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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: jp24 on May 29, 2014, 06:54:39 PM

Title: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: jp24 on May 29, 2014, 06:54:39 PM: Hi,

Hoping someone can help.

I am trying to get xfce working with Tiny Core, I can get the packages installed, but I can't work out how to make xfce start up by default. I have been playing around with onboot, but I can't seem to make it happen.

Any help would be appreciated,

Many thanks,

John
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: gerald_clark on May 29, 2014, 07:11:41 PM: xfce4 is not available for Core 5.
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: Misalf on May 29, 2014, 08:42:12 PM: It is. o.O

Several xfce4-*.tcz are in the repo, including xfce4-session.tcz .

You might try adding them all to onboot.lst and add this to your kernel boot line:
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desktop=xfce4-session
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: gerald_clark on May 29, 2014, 09:04:24 PM: Core 4 has xfce4.tcz.
Core 5 has not.
Core 5 has some of the xfce utilities but the deps and startup scripts are missing.
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: bmarkus on May 30, 2014, 01:50:04 AM: It is a work in progress for 5.x
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: jp24 on May 30, 2014, 12:01:09 PM: Thanks for your responses I will try it on version 4.
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: jp24 on May 30, 2014, 04:52:06 PM: Hi,

I am struggling with Xfce4 and TC 4.

I have done a fresh install, booted from CD and set the tce directory to a local disk.

I then installed the xfce4 package and rebooted, it spits me out to the command line after boot and goes no further.

What am I missing?

Many thanks,

John
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: Misalf on May 30, 2014, 04:57:09 PM: Remove any other WM from onboot.lst and/or use the desktop= boot code (I think it should be "desktop=Xfce4" - Note: upper case X.).
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: gerald_clark on May 30, 2014, 04:58:29 PM: Does 'ls /usr/local/tce.installed' show that xfce4 is installed?
If not, are you using a USB drive and forgot the waitusb=5 boot code?
What does 'startx' show?
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: jp24 on May 30, 2014, 05:43:15 PM: Thanks for the quick replies folks, it's really appreciated.

In response,

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Does 'ls /usr/local/tce.installed' show that xfce4 is installed?

Yes it does

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If not, are you using a USB drive and forgot the waitusb=5 boot code?

I have fallen foul of this before, but currently I am using Virtualbox and using a CD iso. The final solution is for a thin client running an existing app that doesn't want to run fully on anything short of Xfce (KDE and Gnome work too, but not standard X / LXDE) I am trying to keep installed apps down to a minimum so that it is easier to kiosk the thin clients hence wanting to get TC working.

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Remove any other WM from onboot.lst and/or use the desktop= boot code (I think it should be "desktop=Xfce4" - Note: upper case X.).

There wasn't anything else in the onboot.lst, but Xfce4. Well thats the one on the hard drive.

desktop=Xfce4 was the solution, it got me into Xfce!!

Now to start trimming it down....

Thanks again,

John
Title: Re: xfce with Tiny Core 5
Post by: gerald_clark on May 30, 2014, 06:18:56 PM: Install it to a virtual disk. Booting just from an iso image does not support onboot customizations.