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#2146
VSIDO Discussions / Re: Reclaim Thy Space
September 24, 2013, 10:07:38 PM
Don't know if they can be removed, but if you attempt it - and what do you have to lose at this point? - rename them instead, or move them to a temp directory.

You may be on to something about those files being leftover. I opened synaptic and there are a lot files that seem to related to what you have deleted to date. By not removing them with apt/synaptic there could be plenty of leftover files - you may have created a bunch of orphans. You can open synaptic on our system and see if a bunch of packages show as broken.

and yes, you may be unraveling the sweater.
#2147
VSIDO Discussions / Re: Reclaim Thy Space
September 24, 2013, 05:42:47 PM
I wouldn't really know where to look. Based on what you have though, I would say you can no longer access/mount any swap file you created on install.

If my original comment was correct, you can install rcconf with apt and edit your services - there are two that may be related to what you just deleted - they start with "live".

You may be getting errors because those services can't start - I don't know what either does.

Should finish by pointing out, I'm just brain storming here and you may totally bork your system.
#2148
Introductions / Re: Hello
September 24, 2013, 02:02:56 PM
welcome to the distro and forum.
#2149
WM Designs and Discussions / Re: bspwm window manager
September 24, 2013, 02:01:41 PM
From that video, it looks like the top margin width can be set independently from the other margins to make room for the panel, but not sacrifice desktop real estate along the margins or between windows. Have you looked into the configuration enough to know how that was done?

I'm not using it at the moment, so I haven't followed the arch forum thread or really looked past basic configuration.
#2150
^ They are are basically move and resize command combinations; should be doable in openbox and pekwm.
#2151
Conky / Re: Interactive conky
September 24, 2013, 12:13:59 PM
Quote from: VastOne on September 24, 2013, 11:12:28 AM
[snip] ... for me it's (conky) a long and winding road that has become boring as hell

I tend to echo that sentiment. Rather than jump on the interactive bandwagon, why not go in the opposite direction and make conky basically run in the background - for example, when my CPU temp exceeds 60C, have it send a notification and icon to the system tray or desktop. Be more an exercise in scripting and widget making, I suppose.

Personally, I don't really want to click on the conky window to find out what's happening.
#2152
VSIDO Discussions / Re: Reclaim Thy Space
September 24, 2013, 11:58:04 AM
^ seriously?

I recall seeing something in the startup services that may be related to that directory.
#2153
VSIDO Discussions / Re: New Direction thoughts
September 23, 2013, 08:45:42 PM
Why not pink - knock yourself out.
#2154
VSIDO Discussions / Re: New Direction thoughts
September 23, 2013, 08:27:56 PM
QuoteI have been running Vsido for a couple of months now and overall consider it the best distro experience I have ever had.  For me it is a perfect blend of what I want with a few things in or out I would like to have.  Instead of making base changes to my system it really has been a case of tweaking a little here and there.  I don't know of anything that could be done that could make that any better.  There will always be things here or there that could or could not be included.  Overall though what matters to me is I can go from an empty box to my setup in far less time than I have ever been able to do with any set up.

+1 - Usable, user friendly, debian sid-based distro out of the box.

QuoteVSIDO is SID to that and it is a complete vision of what I want to accomplish with VSIDO

and that's what matters - you don't look over Worhol's shoulder and say to him "add some yellow"  ;D
#2155
Artwork & Screenshots / Re: September 2013 Screenshots
September 21, 2013, 05:45:42 PM
definitely some interesting artwork on that site -



#2156
Artwork & Screenshots / Re: September 2013 Screenshots
September 17, 2013, 11:43:18 PM
@vastone -

the actual key binding is in the screenshot - i3 this time

the script I use - scrot_delay.sh - is taken from an example in the scrot man page:

#!/bin/sh
exec scrot -q 100 -c -d 5 '%B_%s_$wx$h.jpg' -e 'mv $f ~/pictures/' &
exit 0


use it in key binding or terminal.



it would seem that lwfitz is in a cursing mode these days:

#2157
Feedback & Suggestions / Re: VSIDO ll Velociraptor
September 17, 2013, 11:22:05 PM
Without looking at the smxi script, I would say you're correct and nouveau isn't getting installed/loaded properly. I suspect the script is similar to what I have to do which is:

1. blacklist nouveau modules
2. reboot to non-nouveau
3. Install nvidia drivers

good you got it working.

My only hitch was an install hang at the grub installation section. second try was no issues.
#2158
Artwork & Screenshots / Re: September 2013 Screenshots
September 17, 2013, 11:14:42 PM
^ nice one; is it all original work?

got my fluxbox key bindings and decors the way I want them -



solid release vastone, treat yourself to 36 holes on dizzie's account  ;D
#2159
WM Designs and Discussions / Re: cwm window manager
September 17, 2013, 01:18:37 PM
Didn't know there was basic tiling native to cwm, tiling is always handy:



just add key bindings in .cwmrc for htile and vtile.
#2160
Artwork & Screenshots / Re: September 2013 Screenshots
September 16, 2013, 11:26:33 PM
Nice work with this release vastone -