• From: Tampa, FL
  • Registered: 2011-12-03
  • Posts: 17

Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

i love the shortcuts, and the desktop. grays are awsome and the functionality of the distro flows in harmony throughout. like wielding a Katana, the blade of the distro takes on the spirit of the user. ceremonial, you are a master distro craftsman - a sort of artist in many respects. a genious in your own right. Thank you for your creation and your contribution to Linux.

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  • Registered: 2009-03-09
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Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

My experience installing #! r20111125 onto an Acer Aspire One netbook...

Booted #! r20111125 from a live USB and started the graphical install on an Acer Aspire One netbook (running on battery) with Windows XP, Ubuntu 10.04 and the previous #! on it. The graphical installer ran full-screen on the widescreen netbook screen but the aspect ratio appeared to be wrong -- everything looked squashed. The touchpad worked for movement, but clicking required using the touchpad button; tapping the touchpad did not click (a Debian "issue"). I removed the Ubuntu, previous #! and /home partitions, created new partitions and installed without any problems. GRUB detected Windows XP and installed fine. On rebooting, only #! appeared in the GRUB menu -- Windows XP did not appear sad Solved with 'sudo update-grub' as described here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … stallation.

#! loaded fine -- nice to see the detail without Plymouth. SLIM is minimal indeed -- not even a "Shutdown" option from the login screen. Wireless worked out of the box. Let 'cb-welcome' run 'update' on repositories but nothing more. Selecting 'Reboot' rebooted and Windows XP appeared in GRUB. Time showed correctly. Wireless connected again automatically. 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' only wanted to install ~3MB of updates, so I installed them. Tapping the touchpad now produced a click. Enabling compositing with xcompmgr resulted in the conky "window" appeared with a shadow/border on the desktop which it didn't have before. cairo-compmgr produced a bright white fullscreen flash on switching desktops and resulted in conky appearing through the maximized terminal and appearing above other windows.

I'm sure there are solutions to most of the little problems I experienced -- I'm not posting this as a critical review and I haven't yet searched for solutions. I'm just posting my actual initial experiences installing and running the r20111125 release. I still love #! and this is a pretty slick release smile Now for a few quick customizations: Debian bulbs wallpaper, white on black Terminator smile Time to move across my settings, bearing in mine this post: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/165563/#p165563.

Update: Hibernate (to disk) and resume work too (they didn't in the earlier release).

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2011-12-07 14:51:20)

• #! Waldorf • Support #! •
  • From: Tampa, FL
  • Registered: 2011-12-03
  • Posts: 17

Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

@SabreWolfy
" On rebooting, only #! appeared in the GRUB menu -- Windows XP did not appear sad Solved with 'sudo update-grub' as described here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … stallation."

Dang, if only i would have known this before! I had installed #! on my HP touchsmart and ran into the same problem. I just continued to reinstall winblows 7 and keep #! on the laptop.

thanks for the link, will keep for future refrence.

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  • Registered: 2009-03-09
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Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

seraphtrend wrote:

@SabreWolfy
" On rebooting, only #! appeared in the GRUB menu -- Windows XP did not appear sad Solved with 'sudo update-grub' as described here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … stallation."

Dang, if only i would have known this before! I had installed #! on my HP touchsmart and ran into the same problem. I just continued to reinstall winblows 7 and keep #! on the laptop.

thanks for the link, will keep for future refrence.

Glad to know it was useful to you smile

• #! Waldorf • Support #! •
  • Registered: 2011-11-13
  • Posts: 4

Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

Been using Crunchbang for a while, off-and-on.  Was using previous Statler install on my DellMini 10", quite happily, and thought I'd give this a look.  Glad for the newer kernel, tweaks on the stock apps and other fresh items.  Here's my first-day feedback:

1) Win7 Partitions not detected originally by grub, fine after
    grub-update
2) No shutdown/reboot from login screen/is this fixable?
- check #! forums
- research new login manager (SLIM?)
3) Geany is ugly and takes up lots of real-estate on a netbook screen
- need to understand it's upside and install old for side-by-side
- +1 it auto-opens last file?
4) apt sources.list
- +1 like clean organization and #! vs Debian layout
- I like the crunchbang mirrors for mozilla and multimedia (that one's
    new by me).  But for ease of adjustment/outage I'd like to have the
    stock repositories listed in sources.list, at least as a comment
5) How bout choice of conky configs in cb-welcome? Maybe choices
    generated as results of #! conky submission/contest?
6) cb-welcome dist-upgrade didn't ask for any confirmation after giving
    me the list of available install/updates
7) What happened to Places in the main menu!?!? That was a BIG positive
    for me!  Shouldn't be too hard to copy across from old install,
    but here's a big vote for keeping that!
8) The dark gray-scale google homepage is hot, and the OpenID option
    is pretty sharp too... wish I knew it was still under development
    before I shared my gmail credentials, but appreciate your sharing
    the    work in progress rather than hiding it.

  • Registered: 2011-11-13
  • Posts: 4

Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

Answer-Own-Question

Found the following in the SLiM Manual here: http://slim.berlios.de/manual.php, RE: Shutdown/Reboot from Login Screen:

You may shutdown, reboot, suspend, exit or even launch a terminal from the SLiM login screen. To do so, enter the appropriate value in the username field, and the root password in the password field:

    To launch a terminal, enter console as the username (defaults to xterm which must be installed separately... edit /etc/slim.conf to change terminal preference)
    For shutdown, enter halt as the username
    For reboot, enter reboot as the username
    For suspend, enter suspend as the username
    To exit to the shell, enter exit as the username

Entering the root password seems a little onerous compared to GDM options for shutdown/reboot, but the console and shell options are interesting.

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Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

^ This can be problematic if the root account isn't unlocked first...if you haven't done `sudo passwd` then it's still locked a la Ubuntu...

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  • Registered: 2011-12-31
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Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

Hi!

I am new in here, I have used Ubuntu just since 9.04, until this week because it was kind of slow, so I decided to try some other distros. I started with Linux Mint, it was ok, but MATE+Gnome3 are redundant, then I used Fedora, but I had been using ubuntu with Gnome 3 instead of unity because I wanted to try something different (I have to say I do like Unity and I think its future is brilliant if merges with Gnome 3 in some way) and the boot time is as long as Ubuntu's. Then I tryed something 'clouder' and moved to Joli OS, but it crashed earlier today. Finally, I found #! and installed it without even try the live CD because of what I read about it. I loved the concept and the name and... it said that the boot time was specially short and it would work very fast, plus, it's Debian-based, which I like because that's what I've tried.

Now I still loving it because it is faster than the others and the UI is quite different, makes me move my brain forward and, despite all of the other distros I tried: I did not have to do anything to get my wireless working. So Thank you.

Last thing I have to say in this post is that I am not a developer and dont know pretty much about programming (nor english): I am a Chemical Engineering undergrauate Colombian student and I want to use #! for my academic purposes which includes Matlab programming. Actually, this is the only OS in my Dell inspiron 1545 (4Gb, intel core 2 duo) and I like it as it is.

PD: I'm sorry about my english, I hope it is understandable... que viva Colombia!... y que viva #!

  • Registered: 2009-03-09
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Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

@#!Francisco: Welcome to #! and the forums. Don't worry, your English is fine smile

I've also spent many hours "distro-hopping" between Ubuntu and Mint and Fedora and I always come back to #! smile Wireless on my laptop also worked straight away for me. I've now installed #! on my Acer netbook and my Acer laptop. I'm also considering replacing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my two desktop machines with #! next year. Good luck with #! -- there are lots of people here to assist you if you run into any problems smile

• #! Waldorf • Support #! •
  • From: Tampa, FL
  • Registered: 2011-12-03
  • Posts: 17

Re: #! Statler, November 2011 Update

@#!Francisco
Welcome to #! And the forums. I also have distro hoped all the way to #! My wireless worked the fist time
i was so impressed with that. i have been using linux for my academics for some time now and have saved alot of money
with the open source apps. yo soy cubano y tambien hablo espanol. trata de promover a los sistemas linux y a #!
a tus amistades. la comunidad latina esta cresiendo rapidamente aqui en los forums.
bienvenido paisa y que todo te vaye bien. smile

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