Easy Debian LXDE simplified for New users
 

first of all i want you to know that i don't know much about Linux but i love my N900 & LXDE... i still remember the day i read 45 pages and was awake till 4am just to search how to change appearance Debian LXDE... i know most of you know much more then me but i hope there might be someone who might find it Helpful... :)
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so lets start

Configure Appearance

Taskbar appearance..
hold mouse on the taskbar and go to "panel preferences" then select appearance tab and select image "background.png" i.e
usr/share/lxpanel/background.png (we are in this folder by default)

Start menu logo..
to change the logo of start menu go to the same panel preferences and select "panel applets" tab.. now in the list click on "menu" and press the edit button in the right and select the logo(png) you want make sure image(png) size is 36x36...

Window style..
go to start-menu/preference and select "openbox configuration manager" you will see a lot of window styles in themes
the one i have chosen is "Onyx-black"..
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To Configure Sound in LXDE

In order to initialize sound on a fresh installation of Easy Debian, open XTerminal and do:

Leave that running, open a second XTerminal session and do:

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Launch LXDE applications in Maemo... Or Debbie Commands

open XTerminal(NOT AS ROOT) and type:

Gimp
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Vlc media player(need to be installed via synaptic package) manager
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Smplayer (need to be installed)
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Email Client IceDove
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Openoffice Writer
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epiphany browser
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aqualung music player(needs to be installed i guess) EDIT - Portrait mode supported
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uget download manager (needs installation)
WARNING - U NEED TO SPECIFY FILE SAVE LOCATION OR YOU WILL LOOSE ALL THE SPACE IN "HOME" AND ".DEBIAN"...
what works for me is
"/home/user/MyDocs/downloads"
open xterm n type
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pcman file manager (i personally feel its better then maemo filemanager)... coz its multi-tab, Supports Portrait orientation, we can enable hidden-files, thumbnails,image-viewer/slide show,and can play music if we set "aqualung" as default audio player, and same goes for videos if Vlc or Smplayer is installed :) EDIT - Portrait mode supported
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File Searching( in maemo) "its really a bliss"
as it starts in " /home/user/ " by default we need to add location where to search.. by clicking star(add) then browse where you want to search or "All local disc partition"..
Supports Hidden files & folder search, and again we can launch audio(aqualung), images and videos(vlc or smplayer) from here too, OR just hold click on a file and select open
or we can open the file location in "pcman file manager"
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EDIT - Almost All of Debbie App's Supports "Portrait Mode"

Hope its Helpful... :)

for more help see
http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

did you get vlc player to actually work? it doesn't actually play videos for me in easy debian (unfortunately)

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

Thanks for doing your bit to ease the vowel shortage by conserving them. I mgt tr yr soltn.

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

cool man..this is great..

btw, do u know how to make the "debbie [app]" as a desktop file?it'll be great if we can put some of ubuntu/easy debian's app on the desktop as shortcut icon..

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

adding app shortcut on maemo is provided on wiki easy debian page..
http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian
read th "Creating desktop shortcuts in Maemo" section.. :)

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

It plays on ubuntu karmic (installed to partition), but it's super laggy.

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

naa m too noob to gt into missing driver n all tht stuff :( ... bt i'v figured-out a rather funny way of doin that... :)
goto Tools>Preference>video and change the Output to "ASCII-art video output" (note - it works wel for videos of low res n low bitrate the image attached is a 320X220res video)
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Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

WOW - thank you!

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

How do i get VLC to install? Via synaptic it states that it needs loads of depends "but it is not going to be installed" for some of them.

Re: Easy Debian LXDE Simplied for New users
 

yaa i use to get while i tried to install "blender"... that tyme i ws using easy debian version "v3d"... bt i dint got tht problem with "v3e"... (: