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Bucentaur
Bucentaur is half-man and half-ox and half-dormouse.
Bucentaur is a name that has first two letters the same as Buster.
Bucentaur is a next generation of Stretchbang, without stretch and bang.
Install Debian 10
https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
Install base system, skip creating root user and sudo should be the automagic default.
Only install standard system utilities.
Boot into cli, install/configure git, sed, vim
sudo apt install git apt-transport-https sed vim
git config --global core.editor "vim" # optional
Get bucentaur git and apply configs
cd && mkdir source && cd source
git clone https://github.com/brontosaurusrex/bucentaur
cd bucentaur
git config credential.helper store # optional
./overwriteConfigs # copy user stuff, themes, fonts, icons ...
./fixPaths # in .wbar and .Xresources
./makeUserDirs # mkdir documents downloads images ...
./bin/pipeMisc # generates first-run ~/bin/misc.xml user submenu
sources.list with some https power
sudo cp -b etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
Network-manager
cd source/bucentaur
sudo cp -b etc/network/interfaces /etc/network
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager
Install packages
# automatic
cd ~/source/bucentaur/packs
sudo ./installLess # or sudo ./installAll
# remove nm-applet xdg autostart
# will be started from openbox autostart
sudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop
# reboot
systemctl reboot
Should now boot into lightdm / openbox.
Generate wallpaper
noise +++ -p
Note: This assumes that you are loged into openbox already, more pluses will generate brighter wallpaper.
Install Chrome
cd downloads
wget \
https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -y ./google*.deb
sudo apt -f install # fix deps
rm ./google*.deb
And ‘ublock origin’ extension. Configure the look.
To make bman script to open man pages in chrome
xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
bman vim # to test
Note: To start with http proxy
google-chrome --proxy-server=host:port
ZSH
Basic ~/.zshrc is provided
sudo apt install zsh
chsh -s $(which zsh) # to make zsh default
Note: fzf should work in both bash and zsh interactive shell (ctrl+R, ctrl+T).
Behaviorism
printVolCont in tint2
~/bin/printVolCont is something that can be used to control ALSA master volume, with some cooperation from tint2. Alternative would be volumeicon-alsa or pnmixer.
Mice scroll
Everything, including browser should be scrollable by holding down right-mouse button. This interesting feature did require patching window resizing to alt+middle-mouse-button, windows moving is still alt+left-mouse-button.
Hosts file
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/
Basic hotkeys
hotkeys
Aliases and ~/bin scripts
Autologin
sudo vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
# under [Seat:*] enable
autologin-user=yourUserName
Troubles and fixes and tests
o: = open
c: = closed
n: = won't fix
u: = nothing to fix
- c: nm-applet will sometimes not autostart when in /etc/xdg/autostart, workaround: move it to openbox autostart (fixed).
- c: bcterm calc is always decorated differently, replaced with galculator (fixed).
- c: Horrible virtualbox6 experience. (increasing video ram and changing adapter type fixed it)
- c: Cursor is dark in virtualbox, should be snowy. (fixed with ‘sudo lxapperance’ and seting the cursor theme there as well…).
- u: Tearing test https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tearing+test
- c: Various geany look related fixes
- c: Thunar’s ‘open terminal here’ fails. (added exo-utils and libexo* to base.list)
- u: Tint2 systray looks different when compton is running (more transparent)
- c: Thunar custom actions (search: use catfish )
- c: Thunar icon sizes for sidebar
- o: Main Thunar icons (back, forward, up, home) are stupidly big
Atribution
Luv icons are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International 4.0 License
Report Issues
https://github.com/brontosaurusrex/bucentaur/issues
