Installing kwin in Linux Lite Video Tutorial

[diggle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNIrBSeyc2Q

Enjoy this Tutorial Linux Lite Members  8) 8)

[N4RPS]

Hello, diggle!

Welcome to the Linux Lite forums.

Thank you, for 'bringing something 3D to the table'. Spatry has a video that makes it more clear about why one might want to use Kwin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEA_h0NBrG8

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[anon222]

Hello TJ,
Welcome to the Forums.
That's lot of dependancies for a window manager. More than 200 MB. But it's preety cool isn't it.

You don't need gedit, you can use leafpad to edit this file:
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-x­ml/xfce4-session.xml
It's actually just a xfce4-session.xml
But you should always include the path to that file.
If you use the next command it will open the file in default text editor which is included in Linux Lite.

Code:

gksudo leafpad "/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml"

You are getting that error in gedit because gedit can not open your home folder simply because it's a folder.
~ is the same as $HOME which is an environment variable.
If you echo it you will see what is stored in the variable:

Code:

echo ~

Code:

echo $HOME

I get /home/milos
For you it will print out /home/tj or something like that.
You typed in:

Code:

sudo gedit ~ /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-x­ml/xfce4-session.xml

The first tab gedit is trying to open is your home folder and text editor can't do that.
This will open just the file you want to edit:

Code:

sudo gedit "/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml"

It's a good practice to use the quotes " " when you are opening a file with the command line.
"/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml"
Some files may contain spaces and this way you are "telling" the program where the string begins and where it ends.

[diggle]

Hello TJ,
Welcome to the Forums.
That's lot of dependancies for a window manager. More than 200 MB. But it's preety cool isn't it.

You don't need gedit, you can use leafpad to edit this file:
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-x­ml/xfce4-session.xml
It's actually just a xfce4-session.xml
But you should always include the path to that file.
If you use the next command it will open the file in default text editor which is included in Linux Lite.

Code:

gksudo leafpad "/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml"

You are getting that error in gedit because gedit can not open your home folder simply because it's a folder.
~ is the same as $HOME which is an environment variable.
If you echo it you will see what is stored in the variable:

Code:

echo ~

Code:

echo $HOME

I get /home/milos
For you it will print out /home/tj or something like that.
You typed in:

Code:

sudo gedit ~ /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-x­ml/xfce4-session.xml

The first tab gedit is trying to open is your home folder and text editor can't do that.
This will open just the file you want to edit:

Code:

sudo gedit "/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml"

It's a good practice to use the quotes " " when you are opening a file with the command line.
"/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml"
Some files may contain spaces and this way you are "telling" the program where the string begins and where it ends.

Yes Thank u for all that Commands i will remember these 8)  Leafpad gedit all the same still get to the same state. Assuming i know that command it would have been easier.  u still get to the file even know its red i wasn't really worried about that part. Thanks for letting me know that happened tho and why that was great to know. i will put that in the Description of the video also. Some people like gedit and some like leafpad but its really all the same it doesn't matter to me as long as it gets the job done. I didn't know that leafpad was even in there thanks for letting me know all this wonderful info 8)

[anon222]

There is a bash built in that can show you all the commands you could run.

Code:

compgen -c

introduction to commands

Code:

man intro

manual pages are very important you type in man and then a command
man <command_name>

Code:

man man

Code:

man ls

Code:

man cp

Code:

man mv

Code:

man apt-get

Help: --help

Code:

ls --help

Code:

cp --help

Code:

mv --help