Openbox on BlankOn Pattimura
I quite like Openbox. It’s lightweight, simple and sleek. I like it even more than LXDE or XFCE.
Openbox on its default setting isn’t very convenience though. I’ve got used to GNOME a little bit too much, I want some of its provided functionalities are present on my Openbox setup too. Read more
Some notes of BlankOn Pattimura
- The scrollbar is too small, but can be fixed by editing theme file
kde-plasma-desktopwork whilekde-plasma-netbookdidn’t. Still heavier than default BlankOnPanel. Need to installnetwork-manager-kdeto get networking working (wat?) since I didn’t install full KDE packages.- VLC really need to be made default media player. But I guess removing Totem is just to much hassle.
- GDM aren’t rendered right on netbook small screen
Update:
- KDE4 have tendency to crash. Hard. Seems the netbook resources aren’t enough for KDE to gracefully handle the load
(like several tabs of Google Chrome)
Repo hopping
Kadang-kadang saya kesulitan mengupdate Ombilin karena tidak konek ke repo. Pertama kali install Ombilin pakai reponya Kambing, lalu didobel repo Mugos. Lumayan lama pakai keduanya. Cuma baru-baru ini saya nggak bisa konek keduanya via wifi gratisan, akhirnya utak-atik /etc/apt/sources.list lagi. Waktu itu entah kenapa cuma repo Buaya yang bisa konek. Dan sampai sekarang masih mengupdate dari repo itu. Malas soalnya kalau mesti ganti repo kemudian apt-get update lagi. Pahamlah, sudah musafir benwit, fakir pula 
deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin main restricted extras extras-restricted
deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin-updates main restricted extras extras-restricted
#deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin-security main restricted
Wrong priorities there, huh? Mestinya komen repo ombilin-updates, bukannya ombilin-security 
Fluxbox on Ombilin
gnome-shell sure makes a beautiful desktop, but at the price of resource hogging. It’s too heavy for my low-end netbook, so I’m more than willing to have a lightweight desktop. Moreover, I think the resources gnome-shell (or any eye-candy effect) uses should be better spent at other application (browser, mail client, text editor, etc)
This is where Fluxbox, a lightweight window manager, win my choice.
Fluxbox on Blankon 6.0 Ombilin
I still keep gnome-shell, in case where it’s necessary to show off a jaw-dropping Linux desktop
Great desktop with gnome-shell
Oooh, shiny
It’s still in active development, needs improvement here & there, but I think it’s already good enough for everyday use 
