Building a Gentoo Desktop From Scratch (XFCE on OpenRC, Live Compile)

The follow-up to last week's full Gentoo install. We installed Gentoo from a stage3 in ep 83; today we put a desktop on top of it — XFCE 4, elogind on OpenRC (no systemd), Wayland-first, and the full 213-package emerge from scratch with no skips.

Recorded live. The cinnamon dead-end and the permissions/TTY debug are both in here because they're the parts every "install XFCE in 5 minutes" video lies about. If you've ever hit "cannot open /dev/tty0" on a fresh Gentoo install, the fix is at 46:13.

Hardware: same libvirt/QEMU VM as ep 83 — 10 logical cores, 32GB RAM, BTRFS root, distribution kernel. The 213-package XFCE meta emerge with GTK + Wayland + X + udisks + elogind + harfbuzz USE flags took ~155 minutes on that hardware. We compressed it to an 8-second timelapse at 40:23 because the build is the topic, but you should know the real wall-clock cost going in.

Previous episode (the install itself): The Quai Log ep 83 — pinned in the channel.

Chapters:
00:00 What we're installing & why
01:38 The case for a desktop env (and why a terminal isn't enough)
02:25 Picking a window manager: X vs Wayland
03:34 Why XFCE over Cinnamon (use flag walls explained)
07:14 EIX: the package-search tool you actually want
12:00 Configuring USE flags for the desktop profile
24:42 Kicking off the 213-package emerge
30:33 Window managers 101: stacking vs tiling, GNOME vs KDE vs XFCE
40:23 Compiling 213 packages... [timelapse]
41:54 elogind, dbus, and the runlevel that finally fixes it
46:13 Permissions debug: TTY, video group, and getting startx to work
49:53 It boots — first XFCE desktop on Gentoo

The Quai Log ep 84. Stream archive, edited honestly. Next session: SDDM display manager so we boot graphically.

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