a very rookie question

What am supposed to do after I enter user root and pasword root? i want to acces into and frendly grafic ambiace

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pacman -Syu
sync
reboot

To install say lxde (the gui) and midori (web browser)

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pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev lxde xorg-xinit midori

and to start

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xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

The start menu has midori there
If you want to boot into that everytime, without passwords, I will tell you how

You will need to set up a user, install all the xorg stuff and whatever gui you want be it a desktop environment like Gnome/XFCE/KDE/LXDE or a window manager like OpenBox/DWM/etc. The beginners guide at wiki.archlinux.org has some good useful information for doing some of that kind of stuff.

Type startx and hit enter...

My friend I did all of that, everything was going on well, except fpr this at the end; xinit /usr/bin/lxsession it saiys: xinit command no found

startx command not found

http://archlinuxpi.blogspot.co.uk

startx command not found

Sorry, my goof. Hadn't seen it was Arch.

thanks a lot pepedog for the advice on this.
I am also a newbie to arch.
I would like to know how to program the pi to auto-start to menu, without # xinit /usr/bin/lxsession ,
and dare I say it, how to un-program it, so can get to the black/white screen again.
Many thanks in advance.

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pacman -Syu
sync
reboot

To install say lxde (the gui) and midori (web browser)

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pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev lxde xorg-xinit midori

and to start

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xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

The start menu has midori there
If you want to boot into that everytime, without passwords, I will tell you how

It's all here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM#Autologin
Easy way, make sure lxdm is installed if it wasn't installed earlier, or install it also (lxdm is a gui unername/password thang)

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pacman -Sy lxdm

Create a new user if root is the only user (I put archuser below but you can use your own imagination), all enters except for password

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adduser archuser

Now we edit a file

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nano /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

look for this line
#autologin=username
change it too
autologin=archuser
You should be able to easily work out ctrl-O saves, ctrl-X quits
Now we get lxdm to start on boot

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systemctl enable lxdm

You can always get back to a nornal text login with ctrl-alt-F1
Experiment with ctrl-alt and F1 to F7

awesome pepedog
many thanks for your expertise.

also found this link to help me out to play around with the login screen if required
http://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/LXDM_Configuration

Thanks for the info everyone!

New to Raspberry Pi myself and trying out different OS's. (Wish the Android port was done!!! )

Played around with Linux on pc , but thats usually with a GUI, a small amount of terminal commands on my mac is about as close to command line code as I get haha! Yal's info and the link helps a lot!

Thanks again.