A minor hobby of mine is to have several partitions on my #1 drive with various flavors of Debian. I have LibreOffice installed in /opt, which is a separate partition shared by all the distros I have installed.

In two installs of Crunchbang Statler, LO starts out working fine, but then some days later, the File / Open function stops completely. No matter which way I go at it (icon, menu, shortcut), nothing happens.

I didn't want to do it, but I've started an installation of OpenOffice from the repositories.

Lane

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(6 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)

EmelFM2 has long been my favorite. I keep trying new fm's, but I always come back to EmelFM2.

Unfortunately, it's not working right in my new install of CB Statler 64-bit. The window comes up OK, but I can't execute many of the functions. For example, if I click the Up arrow to move from /boot/grub to /boot, I get this error in the status window:
>pane1.go_up
Failed to execute child process "pane1.go_up" (No such file or directory).

I downloaded and installed emelfm2_0.7.4-1_amd64.deb.

Do you know how to fix this?

Lane

bobrossw wrote:

^yeah, I know, I comment it out anyway in case that one line will make any difference in boot time.  also I figured the OP probably wanted to fiddle with autostarting programs in general.

Oh, yes, I love to fiddle!

It may say "first run," but it runs every time I boot.

Lane

Thanks!

Lane

I'm sure this is answered somewhere, but I don't know how to search for it.

I just installed Statler, and I did the desired upgrades offered by the terminal script that comes up at boot time. Now I'd like to stop the script from running any more. How do I do that?

Lane

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I've used lxpanel with satisfaction in the past, but forgot about it. And I want to look at the others you suggested before I decide.

Lane

My wife's laptop is currently running Xubuntu, and I'd like to replace it with CB/Openbox. However, she runs only a few programs, most of which she runs maximized. So the right-click menu is not useful for her.

I'd like to configure a panel along the bottom of her desktop that has a single workspace taskbar, a tray, and a group of program-starting icons for the few programs that she uses.

I don't think Tint2 will do all of that. Do you have a suggestion?

Lane

Although I'm running Openbox, I'm planning to replace my wife's Xubuntu with Statler XFCE. But I have her used to single clicks to do everything. Is it possible to configure XFCE so that desktop icons will execute with a single click, and if so, how?

Lane

Well, I did a bit of carving on my conkyrc, and although I don't have a solution, I have an observation.

If I change this value to "no":

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer no# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

...the behavior described goes away. What replaces it is a perfect display of everything... that flashes off and on every time Conky refreshes. Too bad.

Here's my conkyrc:

# conky configuration

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window no

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=10

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# GiB -> G
short_units yes
pad_percents 2

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2.0

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

text_buffer_size 6144 # 256 is the minimum

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
#minimum_size 1000 5  # I comment this out it was creating problems

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
# stippled_borders 8

# Conky: border_margin is deprecated, please use window.border_inner_margin instead
# border_inner_margin 4

# border width
# border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
# use_spacer right

temperature_unit fahrenheit

# -- Lua Load -- #
lua_load ~/Conky/ConkyCirclesBruce.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats

# Text alignment
alignment tl  # <<------- use this

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 40  # <<--------- also the gaps, it positions the weather away from the edge
gap_y 48  # <<--------- from the top. 

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen


# I renamed the template you'll have to do the same
# I also changed the day name to three characters (Wed) as Wednesday (the longest day name) doesn't fit.
# I also moved: CPU: 5% a little closer to the circle, so when it becomes CPU: 22% there will be room

TEXT
${voffset 26}${goto 1177}${font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=10}${time %a}
${goto 1157}${time %m/%d/%y}
${goto 1157}${time %I:%M:%S}
${voffset 62}${goto 1165}${color medium sea green}Kernel
${goto 1144}${color }$kernel
${voffset 58}${goto 1157}${color medium sea green}CPU: ${color }$cpu%
${goto 1157}${color medium sea green}MEM: ${color }$memperc%
${goto 1157}${color medium sea green}SWP: ${color }$swapperc%



${voffset 12}${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}Highest CPU:
${goto 1090}${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1}
${goto 1090}${color white} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${goto 1090}${color white} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${goto 1090}${color white} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}Highest MEM:
${goto 1090}${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${goto 1090}${color white} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${goto 1090}${color white} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${goto 1090}${color white} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}

${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}NET: 
${goto 1090}${color white}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth0} k/s
${goto 1090}${upspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${goto 1090}${color white}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth0}k/s${color}
${goto 1090}${downspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 ffffff}

${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}PARTITIONS: 
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}ROOT:  ${color }${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /}
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}DOCS:  ${color }${fs_used /mnt/docs}/${fs_size /mnt/docs}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /mnt/docs}
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}PICS:  ${color }${fs_used /mnt/pics}/${fs_size /mnt/pics}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /mnt/pics}
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}MUSIC: ${color }${fs_used /mnt/music}/${fs_size /mnt/music}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /mnt/music}
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}ARC:   ${color }${fs_used /mnt/arc}/${fs_size /mnt/arc}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /mnt/arc}
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}INT:   ${color }${fs_used /mnt/int}/${fs_size /mnt/int}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /mnt/int}
${goto 1090}${color medium sea green}OPT:   ${color }${fs_used /opt}/${fs_size /opt}
${goto 1090}${fs_bar 3,100 /opt}
${execpi 1800 conkyForecast --location=USGA0115 --imperial --template=~/Conky/conkyforecast/conkyForecastClarkesville.template}

Lane

Hey, great question, corenominal, thanks! And thank you, Robin, for your suggestion. Frankly, since my video is working fine now and I have a rotten track record with compiling, I better stick with what I have. BTW, Robin, I love your location; mine is also a bit different.

Yes, it's something with my setup. I found a thread on here with a conkyrc, and it runs just fine with no video problems.

It's a pretty plain setup with just text and thin horizontal graphs for CPU/RAM/Swap/Temperature.

Obviously the next step is to carve out pieces of my rather elaborate display (mostly thanks to Bruce), and see what's causing the breakage.

More later...

Lane
http://www.lanelester.com/cap-fs.jpg

My Conky setup in Statler runs just fine if Fluxbox is the WM. But switch to Openbox, and the video is screwed up. Oh, Conky looks perfect, but Tint2 and any open windows are messed up.

Tint 2 vanishes, and parts of open windows appear while the mouse cursor passes over them and then disappear again.

My motherboard uses an nVidia chipset GeForce6100PM-M2, and I'm using driver 190.53-1.

Lane

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(0 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))

For some reason, Openbox and Conky don't get along with my nVidia motherboard-chipset system. Openbox seems to run fine, Conky runs fine, but after I start Conky, windows behave erratically, appearing and disappearing as I move the mouse around.

I found I could run Fluxbox instead of Openbox and avoid the above problem. But that leads to the subject of this post. I have a couple of tray program, checkmail and alarm-applet. They show up fine in Openbox, but not in Fluxbox.

Do you have a recommendation?

Lane

richs-lxh wrote:

Try emailing Nvidia and Ati and ask them why they won't provide the latest Linux native drivers. Drivers are manufacturer problems, not Linux problems.

As you know, Rich, your post is the standard Linux response whenever there is a problem with some kind of hardware. There's no doubt that it's true, but it's also true that the developers of some distros do whatever can be done to make it easier for users to use their hardware.

In one of the distros I use, the first boot after installation, a prompt comes up offering to install the appropriate proprietary-if-necessary drivers for my nVidia chipset.

Lane

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(46 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 10 "Statler")

slapfish wrote:

interesting...so actually I don't have to install lets say openoffice again if I already have it installed on opt of different partition? (I can copy it to /opt of the current partition if I want?)

There's no copying involved. The same /opt partition is being used by all the distros on my system. I always use the manual partition option for Debian/Ubuntu installs, and along with assigning the root (/) partition to be formatted, I select /dev/hda6 (where I have my /opt files) to be unformatted and mounted as /opt.

I download the OO .debs from oo.org and use dpkg to install them. That automatically puts most of the files in /opt. You need to run dpgk in the main folder of the package and the subfolder in it.

After installing the distro, I add a menu item to Fluxbox or Openbox or whatever to:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

The above also works very similarly for the Firefox you get from mozilla.com.

Lane

15

(46 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 10 "Statler")

I like having Firefox (and OpenOffice) installed in /opt, because it's on a separate partition which is accessible to the several distros I have running on my machine. That makes my two main programs available without separate installations on any distro I choose to boot.

My impression of all the non-Firefox-name Firefoxes is that they are always older than the current release of Firefox and some of my plugins don't work.

Regretfully, Firefox is the reason I can't run Statler much, because switching between tabs often takes as long as five seconds. Hopefully, that problem will go away with upgrades to Statler.

Lane

16

(34 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 10 "Statler")

And I thought I was the only Linux user in the world who prefers to run as root. smile

On most forums, when I express my preference I usually get flamed by the true believers who think you should never run as anything but a lowly user.

Lane

A couple of small strangenesses:

In Firefox, clicking another tab sometimes takes 5 seconds to switch.

I'm running a small utility, CheckGmail, which I have configured to execute this command when email comes in:
alsaplayer /mnt/music/WAVs/quartet.wav

In Ubuntu Lucid, the WAV is automatically played, but in Statler the alsaplayer program comes up with quartet.wav loaded. To hear it, I would have to punch the Play button.

Lane

18

(4 replies, posted in WM/DE Talk)

Thanks for the tips, guys!

Lane

19

(12 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 10 "Statler")

I suppose color is a bad word in CrunchBang, but I like the icons in the Fluxbox menu. Otherwise, I agree there's no significant difference.

I've been using Lxpanel in my Ubuntu Lucid Fluxbox system, but seeing Tint2 in Statler led me to make the switch in Ubuntu. Tint's large workspace sections and transparency look great with my colored backgrounds. cool

Lane

klanger wrote:

Oh& also not here but somewhere in the forum there was a complain about text based installer...
My God, #!-alpha text installer is the easiest I have ever seen - enter/enter/enter/name/password/enter/enter/reboot wink

Agreed. I'm pretty much a GUI guy, but I thought the text install was terrific... and I install a lot of distros. Of course, with my two drives and flock of partitions, there were a few more steps than what you listed.

Lane

21

(4 replies, posted in WM/DE Talk)

I'm a Fluxbox user taking a look at Openbox in CB Statler, and I have a couple of questions.

I see something about a dock in the config, but there's no dock on the screen. Is something necessary to enable it?

I almost never want windows maximized over the whole screen, but I often want them maximized in just the vertical dimension. Is there an easy way to do this (mouse click or keypress) ini Openbox?

Lane

pvsage wrote:

Is there a Debian repository with anything similar to acroread?  I hate to have to use it, but there are some websites I visit (including online banking) with embedded PDF's.

Evince is the PDF reader I use... and it seems to be installed by default.

Lane

Thanks again, Rich! It worked here just like it worked in Tota Linux. And this time I remembered that I needed to reboot and not just logoff to get it working. tongue

Lane