Install a login manager (more pointless eyecandy, logging in and typing startx is easy enough...)
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Wine could run it? :O It must be able to run it! that thing is windows 98 kind of old! i must try! (chances are the dictionary will run better in wine than it does on windows 7! lol)
Oh i just figured out that my laptop actually has 4.1 speaker setup :O that's what beats-audio is.
Linux only detects 2/5 speakers on my laptop :O the weakest 2 in fact. This is not acceptable.
So basically beats audio is 2.0 wired to 4.1...
Why the retardedness? why not just have a 4.1 setup? that would've been SO MUCH easier T_T
Yesterday i watched "La vie 'd'Adéle" or "Blue is the warmest color" i had heard good things about that movie, but that.... that was just slow-paced pornography. Decent for porn, but shit for a movie. One unique factor of it though is that it's super realistic, the protagonist goes through a lot of places where you'll be able to relate, for example the movie starts by her very realistically missing a bus.
I dislike the protagonist, i rarely dislike female protagonists but this one i do dislike, and it seems that this was intentionally done (that is... some ridiculously stupid things she does) what annoys me the most about her though is not the stupid things she does, but her indecisiveness about her own sexuality. I guess that's what bisexual means huh... So i hate bisexual people in general for being indecisive? so be it!
Anyways knowing that it's a 4.1 setup makes things a lot easier for me to troubleshoot, now i just simply check if the speakers next to me are working or not by placing my ear next to them (a lot easier than flipping the blasted thing over and checking the subwoofer)...
Oh, i got the subwoofer working with hdajackretask, but not the other 2 speakers :/
I think i got the other 2 speakers working too.
I in the end didn't have to configure alsa at all, just some hdajackretask. The flaw is that 2 out of my 4 speakers are set to a lower volume than the rest :/ but oh well, i can live with it, at least the sound is pretty nice.
The most important Keybind configuration is here, i downloaded volumeicon and it allowed me to est a keybind for mute, increase and decrease volume which saves me the trouble of doing it directly in openbox :D
The only other keybind i think i'll need is changing workspaces with the pager and the media keys (play/pause/fwd/backward)
Getting rid of the palm clicks was super easy.
I installed the microsoft fonts, or a good handful of them anyways (i used an AUR package for it called ttf-win7-fonts or something like that) now i just need to configure the font rendering a bit ...
Oh look the dictionary installed :O
And it offers me all the functionality that windows 7 does, except that what would usually crash it just hangs it instead. Interesting.
By now, all the programs i wanted to run run on my linux system. Technically...
That's pretty good.
Right, i have to do exercises today. what was it again.. squat and pullup? oh... wednesdays are the hardest shit....
Until my palms can handle holding up my bodyweight for an extended duration (the skin on them anyways) i aint gonna do many pullups i guess. I like to do a few leg raises while i hang. I was honestly surprised by how easy it is to do a few leg raises (must be all these knee raises that made it so easy) My palms tire out before my muscles do for doing said leg raises. (That said, monday is leg raise day, just that i'm not far enough in the "10 steps" (that's easiest to hardest exercise) to be doing them. I just do them to do something while i hang hehe)
I seem to be close to the finish line with this laptop. I've set the keybinds for pause/play/prev/next music playback (although i haven't transferred any music onto the drive just yet, my music library is quite massive you see... 200gb or so. To transfer it to the laptop i'd ideally remove the hard drive and plug it into my own PC, however since the storage drive is ext4 file system i would preferably need to have the linux OS on my laptop, there are 2 workarounds, one being using the NTFS partition of the laptop to transfer the files in 3 runs, another being doing it over LAN.)
So lets see, what remains is...
there, The only kebinds i think i need to configure in openbox is Win+1-4 for the workspaces, and i'll be set...
Yeah that took 1 minute to do, now... the rest of the stuff is just pointless eyecandy type of stuff.
Oh right the word for login manager is display manager (told you it didn't make sense)
Allright i've got Qingy and Slim...
I'm gonna go ahead and call Qingy trash,. Slim is "OK" maybe i'll find something shinier...
SDDM is cool.
LightDM looks decent (it's the old ubuntu thing)
Entrance is cool (but experimental =( )
MDM looks perfect, i'll try that one.
Problem: all of them are AUR except LightDM, ah well.
I'll start with MDM. I installed it, it was so easy to install i kinda didn't believe it, and it supports animated HTML themes :O i can do that... oh wait i can't draw, dammit, well i guess i'll just use that guys theme then. (But at least i can code my own if i want to using art by others :D)
Now the problem with this bastard here is that i can't seem to find out how to set the startup programs (for example, i have several programs like my composite manager i must start when i log in to openbox if i don't just want to get a blank screen). This is taking a while, thats why i saved it for late (and conky for last)
Solved: i simply configure openbox's startup programs (duh!) silly me.
And then of course i run into problems. (Linux shut up and obey me already!)
And of course since i'm a genius i already knew how to solve it. The problem was that i lost my sound, the solution was to give my user direct hardware access to my sound devices by adding him to the audio group. Good as new. I'm satisfied with this for now.
Final Step: Conky.
Once i tackle that (which i btw never have before) i can finally say that my laptop has successfully been set up with linux, and for the first time i've got nothing more i feel the need to do with it/install on it...
Allright, i'm fairly satisfied with my Conky now, one minor issue, but lets see i'd like to monitor where inbound network connections are coming from... Nvm, i just wante to disable them altogether with UFW, i shouldn't have any inbound connections on this laptop since i'm not torrenting on it. so now i just let it show me if it ever gets an inbound connection, and if it does i'll know something is up.
I notice that the TS3client CPU usage is absurd onl inux , it's using 15-30% of my dual core CPU, that's just a lot. Must be a pretty bad bug.
Anyways, i've now got conky, but just before i could leave this laptop be and call it complete, an annoying one shows up. Turns out my openbox doesn't detect my print-screen button input, that is problematic if i want to take screenshots.
Anyways, it's getting late (or well, actually early but my sleeping cycle is fukd) and i should do my exercises while i still have the mental strength. for them. Lets see, i've got roughly 3 days to wrap up my desktop now. That's actually pretty short, it took like 3 days to set this stupid laptop up.
Jacknife Squats: 40 (<- These get pretty brutal for beginners, the first time i did these i literally couldn't stand afterwards, or well, i could stand but not walk, i fell over on my way out of the shower afterwards :/ )
Jacknife Pullups: 10 (<- i'm skipping the table pullup thing because it's too hard :O jakcnifes are actually easier)
I could've pulled 50 or 60 jacknife squats, but i decided it's not good to exhaust myself when i'm returning to a workout routine, my muscles will get even more sore than they normally would.
On the pullups it was the skin of my palms that gave up before my muscles did :( but 10 isn't so bad for a firstie.
Anyways, that's it for today :)
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