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casbahdk
December 31st, 2011, 03:50 PM
Does anyone have any thoughts on installing a razor-qt / openbox based system from a minimal cd? I want to avoid as many KDE and GNOME bits as possible, but I want to use terminator, and I need to be able to use usb-modeswitch, so I guess wicd is ruled out for networking. I also need a replacement for gedit, that has most of the same features, including auto spell checking (11.04 or earlier, no auto spell check in ll.10). Kate could be a possibility, but I am not sure how many dependencies it would drag in. Lastly, I need for the mounting of USB storage devices to work out of the box. This is often an issue when installing from a minimal cd.

sanderd17
December 31st, 2011, 04:10 PM
Does anyone have any thoughts on installing a razor-qt / openbox based system from a minimal cd? I want to avoid as many KDE and GNOME bits as possible, but I want to use terminator, and I need to be able to use usb-modeswitch, so I guess wicd is ruled out for networking. I also need a replacement for gedit, that has most of the same features, including auto spell checking (11.04 or earlier, no auto spell check in ll.10). Kate could be a possibility, but I am not sure how many dependencies it would drag in. Lastly, I need for the mounting of USB storage devices to work out of the box. This is often an issue when installing from a minimal cd.

I have never worked with the minimal CD (but I did work with Arch, which is more minimal than Ubuntu minimal). But I can think of the following:


you need a display manager. I guess GDM or KDM will pull a lot of dependencies you don't want, so you could try with lightDM
You don't want to use KDE apps (such as Kate or Okular), as they will also ask a lot of dependencies


For pure QT apps, check out this thread: http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Razor-Qt-A-New-Qt-Based-Desktop-Environment

casbahdk
January 1st, 2012, 02:18 AM
Thanks for the reply and the link. I'll try to stay away from the KDE apps. Happy New Year :D

ratcheer
January 1st, 2012, 02:27 AM
I don't know much about your specific app requirements, but Archbang uses OpenBox with the slim login manager for a very slim (pun intended) installation. I wonder what Crunchbang uses? I am guessing it is fairly similar.

Tim

casbahdk
January 1st, 2012, 02:47 AM
I don't know much about your specific app requirements, but Archbang uses OpenBox with the slim login manager for a very slim (pun intended) installation. I wonder what Crunchbang uses? I am guessing it is fairly similar.

Tim

Cheers. According to corenominal (http://corenominal.org/2011/11/), he has switched from GDM to Slim, with the latest Statler images.

casbahdk
January 3rd, 2012, 09:44 AM
I stumbled across this today, for anyone that is interested:

Ubuntu Razor-qt Remix (http://www.u-r-r.info/)