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First off, I've installed arch before, but managed to not encounter any of the problems I'm having at the moment (not sure how). But I'm well and truly stuck. First, my network interface is now called enp3s0 rather than eth0, so every time I start arch, I need to run 

ip link set enp3s0

and then 

dhcpcd enp3s0

how do I configure this so it happens automatically?

My second issue seems more peculiar; after booting into arch, I installed the enlightenment WM with pacman, and tried to run it, but apparently I did not have a couple of xorg packages, namely xorg-xinit, and another which I forget. After installing these however, editing the .xinitrc file, and running startx, I just got 3 white bash boxes on a black screen. Though if I run enlightenment_start in one of those boxes, enlightenment starts fine (albeit with 3 terminal boxes open, 2 I can close fine, but if the third is closed, enlightenment exits). I am certain this is not normal behaviour, and any help as to what I'm doing wrong here would be much appreciated.

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Your first issue (the networking) can be automated with a systemd service file. You would use the [email protected], in your case: systemctl {enable,start} [email protected].

The other issue is that, when starting X, you are still starting twm. See Xorg page on the Arch Wiki on why this is happening, but essentially, X is being configured by /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Create a correct ~/.xinitrc, log out and log back in as that user and it should start enlightenment.

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  • Cheers, I understand better what's going on now, though there's still an issue that seems to cause startx to hang just after it gets to loading extension GLX. I can work around it by typing startx -- -extension GLX, but this is a pain every time I start my computer - do you have any ideas what this is to do with?
    – PointToPoint
    Feb 27, 2014 at 22:47
  • Yep, apparently nvidia cards prefer nvidia drivers. Ignore that previous question, do you maybe know an easy way of replacing mesa-libgl with nvidia-libgl? it just complains that mesa and nvidia are in conflict, offers to uninstall mesa, and then refuses because mesa has stuff depending on it. Any clues?
    – PointToPoint
    Feb 27, 2014 at 22:54
  • You can check through the dependencies with pacman -Qi mesa-libgl, and uninstall the necessary packages.
    – jasonwryan
    Feb 27, 2014 at 23:10
  • Trouble is, all those packages have other dependencies too. Is there no other way to switch mesa for nvidia drivers?
    – PointToPoint
    Feb 27, 2014 at 23:22
  • Just uninstall X and its dependencies and start from scratch; it will be simpler.
    – jasonwryan
    Feb 27, 2014 at 23:52
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My Arch linux box has a static IP address, but the Arch Linux Wiki says to do this:

# systemctl start [email protected]
# systemctl enable [email protected]

It looks like the weird device names are the Arch Standard.

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