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How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

These instructions will install LXDE on your Nokia N8x0 or 770 Tablet after you have already installed Mer on it.

**Warning: If you want to see login screen your user name and your password can not have any numbers or symbols in it. Make sure you change then before installing lxde or you will have to chroot in from your maemo install and change them. You have been warned.

**Warning: I take no responsibility if you break your system or the sky falls down. Do this at your own risk or you will be reinstalling Mer.

First Load your Mer Partition and Open x terminal.

Then enter each of these commands one at a time

Code:

sudo apt-get update



sudo apt-get install libvte9=1:0.19.4-0ubuntu3



sudo apt-get install synaptic



sudo apt-get install onboard

*N810 Users Who want Login Screen

Code:

sudo apt-get install lxde

*N800, 770 and N810 users who don't want login screen.

Code:

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install lxde libgtkstylus



echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc

If you want to use lxlauncher to easy opening of applications

Code:

sudo apt-get install lxlauncher

Then type this to reboot your system.

Code:

sudo reboot

Choose Mer partition again and it should ubuntu login window.

login using the username and password you made when installing Mer

**I hope you remembered to remove any numbers or symbols from them if not I will tell you have to chroot in later and fix this.

Once you have loaded Mer/LXDE then we need to make a few changes to make everything better first to connect to network.

Click Application Menu

Click Run then type.

Code:

nm-applet

Choose your network and logon.

Now using an FTP client on a desktop computer login to your Tablet using your root information

**If you did not install ssh server when installing Mer you will need to install it first.
Download folder and put the files in the following locations.

/usr/share/applications

nmapplet
onboard
nmconnection
lxlauncher

/etc/xdg/autostart

nmapplet
lxlauncher (if you want it to load at startup)

Now you should have a working install of LXDE on top of your Mer open synaptic and install any applications you want. Also if you want to skip the login screen from now on Click Application Menu -> Settings -> Login Window.

Click Security tab and Enable Automatic Login then enter your users name there.

If you want to be able to load either Hildon or LXDE then follow these steps.

Load Mer and ftp in.

Copy this file to /usr/share/xsessions

hildon.desktop

Then Logout and click Options -> Select Session -> Hildon -> Change Session

Then Login and you will load Hildon instead of LXDE for this session ou can set Hildon as your default and use same way to load LXDE when you want.

**To Log out of Hildon Click Advanced Backlight and then Click any Rotation option.

Let me know if you run into any problems with anything. I am also working on a custom LXDE layout to organize the programs a little better. I will be posting that soon.

Thanks: Thanks to Stskeeps, Qwerty12, B-man, Qole,FatalSaint for helping out with this.

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Hmm, just a quick note, have you forgotten to include install?

Shouldn't it be e.g.

Code:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

N800 / 700 users may want to follow this how-to for gdm login without a keyboard:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=24606

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Quote:

Originally Posted by allnameswereout (Post 263549)

Hmm, just a quick note, have you forgotten to include install?

Shouldn't it be e.g.

Code:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Your right I should have done some more proof reading before posting thread updated.

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Quote:

Originally Posted by meizirkki (Post 263554)

N800 / 700 users may want to follow this how-to for gdm login without a keyboard:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=24606

Just asking how do they login first time without keyboard so they can install theme and enable it?

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

I has pretty pictures :)...

http://blog.linuxniche.net/?p=64

But including the xmodmap file for everyone was a cool idea.

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatalsaint (Post 263563)

I has pretty pictures :)...

http://blog.linuxniche.net/?p=64

But including the xmodmap file for everyone was a cool idea.

I was going to thank the people who helped me figure it out but I guess I should just subscribe to your blog and I could have read how to do it lol.

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Your additions for the nmapplet and lxlauncher were good. Those are things I don't use (do it by hand) so I don't consider them. You could update the OP for N800 users to use the without-recommends for apt, that way you don't get the GDM login.. they can reboot and get to LXDE.

The problem with N800 right now is that AFTER you reboot into LXDE I haven't found a decent on-screen keyboard that works right in LXDE =-\.

NOTE: don't rename the xmodmap to Mer-xmodmap... install it to /home/user/.Xmodmap - if you used the full "apt-get install lxde" then gnome/gdm will automatically load your xmodmap file when you login. I dunno if it works at the GDM screen.. but I do know it works after you get into LXDE.

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatalsaint (Post 263567)

I'll update for the n800 stuff in a little while. I find onboard works well most of the others seem to lag and you get multiple letters typed. Only problem is you have to run it once then use it to run it again to tell it what size you want it since it can't be dragged to reshape. I'm change xmodmap also.

Re: How To - Install LXDE on top of Mer

Another note.. if you do the no-install-recommends for LXDE you need to add the

Code:

echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc

as the user who is going to be running lxde. That tells the auto-startx script when it launches startx to launch the LXDE manager.

Appreciate the tip on the "onboard" keyboard. I thought I did an apt search for keyboard.. don't know how I missed that. I need to go update mine now :).