Experimental BunsenLabs Lithium

hhh · 2019-10-05 20:42:54

Nice work, John!

hhh · 2019-10-05 22:45:15

Unbelievably great work, gents. Reset configs, applied BLOB theme Lithium...

I have some work to do... Some contrast improvement in the theme(s), maybe. Also, the wall should be the text-logo wallpaper by default and tint2 and conky both need a little color-tweaking to look more Li and less Beam, but that does not look bad at all. In fact, I think it looks very cool. Cheers!

hhh · 2019-10-05 23:14:24

Same setup using available themes... tint2 set to minimal and conky set to CB-Right...

Great work implementing the notification theme and config (not shown in the scrots), it looks beast. Animal. Righteous. Phat. It looks OK.

-edit- Quick conky and tint2 tweaks added, and a wall switch...

dolly · 2019-10-06 07:38:27

@johnraff, done, have set everything to Lithium defaults and it looks really cool and works well. Thank you!

@hhh, yes, I agree, there are some very small tweakings to be done to get it 150% perfect. No need to change dmenu though, it is already at 200% perfectness, love it b/w.

manyroads · 2019-10-06 13:48:45

I am feeling a bit dense... I'd love to test Lithium. Is it readily available for casual 'breakage"? Seriously, I am happy to provide testing if such is desired.

dolly · 2019-10-06 18:33:28

@manyroads, read this.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=5546

manyroads · 2019-10-06 18:36:41

I have tried it. For some reason johnraff's apt sources didn't play nice. I'm in the process of install debian buster directly and going to give it a whirl again.

malm · 2019-10-07 20:48:45

@hhh, @johnraff - just wanted to say... the new theme is really ace!!!!!

hhh · 2019-10-07 22:38:40

Thanks, malm! Thanks, John, you're putting it all together very nicely!

johnraff · 2019-10-09 03:19:22

hhh wrote:

the wall should be the text-logo wallpaper by default

Sure? I can see a case for finding the text-free version less intrusive...

manyroads · 2019-10-09 13:32:58

I m sorry to say that I should have also reported my successes in this thread, I guess. I have the latest release working well on both MX19b3 and antiX19b3. I made a small change to the exit routine to use my yad script. Otherwise everything seems to work and run minus "systemd." The desktop also seems to play nicely with the mxTool set; I have not had a chance to check that out yet on antiX. I had to remove antiX's slim display manager and replace with lightdm... things didn't work without that change, for some reason. Personally I'm not a fan of slim anyway. Here's my thread on BL Forums...
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=6147

Here's my thread on MX Forums:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=53187

jalfonsi · 2019-10-20 13:14:56

Hello, I have been able to dress BL Helium (Stretch) with the new Lithium packages. I added the Lithium experimental repo, did a full-upgrade and deleted everything in .config directory. I had only an issue with Jgmenu not finding lx-module so I backported from Buster to Stretch menu-cache3 building from deb-src. Everything is pretty good, only bunsen-thunar and bunsen-utilities could not be upgraded because of missing dependencies in Stretch (libthunarx-3-0 and python3-distutils).

dolly · 2019-10-26 09:17:02

Really enjoying my fresh Lithium install. You have done a great job so far, take your time, it pays off in the end.

One peculiar thing though that I have noticed. When I use the TTY log in option with startx, the dialog bl-exit box does not come up from neither the menu, or the key combo super+x. If I recall correctly that did work in Helium, and it still does, though my Helium is targeted at unstable since quite some time.

Just wanted to mention it in case it is something that needs attention. Thank you.

johnraff · 2019-10-27 03:05:00

^Dolly, thanks for the feedback, and the encouragement!

You might have found a bug here - I wonder if you could repost the bl-exit issue as a new topic in "Bug Reports"? We'd like to get to the bottom of it, and the conversation might clog up this general thread.

ekzotic · 2019-11-17 09:18:41

I like it so far and theme looks very nice as usual with Crunch/Bunsen. As for suggestions - option to not install Libreoffice and to install Chrome/Chromium from the menu (like before). And to add keyboard layout switcher by default.

alef · 2019-11-17 10:03:07

Hi,

I have just installed Bunsen Lithium on a new machine.

One problem I have is that whenever I suspend the computer (or simply lock it with Super+L), then the screen shuts down and remains black. Thankfully, the password field is selected by default and I'm able to type in my password and unlock with Enter.

This might be caused by me pulling some dotfiles from a previous setup into my home directory by mistake.

Any solution for this?

Thanks.

P.S. The installation of Lithium was very smooth, Impressive work, guys!

nore · 2019-11-17 11:03:27

alef wrote:

One problem I have is that whenever I suspend the computer (or simply lock it with Super+L), then the screen shuts down and remains black.

It's a bug in current version of light-locker. Remove it, install xscreensaver and bind Super+L to

xscreenlocker-command -lock

or install some other alternative.

nore · 2019-11-17 11:06:47

^^...or, before removing and installing packages, try

dm-tool switch-to-greeter

ekzotic · 2019-11-17 20:30:08

How about adding Nvidia/AMD drivers optional to post install script? Could help new users not mess up their system and it's easier to fix screen tears (at least for me on nv).

damo · 2019-11-17 21:07:05

ekzotic wrote:

How about adding Nvidia/AMD drivers optional to post install script? Could help new users not mess up their system and it's easier to fix screen tears (at least for me on nv).

It would be nice, but is not a trivial task to automate: you get into maybe having to set up Optimus and bbswitch etc, and maybe kernel boot parameters...and...and...and...

The nouveau driver which is shipped with BL does a good job generally, but the quirks of your own hardware means you may have to do some configuration yourself.

(You could try something like Mint which does a good job OOTB for NVidia hardware)

Personally I learned the hard way by messing up my system several times 8o On the plus side though, I learned how to set up NVidia and optimize the graphics, and also how to archive the installation partition, and restore it after f***ing it up!

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