Hi,
After the last months working on this project, I can say it now looks almost like an official one, if it was not for the few ppa inside and a handful of details related to decoration. The most obvious will be the Lubuntu slideshow, used temporarily in this spin, which we will replace at some time in the future.
What it contains:
Accessories:
file-roller - Archive manager
pcmanfm - File manager
galculator - Scientif calculator
midnight-commander - File manager with many features
Graphics:
geeqie - Image viewer
Libreoffice Draw - Drawing module from the LibreOffice suite
Internet:
firefox - Web browser
sylpheed - E-mail client
xchat - Chat with other people using Internet Relay Chat
Office:
ePDFviewer - display pdf documents
Libreoffice suite - Draw, Writer, Impress, Calc
Programming:
geany - text editor with syntax highlighting and advanced features
Sound and video:
brasero - burn CD's and DVD's
exaile - listen to music and manager your collection
gnome-alsamixer - manage the volume of sound
gnome-mplayer - watch videos
Fantasy:
xsnow - X Window application that will snow on the desktop background. Santa and his reindeer are also there.
Transparency:
xcompmgr - provides transparency and some effects available in the Openbox right-click menus.
System and Preferences:
many tools to do mostly everything...
network-manager-gnome
synaptic - package manager
software center - choose and install programs
update-notifier - setup the updates as you need
bleachbit - keep your system clean
fslint - manage other parts of the file system
htop - view and manage processes
sakura - terminal emulator
and many more…
Command line tools:
lftp - ftp cli client
openssh server and client
testdisk
sdparm
hdparm
foremost
lshw
Accessibility:
gnome-accessibility-themes
at-spi2-core - Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (dbus core)
libatspi2.0-0 - Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface - shared library
Virtualbox guest packages:
virtualbox-guest-dkms
virtualbox-guest-utils
virtualbox-guest-x11
Special packages from ppa:
Faenza icon theme
Grub Customizer
Other ppa:
meets repository for openbox-menu
Medibuntu repository (not activated)
More useful packages:
linux-firmware-nonfree - Non-free firmware for Linux kernel drivers
b43-fwcutter
firmware-b43-installer
pptp-linux, pppoeconf, pppoe, ppp, pppconfig
Options:
feh and tint2 don't show. Feh is used by the "xsnow start/stop" script.
tint2 can be used to replace lxpanel. Change it in $HOME/.config/autostart
where you can rename the two following files appropriately:
lxpanel.desktop
tint2.desktop-backup
Zram module configured and started from the /etc/rc.local file // to djohnston: could you pass over the script you use to activate and deactivate it from the menus ? I would like very much to have a look at it...
openbox-menu allows having the dynamically generated and updated menus in
Openbox ! \o/
obsession (not packaged yet, installed in /usr/local) provides the power management menus. ![Sourit :)](https://forum.linuxvillage.org/Smileys/aaron/smiley.gif)
What does it look like ?
At start, there are two funny drawings down the screen:
...so just press any key on the keyboard to get the next screen, or else it will start the installer directly. If you do so, you will get a choice for the language:
Once the language chosen, you get several entries, and options:
if you choose to try without installing the following screen will appear:
and soon you will discover the desktop:
The right-click is default setup to the Openbox menu - with the Applications menu provided by
openbox-menu :
It is possible to change it by hitting the "Desktop Prefs" menu:
and untick the choice "Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked":
if you want to switch back, you will have to hit again the Desktop preferences entry in the Lxde like right-click menu:
The Lxpanel menu provides classic menus as in Lxde:
The distribution offers many gui applications to configure the system and the desktop as you can see in the list of the following image:
The Openbox theme is Clearlooks 3.4 and the GTK3 theme is Clearlooks as well (installed apart from the repos as it's not packaged) as you can see when looking at the window of the Ubiquity installer:
and when it is time to quit comes
obsession (not yet packaged):
A reminder of what this distribution is made from:
Ubuntu Mini Remix -
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-mini-remixSome additional packages for the system, listed along the numerous tests of the paste months
Ubuntu Builder gui tool built with Gambas -
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-builderThis latest test release, which should be the last before starting to work on creating new packages and on the customizations, is 687 MB large and can be downloaded from this link:
ISO:
bento2-ubuntu-remix.12.04-i386.isomd5sum:
bento2-ubuntu-remix.12.04-i386.md5sum