![]() ![]() They are referring to the fact that they have a display server installed on their computer that uses the X11 protocol. Often times, users may say they have X11 on their computer. SurfaceFlinger( used by Android’s SurfaceFlinger display server).There are different sets of display server protocols and different display servers that implement a specific protocol. They just manage the interface, libraries, toolkits, and as you can see, they communicate directly with the kernel.Ĭheck a list of available display servers here: Display Server List – Wikipedia. But don’t get confused, the display server does not draw anything. For instance, display servers manage the mouse and help match the mouse movements with the cursor and GUI events caused by the cursor. In other words, the display server controls and manages the low-level features to help integrate the parts of the GUI. The display server communicates with its clients over the display server protocol, a communications protocol, which can be network transparent or simply network capable Display Server. You should also be able to distinguish notions of the Linux GUI such as:Īnd I believe this not because you are about to write some exam on Linx GUI the next day, but because I truly believe that “knowledge is power”! And with this power your own killer customized Arch Linux system! Below is high level abstraction of the Linux GUI stack.Ī display server or window server is a program whose primary task is to coordinate the input and output of its clients to and from the rest of the operating system, the hardware, and each other. Only years later, when I started exploring Linux, these words started to make some sense to me! Thus I believe, if you are not “just and Ubuntu” user – as I once was – should be able to – or ought to – understand what these words represent. And to be honest, as an Ubuntu user, I did not really had the need to know. At first, as a new Linux user, I came often across words like “GNOME”, “GNOME Shell”, “KDE”, “X11”, “xorg” and really didn’t understand what this words stood for, except that they were part of the Linux GUI. I will not dig deep into the abyss of the Linux GUI, but merely scratch its surface. Now go to ' Installed applets' tab, right click and then select ' Add to panel'. Open ' Available applets(online)' tab, search applets for ' Multi-Core System Monitor'. Go to ' System Settings' choose ' Applets'. Run the following command to install the display graphical monitoring tool called libgtop. The selected theme appears on the system. Now go to ' installated themes' tab, select the appropriate theme and click Apply theme. Open System settings and select themes icon.Ĭlick ' Available themes(online)', then Choose the required theme. Run the following command to install Numix theme, to customize Cinnamon settings. :~]# pacman -R package-to-remove To Customize a Cinnamon Desktop Run ' -R' with the pacman command to remove any installed packages. Run the LibreOffice command to install office tool packages. ![]() :~]# pacman -S a52dec faac faad2 flac jasper lame libdca libdv libmad libmpeg2 libtheora libvorbis libxv wavpack x264 xvidcore gstreamer0.10-plugins To encode/decode, audio/video files in multimedia applications, run the following command. :~]# pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pavucontrol gnome-terminal firefox flashplugin vlc chromium unzip unrar p7zip pidgin skype deluge smplayer audacious qmmp gimp xfburn thunderbird gedit gnome-system-monitor Use the following command to install the available basic Softwares. Once the setup is done, reboot the system. Use the following command to install network manager application. ![]() Now check the execution of ifconfig command. Now start installing the net-tools package to manage network connections from GUI.Įxecute the following command to install ifconfig file under net-tools package. Then select Cinnamon settings and fill the required fields.Īn UXterm shell prompt from GUI application appears. :~]# systemctl enable gdmĪ Login window prompts, select user and hit Sign In. Run the following command to install GDM display manager package. To start using Cinnamon package, install it by issuing the following command. To install Desktop Environment &ndash Cinnamon Once the installation process completed, run the following command to test video drivers and Xorg server. Run the following command to install video driver package. Run the following command to check for multilib packages in 32 bit system. To list all the possible Open source video drivers, run the following command. # lspci | grep VGAĪrch comes with the Vesa default video driver &ndash xf86-video-vesa and also supports Open Source and Proprietary video drivers. Run the following command to check the type of video card and then install it. :~]# pacman -S xorg-twm xterm xorg-xclock Run the below packages to get the extra Xorg functionality. ![]()
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