For me, Crunchbang comes out of the chute almost exactly how I want it. It has very broad package selection that usually works pretty well for my purposes. It's not as flashy as Ubuntu or Mint but it's fast and usable and reasonably pretty.
They use Conky to draw a list of shortcut keys to the desktop that are used to start the commonly used apps. I LOVE this. I only use a handful of GUI applications on my Linux machines (Firefox, Thunderbird, Electrum, KeePassX and Pidgin) so the hot key approach is really perfect and I almost never use the menu based launchers. Adding new menu items, shortcuts, etc is done by editing configuration files but, conveniently, there are menu items already in the menus to edit the common configuration files and to restart the appropriate part of the UI to reflect changes to those files. The files are easy enough to edit and honestly I find it more intuitive to edit these files than to try and figure out how to rearrange menu items under the graphical tools. Crunchbang comes out of the box with things like Volume control, network/wifi/VPN control, Dropbox, etc. I'd recommend just trying it and see what you thing (either through VMWare or by installing it to a USB stick). Jeff On 26/08/13 04:44 PM, Joe S wrote: > With the talk about distros I would like to know more about > Crunchbang. I will also be installing on a laptop in the near > future. Is this easy install and customize? What is the advantage > of Crunchbang over Debian with a desktop like KDE? > > I have installed Openbox on Squeeze to try it out. Does anyone > have any advice to get the most out of this window manager. For > start I would like to add icons like a volume adjustment, but > would like to hear of other things. It seems there would be a lot > of work to customize Openbox on Debian. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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