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by DixieDancer
Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:35 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Anyone know the Lubuntu release date?
Replies: 3
Views: 4935

Re: Anyone know the Lubuntu release date?

The original intention was to introduce Lubuntu with Karmic Koala (9.10), but it was abandoned in favor of a script which may become a package ("lubuntu-desktop") available through Synaptic. But the first Lubuntu release will most likely be in late April with Lucid (10.4). It will also hav...
by DixieDancer
Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:35 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: no audio
Replies: 15
Views: 20158

Re: no audio

Hi Same problem for me: audio ok with gdm but nothing with slim. Solved like that: If you have "exec startlxde" in .xinitrc Remove this line and try "exec ck-launch-session startlxde" I cannot locate any file with ".xinitrc" as part of the name to check it. What direct...
by DixieDancer
Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:26 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: No wireless access
Replies: 2
Views: 2957

Re: No wireless access

In my minimal Jaunty+LDXE mixyure, I find that using wicd as the network manager solves a few problems for me. Try it and see if it helps....

-Robin
by DixieDancer
Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:23 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Masonux: LXDE-based Ubuntu spinoff that sticks to its roots
Replies: 3
Views: 4676

Re: Masonux: LXDE-based Ubuntu spinoff that sticks to its roots

I wrote a gloating blog post about LXDE here. As for the network issue, I find that wicd works effortlessly with LXDE better than the Ubuntu default.

My current mixture is minimal Ubuntu with LXDE and my favorite apps. It rawks!

-Robin
by DixieDancer
Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:20 pm
Forum: Networking & Wireless
Topic: net. status monitor makes bad
Replies: 5
Views: 6887

Re: net. status monitor makes bad

Try using wicd as your network manager. If that doesn't improve things, check the bug reports... it may be something they're already aware of.

-Robin
by DixieDancer
Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:19 pm
Forum: LXDE Development & Programming
Topic: PCLXDE Released!
Replies: 10
Views: 10856

PCLXDE Released!

It rocks! Check the newest LXDE distro from PCLinuxOS! It's flawless, elegant, light, and speedy. The best implementation of LXDE I have seen yet.

-Robin
by DixieDancer
Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:31 pm
Forum: LXDE Media
Topic: Winning Windows Users Over
Replies: 1
Views: 8515

Winning Windows Users Over

I have a laptop computer at the dance studio that gets passed around a lot. To make it super-simple and familiar looking to most of the dancers, I use LXDE with a pretty wallpaper and "clickable icons" so that users completely unfamiliar with Linux can use it effortlessly. They don't even ...
by DixieDancer
Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:50 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: desktop shortcuts
Replies: 6
Views: 32267

Re: desktop shortcuts

Oh my, I'm not nearly geeky enough, I guess. I just opened PCManFM, navigated to my applications (usr/share/applications) and there were the icons for all my apps. I simply dragged the ones I wanted to my desktop and dropped them there. Done.
by DixieDancer
Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:29 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: live-CD no video no audio
Replies: 5
Views: 4857

Re: live-CD no video no audio

Flash 10 works beautifully on my Debian Squeeze but that's not the point. What I want to know is, how do I make the video and audio work on the live CD which I downloaded from this site? That's the Debian/LXDE you downloaded I assume. You may need to add some drivers and/or codecs to your installat...
by DixieDancer
Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:23 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE success story
Replies: 2
Views: 3093

Re: LXDE success story

My story is very much like yours! Even my newer computer (celeron 2.8 G with 512 RAM) runs much better, much faster, and much cooler (temperature) using LXDE than Gnome, KDE (which is horrendously heavy and slow on it) and even Xfce. I can run ordinarily "heavy" operating systems effortles...