Openbox Bonsai updated. Who wants to try ?

[Taco.22]

I'm in the process of moving into my new(!) computer, and as usual have started with the latest Bonsai.  Building from scratch and transfering data and settings from the old(er) 'puter.  So far it's all good.  Recognised and set up the Geforce 7600 GS card without a hitch - once I got over my little snafu - http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101821.0.html .

Having a problem installing Thunar as logged here - http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101851.0.html.  Don't know if anyone else has encountered this.

All in all it's a joy to use.

[melodie]

Having a problem installing Thunar as logged here - http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101851.0.html.  Don't know if anyone else has encountered this.

All in all it's a joy to use.

Hi Taco !
What about adding xfce4 to the line in the repo you are using ?

I don't know which one you are using, but for instance:

rpm http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2010 main updates nonfree games kde4 xfce4

and also maybe change repo if one does not provide the needed package ?

[Taco.22]

Hi Mélodie,

I am in the process of working through that.  I am just trying to work out how the install list blew out.  Don't recall that when I was putting Blackcat together.

[melodie]

Hi Mélodie,

I am in the process of working through that.  I am just trying to work out how the install list blew out.  Don't recall that when I was putting Blackcat together.

Sproggy said in another thread that the Thunar which is in the xfce4 repository has features allowing to see the icons related to the internal partitions, mount them and umount them by a click (although the arrow is still there, only the icon is a little greyed when the device is unmounted) so I suppose if you uninstall thunar, and reinstall it with the xfce4 repository added to your line in the sources.list, and also eventually change repos, you might have a better result. Here, I had no problem getting thunar-volman when I installed them.

[Taco.22]

I don't have Thunar installed yet because it is a 111mb download!  Is that right, and if so, how did it manage to get that big?

[Yankee]

I don't have Thunar installed yet because it is a 111mb download!  Is that right, and if so, how did it manage to get that big?

Missing dependencies, no doubt.   I went back to PCManFM, can always go back to
feh and so forth...

Was able to install all my fav's without a hitch except gnome-games
and gnormalize (but normalize works fine from the command line).

Needed a phython-dbus, a couple qt-libraries, and an http starter
for gstreamer apps, but was able to find them with a little help from the forum(s).

Smooth working son-of-a-gun no doubt.   For joy.

Have a good one.

THX.

Patrick013

[melodie]

Hi,

I have installed the latest Openbox Bonsai again in a virtual machine to see what comes with Thunar : I confirm, it pulls in 129 MB here, and which installed makes 416 MB on the hard drive. I didn't validate, but used "Edit > Unmark all", then did the same with Nautilus. It would pull in 15 MB, and use 43.1 MB of extra space.

BTW, I am very astonished to see the docbook packages installed along with Thunar...

[Yankee]

When I installed Thunar, it might have used some other
lib's, but on 12-20-2011, total,  it says 15 MB's for
three thunar packages.

The whole OB-BONSAI thing, without PCManFM, on this partition,
fully loaded, is 2.8 GB.

I'm running on this partition, OB Bonsai, fully loaded,
without PCManFM, not even installed, using the feh thing.
But I do have xfce panel installed but never use it.

This is my personal OB-Bonsai partition.

[melodie]

When I installed Thunar, it might have used some other
lib's, but on 12-20-2011, total,  it says 15 MB's for
three thunar packages.

I was being removing the devel packages from this machine and a few more apps I don't need in this install at the moment, when I saw Taco's post. So while I was looking at the 129 MB depends I found in Bonsai, I took advantage to make more removals. Here is all what I removed this evening, among which most of the packages listed by what an install of Thunar in the Virtualbox Bonsai would have added:
http://pastebin.com/JJUBs3h5

(I had Thunar here too, because I compared several ones recently)

I have gained much space in the system this evening. ( the partitions has 15GB for the / and 5.6 GB is used now).

[Yankee]

I think my miniscule thunar install
was because I installed xfce4-panel
previously.

[melodie]

the stuff you removed most of it is gnome desktop .... please fix your iso ... make it standard like the rest of the iso's .... use the KDE minime iso and build from that .... not from a barely usable CLI Iso

The stuff I removed is mostly devel packages, and many coming from the install of the xfce4 packages. And this is my personal install, which I have used daily without a glitch for more than 3 years now.

How come that not long ago a simple xfce4-panel package was pulling 5 or 6 packages and now it pulls in 107 MB ?

Who has something to fix here ? Not me...

ImageMagick (version 6.6.3.4-2pclos2011) sera installé
OpenSP (version 1.5.2-3pclos2011) sera installé
ctags (version 5.8-1pclos2010) sera installé
dblatex (version 0.2.9-1pclos2010) sera installé
docbook-dtd43-xml (version 1.0-5pclos2010) sera installé
docbook-dtd44-xml (version 1.0-3pclos2010) sera installé
docbook-style-dsssl (version 1.79-5pclos2010) sera installé
docbook-style-xsl (version 1.75.2-1pclos2010) sera installé
docbook-utils (version 0.6.14-7pclos2010) sera installé
exo (version 0.7.0-1pclos2012) sera installé
ghostscript-dvipdf (version 9.04-2pclos2011) sera installé
gtk-doc (version 1.18-1pclos2011) sera installé
help2man (version 1.38.1-1pclos2010) sera installé
intltool (version 0.41.1-1pclos2011) sera installé
jadetex (version 3.12-117pclos2007) sera installé
libOpenSP5 (version 1.5.2-3pclos2011) sera installé
libatk1.0-devel (version 2.0.0-2pclos2011) sera installé
libboost1.42.0 (version 1.42.0-4pclos2011) sera installé
libcairo-devel (version 1.10.2-2pclos2011) sera installé
libcdt4 (version 2.24.0-5pclos2011) sera installé
libexo-0.7_1 (version 0.7.0-1pclos2012) sera installé
libfontconfig-devel (version 2.8.0-1pclos2010) sera installé
libfreetype6-devel (version 2.4.3-2pclos2010) sera installé
libgarcon0 (version 0.1.9-1pclos2012) sera installé
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libgvc5 (version 2.24.0-5pclos2011) sera installé
libnetpbm10 (version 10.34-4pclos2007) sera installé
libopenjade0 (version 1.3.3-0.1pclos2010) sera installé
libpango1.0-devel (version 1.28.4-2pclos2011) sera installé
libpcre0-devel (version 8.21-1pclos2011) sera installé
libpixman-devel (version 0.24.0-1pclos2011) sera installé
libpng-devel (version 1.2.43-1pclos2010) sera installé
libpthread-stubs (version 0.3-1pclos2010) sera installé
libsource-highlight3 (version 3.1.3-1pclos2010) sera installé
libstdc++-devel (version 4.5.2-4pclos2011) sera installé
libx11-devel (version 1.4.3-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxau-devel (version 1.0.6-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxcb-devel (version 1.7-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxcomposite-devel (version 0.4.3-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxcursor-devel (version 1.1.12-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxdamage-devel (version 1.1.3-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxdmcp-devel (version 1.1.0-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxext-devel (version 1.2.0-2pclos2011) sera installé
libxfce4ui1_0 (version 4.8.1-1pclos2012) sera installé
libxfce4util (version 4.8.2-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxfce4util-devel (version 4.8.2-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxfixes-devel (version 5.0-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxft-devel (version 2.2.0-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxi-devel (version 1.4.2-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxinerama-devel (version 1.1.1-2pclos2011) sera installé
libxml2-devel (version 2.7.8-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxrandr2-devel (version 1.3.2-1pclos2011) sera installé
libxrender-devel (version 0.9.6-1pclos2011) sera installé
netpbm (version 10.34-4pclos2007) sera installé
openjade (version 1.3.3-0.1pclos2010) sera installé
pango-doc (version 1.28.4-2pclos2011) sera installé
perl-SGMLSpm (version 1.03ii-10pclos2009) sera installé
perl-Tie-Watch (version 1.2-10pclos2009) sera installé
perl-Tk (version 804.028-10pclos2009) sera installé
sam2p (version 0.44.14-2pclos2007) sera installé
source-highlight (version 3.1.3-1pclos2010) sera installé
tcsh (version 6.17-1pclos2010) sera installé
tetex (version 3.0-19pclos2007) sera installé
tetex-context (version 3.0-19pclos2007) sera installé
tetex-dvips (version 3.0-19pclos2007) sera installé
tetex-latex (version 3.0-19pclos2007) sera installé
tmpwatch (version 2.10.1-1pclos2010) sera installé
transfig (version 3.2.5a-1pclos2010) sera installé
x11-proto-devel (version 7.6-4pclos2011) sera installé
xfce4-dev-tools (version 4.9.0-1pclos2011) sera installé
xfce4-panel (version 4.9.0-1pclos2012) sera installé
xfce4-panel-devel (version 4.9.0-1pclos2012) sera installé
xfconf (version 4.8.1-1pclos2012) sera installé
xmltex (version 1.9-65pclos2007) sera installé
zlib1-devel (version 1.2.3-8pclos2010) sera installé

 
 

[kjdixo]

Melodie
This version of Openbox PCLinuxOS is wonderful, fantastic, excellent and brilliant.
For the last week I have been distro-hopping Openbox and LXDE distros (one inch pile of live cds and several days lost ... trying to fix annoying problems).
Every distro showed promise, but then each one 'let me down' with some annoying and tedious problem.
A few days ago I tried the standard Openbox Mini Version 'Bonsai' which was fine, except that it kept stalling and hanging at boot and shutdown.
Then today I tried the updated 'Bonsai' (17th January 2012 updated version) with 'added snow feature' and I am very impressed.
Firstly there are no boot or shutdown problems this time. Secondly absolutely everything I tried whilst customizing and installing worked flawlessly.
As a bonus arial fonts are pre-installed and .... etc etc.
You have obviously invested a great deal of effort and attention to detail on it.
This is an All-round Winner!
Thanks.
Kevin Dixon.

[melodie]

Melodie
This version of Openbox PCLinuxOS is wonderful, fantastic, excellent and brilliant.
For the last week I have been distro-hopping Openbox and LXDE distros (one inch pile of live cds and several days lost ... trying to fix annoying problems).
Every distro showed promise, but then each one 'let me down' with some annoying and tedious problem.
A few days ago I tried the standard Openbox Mini Version 'Bonsai' which was fine, except that it kept stalling and hanging at boot and shutdown.
Then today I tried the updated 'Bonsai' (17th January 2012 updated version) with 'added snow feature' and I am very impressed.
Firstly there are no boot or shutdown problems this time. Secondly absolutely everything I tried whilst customizing and installing worked flawlessly.
As a bonus arial fonts are pre-installed and .... etc etc.
You have obviously invested a great deal of effort and attention to detail on it.
This is an All-round Winner!
Thanks.
Kevin Dixon.

Hello kjdixio,

Welcome to our forums ! \o/ !

Thank you very much for your kind words, your compliments are very much appreciated !

I can't and will not keep your compliments just for my own self, because many people have made it possible to create this "do it yourself" small flavor.

Please let me tell you about them, maybe just showing the long thread we developed around the project, some time ago.

There have been many who helped during many weeks.

Regards,
Mélodie

[nitrogen_widget]

I've had PClinuxOS Openbox on my mom's computer for months now. I installed it on an old 1.2 Ghz P3 with 1gb of ram & I honestly haven't had to touch the thing once!
It's actually fairly responsive also so thanks for that.

Just downloaded Bonsai & building my own version of XBMC live with this as the base to run off a thumb-drive for a disk-less client.
XBMC is reporting at idle only using up 200mb of ram while running off the thumb-drive so far.

Crazy.

[melodie]

I've had PClinuxOS Openbox on my mom's computer for months now. I installed it on an old 1.2 Ghz P3 with 1gb of ram & I honestly haven't had to touch the thing once!
It's actually fairly responsive also so thanks for that.

Just downloaded Bonsai & building my own version of XBMC live with this as the base to run off a thumb-drive for a disk-less client.
XBMC is reporting at idle only using up 200mb of ram while running off the thumb-drive so far.

Crazy.

Hi,

I am happy to read you are one more happy user ! That is the goal ! Many Happy Users !

Thanks for your feedback !!