EndeavourOS Built ontop of Archcraft

smokey · October 22, 2024, 3:59pm

This is a great end goal, I have only made 2 guides for splashscreens but used text to the best I could to explain and pictures to show the rest

Cielodev · October 22, 2024, 4:04pm

Yeah i3 being bare-bones is okay and fine. However I would like there being choice since I3 being matianed and inside the base installer iSO should allow options of whats installed…since installer has capabilites to easily allow barebones or super riced etc configs on the fly.

The issue I have with doing it purely myself and extrapolating data and configs is that most repos, and most things have poor or outdated documentation. No support or very little. Like I’ve harked on and on about RIcing tutorials are crap, point to cloning repos and not actually breaking down info or how to do…

One person who does tutorials and information really well is Jeff Geerling he’s a legend and I’ve used so much of his information and tutorials to know what I do and work with pi’s in ways I never thought possible.

Thats ideally my goal from this silly and heinous expierments…is learn…document it well in both slog of info,and more concise tutorial point form. Have a well documented config that is organized and clean so others can easily extrapolate the info they need to do what they want, or be lazy and just clone entire repo but still have well commented files and information so if later they want to change or alter…they aren’t lost.

That and I prefer bspwm @_@ hate me all you like…also wayland might support nvidia gpus in 2045 when Nvidia finally releases open source rtx card drivers XD then finally i might be able to try hyprland without issues.

smokey · October 22, 2024, 4:18pm

i3 has pretty great documentation, just need to set aside some quite time and study and practice (I recommend using a vm or if on bare metal back up everything first just in case but your call here on what ya gonna do

Cielodev · October 22, 2024, 4:25pm

I use VM for everything testing Only time I ever touch bare-metal first is raspberry pi as Cant VM that XD or well I can’t anyways.

Cielodev · October 22, 2024, 4:28pm

Also my issue isnt as much with i3…their base documentation is quite good…probably should use it but I use bspwm mostly @_@…

smokey · October 22, 2024, 4:33pm

I think I skipped even looking at this one years ago as it was too hard for me tbh, I prefer something that is understandable or I can find the info easy, wouldn’t surprise me though if you typed it into github and search for it there if you found a guide

Cielodev · October 22, 2024, 4:36pm

Haha yeah its more complex than I3, actually I quite like i3’s simplicity…might just end up going with that first before trying to tackle bspwm.

As for guides they sort of exist on various locations, some videos and such…but lots of them are outdated, poorly written/video’d…and many that are like hyprland and nixos guide…where its clone…and change x stuff to make it work with your monitor(s) etc… which isnt helpful XD.

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 6:14am

So I learned some new things

The forum supports code inately…so i can actually format stuff nicer XD using md…derp
The method of I used taught me something new I will discuss this below

Maybe Something useful for newbs like me XD

So EndeavourOS-Teams is what I used to re-install most of Endeavours packages initially, with some looking into it and trying to understand it…I found you can have a blank file with all the packages you need to install and just use pacman -S --needed - < filename
This is extremly helpful to know…call me a newb I didn’t know you could do it with blank fils…I thought I had to make a entire .sh file and write out sudo pacman -S for each package inside that sh file…
Thus using pacman -Q and copy pasting into blank file has become even more powerful

Thank you Once again Community of EndeavourOS for teaching me yet another useful and important skill

Oddly enough…it doesn’t support centering of text using -><- no clue why XD I would assume i also doens’t support footnotes either then

smokey · October 23, 2024, 6:34am

I think i use this or similar when i do a fresh install somewhere, out and about today but a good way and a slight timesaver in the end

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 6:44am

Yeah huge timesaver, with this power and knowledge!!!

joekamprad · October 23, 2024, 7:01am

EndeavourOS installer is also open to hack as your will

github.com

EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/.github/blob/main/profile/README.md

# EndeavourOS Community Editions and Artwork
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endeavouros-team/artwork-images-logo/master/endeavouros-drop-shadow.png" alt="banner" width="200"/>

Details about the Editions:

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/category/window-tiling-managers

How to contribute your own:

**Currently work in progress again.**

With the Release of Galileo ISO in 2023 we will not offer the option to install the Community Editions over the default ISO and Installer anymore.
It was a great journey, but in the end it was way to much detail work to be done to keep them updated and integrated into the default ISO.
We always keep an eye on KISS for the development of EndeavourOS.

Feel free to install them manually every Edition have instructions to do so. 
If you want to contribute to a new way to install them there is still the option to run custom scripts injected by entering URL to this in our welcome application.
And we are open to provide tools or GUI to install them from already running systems per example.

**If someone want to take over Maintainment simple open a new issue and ask about**

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possible to add a lot of things.

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 7:13am

Thanks I did not know that…this will be extremely helpful Not sure If I’m experienced enough to start playing around with that just yet tho XD eventually

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 9:57am

I Finally successfully did the reverse of what i started!!!

I was able to get archcraft desktop configs to properly work with all base dependencies to install on a fresh EndeavourOS KDE install. I’m sure I have a lot of packages that aren’t needed so I’m gonna try and sift through them more and see what ones are exactly needed. I did slim it down a bit already…but I’m really glad, as this seems to be even more functional that first attempt

Once I slim it down to required ones, I will probably work on cleaning up my notes and uploading a repo for it for anyone to do

I also have to figure out how to make kde applications follow theme settings from kde desktop while in other desktops/window-managers…cause in other wm/de it’s bright white breeze XD

smokey · October 23, 2024, 10:22am

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications
Hopefully can help you, I will admit I didn’t read (this time)

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 10:36am

I’ll give it a read

smokey · October 23, 2024, 10:39am

Cool as, I would have re-read it but yer head is in a weird place

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 12:16pm

Got it working for the most part Dolphin now looks half decent, and so does kate. I’m not blinded by the nasty white XD

Had to set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde in /etc/environment and it worked.

I also got it slimmed down to a file having 87 total lines. Installing both bspwm and i3 configs totals you 1.4Gb worth of packages and files. Could easily be reduced if you know which theme stuff you want as by default this installs multiple themes for each wm.

smokey · October 23, 2024, 12:19pm

Awesome, planning on installing eos and i3 on the Pi when I sober up, debian just ain’t for me and I only need it to either open the emulator or vdeo player
(If I was smarter I would try make but this setup works fine for this)

Cielodev · October 23, 2024, 12:24pm

See I only use to use debian, but then I was forced to use Arch by steamdeck even tho originally it was debian based…they migrated to arch…which left me a little lost hahah…but now I use arch a lot more. It’s become my daily driver, and now with this I can make endeavourOS my main daily for both laptop and Dekstop. Once I get this on documented and cleaned up, I will probably work on getting it to have a script for the EndeavourOS installer. Then my next goal maybe is get it functioning on pi with the archcraft i3 config

smokey · October 23, 2024, 12:32pm

It takes a bit to re-learn but worth it, you could set up aliases but I would recommend learing the base commands first