I lost the beautifull desktop ... how to get it back

[fossiili]

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:

[dibl]

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.

[devil]

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

[OppaErich]

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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.

[fossiili]

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  :?:

[spacepenguin]

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

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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:

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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

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su -c 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'

[fossiili]

Thank you / Vielen Dank    

But unfortunately keyboard-configuration did not work.

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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:

[spacepenguin]

Weird... There really seems to be some trouble in the system. But as long as the situation is temporary...

On 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...

[fossiili]

"upgrade" and not "dist-upgrade"

I think I know the difference  

But I might have done something occasionnally  :shock: