This is a general guide to install Openbox on the latest Debian 10 Buster.

The finish operating system will have several hightlights:

• Minimalist style
• Quick to be installed and configured
• Use a dock as launcher and taskbar
• Use conky as system information shower
• Only Google Chrome counted as an end-user app
• If you want to extend this more please go to the Lessons page of this website.

1. Install a base system from netinstall CD

Note that you only need “…” to select when you are installing the base system:

Change source list

nano ~/autostart.sh

Update and upgrade system

#!/bin/sh
cd /
cd /home/pi/tflite1/
sleep 3s &&
sudo motion	
sudo -u pi /usr/bin/python3 TFLite_detection_webcam_person.py --modeldir=Sample_TFLite_model/ 
cd /

2. Install packages

xorg openbox

Note: Install Google Chrome first thing to easy copy and paste from this guide.

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

General list: What and Why

apt install terminator plank thunar thunar-volman thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin gvfs gvfs-backends nitrogen alsa-utils vlc numlockx light-locker lightdm wicd lxpolkit xfce4-notifyd pulseaudio pavucontrol breeze-cursor-theme obconf lxappearance numix-gtk-theme numix-icon-theme compton conky conky-all

• xorg: X window server, deal direcly with hardware to provide a GUI.
• openbox: Openbox Window manager, manage the “box” for programs to run on.
• terminator: termnal emulator
• plank: lightweigh but powerful dock
• thunar: file manager
• thunar-volman: thunar plugin
• thunar-archive-plugin: thunar plugin
• thunar-media-tags-plugin: thunar plugin
• gvfs: for thunar can access remote file (sftp)
• gvfs-backends: for thunar can access remote file (sftp)
• nitrogen: manage and change wallpaper
• alsa-utils: tools for configure Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
• vlc: video/ audio player
• numlockx: turn on numlock at boot
• light-locker: to lock desktop
• lightdm: login manager
• wicd: network manager
• lxpolkit: handle priviledge (right to access)
• xfce4-notifyd: notification service
• pulseaudio: audio server
• pavucontrol: audio device manager
• breeze-cursor-theme: theme for cursor
• obconf: openbox configuration tool
• lxappearance: manage and change GTK theme/ icon
• numix-gtk-theme: gtk3 theme
• numix-icon-theme: icon theme
• compton: composite
• conky: system monitor (more about quick stats)
• conky-all: with conky
• htop: system monitor (more about details of processes)

/home/pi/autostart.sh

3. Configure Openbox

Use my preconfigured Openbox config file

Use my menu Generator scheme

4. Configure composite and Conky

5. More

Use bl-exit script from Bunsen Labs

Install sublime text

Install

auto login with lightdm

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

autologin-guest=false autologin-user=dat #my user autologin-user-timeout=0

6. Trouble shooting

43 sudo apt install compton htop firmware-amd-graphics

Slow to start apt-get install haveged

Create (if not already existing) or edit your ~/.Xdefaults file and add these lines:

Xcursor.theme: name Xcursor.size: 32

In /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory, edit (or create) a file called 20-radeon.conf (look for amdgpu.conf for users with the amdgpu drivers) with the following contents:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "TearFree" "on"
EndSection

dat@debian:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d$ cat 20-intel.conf Section “Device” Identifier “Intel Graphics” Driver “intel” Option “AccelMethod” “sna” Option “TearFree” “true” EndSection

###7. Check and configure time

timedatectl

timedatectl status

timedatectl list-timezones

timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Paris