How to install Budgie Desktop on Antergos Linux

I am running Antergos 2016 with Gnome desktop on my Virtualbox. And today is a big day for me because I want to install another interesting Desktop environment, Bundgie. The new version of Budgie Desktop is available and its a good time to give it a try.

Steps to install Budgie Desktop on Antergos

Most of the steps taken here are done via Terminal commands.
Step 1. Update and upgrade Antergos
sudo pacman -Syu
Step 2. Reboot
sudo reboot
Step 3. Install Xorg Server
sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-server
Step 4. Install Budgie Desktop
sudo pacman -S budgie-desktop

Step 5. Install Display Manager
If you don't have any display manager installed, you must install it as well. There are several Display Manager we can use. 
  • GDM — GNOME display manager.
  • LightDM — Cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit.
  • LXDM — LXDE display manager. Can be used independent of the LXDE desktop environment.
  • MDM — MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2.
  • SDDM — QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4’s kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt.
  • XDM — X display manager with support for XDMCP, host chooser.

For example, I want to use Lxdm as my display manager.
sudo pacman -S lxdm
When complete, log out and login to the new Budgie desktop.



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