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cocooh
post Jul 12 2011, 09:59 PM

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 12 2011, 09:43 PM)
@Zai
Sorry mate. I had a busy day at work and couldn't check back in here.
How's everything? Mind giving a status report on the current setup/installation you have. Is the Gnome libs problem solved?

Regarding your wicd problem, first tell us what kind of internet you have (DSL, Streamyx, USB3G, Maxis... etc). Then tell us what kind of wireless chipset you have.

Can Wicd see your modem or not? ... or you mean WICD cannot start?
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Ok biggrin.gif Ive installed sLim , sleek thumbup.gif

Hmm , gonna remove everything gnome out of my debian soon after i fix this wicd problem laugh.gif

Im using Streamyx now , and my wireless is RTL8187B

Wicd can detect everything nicely , ive just edited my config similar to Acid but altered abit - still cant , stuck at Authentication

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post Jul 12 2011, 10:13 PM

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 12 2011, 10:13 PM)
Aah .. so your wireless is functioning and can see your router/modem, but you just can't connect to it. Your connection is DHCP, so you you can leave stuff like IP, Netmash and Gateway under the Statip IP section blank (note, I'm talking about wicd-curses ... dunno about the GUI version). Authentication failure usually means a wrong passphrase (make sure you know whether your router uses WEP, WPA or WPA2 and change accordingly. Might be a channel clog as well,  you could try setting to a different channel on your router settings.
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Hmm , DHCP , trying now shocking.gif What should i write on the DHCP column ? sweat.gif
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post Jul 12 2011, 10:34 PM

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 12 2011, 10:19 PM)
Huh? ... I don't see any DHCP column in wicd-curses. It should be just set to "automatic" . If it's asking for DHCP hostname, then give your system hostname (if your term prompt is zai@cocooh, means your hostname = cocooh)
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post Jul 12 2011, 10:40 PM

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QUOTE(Acid_RuleZz @ Jul 12 2011, 10:37 PM)
^ Authentication failed?
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The first attempt before i change the settings to DCHP is Access Point Authentication failed

Now it writes wlan0 timeout mad.gif
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post Jul 12 2011, 10:44 PM

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 12 2011, 10:42 PM)
What kind of encryption do you use (set in your router, not computer) .... WEP or WPA1/2
If it's WPA, check to see if you have wpa_supplicant installed.

Also, if WPA you can try manually.

In term:
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# ifconfig wlan0 up
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network"
# wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# dhcpcd wlan0

replace "wlan0" with your own (usually wlan0 is correct, but some systems default to eth1)
replace "my network" with your routers essid.
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post Jul 13 2011, 04:25 PM

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LOL -- i never go back to ubuntu

Was busy finishing my slides last night laugh.gif sry

here , iwconfig


lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:6469-6E67-3932-3132-3330-3130-33
Power Management:off

pan0 no wireless extensions.

Hmm , i guess everyones modem is passphrase ?


Added on July 13, 2011, 4:37 pmUpdate : even if i connect to wireless manually via urxvt with commands ~ still give me timeout when i typed dhcpcd wlan0

But it seems no error with : iwconfig wlan0 essid "HausOfGaga" key "s:xxxxx"

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@farkinid , Any how i can revert the settings back to normal ? sweat.gif

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post Jul 13 2011, 08:10 PM

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QUOTE(Acid_RuleZz @ Jul 13 2011, 07:49 PM)
Static IP also failed?
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post Jul 14 2011, 02:36 AM

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== Finally !!!

Reinstalled Debian with XFCE4 atm

Now gonna install Scrotwm biggrin.gif

Although i experience frequent disconnection with the Wicd from first few try , its much stable now (I guess laugh.gif )

Loads to tweak
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post Jul 14 2011, 04:34 AM

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Finally , Goo is back with scrotwm laugh.gif

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Though , im still figuring out how to control the brightness hmm.gif

FIXED : Controlling the brightness using xbacklight laugh.gif

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post Jul 14 2011, 09:23 AM

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 14 2011, 09:22 AM)
Good to hear you're solving issues by yourself. Best way to learn. smile.gif

Those weird A things in your scrotbar. Unfortunately, ScrotWM doesn't seem to recognize UTF-8 symbols (like degrees or boxes). You often get those weird A things if you use them. modify your conkyrc or baraction.sh accordingly.
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DAMM shakehead.gif

not only it becomes like this but the whole system font becomes like this

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sweat.gif Need help here

My font aliasing seems to have problem
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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 14 2011, 10:00 AM)
@Zai
So it's not just chromium but other GTK/GUI apps as well?

Okay, first try this.

Check to see if you have a .fonts.conf file in your home folder (enable hidden files in your file manager). If you don't have it, create it. If you already have it, make a backup and keep it somewhere safe.

Then, in an empty .fonts.conf, put these contents in and save. I'll give you 3 separate configs. Try em all and see which one fits you best.

Type1:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
  <bool>false</bool>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
  <const>rgb</const>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
  <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
  <const>hintslight</const>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
  <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>


Type2:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
  <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
  <const>none</const>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
  <bool>false</bool>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
  <const>hintnone</const>
 </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
  <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>


Type3:
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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<test name="pixelsize" qual="any" compare="more"><double>15</double></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit></match>

<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit></match>

<match target="font">
<test name="slant" compare="not_eq"><double>0</double></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit></match>

</fontconfig>


Note: You'll need to restart X for each different setting to take effect.
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post Jul 14 2011, 10:47 AM

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@G-17 , using iPad to reply u

Formatting it again o.o

Something wrong with my settings , son gonna hate dpkg-reconfigure locales , it broke my install

Fix : FIXED all my font with smoothing and some scripts here and there laugh.gif

Finally !!!

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post Jul 14 2011, 02:43 PM

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Update :

This is weird , when my HDD drives were loaded , all my fonts are ok

But when my windows partition fails to load , all my fonts become weird shocking.gif

hmm.gif Fishy

FIX : It seems that i cant make slim load from xinitrc , it will make my fonts go haywire

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post Jul 14 2011, 03:14 PM

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 14 2011, 03:07 PM)
Huh?  blink.gif
I don't see why your partitions would affect your font rendering. It's probably something to do with you .xinitrc/SLIM or GDM (plus the script you're launching scrotwm with)

Try adding this line to the beginning of your start script or your .xinitrc

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# Merge X resources from ~/.Xdefaults
[ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults &


Also, make sure to change this line in your ~/.Xdefaults
CODE
Xft*antialias:          true

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Actually , if i make slim load from xinitrc , my fonts will go haywire , if i make slim read XSession , my fonts are a beauty but of course it will not auto load my xinitrc
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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 14 2011, 03:18 PM)
When you say xsession, you mean GDM loading scrotwm.desktop, right?
Post the contents or /usr/share/xsessions/Scrotwm or Scrotwm.desktop here.
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Im using Slim sweat.gif

it loads from /etc/X11/Xsessions instead of GDM's default one

I managed to add ck-launch-session into here :

login_cmd exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session

But Idk how to make it auto load my .xinitrc script

IMO , if i put the command ~/.xinitrc infront of it , my font might go back to the weird mode again sweat.gif

Edit : ck-launch-session is to fix my windows partition not being mounted

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post Jul 14 2011, 03:49 PM

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slim.conf :

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Edit : actually ive tried both .xinitrc and xsession boot up

.xinitrc will make my font go haywire while xsession wont give me autostart my conky , feh etc etc

sweat.gif i'll try to find some solution to this

Update: Fixed by adding sessionstart_cmd /home/willeosoeurs/.xinitrc into slim.conf

With this , it will load XSession and then autorun my .xinitrc biggrin.gif

Thanks everyone for helping a troublesome me in getting my scrotwm running biggrin.gif

Now ive got an Pure Scrotwm biggrin.gif without Gnome laugh.gif

Special thanks to G-17 , farkinid and Acid_Rulez laugh.gif

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QUOTE(G-17 @ Jul 14 2011, 05:00 PM)
@Zai.
Good to know you found a solution. Though I still don't understand why you people like Slim so much when a simple StartX or configuring XDM is so much easier (and nicer... I find Slim a tad ugly, tbh)

Anyways, congrats on your first Debian + TilingWM install.
Now lets see how long you can survive without a systray laugh.gif
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I can dump that systray away shocking.gif

Coz i got Wicd biggrin.gif

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post Jul 15 2011, 02:50 PM

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Im back with more questions laugh.gif

Debian as i understand now has 3 fork , stable , testing and unstable

Im running Debian stable right now nod.gif but if i wanted to upgrade to testing , i need to change my source list from squeeze - stable to wheezy - testing only ?

Any other things to be done ?

And i've heard that i need to upgrade my kernel as well , some even have problem loading X after upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy shocking.gif
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post Jul 15 2011, 03:16 PM

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QUOTE(farkinid @ Jul 15 2011, 03:05 PM)
I can't remember what its called but all debian testing has the same codename. (Just a nice "did you know?" kinda thing).

Anyways, after you change your /etc/apt/sources.list just run
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sudo apt-get upgrade

It should change everything for you automatically and break just about everything too tongue.gif
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sweat.gif worried about breaking though , especially the kernel part
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post Jul 15 2011, 03:23 PM

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QUOTE(farkinid @ Jul 15 2011, 03:18 PM)
Uh , well... I was exaggerating. The kernel itself should break but you might have some library mismatches. I've never actually moved to testing before so I can't comment too much.

However, I have done a kernel upgrade using the method i mentioned. No problems.
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Hmm , might wanna stay tight if so sweat.gif Ive done so much to configure and im too scared to just break it off like that shakehead.gif

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