review and tweak

Here's a fairly detailed review of BunsenLabs 2.0 ("Helium"), done by Ordinatechnic: https://www.ordinatechnic.com/distro-reviews/BunsenLabs/bunsenlabs-helium-review

I have not yet installed Helium, but I'm still running BunsenLabs "Deuterium", which is like a point release of BunsenLabs "Hydrogen". Deuterium is based on Debian "Jessie" (now "oldstable"). I haven't tweaked the installation much. I'm using a left-side, vertical tint2 panel, of course:

The author of the review above talked a lot about the lack of a "dynamic" menu in BunsenLabs; I added the LXDE Activities menu (see http://monksblog-malspa.blogspot.com/2018/09/lxde-applications-menu-in-openbox.html) to Deuterium:

Ordinatechnic also described the dmenu app launcher (see: https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/). For more info about dmenu, here's an excellent article: http://www.adercon.com/ac/node/25. Also be sure to check man dmenu. dmenu can be installed in Debian as part of the suckless-tools package. Here's a shot of it in action in Deuterium, along the bottom edge:

That's a very cool app launcher. My entry for dmenu in the Openbox menu runs the dmenu_run -b command.

Later, I added a keystroke for dmenu by adding the following lines to ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:

    <!-- Added by Steve for dmenu -->
    <keybind key="W-space">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>dmenu_run -b</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>      

With that, Super(Winkey)+Space starts dmenu.

I'm not sure how long I'll keep Deuterium, but the current "oldstable"should be good thru mid-2020, I'm guessing. And BunsenLabs Deuterium definitely ain't broke, so... (lol).