Deepin Desktop Environment
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DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is the default desktop environment originally created for the linux Deepin distribution.
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Installation
To get a minimal desktop interface, you may start by installing deepin group. This will pull all the basic components.
However, it is recommended to also install deepin-extra group to get a fully working DDE:
- deepin-game: Deepin game center to play flash games
- deepin-movie: Deepin video player
- deepin-music: Deepin music player
- deepin-screenshot: Deepin screen-shot tools
- deepin-terminal: Deepin terminal
To be able to use the integrated network administration, the networkmanager package is required, and the NetworkManager.service
must be started and enabled.
Launching Deepin Desktop Environment
Via a Display Manager
To use the default DDE's lightdm greeter you have to modify the configuration file under the [SeatDefaults]
section, to state:.
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[SeatDefaults] ... greeter-session=lightdm-deepin-greeter
Using xinitrc
See the xinitrc page for more information.
~/.xinitrc
exec startdde
Execute startx
or xinit
to start DDE.
Troubleshooting
Does not start
Type startdde
in virtual console and see the output. If you see error with file mentioned libgo.so.9
- ensure you have installed the latest gcc-libs package.
Bug Reporting
Any upstream or arch packaging related bugs should be reported here. FaSheng is one of the Deepin developers and also a contributor/maintainer for arch-deepin and if you file bug reports on his github page then there's much greater chance that the bug will be fixed. ;-)