Installing Sinhala Unicode in Crunchbang Linux

thameera — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:49:07 +0000

Being debian-based, the usual commands can be used to install Sinhala Unicode in Crunchbang Linux. Tested with #! Waldorf.

sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug ibus im-switch ibus-m17n m17n-db m17n-contrib
rm -f ~/.xinput.d/* ; im-switch -z all_ALL -s ibus
Logout and login again.
ibus-setup
Choose the Wijesekare layout from the Input Method tab and close

Now you can switch between English and Sinhala using the key combination Ctrl + Space.

Upgrading to thunar 1.6.2 in crunchbang

thameera — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:16:43 +0000

I switched to CrunchBang (#!) today. The debian-based distro is fast and everything installed effortlessly. Except I didn’t like thunar, the default file manager. Some googling revealed that despite #! comes with thunar 1.2.3, the 1.6 version is available with lots of new features including tab support. After some messing around, here’s how I installed thunar 1.6.2.

Setup siduction keyring:

wget http://packages.siduction.org/base/pool/main/s/siduction-archive-keyring/siduction-archive-keyring_2013.03.29_all.deb
dpkg -i siduction-archive-keyring_2013.03.29_all.deb
rm siduction-archive-keyring_2013.03.29_all.deb

Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/xfcenext unstable main

Add the following to /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: thunar libthunarx-2-0 thunar-data
Pin: origin ftp.spline.de
Pin-Priority: 1200

And finally,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunar

The new thunar looks much better. I might try this for a few days and consider moving to nautilus only as a last resort.

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Installing Sinhala Unicode in Crunchbang Linux

Upgrading to thunar 1.6.2 in crunchbang