8.10.01 Changes from Testing to Final

I would just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who helped out with testing the latest release -- all the feedback, help and support has been quite overwhelming.

Regarding the testing, it was a fairly short test period and it was not very well planned out at my end, I apologise for this. Hopefully there will be a bit more of a structured approach taken next time. Anyhow, I am pleased to say no catastrophic bugs were reported and the changes made to the final build were all fairly trivial. Most of the changes consisted of tweaks to configuration files.

Here is the list for anyone who has downloaded the testing image and is unsure of what changes were made to the final release. You may, or may not want to apply some or all of these:

1. Default preferred applications
These were updated so that Firefox was set as the default web browser and vim preferred over nano. This can be achieved by running the following terminal command:

sudo update-alternatives --all

2. GNOME Power Manager
A call has been placed in Openbox's autostart file to gnome-power-manager. This was requested by numerous users. The following lines were added to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

# Enable power management
gnome-power-manager &

3. Example setxkbmap commands
Some example setxkbmap commands have been added to Openbox's autostart file. All are commented out and are provided as a guide for non UK users.

# Set keyboard map if different than UK
# Uncomment one to enable, or define your own.
# setxkbmap us & # United States
# setxkbmap ca & # Canada
# setxkbmap fr & # Francais
# setxkbmap br & # Brazil
# setxkbmap de & # Germany
# setxkbmap cz & # Czech Republic
# setxkbmap it & # Italy
# setxkbmap pl & # Poland
# setxkbmap nl & # Netherlands
# etc.

4. dmenu installed
By popular demand, dmenu, a super quick application launcher has been installed and bound to the Alt+F3 keys. This can be achieved by installing dmenu with the following command:

sudo apt-get install dwm-tools

Next, create a new file at ~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh and copy the following code into it:

#!/bin/bash
exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu -nb '#000000' -nf '#FFFFFF' -sb '#FFFFFF' -sf '#000000'` && eval "exec $exe"

Make the file executable:

chmod +x ~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh

Next, create a new keybind entry in Openbox's rc.xml file, located at ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml. The new entry was placed beginning on line 273, directly after the gmrun entry.

    <keybind key="A-F3">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
          <name>dmenu-bind</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Finally, restart Openbox for the changes to take affect. Menu item: Preferences -> Openbox Config -> Restart

5. Help menu items
These have been updated to reflect the recent creation of this project site.

6. Default Firefox homepage
Again, updated to reflect the recent creation of this project site. New homepage is located at http://crunchbanglinux.org/start/