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Re: i3 and CLI Questions
Back to i3 though, how would I partition LinuxBBQ Elixir to my harddrive if I am running a live USB version of it?
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I need to know your actual geometries (of your hard drive/s), so please:
- open a terminal
- enter these commands and post the output here, between [ code ] and [ /code ] tags:
If you are in #!, you can use gparted (in the "System" menu point) and take a screenshot of the disk layout. You can upload the file here, when you click on "Full Editor" under the answer field, then "Choose File", then "Add the File" after selecting it.
- open a terminal
- enter these commands and post the output here, between [ code ] and [ /code ] tags:
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sudo parted -l
sudo blkid -o list
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As a side note, you can try LinuxBBQ Gangbang and test drive a ton of WMs without installing anything from CD or USB.
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I am not at home right now but I will be later tonight. But if geometries are how mine are patitioned I have it 40gb for / (ext4), 10gb for swap, and 850gb for /home (ext4)
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good lord, there's a bunch of space :D
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Ok Bacon, as of right now I have Sidbang installed on my pc but with no GUI yet. but here are the partition results:
sudo parted -l
sudo blkid -o list
sudo parted -l
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Model: ATA ST1000DM003-9YN1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kb 43.0GB 42.9GB primary ext4
2 43.0GB 53.7GB 10.7GB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 53.7GB 1000GB 947GB primary ext4
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device fs_type label mount point UUID
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/dev/sda2 swap <swap> cff
ca6d5-48a1-403a-a555-6b2a6a943cf8
/dev/sda1 ext4 / 214
bf8c1-64db-418b-a463-668ccce64ead
/dev/sda3 ext4 /home 1b2
76396-5e24-449e-be45-da3d43ed254c
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Ah you already have a BBQ installation, nice. Well this makes stuff much easier!
You want i3? Do the following:
open a terminal and enter:
as next, open an editor and edit the file ~/.xinitrc (it is in your home directory)
for example:
In the last line, replace the term "openbox-session" with "i3"
Save and exit.
Log out from the graphical environment (if you are in there), or type "exit".
The login dialog will come again. Choose :Start Sidbang: there.
Welcome to i3.
You want i3? Do the following:
open a terminal and enter:
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sudo apt-get install i3 i3-wm i3lock i3-status
for example:
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nano ~/.xinitrc
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exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session i3
Log out from the graphical environment (if you are in there), or type "exit".
The login dialog will come again. Choose :Start Sidbang: there.
Welcome to i3.
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(Addendum to above: you have a pretty large hard drive with 1TB, and gave the /home directory more than enough space. You might consider resizing it, so it will be easier in the future if you want to distro-hop, or have music/porn/videos/documents/... in separate partitions. Also, the swap space is huge - no matter what PC you have, but anything >2GB is already too much, IMO. Lastly, we should tune the reserved blocks for root - right now, mathematically, you have around 100GB (10% of your drive capacity) reserved for this -- it is a kind of fallback area for 'root' and missing for normal use. In comparison, mine is around 80MB large :) But these are little fine-tuning things we can do later.)
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Sweet I got it! Thank you again for all the help. I am sorry that I have so many noob questions and that I am probably being a pain. I really do appreciate the help.
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No problem, really! :)
As next we make you a little login menu where you can switch between Window Managers. Have to do a little trick for it.
Have fun in i3 - remember Modkey-d (or was it p?) opens a menu, Modkey-Enter opens a terminal (latter you will need often) ;)
As next we make you a little login menu where you can switch between Window Managers. Have to do a little trick for it.
Have fun in i3 - remember Modkey-d (or was it p?) opens a menu, Modkey-Enter opens a terminal (latter you will need often) ;)
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