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authorAlyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>2017-03-17 23:29:23 -0700
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Table of Contents
=================
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- [LXDE - battery monitor](#lxde_battery)
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While not strictly related to the libreboot project, this guide is
intended to be useful for those interested in installing Parabola on
their libreboot system.
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to be made at the present date, please get in touch with the libreboot
project!**
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You do not necessarily have to follow this guide word-for-word;
*parabola* is extremely flexible. The aim here is to provide a common
setup that most users will be happy with. While Parabola can seem
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compared to what most distributions provide. You will find over time
that other distributions tend to *get in your way*.
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**This guide assumes that you already have Parabola installed. If you
have not yet installed Parabola, then [this
guide](encrypted_parabola.html) is highly recommended!**
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sometimes recommend the use of proprietary software. You need to be
careful about this when reading anything on the Arch wiki.
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Some of these steps require internet access. I'll go into networking
later but for now, I just connected my system to a switch and did:
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[Setup network connection in Parabola](#network)
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Configure pacman {#pacman_configure}
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Updating Parabola {#pacman_update}
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Maintaining Parabola {#pacman_maintain}
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your-freedom {#yourfreedom}
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[Back to top of page.](#pagetop)
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Add a user {#useradd}
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Use of the *diceware method* is recommended, for generating secure
passphrases (instead of passwords).
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systemd
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The systemd developers tell me that it isn't usually necessary to touch
the systemd-tmpfiles utility manually at all.
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Interesting repositories {#interesting_repos}
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Setup a network connection in Parabola {#network}
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System Maintenance {#system_maintain}
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Configuring the desktop {#desktop}
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### Installing Xorg {#desktop_xorg}
Based on <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg>.
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### Xorg keyboard layout {#desktop_kblayout}
Refer to
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### Install LXDE {#desktop_lxde}
Desktop choice isn't that important to me, so for simplicity I decided
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export LANG=en\_GB.UTF-8
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exec startlxde
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### LXDE - clock {#lxde_clock}
In **Digital Clock Settings** (right click the clock) I set the Clock
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### LXDE - font {#lxde_font}
NOTE TO SELF: come back to this later.
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### LXDE - screenlock {#lxde_screenlock}
Arch wiki recommends to use *xscreensaver*:
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### LXDE - automounting {#lxde_automount}
Refer to
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### LXDE - disable suspend {#lxde_suspend}
When closing the laptop lid, the system suspends. This is annoying at
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### LXDE - battery monitor {#lxde_battery}
Right click lxde panel and *Add/Remove Panel Items*. Click *Add* and
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### LXDE - Network Manager {#lxde_network}
Refer to <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#Network_Management>.
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Copyright © 2014, 2015 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document