[brian]

Hi everyone,
I've been working with Bodhi since yesterday, doing various things, and I wanted to give feedback regarding a couple of things I had to wrestle with, that might be useful to address in future versions:

1) I wanted to install 2 printers on a Bodhi desktop PC. The first one, an Epson, went fine. However, as there was a scanner incorporated, it wasn't sufficient to install Xsane nor iscan. There was an additional library that was necessary, but then it worked fine. (sorry, I don't remember the library.. )

2) The second printer was a HP laser jet. After various failed attempts, I learned about the "hplip" package. One version is in the repos, but it didn't work. In the end, I found out there was a newer version at hplip open source

I installed it (quite a long process, but very useful, as it searches the PC for needed dependencies, uninstalls older versions, etc.). After rebooting, it worked fine. Yeah!

3) I also installed Bodhi on an older desktop PC that had XP on it previously. The install failed, as it listed the partitions, then wouldn't continue. It was as though it couldn't interpret the HDD correctly.
So I installed another version of linux that I use for older PCs (AntiX) and it installed correctly.
Then I tried installed Bodhi again and it worked fine.

4) Then during the install, I chose the "bare" profile. But the bare profile doesn't provide an iBar with the network applet in it. And I couldn't get connected wifi. So I changed profiles to the Desktop profile, and the applet appeared. I was then able to connect immediately.

5) Lastly, during the install, I selected "Italian" for my keyboard. But I had to select the keyboard module and re-select Italian in the end. It appears the install keyboard selector doesn't "stick.."


Other than that, all's good.. another old PC (about 8 years old) up and running very very nicely... all with 1GB of RAM!


brian

[RitterRunkel]

Always nice to read someone's first impressions and problems, especially when considering this as an improvement of Bodhi's usability. So thx for your's!




3) I experienced something similar with an old Desktop out of the XP-Aera and Bodhi 2.3: Bodhi starts booting from CD, but either it boots without XServer into a virtual terminal-like text-based console ... or it does not boot at all and is only showing the partitions ... sda4, sda5, or similar and nothing happens. I then tried again and pressed ALT+STRG+F7 to change to X-Console early, since this wasn't possible once left on another text-based console. Strange ... but I thought it's a hardware issue, since the mainboard is a pretty old one (ABIT with 939-socket) with mixed IDE and the very first SATA-controllers.

But Bodhi installed just fine on all modern notebooks I tried so far.




5) you're right and I always wonder too.




Oh and as another person wrote today: Bodhi 2.3 claims to be 2.0 while booting from CD ...

[brian]

RitterRunkel, on 12 April 2013 - 10:09 PM, said:

Always nice to read someone's first impressions and problems, especially when considering this as an improvement of Bodhi's usability. So thx for your's!




3) I experienced something similar with an old Desktop out of the XP-Aera and Bodhi 2.3: Bodhi starts booting from CD, but either it boots without XServer into a virtual terminal-like text-based console ... or it does not boot at all and is only showing the partitions ... sda4, sda5, or similar and nothing happens. I then tried again and pressed ALT+STRG+F7 to change to X-Console early, since this wasn't possible once left on another text-based console. Strange ... but I thought it's a hardware issue, since the mainboard is a pretty old one (ABIT with 939-socket) with mixed IDE and the very first SATA-controllers.

But Bodhi installed just fine on all modern notebooks I tried so far.




5) you're right and I always wonder too.




Oh and as another person wrote today: Bodhi 2.3 claims to be 2.0 while booting from CD ...

Hi RitterRunkel,

thanks for the feedback. You described exactly what happened on my PC, except that I didn't know which keys to press to unblock it.

I've also noticed that the audio volume slider moves down to increase volume instead of up. I don't know if that was intentional or not..

Oh, one more thing: When I selected to set the shelf as transparent, I got an error message about "systray couldn't be set to transparent to match shelf" or something. So I tried to set the shelf to another color, and I got the white error message and reverted it to the original color. Oh well..


As for the rest, blindingly fast... +

This PC is now truly set free from Windows at last!

brian

[Charles@Bodhi]

brian, on 14 April 2013 - 08:01 AM, said:

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I've also noticed that the audio volume slider moves down to increase volume instead of up. I don't know if that was intentional or not..

Yep, this was intentional. The creator of that specific theme designed it that way. If you find it annoying you can
1) change the whole theme, or
2) in advanced theme settings assign another theme to modules/mixer.

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Oh, one more thing: When I selected to set the shelf as transparent, I got an error message about "systray couldn't be set to transparent to match shelf" or something. So I tried to set the shelf to another color, and I got the white error message and reverted it to the original color. Oh well..

Systray is a problem for themers. You can choose whatever theme, transparancy won't work. Enlightenment developers don't develop systray, so that won't change very soon. But to prevent bug reports they have decided to introduce this warning in E17. I have yet to find out how to disable it. It shows way to often. But it does nothing harmful.

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As for the rest, blindingly fast... +

This PC is now truly set free from Windows at last!

Congrats and welcome to Bodhi.

Enjoy,
Charles.

[brian]

Charles@Bodhi, on 14 April 2013 - 10:13 AM, said:

Yep, this was intentional. The creator of that specific theme designed it that way. If you find it annoying you can
1) change the whole theme, or
2) in advanced theme settings assign another theme to modules/mixer.

Systray is a problem for themers. You can choose whatever theme, transparancy won't work. Enlightenment developers don't develop systray, so that won't change very soon. But to prevent bug reports they have decided to introduce this warning in E17. I have yet to find out how to disable it. It shows way to often. But it does nothing harmful.

Congrats and welcome to Bodhi.

Enjoy,
Charles.

Hi Charles,
thanks for the clarifications. I haven't played around with themes very much, but it sounds like there's lots to choose from.

Another thing I notice: when I open more than a few windows, the gadgets on the shelf start getting shuffled around. As I close some windows, they move back to their original positions. I suppose this could be problematic, since they could even move off the screen, and not be accessible anymore..

Brian