ho ok i know iam picky but its for a good robust like you said lol
standalone is good way
you got my point woot

your the best

Hi qole, I'm very much ejoying Easy Debian and I've almost stopped using my laptop and I'm taking this very opportunity to try and explore linux system as much as I possibly can. Thank you!! However, there's one thing bothering me quite a lot. As I'm using your "Switch to LXDE" to get into debian and due to the fact that logging out is the only way to go back to OS2008, information about battery is no where to be found unless I logout and it doesn't make sense to do so just to get battery info and app that comes with Debian to display battery info doesn't seem to recognize it. So, I am wondering if there's any cure for this. Thank you..

Thanks Qole, i did not have bzip2 installed either as i only really use tear from your repo and pidgin

It did not error out like last time at uncompressing

Only problem when load up LXDE instead of names for each folder/application etc.. all i see is square boxes. I assumed the locale is not setup so tried

But it errors out with the following output

The goes on to say can't locate various files like:

auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix in @INC

LXDE loads very nicely but its un-usable because of this issue

Am possible done some thing wrong - so any help thanks (updated to 0.9.20 after updating repo and following rest of instructions)

Update - I was thinking it could be debian install is missing some fonts causing the square fonts

Unistall and try again later (Trying Mer Now)

Oh, that was easy. I am running Openoffice right now. Sweet!

So, did you even get the big blue screen with the gray dialogue box?
Did you get a list of locales to choose?

I just tried dpkg-reconfigure locales on a fresh image that I downloaded as part of my image installer testing, and I got the big gray box etc.

The weird thing is that the downloaded image is already configured with en_GB as the default installed locale (since that's the one I have installed on my tablet). So you shouldn't need to reconfigure your locales.

I think you may have messed something up. Perhaps delete the image and download a fresh one.

Qole, I did not get a "big gray box". I assume the install went wrong. I will try again from a fresh tablet later today

qole - I'm really glad these are sorted - I hit them simultaneously after a re-flash following one of those lovely continuous reboot loops . I did manage to sort the lack of bzip2, but I couldn't fathom the other .

I know it's very basic, but I wonder if you think it would be worth saying for newbies that the maemo Extras catalogue needs to enabled in the Application Manager (it took me a while to get that originally)?

I am a newbie, who has been lurking around this thread for some time - and I'm finally taking the plunge and posting! I am a Linux virgin, and I also have very limited system-level knowledge of Windows (more on RISC-OS), so I'm on a steep learning curve. I hail from the days when the OS fitted into 4K and 16K of RAM were a looxury . However, I did do some early work with Sophie (fka Roger) Wilson, the co-inventor of the ARM, so I feel some sense of connection .

I am delighted with my N810 for web-browsing and e-mail, and my interest here is in being able to see (and edit) Office docs sent by e-mail. The work you have done, qole, has attracted justifiable plaudits, and I add my humble congrats and thanks .

I have a few points that I will post separately.

Movable windows enabled:
With OpenOffice started, and selecting Options from the Tools menu, the pop-up window has its RHS missing in full-screen; and its RHS and bottom missing in window-screen. It seems that the pop-up is created only as large as the current window size. While it can be moved, it appears that there isn't anything off-screen. This is odd, as I'm sure it worked with a non-oo window, like you say.

Am I missing something?

I expect that this is common knowledge, but newbies (like me) may welcome this tip for Open/Save in OpenOffice.

By default, oo does not show hidden files and folders in its Open/Save dialogues. This is particularly painful with OS2008, as most of the folders seem to be hidden! (This is to allow translation of names for different locales, apparently).



The good news is that oo can be configured to show all the 'real' names, as follows:

1. with oo started, click on Tools and then Options...
2. expand the top item OpenOffice.org and click on General (NB: NOT General under Load/Save)
3. under Open/Save dialogs untick Use OpenOffice.org dialogs
4. Click OK (if you can't see the OK button, press Enter on the keyboard)

Open/Save windows now have a navigable path at the top, and life is much improved!

I tried this out b/c I ran out of space on my regular n810 memory & wanted an easy way to install more apps on my memory card & was interested in trying the full Firefox/Iceweasel & OpenOffice. Installation was amazingly smooth -- only tiny hiccup was that the "Debian Image Installer" item showed up under Games in the Application Launcher and not Extras. But it was "Easy" as advertised -- my thanks & kudos.

One surprise: Google Spreadsheets in Iceweasel is actually more responsive & more usable for me than in microB! Page load times seem comparable (although obviously Iceweasel's start-up is slower). But Google Spreadsheets under microB is frustrating for me b/c it keeps redrawing the page due to the Nokia auto-complete window that appears & disappears under the browser when you type. Also, when I type information into a spreadsheet cell with microB, the resulting edit box has scrollbars appear that completely cover up what I'm typing! Not so in Iceweasel. One the minus side, right-click menus popped up unexpectedly (I'll poke around more to see if there's a fix for this) & I frequently had to undo options I accidentally selected due to the lag between my selection & the program's response. There were other little things, of course -- those were the biggees for me.

Maybe I should submit the redrawing thing as a microB bug? Or both?