Crunchbang desktop user welcomes your help!

medianmajik · 2009-04-18 03:56:32

Hey, so I finally decided to put Crunchbang on my desktop instead of Ubuntu 8.10 and I'm very pleased so far. I have some questions that I'm hoping y'all can help answer.

1. Mounting .ISO - Mounting/unmounting in Nautilus could be accomplished with a simple script that showed up with a simple right click. I'd like to do something just as easy within Crunchbang. Links, etc. are appreciated as the only script I've created is "Hello World!" I installed Furius ISO Mount(python build), but after I mount a cd it doesn't show up in Packmanfm despite refreshing. I also checked via root and it still didn't show up in the file manager. Note: I'm not looking to set a permanent virtual drive; just one that'll open when mounted and close when not. smile

2. This is connected to my 1st point - I've also noticed that both my DVD-rw drives don't show up in the file manager side panel unless they're occupied (I'd like to have all of my drives always show up as I also have a media reader with at least 6 slots).

3. Office 2007 installation - It should work via Wine (I have Wine fully configured and up to date so it should work). Right after the installation begins I'm given a vague "error" notice and can't continue. What is a way to find out (record) what the error actually is?

Solved 4. How do I change the clock to 12 hour cycles rather than 24?

Solved 5. What is the best way to add a drop down calendar to the panel? I loved this feature in Nautilus and would love to get it back.

Solved 6. With the included compositing (I believe it is xcompmngr?) is it possible to have multiple wallpapers for each virtual desktop?

Solved 7. I'm using Gnome-Do with Docky/Compositing. If I don't autohide the dock it will interfere with my ability to click anything around it with the mouse such as a link in firefox. The dock literally "blocks" off the bottom center of my screen. What is an easy way to stop opened items from appearing in the panel so I can just use docky/alt+tab?

Solved 8. In the panel I'm unable to see the outline of objects on my other virtual desktops if I'm not working within that desktop. ex: Though I have a text editor running on desktop 2 I can't tell from the panel while using desktop 1.

Thanks so much for your help! Can't remember my other questions, but I'll add them as I go.

Last edited by medianmajik (2009-04-30 15:57:24)

anonymous · 2009-04-18 04:21:24

4. Right-click on the panel and select Panel Settings > Panel Applets > select Digital Clock and click Edit. In the field for Clock Format use "%r".

5. If you left-click on the clock you should get a calendar.

6. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -desktops/

7. Right-click on the panel and select Panel Settings > Panel Applets > select Task Bar and click on Remove.

Greyscale · 2009-04-18 04:32:12

#3: Have you tried running the installer via the command line?

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f351523 … 8da63be66f

That should output exactly what the error is.

medianmajik · 2009-04-20 17:33:27

anonymous wrote:

4. Right-click on the panel and select Panel Settings > Panel Applets > select Digital Clock and click Edit. In the field for Clock Format use "%r".
5. If you left-click on the clock you should get a calendar.
6. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -desktops/
7. Right-click on the panel and select Panel Settings > Panel Applets > select Task Bar and click on Remove.

5. Left-clicking the clock loads up gworldclock. Still looking for a way to incorporate a calendar.
6. Thanks for the link.
7. Worked great. Is there a way to split the panel into two panels with a gap in the middle (for the gnome-do dock) so the panel and dock won't interfere with each other?

anonymous · 2009-04-20 18:15:10

5. So you don't get this:

Go to Panel Settings > Panel Applets > select Digital Clock > click on Edit and make sure that "Action" is blank. If its already blank, then maybe uninstall gworldclock.

7. Afaik, no. But why not put the panel and dock on opposite sides? One top other bottom.

medianmajik · 2009-04-20 18:44:06

anonymous wrote:

5. So you don't get this:
Go to Panel Settings > Panel Applets > select Digital Clock > click on Edit and make sure that "Action" is blank. If its already blank, then maybe uninstall gworldclock.
7. Afaik, no. But why not put the panel and dock on opposite sides? One top other bottom.

Removing the "Action" worked perfectly. Thanks so much!

7. I put Conky in a panel-style configuration across the top of the screen and I'm trying to keep it that way ftm. I could try putting the panel and conky across the top of the screen...

Compositing + Gnome-Do's Dock are what are causing problems, but I do like using the dock more than the panel for showing what I have running. As long as I autohide the dock it won't overlay/black other things on the screen

Last edited by medianmajik (2009-04-20 18:46:45)

anonymous · 2009-04-20 18:54:21

You could put the panel at the top and place the conky so its just under it.

Edit your conky file and change gap_y to 30 or whatever size your panel is.

Last edited by anonymous (2009-04-20 18:54:37)

medianmajik · 2009-04-20 19:53:07

anonymous wrote:

You could put the panel at the top and place the conky so its just under it.
Edit your conky file and change gap_y to 30 or whatever size your panel is.

Panel is the default height of 24 pixels. I tried out your instructions, but conky is still covered up by the panel.

Here is my Conky output:
Any ideas on how to shorten the height of conky? Note the wasted black space above the text.

#avoid flicker

double_buffer yes



#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys

own_window  yes

own_window_transparent no

own_window_type desktop

own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager 



#borders

draw_borders no

border_margin 1



#shades

draw_shades no



#position

gap_x 0

gap_y 2

alignment top



#behaviour

update_interval 0.3



#colour

default_color  8f8f8f

#default_shade_color 000000

own_window_colour 222222



#font

use_xft yes

xftfont DejaVu Serif Book:pixelsize=9



#to prevent window from moving

use_spacer none

minimum_size 1440 0
maximum_width 1440 0



#mpd

mpd_host localhost

mpd_port 6600



# Possible variables to be used:

#

#      Variable         Arguments                  Description                

#  acpiacadapter                     ACPI ac adapter state.                   

#  acpifan                           ACPI fan state                           

#  acpitemp                          ACPI temperature.                        

#  adt746xcpu                        CPU temperature from therm_adt746x       

#  adt746xfan                        Fan speed from therm_adt746x             

#  battery           (num)           Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM        

#                                    battery. ACPI battery number can be      

#                                    given as argument (default is BAT0).     

#  buffers                           Amount of memory buffered                

#  cached                            Amount of memory cached                  

#  color             (color)         Change drawing color to color            

#  cpu                               CPU usage in percents                    

#  cpubar            (height)        Bar that shows CPU usage, height is      

#                                    bar's height in pixels                   

#  downspeed         net             Download speed in kilobytes              

#  downspeedf        net             Download speed in kilobytes with one     

#                                    decimal                                  

#  exec              shell command   Executes a shell command and displays    

#                                    the output in torsmo. warning: this      

#                                    takes a lot more resources than other    

#                                    variables. I'd recommend coding wanted   

#                                    behaviour in C and posting a patch :-).  

#  execi             interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval. 

#                    command         Interval can't be less than              

#                                    update_interval in configuration.        

#  fs_bar            (height), (fs)  Bar that shows how much space is used on 

#                                    a file system. height is the height in   

#                                    pixels. fs is any file on that file      

#                                    system.                                  

#  fs_free           (fs)            Free space on a file system available    

#                                    for users.                               

#  fs_free_perc      (fs)            Free percentage of space on a file       

#                                    system available for users.              

#  fs_size           (fs)            File system size                         

#  fs_used           (fs)            File system used space                   

#  hr                (height)        Horizontal line, height is the height in 

#                                    pixels                                   

#  i2c               (dev), type, n  I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev   

#                                    may be omitted if you have only one I2C  

#                                    device. type is either in (or vol)       

#                                    meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp 

#                                    meaning temperature. n is number of the  

#                                    sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on     

#                                    your local computer.                     

#  kernel                            Kernel version                           

#  loadavg           (1), (2), (3)   System load average, 1 is for past 1     

#                                    minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for   

#                                    past 15 minutes.                         

#  machine                           Machine, i686 for example                

#  mails                             Mail count in mail spool. You can use    

#                                    program like fetchmail to get mails from 

#                                    some server using your favourite         

#                                    protocol. See also new_mails.            

#  mem                               Amount of memory in use                  

#  membar            (height)        Bar that shows amount of memory in use   

#  memmax                            Total amount of memory                   

#  memperc                           Percentage of memory in use              

#  new_mails                         Unread mail count in mail spool.         

#  nodename                          Hostname                                 

#  outlinecolor      (color)         Change outline color                     

#  pre_exec          shell command   Executes a shell command one time before 

#                                    torsmo displays anything and puts output 

#                                    as text.                                 

#  processes                         Total processes (sleeping and running)   

#  running_processes                 Running processes (not sleeping),        

#                                    requires Linux 2.6                       

#  shadecolor        (color)         Change shading color                     

#  stippled_hr       (space),        Stippled (dashed) horizontal line        

#                    (height)        

#  swapbar           (height)        Bar that shows amount of swap in use     

#  swap                              Amount of swap in use                    

#  swapmax                           Total amount of swap                     

#  swapperc                          Percentage of swap in use                

#  sysname                           System name, Linux for example           

#  time              (format)        Local time, see man strftime to get more 

#                                    information about format                 

#  totaldown         net             Total download, overflows at 4 GB on     

#                                    Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't 

#                                    seem to be a way to know how many times  

#                                    it has already done that before torsmo   

#                                    has started.                             

#  totalup           net             Total upload, this one too, may overflow 

#  updates                           Number of updates (for debugging)        

#  upspeed           net             Upload speed in kilobytes                

#  upspeedf          net             Upload speed in kilobytes with one       

#                                    decimal                                  

#  uptime                            Uptime                                   

#  uptime_short                      Uptime in a shorter format               

#

#  seti_prog                         Seti@home current progress

#  seti_progbar      (height)        Seti@home current progress bar

#  seti_credit                       Seti@hoome total user credit





# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter

# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network

# stuff because of an argument

#${font Dungeon:style=Bold:pixelsize=10}I can change the font as well

#${font Verdana:size=10}as many times as I choose

#${font Perry:size=10}Including UTF-8,

#${font Luxi Mono:size=10}justo como este texto que o google traduz fÃªz o portuguÃªs

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

#${font Grunge:size=12}${time %a  %b  %d}${alignr -25}${time %k:%M}



#$alignc center text

TEXT

${alignc}${voffset -1} Mem: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${mem} ${color}  |  ${color} CPU: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${cpu}${color}  |  ${color} Uptime: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${uptime_short}${color}  |  ${color} Down: ${color e0e0e0}${font}    ${downspeed wlan0} Kb/s ${color} ${totaldown wlan0} downloaded${color}  |  Up: ${color} ${color e0e0e0}   ${upspeed wlan0} Kb/s ${color} ${totalup wlan0} uploaded${color}  |  ${color}Home: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /} ${color} Data Shiz: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /media/Data Shiz}${color} Junk Trunk: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /media/Junk Trunk}${color} FreeAgent Drive: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /media/FreeAgent Drive}${color}

Last edited by medianmajik (2009-04-20 19:55:28)

anonymous · 2009-04-20 21:17:06

"2" is not enough, try 30 like I suggested.

medianmajik · 2009-04-20 22:20:17

anonymous wrote:

"2" is not enough, try 30 like I suggested.

I played around with it and have a much better setup now. I'll post any other Conky questions in the correct forum. Thanks for the tips.

Any ideas on this-
8. In the panel I'm unable to see the outline of objects on my other virtual desktops if I'm not working within that desktop. ex: Though I have a text editor running on desktop 2 I can't tell from the panel while using desktop 1.

anonymous · 2009-04-20 22:56:33

Yes thats normal: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … lications/

medianmajik · 2009-05-01 00:34:42

Suddenly I'm having trouble mounting NTFS and FAT partitions (my thumb drive and camera flash memory). Logging out and back in fixed the problem. What happened?

The volume "1.9 GB Removable Volume" uses the vfat file system which is not supported by your system
Directory not found!

Last edited by medianmajik (2009-05-01 00:37:23)

anonymous · 2009-05-01 00:49:28

Use Pysdm: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … partition/

medianmajik · 2009-05-01 01:38:51

Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/dists/intrepi … ackages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/dists/intrepi … ackages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I'm having problems updating my repos and can no longer upgrade. hmm

Last edited by medianmajik (2009-05-01 02:16:40)

medianmajik · 2009-05-22 00:54:31

I'm unable to mount NTFS usb drives. I get an Unable to Mount error. Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure
This problem started occurring in the last few weeks. I have no idea why

anonymous · 2009-05-22 00:57:40

If you launch PCManFM as root, can you access your NTFS drive?

Have you already used Pysdm like I previously suggested?

medianmajik · 2009-05-22 01:58:26

I tried root with the same results
I installed Pysdm, but I'm still learning how to use it. I'm confused on how to add read/write access to a drive. Even in pysdm the values have to be manually added for each drive.

Another problem I've had is VLC occassionally locking up when I attempt to close it. I've tried to kill it via System Monitor, it says 'killing,' but won't close unless I kill Openbox

Last edited by medianmajik (2009-05-22 02:08:51)

kBang · 2009-05-22 02:07:28

medianmajik wrote:

I tried root with the same results
I installed Pysdm, but I'm still learning how to use it. I'm confused on how to add read/write access to a drive.

sudo pysdm

a list of drives are on the left, in my case it is one drive, sda

1> sda

Selecting that will open up a list of partitions

1> sda
> sda1
> sda2
> sda4
> sda6
> sda7

Select the partition/drive you want. On the right of the interface you will see a button for mount/unmount, depending on the state of the partition/drive. The drive you want to access should be unmounted, select the mount button. Do this for all drives you need access too.

When closing out this interface box you should have the option to save your choices OR it does it for you, I forget which.

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