Comments on: Debian on OLPC, take two

By: zenfunk

zenfunk — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:45:17 +0000

Sorry for bothering you about the old news- but your gtk 1.2 looks so much better than mine. The main difference might well only be the little arrows above and under the scroll bar but yours look almost GTK- 2.0-ish. Mine look more motif- like. Is this something that could be turned on somewhere, is it a special gtk 1.2 theme you are using?

Thanks in advance,

Christian

BTW: The gtk 1.2 firefox from lamarelle.org rocks. thanks for the tip back then. It’s my favorite browser on the 300 MHz PII Thinkpad of mine.

By: Alan Doyle

Alan Doyle — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:47:34 +0000

K.Mandla:Worked a treat. Built a test XRDP server and users login to a familiar Win style environment thats light on server resources. Many thanks.

By: laptopugilist

laptopugilist — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:58:58 +0000

I guess after I went through the whole “I guess it really ISN’T a full featured laptop!” thing I decided that a normal interface wasn’t what I wanted either. I saw the tabbed desktop (link below) and thought that a simple two-color system (because the only thing I missed about sugar was how good it looked in black and white) with all maximized windows was what I wanted. Well, that and it was an excuse to blow a weekend learning OpenBox. It’s so much less fun now that everything works.

http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/a-tabbed-desktop/

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:01:26 +0000

Alan Doyle: The theme is WinClassic2 off box-look.org, and I haven’t done much else to modify it. Here’s a recent post that used the first WinClassic theme, and I posted the configuration there.

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/oh-so-close/

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:43:53 +0000

Oh, that’s really only because GTK1.2 applications are so much faster for me on the XO, and if I want a window manager that looks a little better (to me) at GTK1.2, I go with IceWM, and if I use IceWM in its natural shape I get a taskbar, and if I have a taskbar it might as well look like Windows … and so there it is.

By: laptopugilist

laptopugilist — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:36:07 +0000

It’s funny that you’re using IceWM and Debian on your OLPC, since this blog and urukuama’s are what got me using OpenBox on the base fedora install (minus sugar, of course) on my XO.

By: devnet

devnet — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:18:23 +0000

Since debian works…I wonder how eLive would work on that puppy…I’m using elive on an older Inspiron lappy with 256MB of RAM. I’ve found it to be quite fast…

By: Alan Doyle

Alan Doyle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:59:40 +0000

Wow this beats the pants off the whole monkey to elephant trick

Could you post your IceWM config as I’ve never been able to get the “Quick launch” area to look so much like 2k! I’m not usually a big fan of the Windows UI but I’m intrigued to see how you did it.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:25:00 +0000

PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS! Itty-bitty living space!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:49:27 +0000

How on earth did you get all that on the tiny OLPC screen?

You’ve made it look like it has a much bigger monitor