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.
