8.10.01 Changes from Testing to Final

corenominal · 2008-11-26 02:41:29

I would just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who helped out with testing the latest release -- all the feedback, help and support has been quite overwhelming.

Regarding the testing, it was a fairly short test period and it was not very well planned out at my end, I apologise for this. Hopefully there will be a bit more of a structured approach taken next time. Anyhow, I am pleased to say no catastrophic bugs were reported and the changes made to the final build were all fairly trivial. Most of the changes consisted of tweaks to configuration files.

Here is the list for anyone who has downloaded the testing image and is unsure of what changes were made to the final release. You may, or may not want to apply some or all of these:

1. Default preferred applications
These were updated so that Firefox was set as the default web browser and vim preferred over nano. This can be achieved by running the following terminal command:

sudo update-alternatives --all

2. GNOME Power Manager
A call has been placed in Openbox's autostart file to gnome-power-manager. This was requested by numerous users. The following lines were added to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

# Enable power management
gnome-power-manager &

3. Example setxkbmap commands
Some example setxkbmap commands have been added to Openbox's autostart file. All are commented out and are provided as a guide for non UK users.

# Set keyboard map if different than UK
# Uncomment one to enable, or define your own.
# setxkbmap us & # United States
# setxkbmap ca & # Canada
# setxkbmap fr & # Francais
# setxkbmap br & # Brazil
# setxkbmap de & # Germany
# setxkbmap cz & # Czech Republic
# setxkbmap it & # Italy
# setxkbmap pl & # Poland
# setxkbmap nl & # Netherlands
# etc.

4. dmenu installed
By popular demand, dmenu, a super quick application launcher has been installed and bound to the Alt+F3 keys. This can be achieved by installing dmenu with the following command:

sudo apt-get install dwm-tools

Next, create a new file at ~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh and copy the following code into it:

#!/bin/bash
exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu -nb '#000000' -nf '#FFFFFF' -sb '#FFFFFF' -sf '#000000'` && eval "exec $exe"

Make the file executable:

chmod +x ~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh

Next, create a new keybind entry in Openbox's rc.xml file, located at ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml. The new entry was placed beginning on line 273, directly after the gmrun entry.

    <keybind key="A-F3">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
          <name>dmenu-bind</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Finally, restart Openbox for the changes to take affect. Menu item: Preferences -> Openbox Config -> Restart

5. Help menu items
These have been updated to reflect the recent creation of this project site.

6. Default Firefox homepage
Again, updated to reflect the recent creation of this project site. New homepage is located at http://crunchbanglinux.org/start/

arpbook · 2008-11-27 13:23:15

hi corenominal, smile
and thanks for thoose tips. i use & test your "real" #! on virtualbox to preserve your distro for any modification.
as there is no "crunchbang-desktop" for ubuntu, as my i really like intrepid-3D-features on my macbook, as i can't decide between bubu & #!, i install openbox and configure it as a personal #!.
so, let's talk about changes:
i never use dmenu and i really like it, but on a laptop, "A-F3" is not really a "shortcut" i have to do "Alt+Fn+F3"so i modified rc.xml to make it easier on laptop.
i tried many panels and i prefer pypanel (the first one you use). i took a look at tint-panel http://code.google.com/p/tint2/ ,but i can't install it ($make errors). as you will see on screenshots, its the most beautiful panel i ever seen !!

i know you have lot of work but maybe you could take a look because i'm not good on coding...
about file-manager, i still prefer rox-filer and its "string-open-window" feature but i can't resolve automounting even by adding gnome-volume-manager and ivman. so i modify my fstab using uuid-label for my commonly used usb-disk:

# Cruzer 4G
UUID=48FF-E1B6    /media/BlackCruzer    vfat    rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=501,utf8,umask=077,flush,user    0    0

and all works fine.
considering usplash, the default one is really design but your moosplash is really the best !! lol
about multimedia, too bad for vlc, but the new totem is ( at least) a good media-player with bbc-news, youtube-search...
to finish, i have to say that #!linux take its own place on linux-world-distro in only one year ! i really enjoy using it and custumize my own #! using all our tips. so thanks again for your work and... maybe a tint-panel one day ?? smile
bye
arp

Last edited by arpbook (2008-11-27 13:47:14)

corenominal · 2008-11-27 14:29:46

Hi arp

I have tried tint2 and I agree, it is a really nice looking panel/task manager -- it is just a shame it does not have a system tray sad If you are having trouble installing, there is a deb file available at: http://ttm.googlecode.com/files/ttm_20070725-1_i386.deb

Regarding ROX, you could always install it in combination with Thunar? That way you could have the thunar-volman package take care of automounting and still have the speed and awesomeness of ROX!

arpbook · 2008-11-27 14:37:13

thanks for tint wink
for thunar, in fact, i really don't like this file-manager hmm so it's ok for me to change fstab.and all usb-disk can be configure ( permissions, mount-options...) so it's a good thing at least..

fabsh · 2008-11-27 17:53:42

Saw the release on Distrowatch. Congratulations! big_smile

corenominal · 2008-11-27 17:56:47

Thanks Fab smile Still finding hard to believe DistroWatch have picked it up! Still, I am not complaining smile

fabsh · 2008-11-27 18:07:57

I will go to #! fully some time later in the week. Expect a review on LO 67. smile

roach · 2008-11-28 01:28:53

corenominal wrote:

I have tried tint2 and I agree, it is a really nice looking panel/task manager -- it is just a shame it does not have a system tray

Hi corenominal,

openbox has a dock and a docklet called docker can act as a system tray for gnome and kde apps. It's in the repository.

Last edited by roach (2008-11-28 01:29:44)

arpbook · 2008-11-28 01:48:04

[SOLVED] > about tint/tray/panel
i just install tint, and keep lxpanel with 100% tranparency, tray-hour only for the applet, and all on "bottom-right",
so now what it looks like:

thanks corenominal for tint deb, but i do install the last version from website with ALL the dependencies ( i forgot...)

corenominal · 2008-11-28 04:28:14

roach wrote:

openbox has a dock and a docklet called docker can act as a system tray for gnome and kde apps. It's in the repository.

This is true, thanks for the reminder! smile

arpbook wrote:

[SOLVED] > about tint/tray/panel
i just install tint, and keep lxpanel with 100% tranparency, tray-hour only for the applet, and all on "bottom-right", so now what it looks like:

Nice screenshot arp. smile Have you tried roach's suggestion, you may find it more elegant. wink

Note* this thread seems to be going slightly off topic, maybe it would be better to close it and move any panel discussions here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/forum/9/openbox-talk/

?

Last edited by corenominal (2008-11-28 04:32:56)

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