Sunday, April 21, 2013

Day one - Configuring Debian GNU/Linux 7 "wheezy"

2013-04-21

Reviewing previous customizations

I´m going through many of the previous customizations from the previous stable release:
Cosmos screensaver

Looks like XFCE ships without the cosmos screensaver...

  • Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver, which has the cosmos screensaver, requires gnome-session
  • Just for fun, I installed all the xscreensaver options: 
    • sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra rss-glx
  • To configure xscreensaver to display a slideshow of images:
    • Applications Menu > Settings > Screensaver
    • Mode = Only One Screen Saver
    • Screen Saver = GLSlideshow
    • Blank After = 30 minutes
    • Cycle After = 3 minutes
    • Select button ¨Settings¨
      • Select button "Advanced"
      • Command Line =
        glslideshow -root -delay 84615 -duration 17 -zoom 100 -pan 17 -fade 3 -fps
      • Letterbox = Checked, everything else unchecked
      • Select button ¨OK¨ to return to the main window
    • Select tab ¨Advanced¨
      • Select checkbox ¨Choose Random Image¨ and set to
        /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos
      • Uncheck ¨Grab Desktop Images¨
  • It appears all my old cosmos images got deleted though...so I chose to get them back manually:
    • cd /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/blue-marble-west.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O blue-marble-west.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/cloud.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O cloud.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/comet.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O comet.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/earth-horizon.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O earth-horizon.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/galaxy-ngc3370.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O galaxy-ngc3370.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/helix-nebula.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O helix-nebula.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/jupiter.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O jupiter.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/sombrero.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O sombrero.jpg
    • sudo wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/plain/data/images/cosmos/whirlpool.jpg?id=2.91.90 -O whirlpool.jpg
  • All that work, because, as I said before, ...Carl Sagan...Cosmos
Printing

It appears I lost all my UI printer configuration utilities, so, via:

sudo apt-get install system-config-printer

This opens up Applications Menu > System > Printing

Vim colors

sudo cp /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors/koehler.vim /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors/koehler.vim.bak

Configure vim  .vimrc

Configure XFCE4 Terminal 0.4.8 colors

Via my 2008 post:
  • Font: Monospace Regular 10 pt.
  • Text Color="0,255,0"
  • Background Color="0,55,0"
  • Default Bold Background="85,85,85"
  • Lines of scrollback: 9999
To set the preferred geometry (via):
  • vim ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc
  • MiscDefaultGeometry=100x100+150+0
Eclipse
Geany
Citrix Receiver 
Filezilla
Amarok 2.5-GIT
Loads OK

Headphone jack sensing 
Not tested

Java plugin
sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin
Restart browser

VLC
Seems unable to play YouTube files

To-Do:
Ghostview
Install Adobe Reader 9.5.3
Volume control sound theme
Java

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