Tiny Core Linux

General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: jwmollman on August 08, 2009, 11:28:42 PM

Title: Questions about running Tiny Core on EeePC
Post by: jwmollman on August 08, 2009, 11:28:42 PM

I have always been searching for the right Linux distribution on my EeePC 1000HA, but I could never find one that really suited me well. I love Tiny Core for it's simplicity and how lightweight it is. It's amazing! Well, I've always had the thought of running Tiny Core on my netbook, but I could never figure out how I could get used to it or how I could get it set up perfectly. I noticed that there is no system tray, so I was wondering how I could see Pidgin, XChat, or anything else running in the background. I was also wondering how you could get a volume control applet like GNOME, XFCE, or KDE has. I would find it to get annoying after a while to use alsamixer through the command line. Other questions kept popping up in my mind like "How do you uninstall extensions after I have installed them?".

Would anybody here who has an EeePC with Tiny Core on it like to tell me how they have it set up? I would be happy to see screenshots if that's possible.

Title: Re: Questions about running Tiny Core on EeePC
Post by: curaga on August 09, 2009, 05:07:29 AM

- there is a system tray, if you're using the default TC with jwm. It only appears when there is something to put there.
- uninstalling an extension consists of removing it from the tce directory and rebooting

Title: Re: Questions about running Tiny Core on EeePC
Post by: jwmollman on August 09, 2009, 03:04:24 PM

Quote from: curaga on August 09, 2009, 05:07:29 AM

- there is a system tray, if you're using the default TC with jwm. It only appears when there is something to put there.
- uninstalling an extension consists of removing it from the tce directory and rebooting

Okay thanks a lot. I will give Tiny Core a try then. Currently I'm running Xubuntu 8.04 and I wanted something that's blazing fast.

EDIT: I was also wondering, is there a way to disable the CPU load and memory statistics in the top right? And is there a battery monitor I could use as well?

Title: Re: Questions about running Tiny Core on EeePC
Post by: alu on August 09, 2009, 08:14:16 PM

look at your .jwmrc and comment out the lines regarding the display of cpu load and memory usage; i think that there is an extension (acpi.tcz or acpi.tce depending on what you are used to use) in order to display the battery usage of your laptop; you can probable put the command in your .jwmrc file in order to have it displayed on the top at the right of your desktop

Title: Re: Questions about running Tiny Core on EeePC
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on August 09, 2009, 08:26:13 PM

FYI, the application's name is "watcher"

Another monitoring application is conky. (That includes battery monitoring)

Title: Re: Questions about running Tiny Core on EeePC
Post by: jwmollman on August 09, 2009, 11:43:14 PM

Okay thanks guys. I will experiment tonight.