Foomandoonian: to switch from desktop to desktop use the keybindings

Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow/Right Arrow

Your desktop is getting crowded.

Thanks Kestrel! I'd really like to have the switches there though. I assume that's a lxpanel feature?

My desktop is only crowded until I remember to use keyboard shortcuts more. ;)

Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow/Right Arrow

Your desktop is getting crowded.

This is what things look like at the moment:

I'm planning on gathering all the material I can and tweaking the hell out of the whole systems look and feel over Xmas. I hope to have a really nice and complete theme by the end of the holidays!

For now though, how do I get the desktop switcher back? I can live without a calender, but I use multiple desktops a lot! They really help make the tiny Eee feel more expansive...

I am not too sure about applications which use prior versions of Qt. Anyone else?

I've tried to launch various things from the menu, like kde4-config and kde4-menus, but nothing does anything.

Any clues?

Nice screenshot, I love the shortcuts wallpaper!

Thanks for leaving the comment on my blog too. :D

I've just added the SVG here: http://drop.io/crunchbang.  I consider it a work in progress, but others may like to mess with it too. You'll need the Helvetica fonts for it to display properly. Accept no substitutes!

If anyone is interested, I did a quick blog post (I'm pretty tired!) about installing #!, and you can see my first wallpaper and conky config:

http://foomandoonian.posterous.com/crunchbang-linux

Nice screenshot, I love the shortcuts wallpaper!

http://foomandoonian.posterous.com/crunchbang-linux

3. During GRUB's initialization, press ESC to open the boot options menu.

The new kernel is either labelled "2.6.27-8-eeepc" or "2.6.27-8-eeepc-lean"

If it is not at the top of the boot list, scroll down to it and hit enter.

Do I need to do this every time? Will this selection become the default? Can I make it?

in: /boot/grub/menu.lst

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default        0

do you mean that ?

:)

The "public key" error can probably be solved with these commands:

wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-apt-key.asc
sudo apt-key add array-apt-key.asc
sudo apt-get update

The Grub is an easy fix:

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Near the top you'll see a line that looks like 'default    0'. (If there is a # symbol at the beginning of the line, delete the # to un-comment the line.) Change this number to the position on the Grub menu for the kernel you want, starting from 0. For example if the eeepc kernel is number 4 on the list, change the line to 'default 3'.

(the reason it does this is that Crunchbang uses 2.6.27-9 but the latest eeepc kernel is 2.6.27-8, so it assumes you want the "newer" kernel)

ps I like wicd as well, definitely worth a try if you aren't getting good results with network manager.

Wireless seems okay, but I'm not getting the strong 100% signal I used to, all the time. That said, it's just improved. Importantly though, it works! I'll know If I have a bigger problem down the road, I guess.

I'd like to figure out how to change the grub default though. I'll google it later though - Christmas shopping beckons :(

Thx :)

You don't have to scroll down every time on boot either, you can set the lean kernel to be the default.... somehow! I think it's there within the grub manager.

Not a lot of help am I! ;) Fret not, someone here will know. If not, I'll look it up!!

Edit: ah, yes, wireless. Don't pay too much attention to signal strength, it's performance that will be the decider. I'm using the lean kernel and wifi performance  is good despite a signal strength of 57%. I found, with Ubuntu 8.10 + lean kernel, that switching to the wicd network manager and changing the broadcast channel on my router gave better performance. I've not had to do that with CrunchBang however! :D

When I was installing the kernel, I got the scary message:

W: GPG error: http://www.array.org intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9B25830FFD0C2C24
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

I accepted anyway. Anything I should be worried about? :/

Also, the final instruction states:

Do I need to do this every time? Will this selection become the default? Can I make it?

Also, wireless seems to be working, but I appear to be getting half of the signal strength from before. I've not taken out the ethernet cable yet to do a proper test, so no big deal yet.

I still have some fine tuning to do. :)