melodie,
(1) The VirtualBox guest additions are a nice touch. However, they are not really integrated with the host until you install the virtualbox-guest-dkms package on the guest. I don't know if the remastering tool you used configured it that way or not.
Darrel,
I seem to remember that the result in Virtualbox was worse with it than without it. The resolution is at least 1024x768, in two of my host machines, in Virtualbox, and after install I install the guest additions from the Virtualbox window menus.
I can retry installing virtualbox-guest-dkms to check if I don't confuse with a similar package, though, or check my notes.
(2) The ~/.config/openbox directory needs a little configuring. The README file states on lines 3 & 4:
/usr/share/openbox-menu directory doesn't exist.
darrel@OBubuntu:~$ ls /usr/share/openbox-menu
ls: cannot access /usr/share/openbox-menu: No such file or directory
darrel@OBubuntu:~$
Ok, I'll review it.
menu.xml, rc.xml and autostart.sh files are actually soft linked to corresponding files in ~/.config/openbox/lang.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 darrel darrel 17 Feb 23 01:37 autostart -> lang/autostart-en
lrwxrwxrwx 1 darrel darrel 16 Feb 23 01:37 menu.xml -> lang/menu.xml-en
lrwxrwxrwx 1 darrel darrel 14 Feb 23 01:37 rc.xml -> lang/rc.xml-en
This is on purpose. Later I will request a script from someone who can write some bash, to be able to switch language directly from the main openbox menu.
Lines 16 & 17 of the README file say:
There is another reference in the file to PCLinuxOS on further down.
Ok, I'll check it all.
~/.config/openbox/lang/autostart has an entry in line 31:
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xsnow.sh restore
I couldn't figure out why it wasn't starting until I discovered that PCManFM is handling the desktop duties.
It is meant to be used from the main menu. How did you use it ?
(3) I changed tint2 panel to be taller. The date in the clock display was almost unreadable. Also changed the font size for the date.
This will depend upon the size of the screen and resolution. Here it show well enough without taking too much on the screen : 1400x1050 in a 15" wide screen, and another is a 15" wide with 1024x768, there is also a notebook which uses the same tint2rc : 1024x600. What is a pity is that the tint2rc graphical configurator is unusable.
(4) There is no Openbox restart menu item.
Yes, there is one. I'll add screenshots at the end of this post.
(5) What do you intend to do with the Ibus menu entry? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's most often used for Asian languages input. (Japanese, Korean, etc.)
I can modify it's desktop file to not show in openbox;kde;gnome;lxde;xfce and add it to the .local/share/applications in /etc/skel ? I have said about it at the bugsquad chan and a dev has fixed it: but for the next ubuntu version. And yes, it is needed for some internal processes that make the Live and perhaps the rest too, work correctly.
Overall, the system is very responsive @ 512MB of RAM and 64 MB video memory. I like the choices of Firefox and file-roller. I also configured Firefox's home page to be http://linuxvillage.net.
Ok, however I intend to switch to
http://linuxvillage.net at some time in the year, so we will have to check again if there are some threads we want to take from there to bring them back here : our's, and even if they are not our's, now, because we might not want to wait forever.
Of course when this will be time, I'll manage to have linuxvillage.net do a permanent redirect to the linuxvillage.net url.
Reconfigure Openbox:
Menu to start Xsnow:
Xsnow started:
