Distros of interest

[vic]

Yes, Semplice is too shiny for me. But tons of RESPECT for doing it from me. Have tried it a couple of times, and it is very cool. If I wanted my Openbox shiny with stuff I would run it, there is even a stable release of it now.

[simgin]

I agree brothers, shame that the project does not get more "media" attention :(

It's just shiny, blue, and Italian rather than flat, grey, and British. 

@maso, it must be due to our weather :D

cheers
simon

[darry1966]

^ yeah it's a nice one. When you are bored of it, have a go with http://www.slitaz.org/ or the mother of Porteus, https://www.slax.org/ and then top it off with http://tinycorelinux.net/ (which I love)

My impressions of Tinycore 6.4

Fun quickly learned how to handle the package manager got a working Xorg and disabling Xvesa loading at boot time.
Love the simple network manager script and wireless works great. Alsa sound also working well. The mount tool is also well thought out. So all in all love the control you have over what installs so will keep playing with this for a while. So I understand Bacon why you love this so much, a great example of minimalism at its best.:)

There are Debian and buntu based ones as well.:)

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.ph ... ,73.0.html

[machinebacon]

^ that's exactly right, their package manager is perfect, you get everything you normally need in a very short time, and the system is smooth, quick, small, clean and functional. The guys know what they are doing.

[wuxmedia]

I've always been a fan of TC (see old skool screenies) Not looked at their things for a long long while.

[maso]

I downloaded and dd'd to usb the iso of the debian version of TC ("dCore"). Took me a little while to figure out the whole extensions concept. Reading the dCore wiki for "new-comers" (=noobs) helped a bit, but I don't think I could have made any sense of it if I hadn't been hanging around here a lot. So I got iceweasel loaded finally(*) and here I am. This is cool.

(*) -- they should just make it this clear and simple from the start: use "sce-import" to download dat thang from repos and "sce-load" to tell the system to activate dat thang

[maso]

okay, so it looks like I tried TC the hard way by starting with dCore. Regular TC is much easier. Sheesh, it's got GUI app loader and that macOS-like wbar thingy at the bottom.

But, hey, I got dwm working on dCore (sort of, no dmenu...) and jwm too, once I worked out that they wanted me to edit a file in /etc to work. cwm appeared to load, but I think I needed a .cwmrc, which I did not make, to get it to do anything.

In the end I'm glad I blundered onto the hard trail first.

[machinebacon]

probably dmenu is called from inside dwm's keybindings which are configured at compile time, so either this or the dmenu package is missing (which you know is suckless-tools in Debian).

Generally, the window manager configuration samples can be found in /usr/share/doc/Name_of_WM/examples, in cwm you can copy it from the manpage of cwmrc (!), and I think jwm has it indeed in /etc/jwmrc which needs a copy to ~/.jwmrc

[maso]

^^I should have remembered to try importing suckless-tools! I've installed that before to get dmenu. I'll give that a try, along with looking for those config files to copy. Thanks, mb!

[darry1966]

My TinyCore Core Plus 6.4.1 Desktop.

[maso]

^^ That is gorgeous, Darry.

[darry1966]

Cheers Maso.

[rhowaldt]

good work darry. you'll find that starting "the hard way" pays off in the long run :)

[maso]

Got a fully-functional dwm running in dCore. Importing suckless-tools worked to get dmenu. Doesn't look like much on the eeepc 701 but still it's satisfying to get it working.

[darry1966]

good work darry. you'll find that starting "the hard way" pays off in the long run :)

Thanks Rhow.

[darry1966]

Got a fully-functional dwm running in dCore. Importing suckless-tools worked to get dmenu. Doesn't look like much on the eeepc 701 but still it's satisfying to get it working.

Very nice.

[arnold]

Got a fully-functional dwm running in dCore. Importing suckless-tools worked to get dmenu. Doesn't look like much on the eeepc 701 but still it's satisfying to get it working.

Did you install dwm from the debian package or git?

[maso]

^^ debian package, through the package importer (sce-import). I'm using the plain-debian iso (dCore-jessie.iso), not any of the various ubuntu images. I'm still new at this sort of thing, so I've never tried installing dwm through git even on a normal system. I'll get around to it at some point.

[ivanovnegro]

^^ debian package, through the package importer (sce-import). I'm using the plain-debian iso (dCore-jessie.iso), not any of the various ubuntu images. I'm still new at this sort of thing, so I've never tried installing dwm through git even on a normal system. I'll get around to it at some point.

Then you missed the best part of dwm or the worst. ;) Configuring it through editing the source code.

[maso]

^ So I've gathered. But I've got to get all these end-of-term exams and papers marked first. :( <-- (yeah, they're bad)