![]() ![]() Fortunately it was installed already as part of xkeyboard-config, pulled in by GNOME. I can't do much on a computer without a Workman keyboard layout. it doesn't make sense to type both disk encryption password and user's password to boot and if I'm not going to select different users/sessions why have a display manager in the first place? When starting GNOME I see couple of error messages Activated service '1' failed: Process 1 exited with status 1 that doesn't seem to be critical, you can find a related discussion on GitHub. I've tried to use GDM first but it's not really needed in my setup. Startupīecause I still do some stuff in the text console, I have created a tiny script to easily start GNOME under Wayland manually as described on ArchWiki. As I was going to use Wayland, I had to get XWayland separately: xorg-server-xwayland package wasn't pulled in as a dependency that led to gnome-shell: Failed to spawn Xwayland: Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/Xwayland" (No such file or directory) when starting GNOME. Installation of GNOME was quite an easy task: I went for "minimal" gnome-shell package which is around 750 MB of dependencies in total (instead of around 1500 MB for gnome and 2030 MB for gnome-extra). Given the progress towards HiDPI support or possibility of getting an external monitor with ordinary resolution I'll probably be able to reevaluate my choice of desktop environment soon enough. Still on MacBook's screen GNOME was a bit more consistent: I've got too small icons here and there in Plasma. I was really tempted by KDE Plasma which looks gorgeous and does support HiDPI. ![]() While there're other desktop environments that support HiDPI GNOME gave me the best result with pretty much no configuration. The reason I've settled on GNOME now is HiDPI support. I've been using GNOME 3 in the past but decided to look what else is out there. GNOMEīefore settling down on GNOME I've tried (well installed and played around for 10 minutes) most of the desktop environments supported by Arch. In this part I'll finally get to a graphical environment setup. To remove the applet, run following command in terminal: sudo apt remove indicator-weatherĪnd remove the PPA by going to System Settings -> Softwware & Updates -> Other Software tab.This is the third and the final part of my Build Yourself Arch Linux series ( part 1, part 2). Then click install via Ubuntu Software App. To install it, simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run following commands one by one to get it from PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kasra-mp/ubuntu-indicator-weatherįor those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the latest “indicator-weather_x.x-xxx_all.deb” package from: The developer has made the indicator into PPA repository, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and derivatives. How to Install Simple Weather Indicator via PPA in Ubuntu: Temperature scale support (Celsius, Fahrenheit).The applet is developed with Python and uses two web service calls and to detect user’s location and temperature respectively. Simple Weather Indicator is an elegant and very simple system tray applet that displays the current weather condition of the user’s location in Unity and Gnome 3.
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