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Lumina Desktop
Lumina is a lightweight desktop environment, free of D-Bus and *kit, designed to have as few system dependencies and requirements as possible. Check this Wikipedia article, and the official handbook.
Installation
Prebuilt package
dont forget to update you system before you proceed
To install Lumina desktop, run:
pacman -S lumina lumina-extra
This packages groups lumina includes both lumina-core and lumina-core-utils, and lumina-extra includes own implementations: archiver, fileinfo, fm, mediaplayer, photo, screenshot, textedit, respectively
Configuration
A configuration file is installed in /etc/luminaDesktop.conf . Lumina also has a bunch of own configuration tools.
Invocation
Lumina provides its own replacement for startx to be started from console.
start-lumina-desktop
Alternatively it can be added to the ~./xinitrc file for being started via startx or a display manager
Make sure to read this article, for more information on managing startx on Arch GNU/Linux (the information applies to Hyperbola, as well). But relevant commands are bellow:
[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources exec start-lumina-desktop
External resources
- Moore, Ken (26 April 2014). "Quick Lumina Desktop FAQ".
- Lumina source code.