alpine-wiki/tutorials/alpine-tutorial-desktop-xfce4-fast-forward.md

Alpine XFCE4 desktop setup: FF version

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Alpine must be previously installed. For a WAYLAND crap desktop check alpine-tutorial-desktop-wayland-try.md. For more extended verson of this document check ../../newbie/alpine-newbie-xfce-desktop.md

• How to use this guide
• Preparation
  • setup OS configuration
  • setup system users
  • setup hardware support
  • setup audio and video
• Instalacion XFCE4 Alpine
  • Desktop multimedia and media devices
  • Development
• Licensing clarifications
• See also

preparation Xfce4 Alpine

YOU MUST HAVE DIRECT WIRED INTERNET, if not ask for an ISO from VenenuX: https://t.me/alpine_linux/762

setup OS configuration

Feels lost here? check How to use this guide section of this document

sed -i -r 's|#PermitRootLogin.*|PermitRootLogin no|g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

rc-service sshd restart;rc-update add sshd default

hostname venenux-desktop
echo 'hostname="venenux-desktop"' > /etc/conf.d/hostname 
echo "venenux-desktop" > /etc/hostname

cat > /etc/hosts << EOF
127.0.0.1 venenux-desktop localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain
EOF

cat > /etc/network/interfaces << EOF
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface eth0 inet6 dhcp
    pre-up echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/accept_ra
EOF

rc-service networking restart;rc-update add networking boot

cat > /root/.cshrc << EOF
unsetenv DISPLAY || true
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
EOF

cp /root/.cshrc  /root/.bashrc

 echo "root:toor" | chpasswd

apk add tcsh

add-shell '/bin/csh'

adduser -D -g "" -u 998 -h /opt/daru -s /bin/csh daru

 echo "daru:daru" | chpasswd

rm -f /opt/daru/*
mkdir /opt/daru
cat > /opt/daru/.cshrc << EOF
unsetenv DISPLAY
export PAGER=less
set autologout = 6
set prompt = "$ "
set history = 0
set ignoreeof
EOF
cp /opt/daru/.cshrc /opt/daru/.bashrc
chown -R daru:daru /opt/daru

cat > /etc/apk/repositories << EOF
http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v$(cat /etc/alpine-release | cut -d'.' -f1,2)/main
http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v$(cat /etc/alpine-release | cut -d'.' -f1,2)/community
EOF

apk update

apk add man-db man-pages nano binutils coreutils readline \
 sed attr dialog lsof less groff wget curl terminus-font \
 zip p7zip xz tar cabextract cpio binutils lha acpi musl-locales musl-locales-lang \
 e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-doc btrfs-progs btrfs-progs-doc exfat-utils exfat-utils-doc \
 f2fs-tools f2fs-tools-doc dosfstools dosfstools-doc xfsprogs xfsprogs-doc jfsutils jfsutils-doc \
 testdisk testdisk-doc partimage partimage-doc parted parted-doc util-linux zram-init

sed -i "s#.*consolefont.*=.*#consolefont="ter-132n.psf.gz"#g" /etc/conf.d/consolefont
setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-132n.psf.gz

rc-update add consolefont boot

For more extended info check ../../newbie/alpine-newbie-xfce-desktop.md

setup system users

apk add shadow shadow-uidmap doas musl-locales musl-locales-lang

cat > /tmp/tmp.tmp << EOF
set history = 10000
set prompt = "$ "
EOF

mkdir /etc/skel
cat /tmp/tmp.tmp > /etc/skel/.cshrc
cat /tmp/tmp.tmp > /etc/skel/.bashrc

cat > /etc/skel/.Xresources << EOF
Xft.antialias: 0
Xft.rgba:      rgb
Xft.autohint:  0
Xft.hinting:   1
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
EOF

cat > /etc/default/useradd << EOF
# useradd defaults file
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SKEL=/etc/skel
CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL=yes
EOF

cat > /etc/login.defs << EOF
USERGROUPS_ENAB yes
SYSLOG_SU_ENAB		yes
SYSLOG_SG_ENAB		yes
SULOG_FILE	/var/log/sulog
SU_NAME		su
EOF

useradd -m -U -c "" -G wheel,input,disk,floppy,cdrom,dialout,audio,video,lp,netdev,games,users,ping general

for u in $(ls /home); do for g in disk lp floppy audio cdrom dialout video lp netdev games users ping; do addgroup $u $g; done;done

Warning

your user name must be general, you can put a "human name" as you wish, later.

For more details check ../../newbie/alpine-newbie-xfce-desktop.md

setup hardware support

apk add acpi eudev eudev-doc eudev-rule-generator eudev-openrc pciutils util-linux zram-init \
 fuse fuse-exfat-utils fuse-exfat avfs pcre2 cpufreqd bluez bluez-openrc \
 wpa_supplicant dhcpcd chrony macchanger wireless-tools iputils linux-firmware \
 networkmanager networkmanager-lang networkmanager-openvpn networkmanager-openvpn-lang

rc-update add udev
rc-update add acpid
rc-update add cpufreqd
rc-update add fuse
rc-update add bluetooth
rc-update add chrony
rc-update add wpa_supplicant
rc-update add networkmanager

rc-service networking restart

rc-service wpa_supplicant restart

rc-service bluetooth restart

rc-service udev restart 

rc-service fuse restart

rc-service cpufreqd restart

For more details check ../../newbie/alpine-newbie-xfce-desktop.md

setup audio and video

apk add xorg-server xorg-server-xnest xorg-server-xnest xorg-server-doc  xf86-input-evdev libxinerama xrandr kbd setxkbmap \
 mesa xinit mesa-dri-gallium xf86-video-dummy xf86-video-modesetting xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-libinput

apk add libxinerama xrandr kbd setxkbmap bluez bluez-openrc \
 dbus dbus-x11 elogind elogind-openrc lightdm lightdm-lang lightdm-gtk-greeter \
 polkit polkit-openrc polkit-elogind udisks2 udisks2-lang \
 gvfs gvfs-fuse gvfs-archive gvfs-dav gvfs-nfs gvfs-lang \
 networkmanager-elogind

dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

rc-update add dbus
rc-update add elogind
rc-update add polkit
rc-update add lightdm

apk add font-noto-all ttf-dejavu ttf-linux-libertine ttf-liberation \
 font-bitstream-type1 font-bitstream-100dpi font-bitstream-75dpi \
 font-adobe-utopia-type1 font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-adobe-utopia-100dpi \
 font-isas-misc

apk add alsa-utils alsa-plugins alsa-tools alsaconf \
 pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-spa-bluez

cat > /etc/security/limits.d/audio-limits.conf << EOF
@audio - memlock 256
@audio - nice -11
@audio - rtprio 88
EOF

rc-service dbus restart

rc-service elogind restart

rc-service polkit restart

rc-service lightdm restart

Warning

your user name must be general, you can put a "human name" as you wish, later.

Note

check for some xf86-video packages like xf86-video-intel, xf86-video-amdgpu, xf86-video-noveau, xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-nv

instalacion Xfce4 Alpine

Since Alpine 3.13 the XFCE4 desktop its GTK3 for 32bit devices its better to use alpine 3.10 or 3.12 that uses GTK2 for almost all the programs.

apk add gtk-update-icon-cache hicolor-icon-theme paper-gtk-theme adwaita-icon-theme

apk add numix-icon-theme numix-themes numix-themes-gtk2 numix-themes-gtk3 numix-themes-metacity numix-themes-openbox numix-themes-xfce4-notifyd numix-themes-xfwm4

apk add xfce4 xfce4-session xfce4-panel xfce4-terminal xarchiver mousepad \
 xfwm4-themes xfce-polkit xfce4-skel xfce4-power-manager xfce4-settings \
 xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-xkb-plugin xfce4-screensaver xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-taskmanager \
 xfce4-panel-lang xfce4-clipman-plugin-lang xfce4-xkb-plugin-lang xfce4-screenshooter-lang \
 xfce4-taskmanager-lang xfce4-battery-plugin-lang xfce4-power-manager-lang xfce4-settings-lang \
 gvfs gvfs-fuse gvfs-archive gvfs-afp gvfs-afp gvfs-afc gvfs-cdda gvfs-gphoto2 gvfs-mtp \
 network-manager-applet network-manager-applet-lang vte3 \
 libreoffice libreoffice-gnome evince evince-lang evince-doc

rc-service networking restart

rc-service wpa_supplicant restart

rc-service networkmanager restart

rc-service lightdm restart

desktop integration and device media

apk add xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr xdg-desktop-portal-lang xdg-desktop-portal-gtk xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-lang

Desktop multimedia and media devices

apk add gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-good-gtk \
 libcanberra-gtk2 libcanberra-gtk3 libcanberra-gstreamer wxgtk-media wxgtk3-media wxgtk-lang \
 mediainfo ffmpeg ffmpeg-doc ffmpeg-libs lame lame-doc rtkit rtkit-doc \
 mpv mpv-doc deadbeef deadbeef-lang libxinerama xrandr 

for u in $(ls /home); do for g in plugdev audio cdrom dialout video netdev; do addgroup $u $g; done;done

cat > /etc/network/interfaces << EOF
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
EOF

service networking restart

service wpa_supplicant restart

service networkmanager restart

development

apk add pkgconf make cmake gcc gcc-gdc gcc-go g++ gcc-objc gcc-doc \
 patch patch-doc patchutils patchutils-doc diffutils diffutils-doc \
 git git-cvs git-svn github-cli git-diff-highlight git-doc \
 subversion subversion-doc mercurial mercurial-doc \
 geany geany-plugins-lang geany-plugins-addons geany-plugins-geanyextrasel \
 geany-plugins-overview geany-plugins-geanyvc geany-plugins-treebrowser \
 geany-plugins-tableconvert geany-plugins-spellcheck geany-plugins-shiftcolumn \
 geany-plugins-utils geany-lang \
 terminator terminator-lang tmux screen meld meld-lang

How to use this guide

This guide structure all the commands in blocks, each block its separated by a line spaced, so you must type each line as is.. and hit enter, so you noted that then you typed each separated clocks of commands, copy/type only blocks separated by an empty line, all new(next) lines are made by just enter. the terminal will detect if must execute or not.

If you have another computer or gui, try to use SSH client like putty or just in terminal (MAC or Linux) do:

1. at the Alpine installation: sed -i 's|.*PermitRootLogin.*|PermitRootLogin yes|g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config;service sshd restart
2. at the other OS just connect: ssh -l root <ip> change "<ip>" with the address of your device.
3. copy each separated by empty line, block of command, copy only blocks separate by empty line
4. and paste each separated by empty line block in the remnote (ssh), do not paste all the blocks at same time!

Warning

Some Linux or/and Mac terminals have security cut/paste locks, so if you paste, the first line will be preceded by garbage, check always the first char of your paste.

Warning

after finish, rerun: sed -i -r 's|.*PermitRootLogin.*|PermitRootLogin no|g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart ssh service sshd restart becouse security implications.

hardware used

item	minimal feature	Extra recommendations
RAM MB	1Gb DDR1	6Gb DDR3, web browsers consumes so much
CPU	intel Dual Core	Not necesary
RAM CPU	2Mb (L2) 4kb/L1
GPU	intel G41	Radeon X1200 For web browsers and modern apps will be need
RAM GPU	256Mb	1Gb For web browsers and modern apps will be need
Storage	120Gb HDD WD	256Gb SSD are mandatory for speed
ARCH	32bits (i386/arm6)	64bits (amd64) mandatory for most modern apps unfortunatelly
Audio	AC 97	HD audio and HDMI audio are a mess

usernames

item	name	password
remote	daru	daru
admin	root	toor
user	general	general

Licensing clarifications

CC BY-NC-SA: the project allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creators involved. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms, includes the following elements:

• BY – Credit must be given to the creator of each content respectivelly, starting at the first contributor.
• NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted, with exceptions if you fill an issue here!
• SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms, you must obey this terms and do not change it.

https://codeberg.org/alpine/alpine-wiki/src/branch/main#license

See also

• README.md
• alpine-newbie-install.md
• alpine-tutorial-desktop-wayland-try.md