i3 and CLI Questions

[elixir]

Back to i3 though, how would I partition LinuxBBQ Elixir to my harddrive if I am running a live USB version of it?

[machinebacon]

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:

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sudo parted -l
sudo blkid -o list

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.

[ivanovnegro]

As a side note, you can try LinuxBBQ Gangbang and test drive a ton of WMs without installing anything from CD or USB.

[elixir]

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)

[machinebacon]

good lord, there's a bunch of space :D

Okay, waiting your message, no hurry :)

[elixir]

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

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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

sudo blkid -o list

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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

[machinebacon]

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:

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sudo apt-get install i3 i3-wm i3lock i3-status

as next, open an editor and edit the file ~/.xinitrc (it is in your home directory)

for example:

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nano ~/.xinitrc

In the last line, replace the term "openbox-session" with "i3"

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exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session 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.

[machinebacon]

(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.)

[elixir]

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.

[machinebacon]

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) ;)