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sigboe edited this page Nov 14, 2017 · 1 revision

Install Gnome

Start by installing the packages. As root or use sudo in front of the command.

pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

The gnome-extra group is optional but do contain a sensible list of packages that complete the gnome experience. Including an archive manager, disk manager, text editor, and a set of games.

To enable GDM automatially after boot (GDM is included in the gnome group)

systemctl enable gdm

After that you could reboot or just start it like this

systemctl start gdm

Now you will find that the screen is rotated unlike the terminal. Right clicking on the desktop and clicking Display Settings should get you to where you can fix this, but at the time of writing this isn't working. So what I did was to edit the file ~/.config/monitors.xml In the section transformation you want it to be rotated right. Like the following excerpt

...
      <transform>
        <rotation>right</rotation>
        <flipped>no</flipped>
      </transform>
...

And another problem is that when you touch the screen the screen keyboard pops up. Supposedly Gnome is able to detect if you have a USB keyboard, but this still happens. As a workaround we alter the contents of layouts of the screen keyboard so we cant even see it.

First backup the current files

sudo cp -r /usr/share/caribou/layouts /usr/share/caribou/layouts-backup

Make the contents of all the xml file as described below. You can do that by using this command

curl -L https://git.io/vFEYT | sudo tee `ls -r /usr/share/caribou/layouts/*/*.xml`

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</layout>

Now you may want access to AUR

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