing to a desktop, maybe check out some alternatives. KDE is a bloated monster but it works great for me. Which desktop you use is entirely up to YOU. If it all works, logout from these shells and your X session will end. An (ugly) desktop with one or more shell windows should appear. Pick and choose what's appropriate for your environment. Laptops usually need a package called synaptics to enable the touch pad: pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics synaptics
ARCH LINUX KDE DRIVER
If you prefer open drivers, try to stick with Intel and open source driver supported ATI cards. Sadly I ran into many issues with that driver. The nouveau driver is an open source alternative to the native nvidia binary drivers. Native NVIDIA support can easily be achieved using: echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/nf Installing Xorg and the Intel display driver: pacman -S xf86-video-intel xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xterm xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi autorandr
Virtually all Linux distributions use it as the basis of their graphical environment. Beyond that it handles the cursor, display drivers, the keyboard, etc. It's a very powerful framework allowing developers to build desktops on top of it. Linux on the other hand uses Xorg to render it's windows, etc. Systems like Windows and MacOS have their graphical libraries baked into them. So if you prefer to work off the offical documentation, start with Xorg and get that going first. A common mistake is to install KDE or another desktop/windowmanager but not Xorg. Time to add some graphics to the mix.Įverything here is based on the official Arch Linux documentation on Xorg and KDE. Part 2 deals with the addition of tools and adding some useful configuration. Part 1 gets you through the base installation on an UEFI system. This is the last article in a three part series about installing Arch Linux. Luckily, installing these features isn't difficult. Part of why Arch Linux is so scary to beginners is it's lack of a graphical environment out of the box.
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