Hi, I managed to get a live usb core system up and running. I was wondering if there were any guides for getting a custom window manager installed (I haven't been able to find one)?

I was going to go with lightdm for the display manager, and i3 for the tiling window manager. What do you think about these choices? Is it as straight forward as installing them, or is there some hoop jumping needed with the core build? __{{emoticon}}__

If anyone is interested in playing with core, here are some things I noted down post install:

(boot with static root persistence)

## Change the keyboard locale (if you're using a non US keyboard).

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration


## Change the old default user name.

You probably don't want your user to be the demo account. So:

Login as root:

killall -u demo
usermod -l new demo
groupmod -n new demo
usermod -d /home/new -m new

Check all went well with:

id new


## Connecting to your encrypted wifi access point

Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared key (PSK) disclosure:

chmod 0600 /etc/network/interfaces

Open /etc/network/interfaces in a text editor:

nano /etc/network/interfaces

Define appropriate stanzas for your wireless interface, along with the SSID and PSK. For example:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid mynetworkname
wpa-psk mysecretpassphrase

The"auto" stanza will bring your interface up at system startup. If not desired, remove or comment this line.

Save the file and exit the editor.

Bring your interface up. This will start wpa_supplicant as a background process.

ifup wlan0

leke wrote:I was wondering if there were any guides for getting a custom window manager installed (I haven't been able to find one)?

Anticapitalista recently posted a guide called
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where he starts with a Live core system and then installs JWM. This might be a good place to start. He ends up remastering and making a new iso file. You may not want a new iso file but after you have things set up how you want them, it would make sense to remaster (if you have the space). After you reboot into the remastered system, you will have to run persist-makefs again to re-enable root persistence. This should happen automatically but someone got lazy.

Thanks, that's a nice guide. There is a lot things that needed to be installed there that I didn't realise had to be.

Is anyone here responsible for daveserver.info? I'm getting a 113: No route to host. I think it's down.

Thanks.

The user Dave is responsible for daveserver.info. I also had trouble with it this evening. I just sent him an email about the problem.

we were in a really bad storm..... everything seems to have settled down, so I think it is safe to start it back up __{{emoticon}}__