Setting up desktop (AVK)

echo 'export "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin"' >> /.profile
cd $HOME
hg clone https://avkoval@bitbucket.org/avkoval/bin
hg clone https://avkoval@bitbucket.org/avkoval/.xorg.d
ln -s .xorg.d/.tray-progs
ln -s .xorg.d/.xbindkeysrc
ln -s .xorg.d/.xinitrc
ln -s .xorg.d/.Xresources
hg clone https://avkoval@bitbucket.org/avkoval/.i3

Add this to /etc/portage/package.use/custom:

# AVK Custom
app-editors/emacs xft toolkit-scroll-bars
media-libs/freetype bzip2 -auto-hinter -debug fontforge utils doc
media-fonts/terminus-font  X psf pcf
net-im/pidgin gstreamer gnutls
sys-kernel/calculate-sources -minimal
>=dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3:2.7 sqlite

Now emerge programs:

emerge i3 i3status dmenu xterm

Optional: mate

As root (sudo ~~i):

layman~~a mate
emerge mate

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