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	qole	2008-09-25 , 16:07
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Ok, so there seems to be a problem downloading the image tar. I'll get right on that.

- OpenOffice always takes forever to launch from an image file. Once launched, however, it should be fine.

- Please install the Powerlaunch package. This, in combination with Easy Debian, will let you make any application (including OpenOffice) fullscreen by pressing the power button then the fullscreen button. It will also toggle matchbox-keyboard when you press power button, then menu button.

- I just didn't have enough room for Abiword. Once you have done your localepurge, you probably will have enough room to squeeze it in.

- If "apt-get install" doesn't seem to be working, you will need to run "apt-get update" to get the latest set of packages. I stripped out the package lists to make the download size as small as possible.

- You want to follow the instructions from the first post regarding locales:

Originally Posted by qole

International (non-English speaking) users:

Please click on the "Debian chroot" icon and type the following command:
Code:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Choose your language(s).

Note that you should choose the language with no period between the language and the iso code (eg. "en_CA ISO-8859-1"), and optionally, the utf-8 version, too (eg. "en_CA.UTF-8").

Want more install space?

If you want more space for installing stuff, you can purge all of the language and localization files that you aren't using. Make sure you have configured your locales (as shown above) first.

Click on the "Debian chroot" icon and type the following command:
Code:
apt-get install localepurge; localepurge
This will get you at least 80MB back. You should probably do this first, before starting to install. Running out of space during an install in Debian is ugly.

- You should be able to safely append your BT keyboard xmodmap to the .Xmodmap-keymap file.

- LXDE is a bit slower than IceWM, but it is a full desktop environment, as opposed to a bare-bones window manager. It uses tap-and-hold for right-click, and it has a great little file manager. Fatalsaint is right, that "not responding" thing has been coming up ever since I moved to the C program for opening the window, even with IceWM.

- I don't know why matchbox-keyboard is not working for you. I will investigate that, as it is very important.

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Last edited by qole; 2008-09-25 at 16:11.