On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Lukasz Jastrzebski < [email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > But changes to system files would not be persistent that way, correct? The other partition would not revert but the iso would forget all changes. (Quite likely that I misunderstand, though :) That may push me to install over windows sooner rather than later. Unfortunately I will need to use Windows sometimes on that machine (particularly if the realtek wifi can't be sorted in linux, seems dicey at best from other sites). > 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. > Intriguing, could help. That might also help with my alt-key problems. Wouldn't hurt to make the silly Windows start key open the launcher menu. Now if I could just replace the windows icon on that key with the puredyne swiss knife. Claude: > I imagine this is down to emacs keybindings being enabled: > Ho ho! Something else to play with. Overall, so far I'm enjoying this distro. I'm an avid supercollider user (Hi Dan, nescivi, krgn!) and it's a pleasure to see it "just work" out-of-the-box. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world [email protected] http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman
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