[Lubuntu-desktop] Distrowatch.com page hit ranking

2010-03-21 Thread PCMan
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[Lubuntu-desktop] Other things to do with a Lubuntu installation

2010-03-21 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi,

I know that lubuntu's primary target group is low-spec computers, but it is
such a lovely low resource hungry distro, I suggest that we also include a
little 'something' to
let people know that it is a 'full' distro.

An example is mine, and a couple of others, using it as a great GUI for a
server (We're running LAMP).

As to some of the other things it can do, and do well, earlier we had a new
lubuntu'eer on #lubuntu asking about configuring up a dual monitor system
off their laptop.
It was painless, once I found a nice easy 'How-To'
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=849197

Most laptops have an external monitor plug on them, and a lot of them can
stretch to dual display.

It took all of about 5 minutes, the result looks pretty good --
http://i44.tinypic.com/2u8uikz.png

crazysoldier has said it is quite okay to use the screen-shot to show just
how good  easy Lubuntu is.

Another lubunteer, cousteau, has a patch for laptops so you can use the Fn
key for the numeric keyboard that lives amongst the 789uiojklm keys without
doing Fn-NumLock, it's a real small script that runs on startup if
installed.

Regards,

Phill.
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Other things to do with a Lubuntu installation

2010-03-21 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le dimanche 21 mars 2010 à 21:56 +, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
 I know that lubuntu's primary target group is low-spec computers, but
 it is such a lovely low resource hungry distro, I suggest that we also
 include a little 'something' to
 let people know that it is a 'full' distro.
I prefer to focus on the main goal of Lubuntu for now, we don't have a
big team, and the goal of Lubuntu is clearly not to be used for all the
uses cases covered by Ubuntu. We don't have enough people to do this.


 An example is mine, and a couple of others, using it as a great GUI
 for a server (We're running LAMP).
 
 
 As to some of the other things it can do, and do well, earlier we had
 a new lubuntu'eer on #lubuntu asking about configuring up a dual
 monitor system off their laptop.
 It was painless, once I found a nice easy
 'How-To' http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=849197
 
 
 Most laptops have an external monitor plug on them, and a lot of them
 can stretch to dual display.
 
 
 It took all of about 5 minutes, the result looks pretty good
 -- http://i44.tinypic.com/2u8uikz.png
 
 
 crazysoldier has said it is quite okay to use the screen-shot to show
 just how good  easy Lubuntu is.
Managing dual screen is a pain, because it depends on the drivers you
use. If you use a driver which use randr, a tool like the one in Ubuntu
should work. But for nvidia or ati users using the binary blob, it will
not work. There is no universal solution, even for Ubuntu.

 Another lubunteer, cousteau, has a patch for laptops so you can use
 the Fn key for the numeric keyboard that lives amongst the 789uiojklm
 keys without doing Fn-NumLock, it's a real small script that runs on
 startup if installed.
If it's working, it's not something that should be Lubuntu specific. And
it should be something in the configuration tool, not running by some
script at startup.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne




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