Configured Crunchbang!

I installed the latest Crunchbang Linux on my laptop a while ago but I haven't had time to actually configure it to my own liking, until this weekend. Here's the Screenshot.

Conky took some time to get just right, especially the weather option, but this is mostly due to my lack of knowledge of configuring conky.

I also set key-bindings for transparency effect of windows and an expose effect using skippy. Then I installed synergy which allows me to use my mouse and keyboard from my main computer on my laptop, similar to a KVM.

Finally, I added wine and installed MS Office 2007, which is required for a class I teach.

I took careful notes, for future blog posts. I will now try to mimic this set up on the Ubuntu install on my main desktop. I've seen some posts concerning this on the Crunchbang forum which I think will help.

Let me know what you think.

Crunchbang #!

I've been using Crunchbang Linux on my Laptop for sometime now and it's my new favorite distro. It's based off of Ubuntu but uses a pre-configured openbox as the window manager. Let me emphasize pre-configured openbox.

If you have ever used openbox, you will know that it is very minimalistic, but very customizable and powerful window manager. Customizing openbox can take some time when you are beginning from scratch, but can have a very personalize desktop. Crunchbang does most of the work for you and includes the tools to tweak openbox all you want. Time saved.

Since Crunchbang is based on you Ubuntu, you have a huge repository of software to draw upon. It has a very light weight and clean fell to it. Here are a few screenshots to wet your whistle.

Give Cruchbang (#!) a try.

Let's Try This Again.

So many things to blog about and so little time. My personal life has become very hectic thus my lack of blogging. My work load at my job has nearly doubled and my wife has taken on a business venture leaving me to have to take care of more things at home including our almost 2 yr old son. In addition to this madness, my wife is about to pop with a new baby we've been cooking, which I foresee even less time spent on hobbies and blogging.

This being said, I think I have resolved the liveCD issue mentioned in a previous blog for my pet project SimplyCLI Desktop. I have yet to experiment with this new process which is explained here. It seems pretty straight forward and makes sense as I've read through the instructions, but I've yet to actually test it. I'm hoping to get to it before the baby comes in the next 2 1/2 weeks.

I've been dying to blog about a few things like KDE4, crunchbang Linux and a few more tutorials and perhaps some day I will, but time moves on and unfortunately blogging is towards the bottom of my priorities at the moment. Nevertheless, I'm still plugging along.

So, to the random person who just happens to fall upon this blog, I want you to know I'm still alive and SimplyCLI Desktop will happen.