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Although we hang out on G+, thought i'd post here anyway.
You were one of the people who got me into Crunchbang and your desktop designs still heavily influence mine. Your moderating style is worthy of any Linux forum, and your knowledge has helped endlessly.
You'll be missed here for sure.
Statler? No...... we want Waldorf ;-)
I'm a bit late to this thread, sorry about that. But I dual-booted FreeBSD with Crunchbang a while back and was very impressed. One of the things that I was really happy about was the community support. BSD has this (unfounded) reputation of being a bit RTFM like Debian, but I got nothing but help off the BSD guys.
If it's any help, I did a couple of write ups about my experience and included a few tips and tricks. It's an old post, but some of it still maybe relevant to a new BSD user, especially if you are going to test it on a laptop.
Blog posts:
http://debianandi.blogspot.com/2010/05/ … ences.html
http://debianandi.blogspot.com/2010/05/ … linux.html
Amazing dev support on the FreeBSD forums:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=81906
I have tested practically everything I can, Gettys, 3D games, Dvd video, xtightvncviewer runing a remote Windows XP desktop. Everything is cool on my machine with an ATI Radeon HD 5450.
Just been playing IO Urban Terror online with Desura, getting nearly 100 fps.
Everything working pretty well on my system. If you guys like, when I get back i'll do a few benchmark tests and post the results.
The reason I installed these drivers for my card is that for some reason, after an upgrade, my freshly installed CB would scroll a load of ati errors then stay at the console. When I ctrl+alt+F7, GDM was there, but wasn't loading automatically.
Installed the new drivers, rebooted and everything was back to normal. Tested a few games etc, and on first appearances, everything was running well.
I posted this on my blog, and a couple of people suggested posting it here as well.
Installing Manually on Crunchbang Statler (32/64bit)
This method uses the latest Catalyst driver downloaded from AMD/ATI's site for newer Ati/Radeon cards.
This was tested on a virgin install with no other previous attempts at installing Ati drivers. If you have an already edited system, with other drivers installed, remove them "completely" first.
Do everything below as root, in the /root directory
Install the prerequisite packages:
apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 module-assistantMake sure you are ready to go with Module Assistant:
m-a prepareDownload the latest Catalyst package:
This package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver (if you are on a 64bit machine, install ia32-libs)
cd ~/; mkdir catalyst11.10; cd catalyst11.10/wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-10-x86.x86_64.run chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-10-x86.x86_64.runLaunch the Ati installer and go through the motions:*
./ati*run* I also tried making the .deb package, but it fails. So I just run the installer.
Now reboot, don't try glxgears or the catalyst control center, in fact don't-touch-anything, just reboot.
I got this in a RSS feed from Planet Crunchbang
Howto install Minus.com filesharing desktop app on Debian Squeeze or Crunchbang
I just grabbed the deb from the 64 bit dload link and let gdebi take care of it all..
Works perfectly ..
Thanks for the traffic VastOne, glad everyone is happy with Minus, I absolutely love it. It has saved me a lot of trouble lately by allowing me to share large files such as distro isos.
Yes you can, by adding the user to the group which owns the directory. maybe have a look at my Howto, might provide some tips:
http://debianandi.blogspot.com/2011/09/ … s-for.html
If you are not the sort of person who will say "If it breaks I will just fix it" then the disclaimer is a good thing, as it will keep you moving on.
I agree. It also brings out the curiosity in people, as well as a typical-linux-user trait of wanting to see if it really-will-break........ so that we can tinker and fix it 
I've just recently got hold of (after years of searching) the 4 Kidd novels by John Sandford (aka John Camp)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sandf … idd_series
The characters are a Hacker (Kidd) and his friend/girlfriend and expert burglar Luellen. I read The Fool's Run after finding it in a second-hand bookstore. A friend of mine recently found the remaining 3 listed on an online second hand dealer, and got them shipped to me for a grand total of €9.00 incl Post & Packaging from the USA !! To say I was ecstatic was an understatement.
Certainly books I am going to reread.
My latest but still old tint2 config:
*snip tintrc*
I came here looking for a smaller Tint2 config, and that is perfect! Thanks Sector11
Sometimes we need a negative to get a positive eh? I may have a look at PCManFM myself, if you say the new version is better, and tabbed browsing would be nice.
Before I found Crunchbang and openbox, I was a staunch Fluxbox user and used the lightweight Xfm file manager. It was quite good and had a lot of features, but I kind of got used to Thunar.
EDIT: Ok, just installed it, very nice. Thanks for the suggestion h8uthemost, i'll give it a test-run this week.
Interesting topic, i'll be following this.
A quick Google lead me to Openbox themeing and things you can do with Title Bars. I can only see colours, but maybe you could also use the theme to manipulate the actual titles themeselves.
Not much, but it's a start:
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes#win … text.color
Listening to Rathole Radio 60 - Great free music, live song and chat.
I have a Broadcom card, and yours (BC4309) requires the b43 module.
From Linux Wireless Wiki: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
b43legacy should be used on all BCM4301 cards and BCM4306 cards with a 80211 core revision of 4 or less. b43 should be used on all other cards.
There are a couple of things I always check with Broadcom on Netbooks and Laptops:
1. Physically switched on. Either by Button (laptop) or Fn+F2 (Netbook)
2. Check or reinstall everything related to wireless and kernel modules. It's amazing how somebody can't get Broadcom to work, just because they haven't got something as simple as wget installed!
What I would do (just a suggestion I might add, i'm sure you've probably tried this)
Connect the machine via cable into your router to get online.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradeYou'v probably got all these, but it won't hurt to check:
sudo apt-get install module-assistant wireless-tools firmware-b43-installer wget b43fwcutterModule assistant will fetch everything needed to build, build-essential, kernel headers, libc etc.
sudo m-a prepareReboot.
Is b43 module loaded?
lsmodLet's reconfigure it anyway:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure firmware-b43-installerIt should go to openwrt, fetch (wget) and extract(b43fwcutter) the needed Broadcom firmware.
If your card is physically switched on/activated, we should be able to bring it up with:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 upAnd check:
sudo iwlist scanningI use manual (interfaces/resolv.conf) or wicd to connect (nm-applet and network-manager have caused me problems in the past), if you have wicd, make sure you have added wlan0 to the wireless part in configuration.
There have been some laptops/netbooks which played up, and needed to have the switch clicked and rebooted, or I had to remove the b43 module ad reload it, or take down and bring up wlan0 a couple of times, so go for a bit of trial and error. Your card uses b43, so if you have everything installed, and the b43 module loaded, it can only be a hardware problem after that.
I actually did have a problem with Thunar a while back. I copied a load of files to a backup partition, and then (stupidly) deleted the originals. When I opened the backup partition they were gone.
As far as I know, to keep Thunar refreshed you need gamin installed and gam_server running. Also, have you still got "$ thunar --daemon &" in your .config/openbox/autostart.sh ?
There are also apps to shutdown running services at startup:
http://theos.in/desktop-linux/removing- … -services/
As mentioned, Links2. If running this browser in X use -g switch, it'll render images, for simple webpages it is more than enough.
links2 -g
Hooked!
Thanks for that, you learn something new every day. I have lynx, elinks, w3m... but links2 with the -g switch is just awesome.
I don't use Alpine, but I have two other guides with Mutt and Encryption that may help.
1. Pgp with Mutt: http://richs-lxh.com/howto_gpg-sign-emails-with-mutt/
2. Encrypt/Decrypt script: http://richs-lxh.com/crunchbang-linuxri … t-scripts/
ZAP wrote:I guess I got into this habit from using Ubuntu for years (reformat and reinstall every six months, whether you need to or not).
Strange I always thought the reinstalling mentality was Windows exclusive
He! I re-install stuff just for fun
Distros, Websites, Apps, anything. Fresh installs are strangely theraputic.
@ModTod
Welcome to the CB forums, you only get the real benefit of the forums by sharing, so where's this desktop screenshot then?
My family branded me as a failure, then I invented an invisibility cloak.
If only they could see me now.
A man came into my video store and asked if we had "Thor". I said, "It's only just come out at the cinema, mate."
He said, "No, I'm talking about the one where that man chopth hith leg off."
Just my 2 cents worth.
After mucking about with /etc/openbox/keyboard and configure-keyboard, neither of which worked for me, I modified the autostart.sh and now everything is working well.
I wanted to add that, with openbox, you can easily modify your autostart via the menu Settings > Openbox Config > Edit autostart.sh
Thanks everyone
Sam
Would have been better to modify:
/etc/default/keyboardJust a suggestion
I tried it and got the same problem. I think the plugin is just old and incompatible now.
Why not just setup Samba the traditional way and share a /home/you/shared directory?
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