Another day with Archlinux

Gnome3 on Archlinux

I have been hearing all the excitement about gnome3 and wanted to give it a try. I could have installed it right away on my linux machine. But I wanted a reinstall for a lot of reasons. So I began taking backup of important data and installing archlinux again. Few things I needed to ensure before installing gnome was

• Install a video driver if you haven't done already
• Install X window system and dbus

On installing video driver, sound, window system on archlinux read - My life with archlinux Gnome is now installed in 3 easy steps.

1. Install gnome core and applications
# pacman -S gnome
2. Install gnome extra, which is needed for gnome3
# pacman -S gnome-extra
3. Install gnome desktop manager
# pacman -S gdm
4. Modify ~/.xinitrc
Add the following line to your ~/.xinitrc file.
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

You can now start gnome by typing

# startx