Void Linux - continuing our install and setup

Video 2 in my series covering installing void linux from base to full working desktop. this video covers installing X programs, a browser, and downloading and installing dwm with st including compiling and running.

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[incognitohacks]

As someone that started using void a few months ago I'm so glad there is another voidlinux user

[ifgjwhc]

the xorg meta package is massive, I recommend xbps-install -Sy xorg-minimal xorg-fonts xrdb

[alexal]

It is time to explore void linux, let's get it started.
-- long time arch user

[andbenn]

If you go further in the future with adding patches to dwm and st, git clone the repos from suckless. Might also be faster than downloading a tarball and unpacking it. Looking forward to this series.

[constantleon]

Hi, I dont normally comment in Youtube, but just sharing this incase it's helpful. I had the same user issues after a new install, I wish I'd found your video first. I only had root and didnt have anything but the base system installed.

Here's how I solved it, logged in as root
> useradd -D user1 (I had hoped that'd add me to the default groups - but it didnt)
> passwd -d user1 (removed the password the user had and set it as passwordless)
> usermod -a -g WHEEL user1 (appends user1 to the WHEEL group)
> su - user1 (allows you to change from root to user 1 in the same terminal window)

From there, because I'd dropped the user1 password earlier, it auto prompted me to create and confirm a new user1 password. I gave it a reboot cause why not. and it worked.

I consider myself barely past the beginner linux stage so this took a long time (over an hour) to piece it together reading various void docs and stuff from linux in general. Don't know if the above method is better or worse than the way you solved it, just providing options. Hope it helps someone.

[Bruces-Eclectic-World]

Awesome, not disappointed at all... I have ST, alacrity but at the end of the day I use Tilix for my terminal... Lol
I'm good no matter which way you go...🤪

LLAP 🖖

[HDGamer]

nice videos, wanted to see someone making some void content, very nice distro. (i use void btw)

[compujohn]

The best way to hear God laugh... tell him your plans. ;)

[alooy]

It will be interesting and a learning experience for me to setup a full suckless environment. Every time I try dwm something goes wrong or just doesn't work.

[sthSon]

one thing i don't understand for now is ... why not install dwm and st from the repos ? where is the difference ?

[ScoldAudits]

Hey, so I'm following along in virt-manager and we're actually running dwm...startx usr/local/bin/dwm, and it fires up, but I have no kb input after that. I've tried meta+shft+enter, cntrl+alt+t, ctrl+alt+enter...several others. Nothing seems to actually open a terminal? It obviously worked in tty? Not sure where to go from here? Any ideas?

SOLUTION -- The "mod" key defaults to "Alt" instead of "Win". Simple mistake.

[kekkek]

I really love void but I miss programs like figma, slack, zoom, google chrome. I am a frontend developer myself so I miss its standard set of programs in the repositories. My daily os its EndeavourOS

[ABDALLAH_AHMED]

why firefox take a while to open on void linux
I tried to reinstall void but the problem is still it appears only with void although my pc is powerful and i am confused

[imbruxo]

hey jake can you please teach how to make pipewire work in void linux ?? - that's so crazy after last news ( void linux)

[notFudl]

let's go for a complete suckless build

[coptan]

How to setup the sound to get it working fine?

[bstar]

I'm sure you know this but "which dwm" would have told you exactly where it's installed.

[greenchilaquiles]

Do you know anything about pipewire in a minimal void install with dwm?

[wyfyj]

*gasp* You aren't install Qutebrowser in your VM?!

[DMBoyCloud]

One thing I find not very practical is that almost all tutorial when it comes to Xorg the user install the complete Xorg package that includes components that no one is going to use specially in a virtual environment.