https://blog.thameera.com Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:16:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 139676693 https://blog.thameera.com/lxde-on-ubuntu/ https://blog.thameera.com/lxde-on-ubuntu/#comments thameera Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:16:21 +0000 Uncategorized linux lxde ubuntu virtualbox http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=871 The laptop won’t let me dual boot. That’s coz the lappy isn’t actually mine, it’s the office laptop. So I was running Ubuntu in Virtualbox all this time. Ubuntu 9.10  (I know!). But then I switched to 12.04 – Precise Pangolin. Unity is pretty cool now compared to what it was back then in 11.04.…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/lxde-on-ubuntu/" title="Continue reading ‘LXDE on Ubuntu’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <p>The laptop won’t let me dual boot. That’s coz the lappy isn’t actually mine, it’s the office laptop. So I was running Ubuntu in Virtualbox all this time. Ubuntu 9.10  (I know!). But then I switched to 12.04 – Precise Pangolin. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(desktop_environment)" target="_blank">Unity</a> is pretty cool now compared to what it was back then in 11.04. However it’s a no-no for running in a VBox. Switched to gnome classic sans effects which improved the performance drastically.</p> <p>I had used LXDE for a few months <a href="http://thameera.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/moving-to-lubuntu/" target="_blank">about an year back</a> in my netbook. So I thought, why not give it a go again? Without removing the existing gnome packages, I typed,</p> <blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install lxde-core</p></blockquote> <p>into the terminal. It gave me the LXDE desktop, but that’s as far as it went. Just the desktop. No Leafpad, no PCMan, no LXTerminal, nothing. Hey, that isn’t LXDE! What’s LXDE without Leafpad or PCMan? So I went ahead and typed,</p> <blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install lxde</p></blockquote> <p>and, voila, here I have what I wanted. (Lesson: don’t install <em>lxde-core</em>, just use <em>lxde</em> and it gives you everything)</p> <figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-872" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_872" style="width: 300px"><a href="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/lxde.png"><img alt="LXDE desktop on Ubuntu" class="size-medium wp-image-872" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="168" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/lxde.png" title="lxde ubuntu" width="300"/></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-872">From left to right, Leafpad, PCMan file browser and LXTerminal (click to enlarge)</figcaption></figure> <p>Okay, the interface isn’t as polished as that of gnome, that’s a given. It’s only supposed to be lighter and faster. But unfortunately it felt like the system isn’t much comfortable having LXDE around. It felt like the kernel’s carrying a bulk. Not as smooth as the classic gnome experience. I know this isn’t the way it’s supposed to happen, so I’d try this for two or three days and switch back to gnome. Good thing I didn’t remove the gnome packages before installing.</p> <p>Oh wait, perhaps it’s a good time to try out XFCE!</p> https://blog.thameera.com/lxde-on-ubuntu/feed/ 6 871 https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/ https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/#respond thameera Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:25:51 +0000 Uncategorized gnome kde linux lxde ubuntu http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=402 So I wanted to get some first hand experience on KDE. To install KDE in Ubuntu what you need is to install the kde-desktop (or  kde-netbook in my case) package from the repos. Once installed, log out and choose KDE before logging in. KDE is the sex! There’s absolutely nothing so beautiful like it! Due…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/" title="Continue reading ‘The Kewl desktop environment – KDE’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <p>So I wanted to get some first hand experience on KDE. To install KDE in Ubuntu what you need is to install the kde-desktop (or  kde-netbook in my case) package from the repos. Once installed, log out and choose KDE before logging in.</p> <p>KDE is the sex! There’s absolutely nothing so beautiful like it! Due to the restrictions in my netbook most of the effects won’t work for me, but still it looks marvelous. Sad to find that it’s being underrated in the FOSS world.</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="KDE desktop in my netbook" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-403" decoding="async" height="410" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kde.png" title="kde" width="700"/></p> <p>KDE’s however not so sweet with resources. The environment is heavy, perhaps even heavier than gnome. But I can’t make up my mind to leave it and go back to LXDE. The performance loss is quite worth the sacrifice, if you ask me.</p> https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/feed/ 0 402 https://blog.thameera.com/moving-to-lubuntu/ https://blog.thameera.com/moving-to-lubuntu/#comments thameera Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:49:56 +0000 Uncategorized linux lubuntu lxde ubuntu http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=386 The restrictions in my netbook made me convert my Ubuntu install into a Lubuntu. For this, you don’t need to manually download Lubuntu and install. All you need is to install Ubuntu first and run the command in this Psychocats page titled ‘Remove Ubuntu’. And, voila, you get a pure LXDE desktop! It may not…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/moving-to-lubuntu/" title="Continue reading ‘Moving to Lubuntu’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <div> <p dir="ltr">The restrictions in my netbook made me convert my Ubuntu install into a Lubuntu. For this, you don’t need to manually download Lubuntu and install. All you need is to install Ubuntu first and run the command in <a href="http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde" target="_blank">this Psychocats page</a> titled ‘Remove Ubuntu’.</p> <p dir="ltr">And, voila, you get a pure LXDE desktop!<img alt="lubuntu desktop" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-388" decoding="async" height="410" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lubuntu.png" title="lubuntu" width="700"/></p> <p dir="ltr">It may not look as pleasing as classic Gnome or Unity, but it’s quite usable and has a memory footprint as low as 100MB. PCManFM replaces Nautilus as the file manager. The window manager becomes Openbox.</p> <p dir="ltr">The main problem I had to deal with was connecting to internet using my USB modem. The solution was to install the script they give in <a href="http://www.sakis3g.org" target="_blank">www.sakis3g.org</a>. It automatically recognized my Dialog broadband connection. I</p> <p dir="ltr">There is no Software Center in Lubuntu, only the Synaptic Package Manager. If you want you can search and install software-center from the Synaptic Manager.</p> <p dir="ltr"> <strong>WARNING</strong>: When you install lubuntu-desktop with the above method, most of the apps that come bundled with Ubuntu are uninstalled. eg: LibreOffice is completely removed and AbiWord is installed instead.</p> </div> https://blog.thameera.com/moving-to-lubuntu/feed/ 6 386