1. Might be nice, on the live USB page, to have directions for a
persistent bootable stick. I need to tweak the environment a bit and I'd
like to do this in the USB environment before committing to a full
install. (Plus, not everything is working yet -- d@@@ realtek wifi) and
I'd like to see how far I can get with fixing those things before
blowing away the original winxp on the machine.)
The make-live-device.sh script does exactly what you want.
You boot puredyne in an way (someone else's PC, from DVD or using
virtual machine and iso), stick pendrive to USB and use script onto it.
It will format your pendrive, make one FAT32 partition of size needed
for iso and the rest of space will be formatted to ext2 and utilized for
persistency data.
2. Is there a way to add a completely new, custom keyboard layout? I
tried editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us to add the new layout and
then editing ../rules/xorg.lst, but I couldn't choose the new variant in
the keyboard control panel (it wasn't available).
I can do it by replacing the definition of an existing variant, but I'm
curious if there is a less brutal way.
you can make some alterations that are stored in your home folder with
xmodmap. Searching for "disable caps lock", appendind xmodmap or Ubuntu
- this should return tones of valuable stuff, or you can dive into
xmodmap-related suff right away.
3. The alt keys to access menu options are not working on this machine
(Samsung N130). In gedit, e.g., alt-F types F into the document instead
of opening the file menu. The N130's keyboard gets identified as a
ThinkPad model -- suggestions for a different one to use?
No clues, sorry. You can always try pc105 - I do it for my ThinkPad
laptop here :D. Maybe it is related to some strange layout?
Thanks.
James
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