maxxDesktop setup on Arch Linux

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00:01hello friends there is a desktop environment that was on SGI's IREX

00:08operating system it is ported into Linux and I found it on the AUR so if we

00:19look for Mac's desktop we can find it as you can see here and it sounds like it is

00:30maintained so let me this is on the terminal you should be on your home

00:41folder you can install this piece of software through the AUR helper or

00:48manually as I'm gonna do it now it's called Mac's desktop so in the using the

00:57AUR helper you should run a command like this and Mac's double X desktop should

01:05install it for you you can do the same with Paroo if you use any other

01:12AUR helper and has a similar syntax to pacman it should be

01:21installed this way otherwise you should know what is the command that you need

01:26to use in order to install this desktop environment

01:42in my case I'm gonna go with the manual way which can be replaced it simply with

01:49that command which is your AUR helper's installation command so I'm gonna clone

01:58the link that I have here I can copy this one and paste like this enter all right

02:10so we change directory into max desktop a directory that has been made during the

02:18cloning of the repository with the same name as the package and then we can make

02:25our package by running make pkg or make package which is it's a short form for it

02:33dash si enter the password here

02:45okay so these ones sound like we need to install them using pacman so should run on

02:57this command should copy them and paste them

03:27this yeah these dependencies not each and every one of them exists on these two

03:48ones it cannot find them so let's try to install the others y and enter let's try

03:56again to make the package okay we are getting closer let's try to install

04:13those pieces of software from the AUR using an AUR helper I believe they are

04:22in order

04:24y-bin.ket

04:29sorry this there is a mistake here it should be arch like this

04:47cd y bin make pkg-si password y and enter all right let's clear clear out the screen

05:10and go back a folder to the parent folder and then try again with the max desktop environment

05:22i made a mistake when i cloned the ur helper into the same directory i mean from within

05:32max desktops made folder all right so let's try now with yay for some of these pieces of

05:42software in case they exist in the ur only

06:02okay so we probably here press y to import these keys

06:22all right password and then y and enter probably we found some of the dependencies that

06:38the application misses in the ur if you followed me you're supposed to succeed with this step

06:50of course here y and enter for the confirmation

06:55throughout the installation you will be asked to input your password make sure you input it

07:05correctly s y and enter here all right

07:09uh if you are confused like me we tried to run not this one but we try to yeah we try to make the

07:25package max desktop uh with from within its directory that was created with its name uh some of the

07:35some of the applications exist in the official repositories of arch linux some others don't since some others don't

07:45they are probably in the ur to make the process faster i uh built uh yay the ur helper in order to install

07:59those dependencies so here is the list of the dependencies that are probably missing not all of them

08:08the ones that are in the ur i uh installed them and now let's try to run make package again to see

08:17what's missing and what's met

08:21all right

08:25all right this is promising it sounds like it found the dependencies which i never experienced it before

08:33i mean i never installed a piece of software from the ur and it said to me that it doesn't find

08:39some of its dependencies or all so i built all the missing dependencies and installed others some are

08:48compiled some others are pre-compiled so i installed them and let's see how it's gonna be here probably

08:59the last time i input my password for this installation and then confirm with y and enter here

09:07okay i'm gonna switch to this desktop environment which i uh installed i wish it works uh in i'm gonna

09:26use uh gdm which you can install by running the command uh sudo pacman dash s gdm you can you can

09:37install sddm whichever you like run in this command so for gdm it should be like this and for sddm should

09:46be like this uh the next thing after you install that uh desktop manager you run the command sudo system

09:58ctl enable now sddm if you install it sddm and gdm if it is gdm of course uh i'm assuming you don't have

10:13any desktop manager nor anything of display like a window manager or a desktop environment i have a gdm

10:22installed and the service enabled i can prove that i have gdm server server service running and enabled

10:30by running the status command here

10:35and you can see that it's working uh in your case you may be doing all of this on your newly installed

10:43arch linux which is without any of this if you have uh if you have it like that you can choose one of

10:54these two ones to choose whichever desktop environment you want you can use a xenet rc which i still don't

11:02know how i will look for the commands probably otherwise this may be the one of the ways to do it

11:10there isn't only gdm and sddm there is also lightdm and so on you can choose whichever you like lightdm

11:17i didn't mention it because it has an extra package that needs to be installed which is the greeter

11:25i'm gonna stop the recording you will not notice it since i'm gonna do some video editing and stick the

11:32two videos that are made the one before the installation and the one after the installation and

11:38start in the desktop environment and you're gonna know whether this worked or not

11:45as you can probably see the max interactive desktop works and it sounds like it works without problems so

11:55far i am fascinated by it looks so cool let's try to see what's the web browser if we can say here

12:06the animation is cool for example this is my screen recording software i can minimize it like this the

12:16terminal i can minimize it like this i can open it back like this it's a little similar to next steps

12:24desktop environment which is window maker okay so i tried to open that thing didn't want to open i don't

12:34know why let's try to see something else external yeah here it is which looks so cool it's different that

12:43blue background i do like it so much i had to use it in open in order to open vocal screen the screen

12:51recording software that i have i checked the official documentation of max interactive desktop and i thought

13:07that it may not be uh sufficient enough and full enough if this tutorial misses some of these steps that

13:19i'm gonna show you now so please apply them if you don't mind we go to uh dot max desktop and then desktop and

13:33okay and then we says that it should have something like this but as you can see this file doesn't exist on my

13:51system so let's make it with the configuration that's mentioned here

14:03okay the documentation says that uh this we should add this this last part starting from this column

14:26because it says that you're supposed to have it the default one without it you add it yourself

14:35so please make sure that you have this in case this file exists in your uh installation make sure you have

14:47this line exactly the same as this i will link to the official installation in the description so you can

14:56make sure that you have applied these steps i guess that's it for this video please don't forget

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