Using the chromebook linux VM, was thinking installing a desktop of some kind, would like a crunchbang-like environment. Are all of the packages in base debian? Is there a package list I could use for apt?

I just installed it twice on my old laptop but the is just won't accept my credentials. I am stuck now with an unusable os and laptop.

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I have found a screenshot of my old #! desktop and I really need to recreate it. Does anyone know the theme? Just pure black.

As I understand it, #!++ doesn't use a desktop environment, only openbox window manager so it doesn't effect anything inside the window-which is the job of a desktop environment. Do I have that correct? I'm looking to get a dark background for what's inside the window. How do I do this if there is no DE?

Does anybody have a good guide on cloning crunchbang from debian? I know, I know, "just use BL or CB++." Or "it's just openbox, conky, and tint2." But hear me out.

I have used BL, and it's OK. But it has small changes that I dislike and seems to be leaving the spirit of CB. CB++ is a fantastic choice, but it does not seem to have the same traction as BL. I fear development will cease in the future and I will be in the same boat as I am now. Better to just run vanilla debian and avoid future disappointment.

I have installed debian with openbox and tint2, and it's not the same. I want the CB theme. The icons and power management settings. All of that was just so... perfect in CB.

So, does anybody have a comprehensive list/tutorial of bringing a netinstall of Jessie to an install of CB++? Maybe even add the CB or CB++ repo to add the actual themes and icons?

Hello Crunchbang,

It's been a while, I forget how to change something and can't find the right answer on google. There was a setting I could change that would allow me to open up a terminal, create an SSH connection with password, then open up another terminal and connect to the same server as the one in the first terminal shell connection.

Please help me, I promise to write it down this time. Thanks! Much love.

So I wiped the dust off my sad excuse for a laptop only to find out that I don't remember my user name or password.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance. Karma for all of you.

I was searching for a Linux distribution to run on an old latitude d420 Netbook. I saw a bunch of recommendations for crunchbang. Since crunchbang is now no longer supported, I was looking at one of the new versions. The specs of the Netbook are :

CPU U2500 dual core @1.2 RAM 2gig

Anyone have any experience running either of the above on similar systems?

Edit: opinion seems mixed but it looks like both should work. I will probably throw both of them on a live stick and give them a try. Thanks

I don't have a question, but rather a fix, just in case some one else finds this some day.

If you are getting an error "can't mount cd rom" and you are installing via USB, i tried all kinds of sim links and mounting commands. but what actually worked was just pulling the usb at failure, and swapping usb ports. then hitting retry. VIOLA fixed.

This subreddit seems dead. The last post was made 2 months ago. Archbang and Crunchbang++ don't seem to make the cut.

I found a good replacement: http://chromixium.org/

Based on Debian, and uses openbox. Looks really beautiful, and is simple.

Hey all. I've been using #! on my old Inspiron e1405 for several years, usually updating intermittently because I'm not always good about keeping up with updates.

Well, apparently, the latest update broke evince. And a bunch of other stuff.

I know that CBPP and BL are the two successors to #!, but can anyone give me a good rundown of any significant differences between the two before I decide which to switch to on this old machine?

Also, I've got an Asus eeePC, 1000HA, running WinXP right now, that's in much better shape (physically, the machine has slowed to a crawl thanks to XP) than the Inspiron is. Which would be the better option for that one, do you think? I'm debating on installing #!++ on one and BL on the other, just to see the differences for myself, but I wanted to get other's experiences with them before I switched.

I could practically sit here for a few minutes and watch the percentage drop.

I followed these steps to upgrade o jessie and for the most part it's been pretty smooth..until I noticed that the battery life was rendering my lenovo s110 nearly useless.

I have tried tlp, no dice.

I know crunchbang development has stopped, but neither the Bunsen Labs alpha iso nor Crunchbang++ boot on my laptop.

I've been looking for a solution for hours but I don't understand much of what I read.

I love Ubuntu but crunchbang is really nice to have on a small laptop. However, an hour from a full charge is unreasonable.

Would anyone know if this might be related to Jessie, or specific to the fact that I upgraded to jessie from crunchbang waldorf? Or if it could possibly be hardware related? As far as I know I've usually been able to get 2 hours on this from Lubuntu and I'm at 1 hour and 10/20 minuttes with an upgrade Crunchbang, even with wifi turned off.

I'd appreciate very muchc if anyone could explain what might be happening here.

After failing at getting any distro to recognize both the keyboard and the wifi card, I finally found a solution: crunchbang + a cheap wifi dongle = completely new machine! I can't believe how much better this is, than the Win7 crap this machine shipped with!

This is the best thing, since salad in a bag!

You can still download crunchbang so why are people acting like you can't use it?

Help me /r/CrunchBang, you're my only hope!

I've connected an acer-screen by vga, and it duplicates what's on my laptop screen. I want a dual desktop, so I googled it and ended up using half my day on it :/ :)

My xrandr doesn't detect the monitor:

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080 default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1920x1080 0.0*

I've found threads that match my problem, but the only one that was answered tells me to see my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, which I don't have.

You have a few options.

AntiX is probably the best. It's a full Debian distro with working Broadcom wireless out of the box and very light on system resources (the things that made crunchbang the top choice for a large section of users.) But it's an intermediate skill level, without a doubt. The interfaces are kinda foreign (as in, don't conform to ordinary United States customs) which isn't a big deal but requires a certain level of comfort with software. Things aren't quite effortless. Which leads to choice number two...

Mint MATE. All the automagic of an Ubuntu spin with none of the bloat, it's beautiful and sharp. Debian Edition is a little faster but a little pickier with hardware it doesn't like. It's definitely a mainstream choice, and that isn't bad. But you might also want to see an alternative, namely-

Archbang. It's a lovely and blazing-fast pre-built desktop for Arch Linux. The graphical scheme and default Openbox shortcuts are right out of CrunchBang, and it's gotten a lot more stable and neat in the last year or two. This is my daily driver and perhaps my favorite distro yet, combining virtually every advantage. I can't overstate how fast this distro is. Puppy runs purely from ram and still isn't as fast. Software is also as cutting-edge as it gets. Default programs are a little thin (no disc burner initially) but that's pretty much what you want by this point, isn't it? All with none of the unwieldly DIY installation. The Arch elite tends to hate it (and everything else) but if you're reading this then it's exactly what you want, as long as you're comfortable with config files and have an interest in the Arch repos.

Old crunchbang is dead, long live Crunchbang++

Download the new distro from http://crunchbangplusplus.org

Reddit sub: http://reddit.com/r/crunchbangplusplus

Hey all, I ran #! for a couple years on my main box, and switched back to xubuntu, but I was thinking, the main thing that I liked about it was how openbox was set up, is it possible to just grab that? I miss it...

Title basically.