Absinth

[Verändert]

Am i the only one who is to dumb to set a password with the installer ?

[machinebacon]

The installer puts you into visudo where you can manipulate the sudo options if wished. This part you can leave as is. Then it prompts you to enter the password, twice.
Where do you get stuck?

[Verändert]

Hola, i entered the password twice and rebootet but couldn't login. So i thought i might have made a mistake, ran the installer again, entered the password twice, rebootet - guess what: My password was again not accepted. And i always choose an initial password that i'm able to write regardless of keyboard.

[machinebacon]

Oh dear.

Try with 'username'/'bbq' or 'root'/'your_password', please (I mean, to log in)

(It's a bit late here, so I will probably not go through fixing it tonight, but I'll upload a fixed version tomorrow. Sorry for inconvenience.)

[machinebacon]

Okay, just finished a fresh installation. Facts after installation:

Either
- log in with your user name and password "bbq" and then change your password (sudo passwd)
Or
- log in as "root" with your own password, and then create yourself a new user (useradd/adduser, you can choose which one you like better)

BTW, the latter is written into the last dialog field of bbqinstaller. Guess I will remove the "enter your username" window and let the user create his own user after logging in as root. I just recently changed it because somebody said it is 'odd' to log in a root and to create a new user manually.
"There have we the salad."

Edit 2: I'm in the process of remastering Absinthe with the new installer (this time not creating a new user, so root has to log in with his own password and create a new user), the ISO will be up in a few hours then. 1am here, time to sleep....

[Verändert]

I am so grateful, your baconator. Especially since i am to tired myself to come up with the idea to log in as root although this was pretty obvious i have to admit. Did i say thanks ? Yes. I did.

[machinebacon]

the new ISO (for those who have the same problem) will be up in around 2 hours, with the name linuxbbq-absinth-rev1.iso (to avoid confusion)

1) Installer now only sets root password and does not create a new user
2) two bugs squashed (xfce4-panel now shows launchers for dillo and elinks; colors directory populated for console-colors script)

Thanks for reporting.

[ew.linux]

Everything is fine with my install, but I am struggling with some basic configuration that wasnt offered in the installer, as far as I could see. No time settings, no keyboard-settings and no locales and stuff like that..

Anyone that knows what I can do about this....

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ew@absinthe-g580:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
[sudo] password for ew: 
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

keyboard-configuration launches, and I get to do all the changes, but at finish I get the above, and nothing sticks...

I see that there are bugreports on simmular issues, but is there anything I can do, except a workaround like settling for

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setxkbmap no

[wuxmedia]

for timezones and such bacon has provided;

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bbq

I change layout with

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-data

[ew.linux]

for timezones and such bacon has provided;

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bbq

I change layout with

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Ok thanks. It turned out that the keyboard-configuration worked. Stupid me forgot that it needed a logout or a reboot, it works now. But your tips will help me with the rest. Thanks :)

[wuxmedia]

that bbq menu is a lifesaver.

[ew.linux]

that bbq menu is a lifesaver.

Yes, I wasn`t aware of it, but it`s awesome.

But now I`m struggling with another thing. Where do I find the application-menu that comes up when I click on the bbq-tux button... Is it the one in "/etx/xdg/menus/xfce4-applications.menu", because if it is, I don`t get it to work. Or it works, but my changes doesn`t get respected somehow. I`ve tried logging out and back in, but no changes at all...

[machinebacon]

.config/xfce4/panel/ is the location, IIRC

But if you want to make stuff invisible there, there's a better method:

ls /usr/share/applications/

edit the files you want to have disappeared:
hidden=true

edit the files you want to put in another category:
Categories=NameOfCategary;

[ew.linux]

.config/xfce4/panel/ is the location, IIRC

But if you want to make stuff invisible there, there's a better method:

ls /usr/share/applications/

edit the files you want to have disappeared:
hidden=true

edit the files you want to put in another category:
Categories=NameOfCategary;

Thanks. I just wanted to add a text editor(leafpad) on the top of the applications menu, together with the terminal, webrowser, file manager and mail reader...

[machinebacon]

This comes from exo-utils, IIRC, give it a try.

[machinebacon]

For reference: http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu

;)

[beta]

Unintentionally I deleted the default Xresources on Absinth.

I searched for the originally one in /etc/X11 but could not find it.
Would somebody be so kind to post it or point me to its location?

Thank you.

PS: Absinth is a great spin - really enjoying it.

[wuxmedia]

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cp /etc/skel/.Xresources ~/

you'll find a bunch of files here, this is the skeleton folder, where new users folders are populated from.
always handy to find a few defaults there.
and should you wish to make users with different 'defaults' this is what you'd edit

BTW quick lesson;
should you lose a file you should get used to 'find'
to search for exactly and only '.Xresources' everywhere on your disk;

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sudo find / -name .Xresources

(the '/' is root dir, it will search everywhere, even any mounted volumes)
know theres a .Xsomething config somewhere?

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sudo find / -name '.X*'

(shell wildcard)
might be in CaptiAL letters?

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sudo find / -iname '.x*'

(iname doesn't care about capitals)

these few get me out of pickles now and again.

[wuxmedia]

hey guys, did 'find' always need quotes to use the * wildcard?
yes for regex things like {.avi,.mkv}
I don't remember ever needing it, till just recently...

[machinebacon]

IINM it doesn't.
Can you give an example?

find /usr/*/bbq*