Crunchbang 8.10.01
Screenshot of my Crunchbang 8.10.01 desktop on the EEEpc
It has been a while since I’ve posted anything on the Linux front. What has been up, you ask? Well, last month I got a Asus EEE 1000 and immediately went looking for a proper distribution of Linux for it. I re-acquainted myself with Crunchbang,a quite and stealthy distribution developed as a pet project by Philip Newborough. This distribution uses Openbox as the window manager and is connected to all the usual Ubuntu repositories for applications and updated. Ultimately, it is a re-spin of Ubuntu. There is a vibrant community at the forums, on IRC at #crunchbang and now has a Planet, which I happy to be a small part of.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Welcome to the planet!
January 5th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Wonderful screenshot! May I ask where you got that beautiful bamboo background? And what is that collection of status/weather/etc at right?
dj
January 6th, 2009 at 6:32 am
dougj; thanks for you kind comments. The wallpaper was swiped from a screenshot found on the forums at http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/3006/#p3006. (I used Gimp to crop out non screenshot stuff.)
The status information is the output of an application called Conky. Quite a bit of information about the varieties of statuses that conky can produce is at http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/59/my-conky-config/
January 26th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Will,
Any chance to get the Weather part of your conkyrc published? Possibly on #! forums. Love the multiple day forecast. Thank you.
Al.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Al, yes there is a big thread over on #! about conky and in it is the tips needed to get the conky weather working.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/59/my-conky-config/
Also more info here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869328/
I’m not sure where I got the 4 day forecast script but I’ve posted my conkyrc here.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/129
March 1st, 2009 at 8:49 am
Installing it tonight.