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MethodDan

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Registered: 2009-07-31

Posts: 8

A few basic queries

Apologies if these are all obvious but I've looked through the howto list and searched the forum a little without success so far. I know Gnome very well but hardly know Openbox at all. Other people have probably asked the same things. Anyway, here goes:

1. I have #! 9.04 on my Dell M1330 and I have the freedom hating Nvidia graphics driver installed. Compositing works great but I have to enable it every time I log in. It also prevents AWN from working until it's enabled, because AWN needs a compositing window manager. How do I set compositing to be enabled automatically? I presume it's in a config file somewhere but I can't find it.

2. I'm having some problem installing the very latest Gwibber (1.2) from the Ubuntu Daily PPA. In all other Ubuntu-based systems (Mint etc) I've been able to use the PPA and it would just prompt me to upgrade to 1.2, but on #! it's not working for me. It just stays at Gwibber 0.9.2 even when I do an Apt upgrade though the PPA is working and validated with the right keys. There's no error messages. I tried removing Gwibber with Apt and then installing it again hoping to get the new version but it seems to grab 0.9.2 from a Crunchbang repo. How can I fix this? I could disable the #! repo in my sources.list temporarily then install Gwibber, but I worry this could break things. I can't see anything wrong with the PPA setup. It's a weird problem. Not seen anything like it on any other Deb system.

3. My M1330 has hotkeys for controlling media playback and volume which work automatically with Gnome. They don't do anything in Openbox though sadly. Does anyone know how I would go about linking these to the media playback functions and volume controls in Openbox? I'm assuming it's a matter of finding out what Xorg calls the keys and then mapping them in a config file somewhere. Any ideas?

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for your help

Hanna

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From: Finland

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 760

Re: A few basic queries

2. I had similar problems and this thread was useful for me. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -in-90401/

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corenominal

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From: Lincoln, UK

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 5,081

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Re: A few basic queries

1. You need to edit your Openbox autostart.sh file, from the main menu go "Preferences -> Openbox Config -> Edit autostart.sh". Once the file is open, somewhere around line 35-37 you should see:

# Enable Eyecandy - off by default
# see "/usr/bin/crunchbang/xcompmgr-crunchbang" for more info
#xcompmgr-crunchbang --startstop &

Uncomment the last line so that it looks like:

# Enable Eyecandy - off by default
# see "/usr/bin/crunchbang/xcompmgr-crunchbang" for more info
xcompmgr-crunchbang --startstop &

Compositing should now be enabled whenever you start your session. Hope this helps.

P.S. compositing/xcompmgr can be a bit flakey at times, let us know how you get on with it.

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MethodDan

New Member

Registered: 2009-07-31

Posts: 8

Re: A few basic queries

Thanks guys, I'll check those solutions out

Kyte

#! Junkie

From: midwest usa

Registered: 2009-07-19

Posts: 275

Re: A few basic queries

This was an informative thread.

Kyte

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