Anticapitalista at 21:53, 26 July 2007

2007-07-26T21:53:08Z

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==Sudo and Ratpoison!==

Many thanks to macondo.

Sudo is installed by default in antiX

Edit the file /etc/sudoers

# nano /etc/sudoers

and added the last 2 lines for myself and my wife (the only other user) and left it looking like this:

# sudoers file.
# # This file MUST be edited with the "visudo" command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
onthego ALL=/usr/sbin/mesm
%users ALL=/usr/bin/apt-get -s upgrade
macondo ALL = NOPASSWD : ALL
giovi ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot

saved/exit

then I tested it, as user:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

works fine. My wife can only shutdown and reboot.

[http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ '''Ratpoison''']

Ratpoison is a very light wm that only uses 1,4 MB RAM (acording to ps aux), whereas icewm and fluxbox use 4-5 MB RAM, so if you got an old box..

To install, a simple:

#apt-get install ratpoison

The version for rp in the ubuntu repos is not the latest (1.4.0) and I wanted the latest (1.4.1). I couldn't remember what came by default with antiX so I installed everything:

$ sudo apt-get install zip unzip bzip2 build-essential xorg-dev checkinstall

it told me some were already the latest versions and proceeded to install the rest. I created a new folder in my /home and named it 'source', then went to the rp website:

http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

and downloaded the source to my /home/macondo/source folder, read the INSTALL section, then moved/cd to rp's location:

$ cd /home/macondo/source/rat<TAB> to autocomplete the name

once there, I proceeded to compile it:

as user:
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall -D
(D for Debian and S for Slackware)

then installed the newly made .deb:
sudo dpkg -i rat <TAB key> <Enter>

and that was it, added this to my .ratpoisonrc:

alias term exec aterm
escape F8
warp on
startup_message off
set winname class
defborder 0
defpadding 0 0 0 0
defbarpadding 0 0
exec xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name left_ptr
bind semicolon colon
bind colon exec

alias showroot exec ratpoison -c fdump; ratpoison -c 'select -' -c only
alias unshowroot exec ratpoison -c "frestore at $HOME/.rpfdump"
bind B showroot

###Shortcut for apps
bind F12 exec xfe
bind F11 exec xchat
bind F10 exec xzgv
bind F9 exec aterm -e elinks
bind o exec opera
bind f exec firefox
bind F6 exec sylpheed-claws-gtk2
bind F5 exec aterm -e scrot -c -d 10
bind x exec xtrlock
bind r restart
bind Delete exec sudo halt
bind W exec ~/bin/windows
bind c exec aterm

#numpad numbers work to select window
bind KP_0 select 0
bind KP_1 select 1
bind KP_2 select 2
bind KP_3 select 3
bind KP_4 select 4
bind KP_5 select 5
bind KP_6 select 6
bind KP_7 select 7
bind KP_8 select 8
bind KP_9 select 9

voilà!

F8 + c <will launch aterm, etc>
F8 + o <launches opera>
F8 + f <launches firefox>
F8 + Delete <shutdown>
F8 + r <restart>
F8 + a <will give you time and date> (in the upper right corner)
F8 + w <will show what windows you got open>
F8 + k <closes the app you're using>
F8 + s <splits the screen horizontally>
F8 + S <splits the screen vertically>
F8 + Q <unsplits, back to normal>

To move between screens a la alt-tab, there are 3 ways:

F8+F8
F8+Enter
F8+Space bar

For a Run box, add the following to the bottom of the .ratpoisonrc file:

# top-level shortcuts (don't require prefix key)
definekey top C-space exec
definekey top Print exec aterm -e scrot -c -d 10

Ctrl + spacebar will give me run box on the right hand corner, good for sudoing and launching apps as user.

The reason I use F8 as my meta key is because I don't have to move my hand from the keyboard, but you could replace F8 with the keys Pause, Insert, or the default Ctrl+t (C-t).
In order to take a screenshot all I have to do is press the Print key,
nifty huh?

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Anticapitalista at 21:53, 26 July 2007