Customize Debian image in a mini desktop

[David Samblas]

Only as an advice to the rest to no be dissapointed like me, Michele's
intructions are not 512 Sd card compatible ... I have to buy a bigger
one as soon as posible :)
El mié, 20-08-2008 a las 09:28 +0200, Michele Renda escribió:
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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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