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OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:00 pm
by machinebacon
This is the Openbox base that supersedes "BORK!".

BREAK!
The name says it all.

Let's see if you are the target audience. We have already filled in your answers in lipstick red.

You are not afraid of sid/experimental? lol, nope
GTK3 is on your blacklist? yesh sir
You don't need no systemd? fuck no
Your computer is from the last decade, has a RAM size of three digits and a CPU that powers a solar calculator? last decade? last millenium, bitch
You give a flying fuck about GPT and UEFI, just want to give your smelly Pentium a new home? yeah kinda
You promise not to use btrfs and lvm? i promise i use wtf instead
To update, upgrade and install packages you use the excellent 'apt' command? rofl no, i call the postman, asshole
You believe in beards, sandals, marijuana and/or clicky keyboards? i believe in dog...
You like process trees that don't need a scroll wheel to display all their beauty? what is "scroll wheel"?
You know that 'sudo bbqinstaller' will put the live system onto a prepared partition? none of your business
You remember that the password for the live session is 'root'? what was the root password again?
You have heard of the mighty 'adduser' wrapper? I might(y) use useradd, you bloatface
You absolutely want to change to root password after installation because 'root' is simply not safe enough? yeah i change it to four times zero

Congrats, you passed the test! Click this link. And you get this:
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Oh and by the way: take a break!

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:08 pm
by wuxmedia
sweet :)
LOL at the answers.

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:39 pm
by ivanovnegro
Perfection! Best release notes since sliced bread.

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:19 pm
by Theo
Replaced the pwd by four times zero? That sounds as difficult algebra.. Since it is Openbox, is 'pussy' an alternative? :P

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:52 pm
by Dr_Chroot
Looks pretty dank, mate! Starting 2016 off with some lovely releases.

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:24 pm
by Theo
I installed it, and my small wlan issue with Bork is gone :)
But dkeger seems to have a small problem ;)

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:44 pm
by Theo
Nevermind, I saw the comment in the .Xresources :)

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 6:31 am
by darry1966
Test Machine: Dell D620
Ram installed 500meg ram installed
Impressions:
First Impression very fast. Ram usage without anything running eg. Browser etc is 58meg of ram.

Thank you MB. Sexy theme.

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 7:18 am
by Snap
Downloading. Thank you!

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:52 am
by machinebacon
Note: edit ~/.Xresources and check the last line there ;)
For scrots, by the way, there is an entry in the "Graphics" section of the Openbox menu

Bonus notes:
- clicking on the clock (left or right click) opens xclock or a calendar. To change this behavior, edit ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc (it is also in the Openbox menu)
- "playstream" plays the last selected tinyradio stream -- clicking on "playstream" again stops playback
- the difference between ~/.xinitrc and ~/.config/openbox/autostart is following: xinitrc manages the general, WM-agnostic autostart (eg. if you add another WM), while openbox/autostart manages the Openbox-specific WM startup
- I did /not/ add the Openbox menu editor called "obmenu" due to a heavy dependency count (python, glade, etc). On an installed system some users might prefer this graphical tool instead of editing the Openbox menu.xml manually
- The packaged kernel is still 4.2 -- within reason. The 4.3 and newer kernels have a bug that causes /some/ systems to boot without backlight. If you upgrade your kernel manually, be sure to install "xbacklight" and add

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xbacklight -set 100% &
to your ~/.xinitrc until they fix this bug upstream at kernel.org. On my Intel cards it stays black, people also reported problems with radeon GPUs. (eg. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/d ... 93525.html) or with different kernel revisions (eg. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/29/280)

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:26 am
by darry1966
machinebacon wrote:Note: edit ~/.Xresources and check the last line there ;)
For scrots, by the way, there is an entry in the "Graphics" section of the Openbox menu
Shit so there is, I should have noticed that.

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:31 am
by machinebacon
It's like Easter Eggs ;)

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 10:54 am
by Theo
Hahaha!
Running it for hours and it smooth, even on my old HP Compaq nx 6110.
So a big thank you!

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 11:16 am
by machinebacon
Another little tip:

if you install a 'real' browser, you can safely delete dillo. The 'real' browser will be linked to x-www-browser that is called from within the Openbox menu. Same applies for the editor, which is now set to nano.

If you want to manually adjust the preferences, run "Edit Default Applications" from within the System section of the Openbox menu. It will start update-alternatives which leads you through the settings.

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:43 pm
by vic
Sweet, thanks! Downloaded. Will have a look when life stuff is on pause one of these days. :)

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 6:35 pm
by darry1966
Thanks for the great tips MB.:)

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:31 pm
by archvortex
Thanks MB!! Bye-bye Bork!! Downloading from NCU mirror in Taiwan. Sourceforge autoselect had me downloading from Kenya. WTF is up with that? BTW, 4.3.3 towo has been no problem for me on an old Intel card. And thanks again for adding the old firmware drivers to the release so I don't have to dick around adding 3945 firmware drivers to the firmware folder in the .iso like I do if installing straight Debian. Not that it's difficult, it's just an extra step I tend to forget at times and am rudely reminded of when installing some distros (like Crux or LFS in the past).

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 6:40 pm
by archvortex
Holy Crap! WTF is wrong with the OB Menu? Something smells like it has been pussified

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 7:14 pm
by machinebacon
What happened? :D

Re: OPENBOX: BREAK! (586) Release Notes

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:34 am
by archvortex
Smells like easy install for noobs and not like teen spirit, Baconator :D