the menu is still missing when I entered the terminal command. What new plugins? Are there new icons in the LXDE menu?

Do you think it will go away if I delete the two apps in app manager and then remove the lxde entries in .config?

@qole: Wow, after I've installed easy-debian, the N900 really turned into the ultimate device I was dreaming of! Thanks!!

As I've posted in a different thread, I have installed cups, which gave the one connectivity I was still missing, namely to my network printers, but I've noticed that I have to manually restart cups after every power-down of the N900 (not otherwise).

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...671#post490671

Perhaps this is the right place to ask for advice, or even have cups as an integral part of easy-devian added to a wishlist.

andyph666: figured the menu thing out, a fix is coming.

rebhana: you could start cups in the script in the chroot, /var/run/onfirstchroot.rc ... this is a script that runs as root when you first open the chroot.

Wow! I was regretting the lack of documentation, but this is so much better: not having to find some hack, but to be adviced by the master himself!

EDIT: Only problem: I can't find /var/run/onfirstchroot.rc ... Do I have to create it?

EDIT2: Yup! I've added this file with content "/etc/init.d/cups restart" and it works!

More I am playing with it, more I like it!

A small question. I need latex with various packages. Would be possible to make a folder outside of the image and to save latex packages there? would the latex of easy-debian see them? with proper instructions of course!

I think it should without problems, but I would like to avoid to break it, as I would not be able to reinstall it during this weekend

after getting:

'unable to install 'easy-deb-chroot'. some application packages required for the installation are missing'

i tried again a few hours later and it worked with no probs,
and im extremely impressed with it!

Thanks for the update qole. Bar is back again
But looks to me as if the last peace of the network icon is cut off.

I get the same thing but its getting better and better. I don't see a battery icon anywhere as you mentioned one before.

So strange! Now even the 'old' OpenOffice from an unmodified image file is fast and snappy! What has changed?!?

I created a fairly complex document with multiple fonts and tables, saved it, converted it to PDF... and it was a nice experience!

Sounds good. Thanks for all the time you put into it. Any ETA on the new image?