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[Solved] Custom notification area applets

2010-03-22T03:48:29Z

I am not sure if this post belongs in help & support, but here goes...

I want to have some custom system tray/notification area applets. Basically, I would like the applets to behave in a similar fashion to how launcher applets work on some panels, such as the Xfce and GNOME panels; therefore, I would like to be able to assign a command and icon of my preference. So, before I go write my own code for this, I was wondering, does anyone know if something like this exists already?

Many thanks. :)

Alpha Networking Thread

2010-03-22T03:45:18Z

Taking an idea from alef, here is a thread for any networking issues/answers-to-issues for the alphas, as I'm assuming there will be more than one - hopefully this will prevent the already 10 page long alpha thread from hitting 30 by monday.

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My networking issues: Broadcom wireless card not supported
Solution: thanks to Richs-lxh --> http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … er-alpha1/ (at least until corenominal adds the support out of the box)

Statler system specs?

2010-03-22T03:44:16Z

can't wait to download Statler Alpha tomorrow. i read many people here are praising its responsiveness & that t even might bea #! 9.04 – but are there any system specs or minimal requirements in RAM and CPU for the new release?

Need help with kernel source / alsa drivers

2010-03-22T03:43:29Z

I have a particularly fussy audio card, and I stumbled apon this site:
http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/
It seems very promising, because alsa right now isnt supporting my conexant card.

I'm supposed to have gcc and make installed (which i do), and 'linux-headers'. Which is the problem.

I get
'Package linux-headers is a virtual package provided by:
linux-headers-2.6.30-2-amd64 2.6.30-8squeeze1
linux-headers-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+25
linux-headers-2.6.32-3-vserver-amd64 2.6.32-9
linux-headers-2.6.32-3-amd64 2.6.32-9
linux-headers-2.6-vserver-amd64 2.6.32+25
You should explicitly select one to install.'

But i don't know which one to install.
Also, running the deb file they provide gives me a bunch of errors related to the kernel source.

So i'm assuming i installed the wrong header. Could someone walk me through installing one, or choosing the right one?

bluetooth mouse/keyboard help

2010-03-22T03:41:45Z

I can't seem to get my bluetooth mouse and keyboard to work in crunchbang. They work fine in windows 7 (except after trying them in crunchbang I will always lose the sync connection when I go back to windows).

I tried doing these commands here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … bluetooth/

But the utility can never find the devices when searching (yes I hit the connect button and the bluetooth light is blinking!)

Any help would be appreciated.

Java trouble in Iceweasel

2010-03-22T03:03:13Z

I just spent hours searching for a reason why my java runtime didn't work in Iceweasel on Debian Testing, and I thought maybe someone here experienced the same problem.

Solution:

In /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf you have to change this line:
net.ipv6.bindv6only=1

To this:
net.ipv6.bindv6only=0

And run: invoke-rc.d procps restart

Then it just works...

Show desktop button in Tint2

2010-03-22T02:27:19Z

Is there a way to add a show desktop button in Tint2?

USB Install

2010-03-22T02:20:33Z

I copied the Xfce version of Statler to a USB drive using unetbootin. The live session works, but the installer wants to load some CD drivers on my EeePC and then errors out saying it can't load stuff from the USB drive. I've tried multiple USB sticks.

Any suggestions?

Need help for a newbee question.

2010-03-22T02:15:11Z

Hi I was trying to write the following to terminal without cut and paste
$ dmesg | grep -e rt2 -e wlan
But I could not find the symbol | after the dmesg on my keyboard. I googled it . Unsuccessfully. Now I guess it is time to ask :)
Thanks in advance.

Statler Thunar video thumbnails

2010-03-22T02:01:17Z

Are video thumbnails working in thunar with #! 10 "statler" ?

I have ffmpegthumbnailer and mplayerthumbs (in case) installed.

Thanks in advance

Statler intalls in under six minutes (amd64 tl60 notebook)

2010-03-22T02:00:18Z

Statler intalled in less time than sidux moros on my turion TL60 notebook.
The whole process 10 minutes. The install proper took less than 5 minutes.
The text installer was quite adequate for doing a manual partitioning installing \ to a 10G partition and \home to a separate partition.

2g of texlive and kde packages installed in under 30 minutes.

Kudos to #!

Error at step "Install system"

2010-03-22T01:55:14Z

I'm installing from a USB, as told by http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/statler … stallation

I didn't get any question "Load CD-ROM drivers from removable media?", so I needed to go to the shell in the Debian installation program and manually mount /dev/sdX to /cdrom:
mount /dev/sdX /cdrom

Everything works well until the step "Install the system" after partitioning the hard-discs.

It tells me it failed and I should redo the step, I don't get any information of what the actual problem is.

There is no difference between choosing normal or live install.

Can this be some sort of a problem because I manually mounted /dev/sdX on /cdrom?

PS.
I noticed ipw2200-bss.fw was required to get the network work on my laptop. So I needed to download this file on an USB and use it from there. This should be added to the distro.
DS.

CrunchBang 10 "Statler" Alpha 1 Released

2010-03-22T01:53:42Z

The first alpha of CrunchBang 10 "Statler" is now available. Download it at your own risk! :D

If you do decide to give it a try, please do not forget to provide feedback. Your comments and suggestions are really important to the future development of the project, so please warm-up your digits and get ready to type-up your notes.

For anyone who might be interested, I have written up some release notes on the wiki. Apologies about the lack of details, but this is a new start to the project and I am not sure I could reasonably detail every change.

P.S. Please do not break the new download servers. Captain Link Hogthrob, Dr. Julius Strangepork & First Mate Piggy are all new to the job, so take it easy on them! :)

Corenomial's New Tattoo

2010-03-22T01:50:38Z

This should be his tattoo...

:lol:

HAL CPU spike on netbooks - solution

2010-03-22T01:40:26Z

For those of us still using #! 9.04.1, I'm sure some of you have noticed that CPU usage spikes every few seconds, even with the system idling. This is apparently a known issue at the Ubuntu forums, and it has a simple solution: downgrade HAL and lock it. This is most easily done in Synaptic. ("Force Version" and "Lock Version" are both in the Package menu.)

This might coax a few more minutes out of our batteries and let the CPU run a little cooler.