On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Miah M. Hussainuzzaman <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me start with the summary of the problems: > 1- lxde in jaunty can not find internet, while hardy has no problem. > 2- lxde in jaunty can not mount the other partitions, while hardy has no > problem > 3- Can not get the original menu back while right-click on desktop > Well, you have to understand, that LXDE is a Desktop Environment, and its work is to display (hopefully beautiful) windows. LXDE/GNOME/KDE do not usually deal with internet configurations, or with mounting other partitions. To configure your internet connection, I suggest to first uninstall the horrible, annoying network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Then edit the network configuration file with the following command: sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces . There, for example, if you have one ethernet card, then type: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address <your IP address> netmask <your netmask, usually 255.255.255.0> gateway <your default gateway>
then after that, type: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart. Hopefully that will fix your internet problem. To mount your partitions, try: sudo mkdir /media/D sudo mount /dev/(path to your partition, eg. /dev/sda2) /media/D Which will mount your partition under the directory /media/D. I do not know how to get the menu in LXDE, as I use GNOME. > ------ a bit more detail description------------ > I have installed LXDE in 3 of the machines I use on regular basis. The first > one (my home pc) is a CeleronD, 512MB-RAM machine runs on ubuntu 8.04. lxde > ran smoothly here. For installation, I followed the instructions provided in > this page: > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/lxde-lightweight-x11-desktop-environment-for-ubuntu.html > > lxde is installed in another machine using synaptic in a machine (core2duo, > 1GB-RAM) with ubuntu 9.04. The problem is with internet and partition > mounting. > * Firefox seems to be offline and could not browse even when I changed it to > online .... seems that it can not detect network. But just after log-out of > lxde and log-in to gnome desktop, internet seems OK. > * PCMan File Manager shows my other partitions (ntfs). But when I try to > mount them, there is an error message. Even the message pop-up does not show > any message! > > The third machine (core2duo, 2GB-RAM, ubuntu 9.04 is the only OS) have > ubuntu repo's blocked by the system admin(!!). So I copied the files from > the second machines \var\cache\apt\archives and took them here. Though it > missed two dependency files which I have downloaded later from > http://packages.ubuntu.com (it is not blocked!!), and could install lxde. > But it had the same problem with internet; and similarly just logging-into > gnome have no problem. Mounting problem seems to be the same. I am providing > you a list of files that I have installed. numbering indicates the > dependency-tree, as I had faced: > --------files installed---------- > 1. lxde > 1.1 gpicview > 1.2 leafpad > 1.3 xarchiver > 1.4 lxterminal > 1.5 lxappearance > 1.6 lxrandr > 1.7 obconf > 1.8 lxde-core > 1.8.1 pcmanfm > 1.8.2 lxpanel > 1.8.3 xscreensaver > 1.8.4 lxsession-lite > 1.8.5 lxde-common > 1.8.5.1 lxde-settings-daemon > 1.8.6 openbox > 1.8.6.1 libobparser21 > 1.8.6.2 libobrender21 > > 2. openbox-themes > -------end of files installed----------- > > Now the 3rd problem (probably a silly one!) > > when the lxde desktop is right-clicked, it shows a popup menu which provides > options: icons>; paste; create new>; desktop settings. When selecting the > "desktop settings" there opens a new window with 3 tabs. In the middle tab > there is a option: "show menus provided by WM when desktop is clicked". In > one of the jaunty machines I have checked that option and after that while > right click on desktop a new lxde menu appears. This new menu is not of much > use to me. But I can not get back to the previos (originally provided) menu. > Any idea how to disable this option and get back the original menu? > > > Regards, > -- > ============================== > Miah M. Hussainuzzaman (Shamim) > > Homepage: http://mmhzaman.googlepages.com/home > > Tel: +8801731216486 > -- > Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > -- Saad M Niamatullah -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
