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README.md

Ubuntu Installation Notes

By running the installer it wipes a complete install and turns it into something more minimal and less resource intensive. An alternative would've been to start with the Ubuntu minimal disk and work up, but the full Ubuntu ISO comes with some conveniences that I wanted to keep. Kit includes:

  • Compton
  • Xmonad
  • Dmenu
  • Lemonbar
  • Urxvt
  • Physlock
  • feh
  • zsh

It also substitutes Ubuntu's stock media players with less resource intensive alternatives such as mplayer and ffmpeg.

(PUT A SCREENSHOT HERE, LOL).

NOTE: After rebooting you will boot into a black screen. See the section on GRUB for details. To get to a login screen press ctrl + alt + f1 and login normally.

X Server

To start Xmonad simply type startx at the tty.

Make sure Xresources and Xinitrc are symlinked properly in your home directory. If you have any problems getting Xmonad to start, check the logs, and then those two files.

To Kill the server at any time press alt + shift + q.

GRUB

A small change has to be applied to stop Ubuntu from booting into a non-existent display manager's login screen:

  1. Type sudo nano /etc/default/grub
  2. Find GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
  3. Replace (2) with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"
  4. Run sudo upgrade-grub

This will force Ubuntu to boot into a tty. To start Ubuntu type startx in any tty.

Changing Desktop Backgrounds

Inside of ~/.xinitrc is a line that starts with feh. Change the image being passed into this to change the desktop background. Kill the xserver with alt + shift + q and startx again.

TODO

  1. Have installer script git clone essentials and symlink everything correctly.
  2. Have installer automatically modify the grub config to set up text login mode.