Installing Xorg And DWM On Gentoo

I made a video last week where I did a base installation of Gentoo inside a virtual machine. Viewers asked me if I could do a video on how to install Xorg and desktop environment or window manager. So...continuing along on the Gentoo journey, I'm going to show you how to install Xorg and Dwm.

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[CyberBoy]

Finally, after a week of living in the terminal I can progress to a window manager!

[crazychicken]

Wow didn’t think this was going to happen. Good thing they also told you about the one mistake you made otherwise you’d be there for another 6 hours

[aqwheavenlehealer]

Hey DT,

I've been a viewer of yours for quite some time now, and being a gentoo user I love seeing you post some gentoo content! Keep it coming, and thank you for all the great content over the years.

[iambrianparks]

DT, the issue preventing you from doing startx before the last reboot is because you logged into the console initially as root, but after the reboot you logged in as dt. One of the things login (the login executable started by getty and clones on the terminal, not login the action) does is set ownership of the virtual console device to the user logging in. So when you log in as root and then su, the console is still owned by root. When you log in directly as dt, the console becomes owned by dt.

[chasecrum]

fantastic way to make something seemingly complicated - simple. thanks!

[TheLinuxCast]

The more I see about Gentoo, the less I feel like I ever want to try it.

[reecescott]

Even better with installing sudo, you can compile it with the 'offensive' USE flag.

[deepakshivraj]

Thank you DT. I wascalso the one among manyvpeople who requested the contunuation video for gentoo. Again Thank you DT.

[alfathmuqoddas]

not planning to use gentoo tho since i don't quite like the "source distro" concept, but in case im changing my mind i can watch this video, nice!

[breadpirateroberts]

You're going on the journey I went on last year. Learn portage and use flags, run updates overnight if you want to save time. Do a custom kernel btw! Using genkernel instead of fine-tuning a lean kernel is sort of missing out on the benefit of gentoo imo. Kernel compile times are actually suprisingly short compared to some packages. Also remember to use the desktop profile, I don't know if you did that or not but I forgot the first time. Good luck 👍

[danielcardin]

This video was so good I'm not even mad about the emacs thing anymore.

[chrismarkgray]

Great video, I wanted to learn Linux and I strait jumped to gentoo. I knew it was way over my head, but I wanted to learn. It took me 2 months to install, but it worked. I used an old Laptop, which I don't need, so why not.
Great input DT :-)

[NotcardNotLive]

if you want a floating window manager, openbox is a good alternative, its lightweight, runs on xorg and is extremely customisable

[JohnLadan]

One thing I learned back when I used gentoo, before using sudo was as standard as it is now: you should almost always run `su -` instead of simply `su` when switching users. That's the same as `su --login`, which clears environment variables and does environment setup like a fresh login as the new user.

Some of the additional commands you had to run post install (dispatch-conf, rc-update) were mentioned in the messages after installing all the packages. `dispatch-conf` is a safety check to make sure new installations don't break old configs -- it shows a diff of the current config, and the new config file.

There are also a lot of tools that make package management easier. E.g. I used to run `equery` to search for packages rather than look up the names in the wiki. It's been a long time, so there are probably newer good tools.

[victorioussnake]

Installed QTile instead of DWM and it's great! Thanks for the tutorials for gentoo. Tried installing myself but I show how must have followed the wrong docs or just did something wrong

[enderger]

Can you do this with NixOS? I’d love to see it more on the channel, given that it’s configuration language takes inspiration from Haskell (being lazy and functional), and the Flakes system allows for the creation of personal repositories using Git.

[davidr]

I was planning on doing exactly this on my laptop a couple weeks ago... but I knew I had to actually get some school work done later that day, so I was forced to go with Arch instead lol

[christenorio]

I dare you to building Gentoo on physical hardware On an secondary partition & use it for a year!

[axlslak]

u could and should increase the number of parallel emerge jobs to at least 2. -j2. emerge -NuvDa -j2 bla bla. while one package downloads or installs, or prepares, another can compile or whatever. saves a lot of time. Also, i cant recommend this enough. mount -t ramfs ramfs /var/tmp/portage. or mount -t tmpfs none /var/tmp/portage -o size 6G. using ram as temporary storage for building not only saves disk usage and tear over time, but also increases installation speed dramatically.

[nobilkwt]

don’t forget, you have something to do
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