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Topic: Cr48 #!

I have recently recycled my past-beta-period cr48 into a much faster and more capable laptop by putting #! on it. The installation was kind of a pain but went seamlessly once I figured out that I had to use 'dd' from linux terminal to create the startup usb.

I am having a few noticeable problems. Each time I leave hibernation, or even after just some short delays for no real reason sometimes, the icons in the upper right hand corner slip further from the click that they are supposed to be directly adjacent to.

Additionally, with each hibernation, the screen resets to a darker screen brightness. I can only fix this from restarting. (xbacklight doesn't seem to be installed, and xgamma is a different thing entirely.) Since the cr48 doesn't have a function key, and it's special function (volume and brightness) keys are now considered F keys (F1-F10), I cannot try using Fn + F7 to ajust the brightness and volume. My Brightness is now terrible unless I restart.

I have tried using rc.xml to set these hotkeys. The audio keys I have tried my hand at (with commands like: <command>amixer sset Master, 0 toggle</command>), but those do not work... they normally just end up opening a file menu or something.  Also, there appears to be no hotkeys for Fn+F7 in that file anyways (I was going to copy those commands into the regular F7 commands, ect.).  (The volume keys are no big deal, I can edit volume through GUI, it would just be NICE if I could set them as proper hotkeys.)

What happened to the launcher tray for shortcuts that used to be in the startler? I kind of miss it? And there's no graphic software manager (Which I can deal with, but am kind of bleh about).

Additionally, Is there a way that I can add more things to the desktop bar that is normally there on my desktop... like widgets or something? I normally see screenshots of #! having graphs and the like.

Help with any or all of the above would be nice.

Ciao.

Last edited by Sm3 (2012-01-31 14:48:52)

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Re: Cr48 #!

Sm3 wrote:

Each time I leave hibernation, or even after just some short delays for no real reason sometimes, the icons in the upper right hand corner slip further from the click that they are supposed to be directly adjacent to.

There is a work-around for this. Just click on that icon (this is an xfce4-power-manager icon) and in properties, disable "show icon" in task menu.

:-)

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I normally see screenshots of #! having graphs and the like.

This is most probably conky with its "lua" rings - for that you will need to tweak conky config file, for more info just type "conky" in #! forum search form (or follow this link -> http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/search/1109777195/

Last edited by klanger (2012-01-31 15:01:27)

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Re: Cr48 #!

Thanks for the advice.... both of those seemed to work pretty well. I've also seemed to fix the screen brightness issue through disabling screen brightness lowering in the power option menu.

I still would be able to bind screen brightness and volume to the proper hotkeys... or at least edit screen brightness during OS uptime.

In software, I seem to have Geany instead of "Gedit (which I'm more used to)," and my software list doesn't really match up with the Wiki's Application List. Is Geany better than Gedit? or should I switch back? In general, are there any applications you guys run instead of the ones that come as default. (I've already switched from ICEWEASEL back to CHROME).

Additionally, I would like to know how to install alternative languages on #! (Primarily Chinese, Korean, and Japanese).

Finally, I've been editing my menu, and have noticed a lot of "Install" things in there. I have been going through the menu.xml and OpenBox Menu Editor GUI and find that these are under "pipeline" commands instead of the regular "Execute" commands for the other ones. Is there a way that I can get rid of the install scripts? maybe a folder or something that they're stored in?

Last edited by Sm3 (2012-02-01 16:31:08)

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Re: Cr48 #!

Sm3 wrote:

In software, I seem to have Geany instead of "Gedit (which I'm more used to)," and my software list doesn't really match up with the Wiki's Application List. Is Geany better than Gedit? or should I switch back? In general, are there any applications you guys run instead of the ones that come as default. (I've already switched from ICEWEASEL back to CHROME).

The wiki is a bit outdated. Geany is the new default on the November release. Better, no idea, you have to try them both. Eeverything I run has nothing to do with the default but it would be without sense to tell you all my apps I use. Synaptic can give you answers about what apps you could try out, just search for media etc etc.

Sm3 wrote:

Additionally, I would like to know how to install alternative languages on #! (Primarily Chinese, Korean, and Japanese).

Do you mean another locale or the fonts for these languages?

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Re: Cr48 #!

I'm not sure whether I want another locale or the fonts... I just want to be able to type and read in languages like the three I mentioned.

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Re: Cr48 #!

For some reason, Whenever I come out of hibernate, my wireless detects a hardware switch as having turned of my wifi. This is not the case, and restarting fixes the problem. Any way I can turn my wifi back on without having to reboot, or avoid the problem entirely. (I've bypassed this issue by using Suspend instead... is that like sleep? Also, if there are any solutions for this, I think I'd still rather use Hibernation if available.)

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Re: Cr48 #!

Ok, sorry for coming too late, was at work.

For the fonts, to be able to read them/see them, install these packages:

fonts-unfonts-core
fonts-arphic-ukai
fonts-arphic-uming
ttf-sazanami-gothic
ttf-sazanami-mincho
ttf-kochi-mincho
ttf-kochi-gothic
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Awesome, installed and can read those fonts now ^^ But how do I type in them?

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Re: Cr48 #!

That is another story.

You need for example ibus for that: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ibus

Search in Synaptic for the Asian ibus stuff, for eaxample for Chinese you need: 

ibus-chewing

The Debian Wiki can also help here.

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OK, awesome! I can now type in all languages...

Now all I need to do is figure out the key-binding thing. I've ensured that the commands work when typed into terminal, and they do. But they will not successfully bind to my F keys. For Example:

<keybind key="F8">
      <action name="Mute">
          <action name = "Execute">
              <command>amixer sset Master toggle</command>
          </action>
      </action>
</keybind>

I have used the manuals here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/configuring_keybindings to set this up, but it does not function. I even used Xev to make sure my Cr48's special function commands were bound to the F keys.

Last edited by Sm3 (2012-02-06 14:36:44)

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Re: Cr48 #!

Hm, I do not use Openbox. That is why I just referred to the language switch as I use that heavily.

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