The recipe for cooking Xubuntu, or a netbook for a spouse

Since writing, new versions of Xubuntu have been released. The article is outdated. I wrote mainly for my own memory and support the relevance where it is more convenient. The current version and the continuation of the topic, see the blog .


It is a recipe, since the description will continue only of my version finished the freshly installed system, and, as you know, everyone has different tastes.


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So, there was new ubuntu leaving us nothing but Unity by default.
Thank you, eat yourself. Who wants to try his luck with Gnome 3 - can dial:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback gnome-shell dconf-tools gnome-tweak-tool aptitude synaptic compizconfig-settings-manager lo-menubar

Yes, penels are now controlled with the Alt button pressed and only with the windows closed.
Good luck to volunteers, and we turn to XFCE.

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

We put additional packages for playing video, audio and DVD
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricted-extras libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

add-ons for the Xfce4 desktop environment
sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies

Just do not remove all the packages from gnome, they will still be useful to you. Xubuntu is not only very similar to Gnome 2, but also uses its packages.

Customize panels

Adding keyboard layout icon

sudo apt-get install xfce4-xkb-plugin
Now it will appear in the applet selection menu.

Monitoring temperature and rotation speed of coolers.

sudo apt-get install hddtemp smartmontools lm-sensors xfce4-xfapplet-plugin xfce4-sensors-plugin sensors-applet
sudo sensors-detect
sudo dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp

Bottom panel, sinful, do in the image of Mac OS
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator

Customize the look

Add user avatars.

In the directory of each user (~ / home / user) a picture in the .png format with sizes up to 150x150 pixels renaming it to .face

Add themes and icons

In the user directory create folders ~ / .icons and ~ / .themes
and put there beauty downloaded, for example, from here

Change the user login window picture.

Find and open the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf in the editor
changing value
[greeter]
background=

There is already a GUI for this simple operation.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:claudiocn/slm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simple-lightdm-manager

Customize the program.

Remove what you don't like

sudo apt-get remove unity
sudo apt-get purge abiword gcalctool gnumeric gnumeric-common

Put what you like

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexx2000/doublecmd
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/umplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install aptitude samba cheese vlc umplayer chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra gimp gimp-data-extras gimp-plugin-registry libreoffice speedcrunch wicd mc gnome-commander doublecmd-gtk quodlibet quodlibet-plugins fbreader djview4 xchm

Caffein - to disable the screensaver when viewing flash video
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install caffeine

Everything would be fine, but the spouse keeps all his recipes in the program under OS Windows and is not going to change his habits. Do not worry, we put Wine.

sudo apt-get install wine winetricks

For this particular program to work correctly, it needs to specify the working directory.
The problem can be solved by setting up the top panel applet (see photo)



or by creating a separate launch file in the terminal (do not forget to give it launch rights)
In the file, write your path to the working directory of the program, such as:
cd /home/user/Windows/Recipes/bin && wine recipes.exe



W-FF. We'll clean up after ourselves.
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

It turned out pretty well:





Additional issues

1. Making Nvidia vdpau work:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings vdpau-video

2. Put proprietary codec HD video CoreAVCDecoder.ax

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ripps818/coreavc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer dshowserver

3 If the terminal does not remember the commands of the previous session, you must change the owner of ~ / .bash_history from root to yourself.

4. After several updates, gimp stopped running. Giving out this:

gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libgegl-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

solved by the following frauds

sudo apt-get purge gimp libgegl* libbabl*
sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-data-extras gimp-plugin-registry

5. If in Skype the image from the video camera is upside down. Run Skype with the following command:

sh -c "LD_PRELOAD = / usr / lib / i386-linux-gnu / libv4l / v4l1compat.so skype"

6. Installing Oracle Java (JDK) 7

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer

PS Too, but on a big screen, to the right conky.