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Hello ..

Iso image : madbox_xfce-9.10.03-i386.iso  - 536.6M

md5 : 44d66de1707ea17dcffadf9dd5cfac19

You can select 'minimal' desktop ( no conky , no adeskbar ) from boot :  F2 ( other options ) and add netbook in the boot entry ( after splash )

Bye ..

ADComp, congratulations! It's very good! Works like a charm on my EeePC and I liked your default conky and xfce configs and the new adeskbar and adesk launcher looks and works. The xmbc integration is a marvel, I'm tempted to use it as a media player instead of media center! I've been using It the last day and seems to be very well fine tuned. Everything works ok! Good work! You have a winner here!

Didn't liked the Serif font for XFce menus and window but that's easy! I do miss openbox, tint2, the key assignments, the gmrun and dmenu. XFce it's friendler, also light, but, how shall I say, not as charismatic as openbox. So... when will it come the openbox version?

Nice, very nice 

Nothing more i can add that already hasnt been said,,,But here it goes...

OH MY WOW !!...Thats some good stuff.I just downloaded and tried out both in virtual box,,I much prefer the openbox over the xfce,,but both look and feel great,,,There quite impressive,,I installed the openbox version
into virtual box and will be playing around with it ..I turned off the cairo thing,,LOL,,then i couldnt figure out how to start it back up,,,But i figured out how to restart the adeskbar once i figured out the name of it.

Im thinking this would work great on my aspire one,,,I just might have to do it..:D

yes .. I know that    ( but I don't know which additional packages from CD are missing )

.. really ? very strange! I don't have this  behavior

Ubiquity crash ..?   ( remember that madbox is not official ubuntu )

If it works fine with ubuntu karmic , it should work with madbox , too .. ( maybe it's the new kernel ? 2.6.31-16 )

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some issue :

* if you install , you need to modify /etc/slim.conf  ( line 68 ~ default_user ) .. remplace madbox with your login name
* don't know why  but /sbin in not in PATH .. you can add one line in your ~/.bashrc  :  PATH=$PATH:/sbin
* once installed , you maybe need to 'update' repo for software-center  (=>  sudo apt-get update )
* I use ~/bin/autostart.sh  ( like openbox ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh ) to launch conky/adeskbar
* ..

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Thanks for all yours comments 

Hi!

I told so, because right after addding that sudoers-line, shutdown worked, but apparently only because i had used the "sudo" (visudo) command once. As i said, i have autologin enabled. As long as i have to set the root password once in a session running gparted or synatic e.g.), logout works. Otherwise not.

Did not mention this, because for me that's justb a minor glitch. Madbox9.10 in fact has replaced my #!9.04..

EDIT: Seems like i've sorted out the problem. in /etc/sudoers i changed the line:

USER       ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot

to:

xy        ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now, /sbin/reboot

where "xy" is my username  (Maybe leaving USER instead of xy would work too; haven't tried yet...).

Now both shutdown and reboot work.

Another question: i can't switch between the icons (Cancel, Logout, Reboot,Shutdown) using the arrow keys - i have to use the mouse.
Is that normal behaviour or some other glitch in my setup ???

Last edited by Kuno (2009-12-09 10:11:28)

Are you using unetbootin?
If so, try some older vertions - madbox works fine with unetbootin 312-319

Well, yes.

Download iso file -> open unetbootin (I'm sure it works on MS Windows) -> point unetbootin to your iso file -> OK -> exit -> reboot -> esc (on eeepc) -> point to your bootable usb-stick with madbox -> enter -> select your keyboard -> enter -> you should be in madbox world in a while

Hope it help (maybe try to download iso once again)

Hello ..

@Ganja :  Usually I do it 'by hand' but I just install unetbootin ( 356-1 / ubuntu 9.10 ) and test .. it's works fine for me. Do you check md5sum ? maybe wrong download ..

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-a-u … n-windows/

For the windows people,,,Pendrive linux is a great resource to help make bootable flashdrives.
Sometimes Unetbooten doesnt work,,,So ive installed the Ubuntu USB creator and have had decent luck with that.

Thanks for your info, I will immediatedly uninstall karma... 

Probably it´s just too much tweaking of the system...  Yesterday i managed to get pcmanfm so far, that it
doesn´t unmount the partitions on my drive anymore, unless running as root. Just repaired this via pysdm.

Last edited by Kuno (2009-12-10 14:46:03)

Update: Not bad Karma, but poor eyes...  : Using the mouse, a white rectangle appears underlying the icons. Using the arrow-keys, i only get a small black frame around the icons. And those frame-lines are soooo tiny, i never saw them against a darkisk background.

Just found out: the frame color depends on the choosen openbox-theme - using "Mist" e.g. gives a white frame...
Anyway: is there a way to get that white rectangle in combination with the arrow-keys ???

@ marsupilami: