Customize Debian image in a mini desktop
Michele Renda
michele.renda at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 09:28:53 CEST 2008
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Playing with Debian at FR I flight with some problem, and now, because I
found a solution, I'd like to share with community.
After I installed Debian, it was launching by default zhone. For now I
need more a palm, than a phone so I list here all the changes I made to
make it usable for me. I hope it can be useful for somehone
I installed Debian according the ufficial procedure. Then with
ctrl+alt+x I entered in a terminal.
With these commands (or in a simplier way, with a ssh) I installed these
programs (check internet connectivity)
apt-get install aptitude
aptitude install xfce abiword gnumeric pidgin tangogps gpsd sonata mpd
Then I used the Sebastian Ohl's patch have a left click:
(thank you again Sebastian)
http://www.ohli.de/download/xserver-xorg-input-tslib_0.0.4-5+fso2_armel.deb
after I installed it with:
dpkg --install xserver-xorg-input-tslib_0.0.4-5+fso2_armel.deb
I have also to recalibrate the screen:
wget http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/freerunner/pointercal
mv pointercal /etc/pointercal
Then I liked to start my FR direct in XFCE, without passing by zhone:
Editing /usr/bin/zhone-session
and trasform is something like this:
#!/bin/sh
exec startxfce4 &
matchbox-keyboard-toggle &
exec matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar yes
(the last yes is to have a close button, I like it more :) )
Ps. I think is better to fix the dimension of the font and of the icons
(I have 48)
I took part of the information from the official Debian guide for FR and
from here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manual_Debian (Have a look
there to know how to fix sound and gps, I didn't tried).
I hope it help someone.
Best regards
Michele Renda
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