@johnraff:  I don't know if you can specify colors for most, but the vast majority of xterm emulators allow you to change how colors are displayed.  If you're using Terminator, the Linux color scheme is a little more subdued than the Tango scheme.

johnraff wrote:

(There's also an app called "most" btw.)

Yup, some of us have been using that to get prettier man pages:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … man-pages/

So you have! Not bad, but a little bit gaudy - is there any way to tweak the colours - tone them down a bit?

Update Manager works on Crunchbang 9.04, so the Ubuntu devs have added data about Crunchbang?

15) This comes up on IceWeasel so I suppose it's a GTK theme thing, but if you go Edit>Preferences or Tools>Add-ons the inactive tabs are almost the same colour as the text on them, making the label unreadable.

Confirmation screenshot (this is with Shiki-Statler-Dark):

15) This comes up on IceWeasel so I suppose it's a GTK theme thing, but if you go Edit>Preferences or Tools>Add-ons the inactive tabs are almost the same colour as the text on them, making the label unreadable.

Re #12 (I've added numbers :) ) - the Synaptic "software souurces"/"repositories" thing - the gui app that does it is called software-properties-gtk and it's available in Debian and Ubuntu both, and comes with Statler, unless it came in as a dependency of something I installed. You can launch it on #!9.04 with 'gksu software-properties-gtk' but that command on Statler alpha2 gives this error:

(gksu:3716): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

So there seems to be some bug there at the moment.

13) Many people have already reported the "missing OS in Grub menu" problem, and I also posted it here but it's important, because if you don't know it can be fixed by running 'sudo update-grub' you might bring in some heavy-duty tools and mess up your system even more...

14) Now  I often miss something important and obvious, but I can't see any reason why lxsession should be in autostart.sh or in the system at all. If you start it it seems to exit immediately and leaves no processes running. If I've got it right ( :rolleyes: ) it needs to be launched with the option '-session sessionname' which directs it to some file in /etc/xdg/lxsession/sessionname which will list some processes to be started up. Now, in Crunchbang that stuff is all handled by autostart.sh anyway. The session-saving features of lxsession were dropped a couple of years ago because they were too buggy, so now the app serves no function at all... (as far as I can see). Feel free to put me right on this.

@johnraff, because something is not quite like in ubuntu, that does not mean it's "primitive".

I agree completely, but in this case the option I had available in Synaptic on Alpha 1 was very little different from editing the sources.list file directly. I think it's fair to call that "primitive" compared with what the Ubuntu version offered.

It wasn't for me - that's the bug I was reporting! When I tried to access that option I just got a popup window saying "the repositories have changed", but no access to the repositories.

johnraff wrote:

*) I couldn't edit the repositories from Synaptic's menu ( Settings>Repositories ). It just puts up a "repositories changed" popup. I know that interface isn't much more user-friendly than just editing /etc/apt/sources.list, but still...

I think being able to edit repos from the Synaptic menu is added by Canonical, and is therefore only available in *buntu and distros downstream from *buntu like Mint.

But the entry is there in the menu, in the Debian version. What's more, in Alpha1 it worked, although the interface is nowhere near as easy to use as the Ubuntu version. I think there's an Ubuntu app called "software sources" or something that plugs in there; in Debian it's much more primitive.

Likewise.

(There's also an app called "most" btw.)

Yup, some of us have been using that to get prettier man pages:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … man-pages/

I agree, that popup window is annoying.  Anyone know how to tell it to shut the heck up already? :P

I think that message just means that the Debian maintainers of update-manager haven't told it about the CrunchBang repository.  Maybe if there's enough interest in this package, Philip might be persuaded to put a custom version in the CrunchBang repo.

I think being able to edit repos from the Synaptic menu is added by Canonical, and is therefore only available in *buntu and distros downstream from *buntu like Mint.  The inline search function introduced in Jaunty is another Canonical enhancement to Synaptic that I miss, but am willing to live without.

Couple more things I forgot to mention:

7) During installation, Debian said there were some "missing non-free firmware files":
iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
and asked if I wanted it to look for them on the hard disk. I clicked "yes", things seemed to go OK, and wireless seems to be working fine, but there was no response about whether those files were found or not. Maybe they were included on the Crunchbang iso?

8) When unmounting USB sticks, exo-mount puts up a popup about data being written and to wait, but it has to be closed by clicking "OK". Meanwhile the notification daemon has already put up a passive window about the stick being safe to remove. A minor irritation which didn't happen under Ubuntu - maybe Debian will fix it eventually.

9) I can't check this any more because while trying to get the network working I replaced network-manager with wicd ( the problem turned out not to be network-manager's fault :rolleyes: ) but in order to make changes to network-manager's settings you had to run 'gksu nm-connection-editor'. You should get a popup authorization window from nm-applet when making changes.

10) The Shiki-Statler-Dark theme is very nice-looking, but some bits are hard to see, like scroll bars. Just a little bit more contrast there maybe?

11) I installed update-manager and its dependencies and recommends, but when I try to run it I get

[CRITICAL:UpdateManager.Application] Invalid implemention name CrunchBang

I know Update Manager isn't standard Statler issue, but I like to use it, and this problem might have implications with other apps too, dpending on what that message means...

12) I couldn't edit the repositories from Synaptic's menu ( Settings>Repositories ). It just puts up a "repositories changed" popup. I know that interface isn't much more user-friendly than just editing /etc/apt/sources.list, but still...