3 things to do after installing Lubuntu 12.10

Lubuntu it's the best looking and best looking desktop LXDE distribution I've ever seen. It maintains the effectiveness and simplicity of LXDE, and like the other distributions with LXDE, we can take advantage of our knowledge to have composition, launch applications at startup and share folders with SAMBA.

Install xcompmgr, samba and samba-client

We can do it from the software center or directly with a terminal by running:

sudo apt-get install aptitude xcompmgr samba samba-client

To run xcompmgr we can create a launcher and copy it to "~. / Config / autostart". To do this, we can take advantage of the "Create new shortcut" option by right-clicking on the desktop.

We fill in the corresponding fields and save. The corresponding launcher will appear that we can drag and drop to our autostart folder after opening pcmanfm and clicking on "show hidden files". Much more comfortable than other options and we can choose the icon that we like the most.

To configure our shared folder we will do it as usual by editing our file "/etc/samba/smb.conf" it will be enough to add at the end:

[Shared] comment = Shared browseable = yes writable = no path = / path / to / the / shared / folder public = yes

Then we just have to restart.

To enable or disable tapping on the touchpad we can use this script that uses synclient:

I did it by running:

sudo nano /home/javier/Scripts/touchpad.sh

and typing:

! / bin / sh # change tapping state on / off STATUS = $ (synclient -l | grep TapButton1 | awk '{print $ 3}') # change to other state if [$ STATUS = 0]; then synclient TapButton1 = 1 elif [$ STATUS = 1]; then synclient TapButton1 = 0 else echo "Cannot have touchpad state" exit 1 fi exit 0

Then we can create the corresponding launcher and copy it to / usr / share / applications so that it appears in the start menu or include it in the application bar of the panel. It is important to save it with the .desktop extension.

[Desktop Entry] Encoding = UTF-8 Type = Application Name = touchpad Name [es_ES] = touchpad Icon = / path / to / icon / touchpad-enable-icon.png Categories = Settings; Exec = / path / del / script / touchpad.sh Comment [es_ES] = Activate tap

Now we only need to install the applications that we like the most as in any other Ubuntu. 😉