If you go to the start menu, click on system and then administration you get a long list of choices you can select….yast2 not being in the path for normal user is probably why these don't work. I hope that's something that can be corrected.

How can I stop the autologin for xdm as well?

Deleting the polaris user took care of the auto xdm login. You might want to look at "consonance" as a simple gtk based music player that works well with lxde….had to add alsa-firmware on install or my sound card would not work…it didn't work on the live cd either as the maestro soundcard requires that package. Any recommendations of a simple network connect/disconnect util like "waveselect" on kde-apps.org but for gtk?

Thanks again for the iso…made a big diff on my old laptop.

thank you again for trying this and also the feedback is greatly appreciated.

i tried on 3 different system, sound works without any firmware.
but if more system require this, i will put it into the iso.

consonance: first of all, it's nowhere to be found in opensuse repo. and i have yet to understand opensuse build system…
second, this was design to be as minimal as possible. yet functional and useable and if possible, nothing need to be removed from this iso. and users can easily add any apps they want.

so, for fancy stuffs like that, it's up to users to choose.

for networks, there's lxnm and it's installed.
(i have not yet try it though…)

i didnt test the firefox. if the repo updated, then the iso is updated. that's how it works.
maybe the repo update the firefox but the xulrunner not yet updated? i dont know…

compcache…
here, where i live, there're still lots lots of people using 'old' computers like pentium/celeron 3/4 with 256meg sdram, etc…
and because mostly these pc still using sdram, it became expensive to upgrade. meaning it's very hard to find sdram and if you can find it, it is priced twice ddr price.

this is the original reason i build this iso. to maximize the use of these called legacy systems with the latest linux and latest apps.
on these system, compcache is a big help. even with big harddisk swaps.
ramswap is much much faster than harddisk. and compcache compressing the ram swap.
the effect is almost like doubling the ram without actually buying it.

all menus built from /usr/share/applications/*.desktop

one click install. yes i know this problem and have not yet find out how to fix it.
any idea/suggestions?

pidgin. yes this one is great. i use it a lot. but i think it's too big to get into default iso. i prefer ayttm because it's much smaller and fits the purpose. but have not tested it. coz in ubuntu, ayttm is very lag behind and cant connect to yahoo and crash a lot…

susestudio:
basically i just add the repo, add lx* packages and tell the system to use lxde as default wm instead of icewm.

yast2 sysconfig set DEFAULT_WM=startlxde

and .bashrc for autologin

that's all it.

Thanks for the fast followup Denny…..re compcache…but where are you telling it to use compache swap FIRST and then the hd? When I did a swapon -s the compcache swap area was listed 2nd. I have a celeron 700 with 512mb (max memory for old laptop) and if it can benefit from compcache I'd leave it running. Also by default it uses 25% of available ram…are you adding or subtracting from this based on available ram?

As for the oneclickinstall issue, perhaps a shell script with commands that could be ran on first boot which would setup things like the oneclickinstall script and alter the file association in firefox would work. You could also do any other "housekeeping" you needed done in this script.

compcache is installed as is.
meaning, it does everything itself. all i do is activate the service.
so, everything is default. it use fixed 25% ram by default.
by default it's prioritized before harddisk swap. you can check with

cat /proc/swaps

i'll try setup oneclick install. and perhaps lots other stuffs (as i'm on with opensuse lxde team) and this might grow become full opensuse distro in addition to kde/gnome.

The yast2-metapackage-handler gives you the scripts and if you associate .tmp with the OneClickInstallUI it works provided you have set the "DEFAULT_GUI" in yast2 under sysconfig from auto to GTK (this takes care of the —gtk necessity)….xdmsu -c can be used on the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/YaST2 to make them run correctly from the menu. ivman can be installed and it will work with HAL to automount cdrom and usb drives to the /media directory. Graveman is a passable gtk front end to the cdrao utils etc and has almost identical requirements as "alsaplayer" for a music player. kdocker can be used to dock anything to the systray. I like keeping a terminal on there since no "yakuake" like app exists. If you compile your own kernel you will also have to compile the compache src rpm and manually copy the two .ko's and the "sub-folder" dir to /lib/modules/<your kernel>/updates

If you put .desktop files in ~/.config/autostart they will auto run when you log into the shell.

LXDE quirks: Adding volume control to lxpanel does not work..nothing shows up even though it says it's added. Network manager also didn't seem to work so I used wicd. There's currently nothing to handle dialing a modem via gui. Bleachbit (requires python-xml even though it doesn't say so) is a junk file finder and deleter that runs for both user and root. Deletes all the extra Locales you don't need etc…cleaned about 40mb on my machine. alsamixer can be ran from command line to adjust sound volume since volume control in lxde is broken.

Now that I basically have my laptop running the way I want, any suggestions for a backup app thats lite to create an image file? Hope some of this rambling was of use.

superb!! keep them coming…
thanks a lot! it will surely save me at least hours of googling…

for yast2, there must be better way than changing all .desktop files.
i remembered some of them correctly asking for root password…

and i think the team have choosen lxmusic for default player

backup to create image file… did you mean to do full partition backup?
usually dd can do the job. then gzip it.

Theoretcially you could rename yast2 to yast2.bin and create a one line shell script named "yast2" in /sbin that said "xdmsu -c yast2.bin $@" and it would call su for anytime yast2 got called…I did this originally to make the —gtk parm always get passed. The ones you see that pop up a little text window asking for password are using xdmsu. Just right click on and look at properties and it will show you the command line being used.

As for backup….I installed yast2-backup which allows you to specify only back changed…full backup…split at cd size etc….just backup to a /backup dir and make sure that one is excluded from the included dirs….

You may want to look at the SVN lxde packages….swyear has a different build service for those but they include some newer versions with more features. Finally a screenshot of my desktop running your version but using the nice green and black opensuse wallpaper I found on kde-look.org which I think gives it a nice look.

http://i25.tinypic.com/nmhr3l.jpg

great desktop you have!
i never good with graphics…

oo.. no you cant just rename yast2.
when you upgrade with latest yast2, it might get replaced.

must be an elegant way. because this will be opensuse official distro, it must be done elegantly.

we now have new x11:lxde repo which also contain slim and other latest builds. but it's still not ready for production.

Well all I did to fix it was to click on a .ymp file and tell firefox to open /sbin/OneClickInstallUI and it handled it from there.

While ayttm ran ok on my laptop while testing it at a local coffee shop it froze and basically was unstable on my main x86_64 desktop….will have to play with it more but I think I'll probably stick with pidgin in both places..I also installed brasero for cd burning after several coasters with xfburn…and exaile for music….They seem to run fine on my particular laptop.

on build system, you do not run firefox.
so, it need to be configured first without running it.
and it should apply to all current and new users without the user need to do anything.

I used Yahoo pipes to filter your twitter rss feed and only show the items with "opensuse" in them. It's available @ http://tinyurl.com/opensuse-lxde for anyone who wants to use it.

Denny,

Opensuse 11.2 is now supported in Suse studio. I understand if you have things going on and can't upgrade your iso right away but if possible could you cut/paste the list of repos and packages you have included in your application and just briefly mention if you had to make file overlays of anything?

I'll be honest…I'd really like to make a laptop friendly version by including wicd (and it's dependencies such as wireless-tools etc)…..and possible ndiswrapper. Getting the wifi working on a laptop is kinda a catch 22 because you need a working internet source to download files to get wifi working but the wifi is your working internet source. ;)

just updated.

itś a major rework from scratch.
some ´hack´ works on 11.1 now not working anymore…

watch my blog for more details…

tried new version….no start bar when lxde comes up…just flickers over and over…at least thats what it did in virtualbox. The version I tried to create did same thing so seems to be issue with the lxde repo.

i didnt download and test it.
but it works ok on susestudio testdrive.

I burned the disc and booted it up on my laptop with similar results….no start bar..just flashes where one should be and wicd gives an error about not being able to talk to it's d-bus connection (did same in virtualbox)…can you provide the md5sum for the download so I can verify that I got a good copy? I'll say up front I don't think thats the issue as I got the same errors when I tried to build an appliance and I did verify the md5sum on mine but never hurts to be certain.

i got slow connection. still cant download to test it.
yes still problem with wicd.
update the md5 + sha