We have changed the splash screen to display a newly created logo for Carli. We are keeping the new splash.png and deleting all the rest.
We would like to provide you the first experience to boot up into a graphical environment.
Carli will get plasma on board
Packages.x86_64
We will decide what we put on our iso via the file packages.x86_64.
RULES
- Every package goes on 1 line.
- “#” before the text will not be interpreted – good for some extra comments
- You can not add packages from AUR (unless you make your own packages and put them in a repository).
Installing Plasma is documented on the Arch Wiki. We just need to know which lego blocks to choose. Check out our cheatsheet as well.
We put the packages we want to have on our system in the file packages.x86_64. We do not have to put packages on the list that will be installed anyway as dependency. But remember that pkgbuilders do change the dependencies over time.
More information about the plasma-meta package is here.
Kde-applications-meta will be installed to have a file manager – dolphin and a terminal – konsole.
Packagekit-qt5 is necessary for the application discover (update applications) to work.
Sddm will be our displaymanager. You do not have to put it in the package list as it will be installed as part of plasma-meta and sddm-kcm as well. We keep it in so you know there will be a display manager present and it will NOT be lightdm this time.
plasma-meta kde-applications-meta packagekit-qt5 sddm
customize_airootfs.sh – boot graphical
We change the following lines to /airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh.
This time we want Arch Linux aka Carli to boot up in a graphical environment. So we change this
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
into
systemctl set-default graphical.target
Since we decided to use sddm as our display manager we need to activate its service with
systemctl enable sddm.service
autologin for sddm
We follow the advice of the Arch Wiki and create a folder and file.
We become root via thunar – open as root and create a folder in /airootfs/etc/. Only needed if you have already build a Carli iso. The build scripts changes the permissions to root. That is a must.
Create the folder sddm.conf.d
Inside that folder create a file with the name autologin.conf and this content:
[Autologin] Relogin=false User=liveuser Session=plasma [Theme] Current=breeze
We have given our user the name liveuser (just like on ArcoLinux). And he/she can autologin into sddm. We have choosen a better theme called Breeze to able to logout and login if we wanted.
But now it is time to create such a user as well.
customize_airootfs.sh – create user
We add the following lines to /airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh.
We want to add a user to the Arch Linux system so we visit the Arch Wiki page.
useradd -m -g users -G adm,audio,disk,floppy,log,network,optical,rfkill,storage,video,wheel,sys -s /bin/bash liveuser
We want to clear the password for our liveuser. Password is now empty. I f we want to logout and log in we do not have to type a password. We just keep it blank.
passwd -d liveuser
PLASMA – 2000 mB
play with the lego blocks
Choose the desktop you like – use the cheatsheet
#Carli
#Desktop plasma
#plasma-meta
#kde-applications-meta
#packagekit-qt5
sddm
sddm-kcm
#Desktop xfce
#xfce4
#xfce4-goodies
#Desktop cinnamon
cinnamon
nemo-fileroller
cinnamon-translations
xfce4 – 904 mB
cinnamon – 976 mB
