Greetings, all. I'm rather new to Debian and coming from OpenBSD. I need to set up a bare-bones system on my Lenovo T430 ThinkPad, so this is a request for guidance and answers to a few questions.
What I'm used to:
One other thing concerning audio (kind of a big deal, but not a deal-breaker): At some level which I don't fully understand, the system bell is somehow linked to the audio card or PC speakers in OpenBSD (at least it is on my ThinkPad). So, when at a tty or in XTerm, I get a beep out-of-the-box. I really miss this in Linux and, quite frankly, am amazed that the bell seems despised by so many people. The auditory feedback is useful to me when hitting Tab for completion and I'm so used to it. When the pitch, volume, and duration are set low, it's not annoying to me in the least. And, if I recall correctly, when the Debian installation starts it beeps a couple of times on my machine, so I know beeps are somehow possible in Linux. I'd just like to have that both at the console and in X, if possible.
So, based on the above, has anyone here set up a similar system from scratch? or is it fairly easy to do so? Also, if I partition manually in the Debian installer and create a separate partition for swap (greater than my RAM), is that enough for hibernation to work (besides, of course, installing and configuring any necessary daemons)?
Many thanks in advance for any help or answers. If more information is needed to understand where I'm coming from, please let me know. All apologies if this has been an unusually long-winded post.
What I'm used to:
- basic xorg installation (that is, no Wayland)
- no desktop environment: just xdm (or OpenBSD's xenodm, that is) and cwm for the window manager
- working sound, no real need for GUI-based configuration
- picom for compositor
- xterm with tmux, not using a file manager (or, if I end up needing one, a term-based one is fine)
- laptop usually connected to Internet by Ethernet, but I can switch to WiFi in terminal if necessary
- APM is a basic service, configurable from console or terminal. To have system hibernate when battery reaches certain percentage is just a command-line option for APM daemon
- web-browsing with Firefox
- listing packages installed by me (without their dependencies) is just a two-letter command-line option
One other thing concerning audio (kind of a big deal, but not a deal-breaker): At some level which I don't fully understand, the system bell is somehow linked to the audio card or PC speakers in OpenBSD (at least it is on my ThinkPad). So, when at a tty or in XTerm, I get a beep out-of-the-box. I really miss this in Linux and, quite frankly, am amazed that the bell seems despised by so many people. The auditory feedback is useful to me when hitting Tab for completion and I'm so used to it. When the pitch, volume, and duration are set low, it's not annoying to me in the least. And, if I recall correctly, when the Debian installation starts it beeps a couple of times on my machine, so I know beeps are somehow possible in Linux. I'd just like to have that both at the console and in X, if possible.
So, based on the above, has anyone here set up a similar system from scratch? or is it fairly easy to do so? Also, if I partition manually in the Debian installer and create a separate partition for swap (greater than my RAM), is that enough for hibernation to work (besides, of course, installing and configuring any necessary daemons)?
Many thanks in advance for any help or answers. If more information is needed to understand where I'm coming from, please let me know. All apologies if this has been an unusually long-winded post.
Statistics: Posted by BlackGeorge — 2024-05-08 01:58 — Replies 0 — Views 29