minimalistic laptop setup

I recently fell in love with i3wm, a tile window manager, so I wanted to format my computer and have a bare-minimum installation (instead of running gnome in the background). I checked out tile-window-managers after using pywo, and wanted to 'go the extra mile'.

This resulted in me downloading the minimal CD from ubuntu (12.04) and installing X, i3 and a smallest login manager I could find.

I just ordered the ASUS UX31A and so I need to install everything from scratch again, so what I did was to create a github project with bash file installing all the nice small packages from the first time.

https://github.com/charnley/ubuntu-mts

Here is an outline of the install script, which basicly uses apt-get (why I choose ubuntu) and installs everything needed.

	#!/bin/bash
	# x-server, login manager, windows manager and power-mangement
	sudo apt-get install \
	xorg \
	xdm \
	i3 \
	pm-utils
	# sound
	# TODO I prop dont need this much
	sudo apt-get install \
	pulseaudio\
	pavucontrol\
	libasound2-plugins\
	"pulseaudio-*"\
	paman\
	paprefs\
	pavumeter\
	alsa\
	alsa-utils
	# utilities.
	# Shell: zsh (oh-my-zsh)
	# Network Manager WICD (wicd-curses)
	# xrandr - multimonitor control
	sudo apt-get install\
	git\
	zsh\
	wicd-ncurses\
	xrandr
	# Others:
	# pcmanfm - Light filebrowser
	# scrot - print screen function
	# moc - Music on console (terminal music player)
	# eog - Gnome image viewer
	# imagemagick - image viewer
	# evince - pdf reader
	sudo apt-get install\
	pcmanfm \
	scrot \
	moc \
	eog \
	vlc \
	firefox\
	openjdk-6-jre openjdk-7-jre icedtea6-plugin icedtea-7-plugin \
	flashplugin-nonfree\
	imagemagick\
	evince

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Afterwards all the setup RC's, icon, font setup is done via setup.sh.

I really like this setup for a fast on-the-go geeky setup, especially on a 13" where room on the screen is limited.