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📚 Index

PROOT-DISTRO (🔼 ARCH)



🏁 First steps

Note

All the process is described in more detail in this video.

First you need to install the following packages in Termux:

pkg update
pkg install x11-repo
pkg install termux-x11-nightly
pkg install pulseaudio
pkg install proot-distro

Then install Arch and login once it finishes:

proot-distro install archlinux
proot-distro login archlinux

Update repositories and install any package you want:

pacman -Sy
pacman -Syu

pacman -S sudo
pacman -S xfce4

💻 How to install KDE Plasma Desktop

Note

All the process is described in more detail in this video.

  1. Follow first steps
  2. Install the following packages in Archlinux proot
  • Log into Arch
pd login archlinux
  • Install the packages needed (if you want it lighter you can just install the first packages pacman -S plasma-desktop sudo dbus)
pacman -S plasma-desktop sudo dbus kde-applications kde-graphics kde-utilities konsole thunar
  • Add a new user and set a password
useradd -m -G wheel droidmaster
passwd droidmaster
  • Give sudo permissions to the user
nano /etc/sudoers

# Paste the following line
droidmaster ALL=(ALL) ALL

💻 How to install GNOME Desktop

Note

All the process is described in more detail in this video.

Thanks to the user @Windows1105 for this post in reddit

  1. Follow first steps
  2. Install the following packages in Archlinux proot
  • Log into Arch
pd login archlinux
pacman -Syu

pacman -Sy sudo gnome dbus gnome-terminal gnome-tweaks --needed --noconfirm
  1. Execute the following command to fix a GNOME error that won't allow us to start the desktop
find /usr -type f -iname "*login1*" -exec rm -f {} \; && mkdir /run/dbus
  1. Add a new user and set a password
useradd -m -G wheel droidmaster
passwd droidmaster
  • Give sudo permissions to the user
nano /etc/sudoers

# Paste the following line
droidmaster ALL=(ALL) ALL
  1. Customize GNOME:

  • Open Extensions and enable "User Themes"

  • Look for a GTK theme on xfce4looks or install a theme from the terminal:

pacman -Ss gtk-theme # To search for the themes available on the repository
pacman -Sy pop-gtk-theme # To install a theme form the previous list
  • We can do the same with the icon themes:
pacman -Ss icon-theme # To search for the icons available on the repository
pacman -Sy epapirus-icon-theme # To install an icon pack form the previous list
  • Open Gnome Tweaks and select the theme and the icons installed on the Appearance menu

⬇️ Download scripts easily:

Note

By default this script works with the user droidmaster. If you create a user with a different name in proot-distro, please change where it says droidmaster inside the scripts. And remember to give execution permissions to the script with chmod +x scriptName.sh

  • startxfce4_arch.sh
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinuxDroidMaster/Termux-Desktops/main/scripts/proot_arch/startxfce4_arch.sh
  • startkde_arch.sh
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinuxDroidMaster/Termux-Desktops/main/scripts/proot_arch/startkde_arch.sh
  • startgnome_arch.sh
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinuxDroidMaster/Termux-Desktops/main/scripts/proot_arch/startgnome_arch.sh