> Anyway I am thinking this laptop does not manage very well even these
minimum coices
I have some low-resource netbooks on which I'm trying to configure Trisquel
to be as light as possible while preserving the Trisquel look/feel. If you're
still having trouble with performance, here's how to recreate what I have so
far.
(1) Install base system
Either download the NetInstall ISO, or use the regular Trisquel ISO but
select "Install in Text Mode". Assuming that you aren't dual booting, you
should be fine accepting the defaults. This will install only the base
system, with no desktop environment.
(2) Install a window manager and display manager
When you reboot after installing you will have just a command line. Log in
and connect to the internet. If you need to connect to WiFi follow this.[1]
Then install these packages:
sudo apt install icewm slim network-manager alsa-base xinit
policykit-desktop-privileges pcmanfm volti
Icewm is the lightest window manager I know of. Slim is the lightest display
manager (login screen) I know of. Network Manager will make it easier to
manager network connections. pcfman is a lightweight file manager. volti is a
sound applet.
TODO: Anyone know of a good standalone battery applet?
(3) Web Browser
If you want to use Midori, I recommend building the new Midori release from
source, as the version in the Trisquel repo is several years old.
$ sudo apt install cmake valac libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libsoup-gnome2.4-dev
libgcr-3-dev libpeas-dev libsqlite3-dev intltool libxml2-utils
$ wget
https://github.com/midori-browser/core/releases/download/v6/midori-v6.0.tar.gz
$ mkdir midori
$ tar xf midori-v6.0.tar.gz -C midori
$ cd midori
$ mkdir _build
$ cd _build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
If you want to use Abrowser, you can just install it with
$ sudo apt install abrowser
TODO: I don't have sound working with either browser. Abrowser will
definitely need pulseaudio, but before I install pulseaudio I want to see if
I can get Midori working with just ALSA.
(4) Install other programs
This is the additional software I have installed
$ sudo apt install abiword vlc gnome-app-install synaptic
(5) Other stuff you might want to do
$ sudo gpasswd -a $USER netdev # I had to do this to connect to wifi from
icewm
$ sudo gpasswd -a $USER audio # I had to do this to get sound working
(6) Configuring Icewm and Slim
Extract icewm.tar.bz2 to ~/.icewm and extract slim-theme.tar.bz2 to
/usr/share/slim/themes/trisquel
$ sudo apt install feh # used to set the desktop background
Install Trisquel theme
$ sudo apt install trisquel-gtk-theme trisquel-icon-theme trisquel-wallpapers
Create these files:
%%%%%%%% ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini %%%%%%%%%%
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = "Trisquel"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "trisquel
gtk-font-name = "DejaVu Sans 8"
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%% ~/.gtkrc-2.0 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
gtk-theme-name = "Trisquel"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "trisquel
gtk-font-name = "DejaVu Sans 8"
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Edit /etc/slim.conf and find the line beginning with "current_theme" and
change the value to "trisquel" (without the quotes).
To further configure Icewm:
- edit ~/.icewm/menu to add/remove menu items
- edit ~/.icewm/toolbar to add/remove from the bottom panel
- most other changes are made in ~/.icewm/preferences (see here[2])
[1]
https://askubuntu.com/questions/16584/how-to-connect-and-disconnect-to-a-network-manually-in-terminal
[2] http://soc.if.usp.br/manual/icewm-common/html/icewm-10.html#preferences
