I have an eeePC 701 wich I like although it has only 7 inch display. I usually have some light Linux distribution on it. In some number of Linux Format DVD I found a nice light distribution with a beautifull desktop. Openbox with a vulcano and a panel on the upper part of the desktop.
On the terminal I updated the system using upt-get update and upgrade. Ones something was asked for me about configuration of X wich I did not understand.
After starting the system i can choose either openbox or something called razor but what ever I do I only get the bare Openbox desktop and not all of the nice stuff I originally had.
I could do the installation again but unfortunately I am on an iland on the Gulf of Finland in my summercottage and the Linux Format is 600 km avay in my home town Oulu :roll:
If the panel was on top, then it must have been the Gnome desktop, which is one that I have never used. Get on IRC and ask how to reinstall the Gnome desktop and its associated login manager.
If Openbox and Razor-qt are involved, it is more likely siduction razor-qt, which can be found in the download section. First I would try to install everything with razor in the name. to get back the wallpaper, try to rightclick the desktop and go from there.
greetz
devil
Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-session-fallback libebook-1.2-13 libedata-book-1.2-13 libedataserverui-3.0-1 task-gnome-desktop
I get this today so I think it was Gnome.
The present working linux has the Openbox-desktop. For eeePC 701 it suits well :)
I found The Openbox Configuration manager. The theme in use is Onyx-Citrus which I do not want to change. But how to get some nice desktop-file or a panel or icons on it.
There should be information of how-to for that somewhere. I would appreciate the knowledge becouse I have some problems to find it from the Net for the sake of slow and varying nett-connection I heve here.
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By the way, I have the English kb. installed. There were some terminal-command to change it something like
"keyboard-fi" to get the Finnish kb. Kindly tell me :?:
I really don't know why you have lost your razor desktop and how you can get it back. But if you want to keep using pure openbox you can customize it a little further than with just obconf:
An important file to configure the desktop will be ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh, there you can add everything you want your openbox desktop to display on start.
E.g. you can use the little picture viewer feh to display a background wallpaper (AFAIK feh is included in siduction, if not it is small download away):
1. Create the file ~/.fehbg and add
feh --bg-scale '/the/path/to/your/wallpaper.jpg'The volcano wallpaper is /usr/share/wallpapers/siduction-firestarter.jpg.
2. Tell your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh to use it by adding:
sh ~/.fehbg
If you prefer a wallpaper that shows you the current weather you can give izulu a try but alas it's not in Debian: http://izulu.sourceforge.net/
You can also add panel and desktop calls to your autostart.sh. As a panel you can e.g. use razor-panel which should be already installed (in your autostart.sh followed by a & to send it to background) or wbar. I guess wbar was the one at the top of your razor desktop - a short bar with just some icons that grew in size when your mouse hovered over them?
Icons on the desktop can be achieved by idesk or rox-filer.
Edit: Keyboard configuration is done by
su -c 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'
Thank you / Vielen Dank :)
But unfortunately keyboard-configuration did not work.
ukki@eeepc:~$ su -c 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'
Password:
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
ukki@eeepc:~$
By the way, I soon drive back to Oulu and there I have all my nice stuff and get the original installation back. But I have started to appreciate the simple Openbox-distribution and might only to configre it a bit. After that it would be ideal for eeePC 701.
The small problem is only to get the Finnish keyb. Although I could do with the English kb. also. One should not be too particular :wink:
Weird... There really seems to be some trouble in the system. But as long as the situation is temporary...
QuoteOn the terminal I updated the system using upt-get update and upgrade.
Just "upgrade" and not "dist-upgrade"? That might be the cause of the trouble...
"upgrade" and not "dist-upgrade"
I think I know the difference 8)
But I might have done something occasionnally :shock: