Author Archives: RedWolf

04 Sep

Eyecandy (easy and updated)

For those who think that low-resources systems are not able to have a bit of candyness, I must say they’re wrong. How to do this on Lubuntu? After reading the great Urukrama’s blog about Openbox configuration we can now do some tricks to do that job.

  • install xcompmgr, kompose (32bit / 64bit) and 3ddesk (32bit / 64bit)
  • add these commands to “/etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart”
    @kompose
    @3ddeskd
    @exec xcompmgr -c -f -F -r 7.4 -o 0.6 -l -11.9 -t -10.4 -I 0.08 -O 0.08 -D 10

  • use this file insted of your ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

…and that’s it, we have virtual desktops in 3D, using ctrl+alt+left or right, just like Compiz. That’s all, folks. I hope you like it!

04 Sep

Beta 1 released

Here comes the new Beta release of Lubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). Julien Lavergne informs about changes and updates:
  • new lxappareance from LXDE git
  • update-notifier and Xpad was added
  • parcellite and Pyneighborhood removed
  • lxtask was added, to replace xfce4-taskmanager
  • evince is now used for reading pdf
  • we can now play games! (powered by ace-of-penguins)
  • new theme and installation slideshow by me 😉
  • lxde is now hal-free
  • new meta-packages lubuntu-core and lubuntu-restricted-extras
  • added support for indicator applets on lxpanel (turn off by default)
  • and the usual updates of LXDE and Lubuntu components packages
You can download the ISO here.
31 Aug

Best ranking of the month

See the image, or see it by yourself at Distrowatch. Lubuntu is the 8th linux distribution according download ratios. We have overcome one of the first ones, over other famous distros like Mandriva, Gentoo, Slackware, etc. So we have to continue the effort and going ahead. Congratulations to all the people who made this possible!

16 Aug

LxAppearance

It was necessary, unifying visual configuration of the environment in one application. So, here it is. LxAppearance can now change, at once, details such as icons, controls, colours, mouse cursors and window decoration. It only lacks the ability to change the desktop wallpaper. Better for novices and those who don’t like complicated things. It will be available in the repo soon.

14 Aug

Starting

A new blog dedicated to Lubuntu is started, an Ubuntu-based operating system, but enhanced for speed and focused on simplicity. So we celebrate it providing the disc image download, wich is in alpha 3 state (development, for testing purposes only).