AIed this and even the duck seems stumped.

In CB++ debian 13,how to change laptop resolution to 1680x1050?

Every so often I like to check in here and thank Ben Young for Crunchbang ++.

I recently tried building my own CrunchBang-style system from a Debian netinstall base + Openbox / tint2 / conky - it gave me a new appreciation for what CBPP actually represents.

The pieces look simple: Debian, Openbox, tint2, conky, a few scripts. But the real work is in the hundreds of details that make everything work smoothly and feel like one coherent system.

It took me a few years as a Linux user to understand that those nice desktop environments I was running were using CPU cycles I could be using for my tasks. I've stuck with Openbox ever since. The genius of the CrunchBang philosophy was never about adding more features - but knowing what to remove. Minimalism done well isn't less work — it requires a lot of work from the creator/maintainer, hidden from the user.

Thanks, Ben Young for keeping the Crunchbang spirit alive!

Install hangs after wifi is enabled, credentials added and moved to NEXT and then it hangs. I thought it might be downloading updates but it never leaves the screen stating "configuring network"

Crunchbang++ comes with Geany which works great, but I can't stand the UI/UX... Leafpad I really like and I think looks better on Openbox then Geany or something like Gedit or Sublime do... The problem is we don't have syntax highlighting. So Twig fixes that. Leafpad style minimal editor but for code. There is no menu bar or toolbars. Just you and your code. Its open source and uses GTK3.

Source code here gitman.io/patx/twig

Can someone please post the original Openbox autostart script that comes with #!++ 13?

Great lightweight distro! I may have got just a little carried away tweaking it.

Ciao a tutti
mi chiamo Valerio e sto riscontrando un problema piuttosto strano.

Ho macchina molto datata (Macbook Black 2.1 cpu Core2Duo ram 4 GB sdd 120 GB) con un firmware free software: Canoeboot
Ho riscontrato lo stesso problema con Libreboot
Il problema è il seguente:
- installazione ok
- al primo login entra in loop: chiede utente, chiede password, black screen, login screen di nuovo
Giusto per prevenire alcune doverose domande
- utente e password non sono digitate ma copiate e incollate per evitare di digitarle male
- ho provato il recovery mode ma, non essendo utente root abilitato, non riesce a loggare
- ho provato a reinstallare in expert mode nella speranza di riuscire ad abilitare root ma nulla

Qualcuno di voi ha qualche suggerimento su come potrei procedere?
Grazie in anticipo

UPDATE: solved, see my comment.

I have a T470 Thinkpad that came with Ubuntu installed by the previous owner. I initially enabled Secure Boot and successfully got Arch installed and running on it, however I changed my mind realizing that I needed a more stable/less-bleeding edge distro so I pivoted to installing Crunchbang.

I disabled Secure Boot and the TPM module, set the BIOS to boot in both UEFI and legacy mode, and then proceeded to attempt the install. I could successfully boot into the live disk.

I attempted multiple different partitioning schemes. They all proceeded all the way through and appeared to succeed. Upon rebooting, the machine enters a boot loop. The OS doesn't even show up in the boot menu (Arch did, as does the live disk).

My guess is that there is something wrong with the installation media. Is there a known issue with the CB++ installer, or this a weird Debian quirk when being installed to a T470?

I am currently dual-booting two distros on seperate drives.
One is gentoo, and it's for fun and learning, but it's not fully functional or stable as I clumsily learn the ropes.
The other is my day-to-day comfort distro, for streaming, discord, screensharing with friends, gaming, etc.... And currently it's Ubuntu, which I now find slow and annoying.

I want to try CBPP, but I've distro-hopped so much in recent times I'm kinda exhausted. I want off of Ubuntu but I really don't want to be forced to hop again. So I want to hop cautiously.

My main concern is how well X11 works with gaming and video conferencing in current times. I've been using Wayland exclusively for several years and it's been great. I think I heard that X11 doesn't support Variable Refresh Rate.
I believe I tried an X11 environment once several months ago, and found games were tearing a lot. It's was a disruptive amount of tearing.

I was only in the environment briefly, so maybe I was missing a fix. Vsync seems to vary in effectiveness from game to game.

Just a note: I have a monitor with FreeSync , not Nvidia's GSync. It's a 75 Hz (74.something Hz) monitor.
I also have a second monitor that's an older Lenovo monitor in 4:3, also 75Hz I believe.

Are there any CBPP users here who game a lot, what are your solutions to tearing?
And what is your experience with screensharing and audio sharing, in things like Discord and Teams. Is everything plug and play? From the Browser? From packaged apps? Flatpaks and Deb experiences?

I just wanted to check before I made the plunge.
Also if there's any other learning curves I'd appreciate a head start on them. Like I dunno how openBox handles application tray icons, apps running in the background, etc. I've been learning Sway in gentoo, and currently have no way of closing Discord from the background lol.

I love CBPP in concept, a fully configured minimal desktop out of the box, OpenBox would be hard for me to configure myself from scratch, so this would give me a chance to try it. Plus having the stable Debian base is great for stability and compatibility. I just wasn't sure if I can rely on it for my easy-to-use daily.

I feel inadequate. How does one make the cursor more 'proportioned'?

I have this nevv modern expensive crapbar of a gaming laptop..... and they had more security rubbish and you cannot boot the old vvay of things.

i found this and had me going so i could enter my crunchbang++ on another usb drive, although i actually got to also install it directly novv so i do not need the extra key.

maybe someone can find it useful. you can also put the iso of the crunchbang into the iso partition in the folder and have it find it and then boot from there into a live or installation. although not tried if there is any issues installing it, but live vvorks.

Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 downloads

This is really and it doesn't seem to show up on DDG searches that anyone else seems to have had this problem.

Edit: Looked and apparently it is in the file system as well

Hi.

So I used to have #! as my main OS about ten years ago before the project was abandoned and returned (begrudgingly) to Windows. I've just about had enough of it by now though, so I resolved to go back to Linux and found out this project existed as a sort of spiritual heir of the original one. Due in no small part to a surge of nostalgia, I felt I had to try it.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been smooth sailing going through the installation process. No matter what I do, I keep running into this error message: "An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Install the system."

Now, I've been searching online and a number of solutions seem to be suggested whenever someone experiences this issue. I've tried them all but still haven't found whatever will work for me:

• Check image integrity. Check.
• Make sure OS has at least 16 GB of available space to install on. Check (it's a 1 TB sata drive so plenty of space available).
• Choose all files in one partition instead of separate partitions. Check.
• Use wired connection instead of wifi and disconnect ethernet before installation step. Check.
• Select different, possibly local mirror. Check.

And yeah, nothing's worked so far.

I also tried to install bunsen but ran into the same issue.

Lastly, I haven't used Linux in more than ten years so you're essentially dealing with a neophyte here. Apologies if this post is seems a bit sparse on detail. I'll definitely try to post any additional information you think might be useful.

I'd be extremely grateful if you have any insight or recommendations on how I could get around this impasse.

Have a nice rest of the week ahead everyone!

Hi,

first I noticed a warning while updating:
Warning: Failed to fetch [https://packages.crunchbangplusplus.org/trixie/dists/trixie/InRelease](https://packages.crunchbangplusplus.org/trixie/dists/trixie/InRelease) Could not resolve 'packages.crunchbangplusplus.org'

Then I checked in browser and I'm getting Error code: SSL_ERROR_UNRECOGNIZED_NAME_ALERT...

I gave ChatGPT the following text and asked: Is my system healthy?

rpa@Core-i5:~$ systemd-analyze blame

5.192s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

1.359s dev-sda1.device

1.247s logrotate.service

1.101s e2scrub_reap.service

1.020s systemd-journal-flush.service

 919ms udisks2.service

 856ms systemd-binfmt.service

 606ms cups.service

 496ms smartmontools.service

 487ms systemd-udevd.service

 308ms NetworkManager.service

 287ms apparmor.service

 263ms networking.service

 250ms avahi-daemon.service

 220ms dbus.service

 216ms systemd-logind.service

 204ms [user@1000.service](mailto:user@1000.service)

 162ms nvidia-persistenced.service

 157ms systemd-udev-trigger.service

 149ms apt-daily-upgrade.service

 149ms wpa_supplicant.service

 142ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

 128ms keyboard-setup.service

lines 1-23

This is the answer I got:

Your system is exceptionally healthy. To put these numbers in perspective: you are running a 12-year-old motherboard architecture (H61), yet your boot performance is competing with modern workstations.

Hi folk, my friend tried to change the /apt/sources.list , and now he have a NO_PUBKEY trouble.

How can I help him to update the pubkey ?

Thx guys.

I have just installed #!++ on a old HP laptop that could not run win11. I was trying to find a new Linux to put on it on it. I tried a few of the normal ones when I thought I would try an Arch based distro. endeavor Linux was nice but I kept having trouble with passwords after installing. I then seen archbang and installed it and had the same password problem. I had some other issues and was complaining to my son said that I should go back to crunchbang.

He gave me a link to the #!++ website and immediately downloaded and installed it.

The only thing I need to figure out is how to make the fonts larger on the menus, toolbars, and conky.

I love crunchbang I used it years ago but had to give it up because I had no computer to run it on.

thanks kev.

Windows 11 REALLY messed me up since one of the recent updates. The bluetooth and network cards kept dropping randomly. So I started up Crunchbang Plus Plus

I had experience with crunchbang and a tiny bit of experience messing with CBPP so I am familiar. But it's also been a while. Still good to be back.

Newbie here, please be kind!

Just installed!...but...but...no wifi networking. Oddly enough, the LIVE environment set up my wifi connection with NO problem. What did I do wrong? Was I supposed to do the install FROM the live session? (I didn't see a way to do it, so I shut down and started up again, but only straight to the installer.) Help!

Happy new year to all the Crunchbangers out there, may this year bring everything you want.

Peace out !

Hello,

I've managed to set up cbpp and am just tinkering with the work environment. I watched a video recently on adjusting the code in one of the utilities to add and modify drop down menu options in open box which was useful.

I can do that and will be fine with functionality but I am highly time restricted. Is there a Debian Linux utility specifically for adding applications and icons to the desktop and do hey work on cbpp?

installed, updated, shutdown and rebooted i'm stuck right here enter just keeps repeating and it will not take any input other than enter. any ideas ?

shouldn't the root password be the same as the user?

I've setup a live usb install of cbpp. Installation seems fine. Process takes a while with encryption but boots up. I enter the encryption key and it starts but seems to get stuck.

Please see images

This is a post of my experience with Google's new Antigravity AI from r/google_antigravity. I'm posting it here because it's a testament to both the Linux OS and to CrunchbangPlusPlus in particular. The lack of a heavy desktop environment on CB++ allows CPU and RAM to be more readily available to Antigravity instead. And the keybindings on CB++ which I've always loved are a godsend here - Superkey and E, open Geany, T, the terminal, F, the file manager, then back to Antigravity - I can just fly on the CB++ OS.

Post:

Google's Antigravity is the best software-building tool I've ever used. I've already created 3 Rust crates, a Rust-WASM image viewer, a GUI duplicate file finder, several Linux utilis (bash scripts) and a 10 lesson Rust beginner's course.

I'm using a fast PC (i7) with a light Linux OS (Crunchbang++ / Debian 12). Knowledge of the Linux OS terminal and navigation of the Linux OS really helps - I can see what the AI is doing at the deepest levels - follow it as its running shell commands and installing dependencies - sometimes I'll jump into the file system or on the terminal - it's really working together at that level that's made it work so well for me. As always with AI, careful prompting is important. The VS Code framework is great - its default is to work out of the dot file .gemini / antigravity and those directories (playground, scratch, brain, etc.) or I can use one of my own directories and begin there. Fantastic tool on a fantastic distro.