Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

@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.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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!:D

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! :cool:

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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 :D

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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!

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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.

http://www.bilderload.com/bild/24878/unbenanntP9Y11.jpg

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

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

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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!

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