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gardenair n00b
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Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2024 5:39 pm Post subject: [Solved] Need to instakll Xfce. |
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hi,
In my Oracle Virtualbox, I am using Gentoo Linux amd64/23.0/desktop/systemd (stable) with Gentoo Linux 6.6.35 and 6.6.32 -gentoo-dist.
I normally boot from 6.6.32 -gentoo-dist . My question is what are the key steps to install Xfce? I want to use a keyboard mouse, and sound volume and when I mount USB it may show on the desktop as well in my Guest Gentoo Linux.
Well, you can view my "emerge--info " output at https://bpa.st/IWLQ and "/etc/portage/make.conf " output at https://bpa.st/3ITA Any change you think to add or remove in my "/etc/portage/make.conf " guide me.
Please guide me on what key steps I may take.
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:51 am Post subject: |
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You have already selected a desktop profile and this should enable the minimum use flags for a graphical environment.
To install xfce you can start by looking at the related gentoo wiki page.
An other interesting wiki page is gentoo as guest on virtualbox. _________________ Questions are guaranteed in life; Answers aren't. |
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Hi
I found that installing as described in the documentation worked fine, except that I had to disable the pre-compiled binary for libxfce4ui, and force it to build from source. That's because the binary requires Wayland support, but says it doesn't. There's a bug open for this, as I recall.
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--usepkg-exclude 'xfce4-base/libxfce4ui'"
If you want USB drives to auto-mount, you'll need `gvfs` or something similar, in addition to whatever configuration VirtualBox needs to show the USB to the guest OS. There's some stuff in the Thunar documentation[1] about having Thunar being able to mount/unmount drives dynamically.
If you're using Pulse, there's a Pulse applet for Xfce that should take care of volume controls. I don't use Pulse, so I don't know how well it works. I just map the keys manually to `alsactl` commands. I guess you could do the same with `pactl` if the applet doesn't work.
In general, I find that Xfce4 works pretty well in Gentoo, but it needed a lot more tweaking than it does on Ubuntu. But the Ubuntu install includes a heap of Gnome stuff, which I'm excluding in Ubuntu, so I expected the extra work.
BR, Lars.
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gardenair n00b
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Well, I have removed USE flags from /etc/portage/make.conf as I was already using systemd desktop profile. I apply Code: | root #emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse @world
| When I apply the command Code: | root #emerge --ask xfce-base/xfce4-meta |
after few mints the system does't respond. There is no resources issue.
A screenshot is here https://ibb.co/RcZmHSP
I boot my system by 6.6.32 -gentoo-dist. In my opinion there may be a a kernel issue (May be i am wrong) What you suggest me ? How may I fix the problem. |
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 6:43 am Post subject: |
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I'm afraid I don't know why this happens -- it will need somebody with more expertise than me to figure that out, I think. I find that Gentoo on VirtualBox just hangs sometimes, and it's nearly always while I'm compiling a big package. Sometimes I have to take two or more tries, to get these packages to build.
I've tolerated this because I don't really expect to use VirtualBox in the long term -- I used it to experiment before setting up real hardware. |
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gardenair n00b
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks all for your replies. Well, I increased the amount of RAM in my VM and eventually, I was able to install Xfce. ![Smile :)](images/smiles/icon_smile.gif) |
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