I’m configuring a new Y400 Lenovo laptop with BunsenLabs (Debian) linux today, and figured I should document some of my changes here for future reference.
One of the first things I like to do with Tint2, I change the height from 30px to 18px, especially if it’s a laptop with poor resolution. Overall, the default Tint2 configuration is really excellent. Two desktops is really all you need and BunsenLabs gets this right. I also change the clock to something like this, because the default 24-hour format doesn’t make as much sense.
# Clock time1_format = %A. %B %d, %-I:%M%P time1_font = Sans bold 7I also move Tint2 from the top to the bottom. After years of using CrunchBang, this is just how I like it best.
I also disable the “clipboard” app in /home/pj/.config/openbox/autostart because I never use it.
One serious problem I had with this laptop, I suspect the integrated Nvidia card is busted, because that’s what the previous owner said. It’s possible that it’s really just a configuration issue, or maybe it’s really toast. I don’t really plan to find out. However, here’s the problem I had and it was even worse than this.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/584922/how-do-i-fix-fonts-not-rendering-and-missing-letters
According to that answer, it’s just a subpixel smoothing glitch. Perhaps, subpixel smoothing activates or aggravates my integrated Nvidia card. Who knows? Anyway, I disabled subpixel smoothing. The gotcha here, if you go back into System / Appearance at a later date, the system automatically reverts back to subpixel smoothing. In my experience, this “Appearance” option (aka “lxappearance”) is not a very serious solution, as it forgets your customizations. So if there’s something specific you want changed permanently, it’s better to edit the gtk files yourself, by hand. But that’s something I can mess with another time, not tonight.
Update: Shortly after writing this, the screen went totally bonkers (unreadable) and I’m 99% sure this was due to the Nvidia GeForce GT M650 graphics card integrated into this Lenovo Y400. So last night, I gave Nvidia the benefit of doubt and made the big mistake of running nvidia-detect and subsequently installing nvidia-driver
I also spend a good amount of time customizing Geany, which makes editing the various config files less annoying. For this laptop, I’m using DejaVu Sans Book 6 for most of the system. I also invert the colors.
Also very important for my workflow, I get PyTyle.
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