From 06b7cd18cb9ba0983474dd5e4ab2c0243d89feee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Evans <jason.evans@logmanager.cz>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:26:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2023-08-26 18:26:41

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 README.md | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
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 ### First Login Screen
 1. Fill in the normal first-time login screens with your timezone, name, password, etc. It make take some time for this to finish.
+
+### Create some distroboxes for other distros.
+In this example, I'm going to create one for Arch, Ubuntu, and and older version of Debian. The names of the distroboxes will be "arch", "ubuntu", and "deb9" but you can choose what you want.
+```
+distrobox-create arch --image docker.io/library/archlinux:latest
+distrobox-create ubuntu --image docker.io/library/ubuntu
+distrobox-create deb9 --image docker.io/library/debian:9
+```
+
 ### Configure xsessions
-This change will allow us to add in 
+This change will allow us to add desktops from other distros to the login screen.
+
 1. Open a terminal then open the transactional-update shell:
 ```shell
 sudo transactional-update shell
@@ -30,3 +40,55 @@ rm -rf /usr/share/xsessions/
 ```shell
 ln -s /opt/share/xsessions /usr/share/xsessions
 ```
+**At the end of this step, do not exit the shell or reboot. We will continue using this shell in the following steps!**
+
+### Install packages
+Install the packages that you want to use on the base system that are not already present. I will using the the following.
+
+Refresh the package cache:
+```shell
+zypper ref
+```
+
+Install the packages. Choose the ones that you want. You don't have to use the same ones as me.
+```shell
+zypper in mc mlocate micro-editor tilix
+```
+
+Exit the shell
+```
+exit
+```
+
+You should see something like this at the end:
+```
+Please reboot your machine to activate the changes and avoid data loss.
+New default snapshot is #2 (/.snapshots/2/snapshot).
+transactional-update finished
+```
+
+Reboot your machine.
+
+## Set up a simple xterm login option
+The GDM login display manager reads the .desktop files from /usr/share/xsessions in order to know how to start the display manager such a Gnome, KDE, Mate, etc. We can create a very simple desktop file that will only start xterm which will be very useful for troubleshooting.
+
+xterm.desktop:
+```
+[Desktop Entry]
+Encoding=UTF-8
+Type=XSession
+Exec=xterm
+TryExec=xterm
+Name=xterm
+DesktopNames=xterm
+
+```
+
+Copy the to `/opt/share/xsessions` (which we have linked to /usr/share/xsessions). Then logout and when you log back in, you will see an xterm option. If you log in, you will get a single terminal screen. If you exit the terminal, it will log you out.
+
+```
+sudo cp xterm.desktop /opt/share/xsessions/
+```
+
+### Install Mate in Ubuntu
+