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Install Deepin desktop environment in Arch Linux


Deepin desktop is a lightweight, elegant desktop environment. It was originally created for Linux Deepin distribution. Now, DDE will support most Linux operating systems such as Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE etc.

Make sure your Arch Linux distribution is up-to-date.

To update Arch Linux distro, run the following command as root user from Terminal:

pacman -Syu

Once the system is updated, reboot it to apply the changes.

reboot

Now, we need to install xorg (X Window System) that provides graphical environment.

pacman -S xorg xorg-server

Press ENTER to install all packages that needed for X Window environment.

Finally, run the following command to install Deepin desktop environment.

pacman -S deepin

This will show the list of softwares to be installed in your Arch Linux. Just press ENTER to install all packages.

Additionally, you can install deepin-extras package to install Deepin game center, Deepin video player, Deepin music player, Deepin screen-shot tools, and Deepin terminal etc.

To do so, run:

pacman -S deepin-extra

That’s it. Deepin DE and Deepin extras have been installed. Let us go ahead and configure the display manager.

Configure Deepin DE display manager

Deepin DE uses lightdm display manager (login manager). To use DDE’s lightdm greeter, you must edit light configuration file.

To do so, Edit:

vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Find the following line:

#greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome

And, uncomment and change it as shown below.

greeter-session=lightdm-deepin-greeter

Then, start and enable lightdm login manager to start at boot as shown below.

systemctl start lightdm.service

systemctl enable lightdm.service

That’s it. Now, reboot your Arch Linux to log in to the Deepin DE.

Login to Deepin DE

Here it is how my Deepin DE login screen screen looks like. Enter your password to login.


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