KLA-Manjaro LXDE

[josejp2424]

@josejp2424
Nice! I like the KLInstaller. This really makes the installation easy and straight forward.

For the usual partition setup for efi:
sda set up as GPT
sda1: 300MB fat32 flags boot,esp
sda2: 21GB ext4
I ran the installer.
It set up the drives and set it up to be bootable.

But when I ran it after it was built, the boot crashed for my laptop.

I got it to work by running the wd_grubconfig shell that comes with the iso and inserting the grub results into grub.cfg
Then it booted fine.

The grub.cfg that was built had:

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menuentry '07KLA manjaro (sda2/KLA-Manjaro)' --class devuanpup{
  search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid 906f3e7a-f0aa-4fa8-b1b1-59cd5365c87a
  linux /KLA-Manjaro/vmlinuz    psubdir=/KLA-Manjaro pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
  initrd /KLA-Manjaro/initrd.gz
}

I placed the results from the wd_grubconfig shell results in place of the above:

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#####grub.cfg (note the UUID or LABEL options below):
menuentry "KLA-Manjaro" {
  insmod ext2
  search --no-floppy --label main --set
  linux /KLA-Manjaro/vmlinuz w_bootfrom=LABEL=main=/KLA-Manjaro w_changes=RAM2
  initrd /KLA-Manjaro/initrd.gz
}
#############################OR uuid method:
menuentry "KLA-Manjaro" {
  insmod ext2
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 906f3e7a-f0aa-4fa8-b1b1-59cd5365c87a
  linux /KLA-Manjaro/vmlinuz w_bootfrom=UUID=906f3e7a-f0aa-4fa8-b1b1-59cd5365c87a=/KLA-Manjaro w_changes=RAM2
  initrd /KLA-Manjaro/initrd.gz}

This worked for my my laptop to successfully boot it.
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Also I noticed on my laptop that the touchpad and buttons didn't seem to work quite right for my laptop.
I can't move any of the windows around or select anything like it normally should.
It only clicks items.

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Also wifi works like it should.

Thanks for this update
Let me know if you need more information from what I have given here.

hi @JusGellin

Thank you for reporting the errors. I did try with a GPT partition, and grub2config gives me an error. I will be working on fixing this. I also see that the touchpad isn’t working on all of them; I will resolve that as well. Thank you very much.

[fredx181]

Great job @josejp2424 !!
Did a manual install, so didn't use the KL installer.
All looks very nice and works ok from what I tested.

[josejp2424]

Great job @josejp2424 !!
Did a manual install, so didn't use the KL installer.
All looks very nice and works ok from what I tested.

hi @fredx181
I'm seeing that it fails on GPT partitions, but not always.

[JusGellin]

@josejp2424 p2424
fyi
I did an install on a Dell notebook and it worked with gpt also.

I had to modify the grub.cfg like on the other laptop which is an HP.

[wiak]

@wiak
...
Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I may not catch everything but it gives me a better idea of how this works.
I've come to appreciate more about the layers part that make this unique and powerful.

So it works on my laptop, but I'm going to make a clean install again to clean up any messes I may have caused for myself.
It's nice that I have a couple different computers and vms for testing these things and my knowledge for how to install and troubleshoot better.

I like to explain best I can how it all operates under the hood. Better would be polished documentation on my part but other ongoing issues in my life do not afford me the time for that, which involves very accurate as terse as practically possible preciseness that takes much redrafting of texts to achieve. Maybe one day...

I value VM approaches highly (despite normally booting to bare metal). Unfortunately, though I have done substantial VM work now and again, I don't do it regularly enough for the tricks to become fluent knowledge in my brain. In fact, I often stumble across older posts of my own, that I forgot I even once wrote, that contain exactly some info I need or want today. So:

I'm always keen for anyone who does any regular VM usage to encourage them to write as detailed a 'chapter' they can for some imagined future KL 'book'. Clarity has done quite a lot on this, but alternative perspectives with additional info would always be great such that we can later merge and refine into the best compressed yet more complete less wordy chapter we can. Certainly a wiki is an editable approach, but I feel people tend to do a better more focussed job of writing technical documentation on their own at least at first.

Obviously, there are two main targets for documentation: normal users, and devs. I am particularly interested in encouraging more detailed docs that devs will also find useful since these can act as a true reference manual, which can be further pruned down and summarised in more digestable form for more general distro users later.

Since you are using VMs on a regular basis, and no doubt keep rough notes sometimes, please don't be shy about producing some accessible documentation that we would all benefit from; no matter how sparse or complete or accurate such documentation would be - we need content for the only dreamed of future KL documentation, and active user notes tends to be the best info to start with.

[Sofiya]

Add brightness control for laptops

install
pacman -Syu brightnessctl

in /root/.config/openbox/LXDE/rc.xml

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        <keybind key='XF86MonBrightnessDown'>
            <action name='Execute'>
                <command>brightnessctl set 5%-</command>
            </action>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key='XF86MonBrightnessUp'>
            <action name='Execute'>
                <command>brightnessctl set +5%</command>
            </action>
        </keybind> 

[josejp2424]

Add brightness control for laptops

install
pacman -Syu brightnessctl

in /root/.config/openbox/LXDE/rc.xml

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        <keybind key='XF86MonBrightnessDown'>
            <action name='Execute'>
                <command>brightnessctl set 5%-</command>
            </action>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key='XF86MonBrightnessUp'>
            <action name='Execute'>
                <command>brightnessctl set +5%</command>
            </action>
        </keybind> 

Thanks, @Sofiya will be included in the next update, as you suggested."

[Amol]

Hello to all !
I figure out how to use KL distros like it was install on a usb key.It is easy in fact ,with ventoy.Wiak made a very good job about that.I have KLA-OT2 and KLA-LXDE on the same usb key.They run great.Keep up the good work guys !
Amol

[bugnaw333]

Error mounting NTFS partition--ISO under Ventoy stick.

[wiak]

Error mounting NTFS partition--ISO under Ventoy stick.

That sounds like a Ventoy issue rather than anything per se to do with KLA-Manjaro LXDE or is it only happining when the iso is KLA? (seems unlikely, hence me saying something to do with Ventoy itself; KL distros don't modify the way Ventoy itself works; they just provide suitable grub2 stanzas to work with what Ventoy provides - it is up to Ventoy itself to find the iso in the first case).