Debain 5 LXDE 1.0
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 5:14 pm
Debian WebDT 366 1.0
This release packs a lot of features. Although LXDE is a little slow on the DT please test out the new bluetooth connection gui and let me know if it works or not. Also on the slow side is a scribble application called Xournal. It lets you take notes on the screen in your own handwriting. May be too much application for the DT but I left it in for testing purposes.
This is an image of Debian 5 aka lenny.
Root pass: webdt
User login: webdt
User pass: webdt
Included software:
LXDE - Window manager
Xvkbd - On screen keyboard.
Pcmanfm - File manager
MC - Ncurses file manager
Lxterminal - Terminal
Xcalc - Calculator
Opera - Web browser
Wicd - Wifi profile and connection utility
WeeChat - Ncurses IRC chat
BTscanner - Bluetooth device discovery
Obconf - Open Box configuration panel
LeafPad - Text Editor
gCal - Touch screen calibration
Xournal - Scribble note taking application
MC - File manager
Spectool_gtk - Gui for the Wi-Spy device
Xarchiver - Archiving utility
Sonata - Mp3 player
Gpicview - Image viewer
Gv - PDF viewer
Synergy - Share mouse and keyboard over wifi
Xpaint - Painting applications
Blueman - Bluetooth gui application for sharing with devices
gnome-bluetooth-services - receive a file over bluetooth (needed for blueman)
Bluez-audio - Use bluetooth as an alsa output
Debian is very stable and you can feel free to remove and add
packages as you wish however, please know that apt-cache can claim
upwards of 60mb in one update. I would advise downoading the deb
of the package you want the use "dpkg -i " to install.
If errors happen from unmet dependencies use "apt-get -f install"
to repair missing dependencies.
Disc usage is 505964 total
469708 used
36256 free
Use it wisely. As always I suggest a CFcard and some symlinks. LXDE is a little slow but this is the most featured release yet. In the future after I relocate I will work on building a image with a lighter weight to it. I wanted to get a bluetooth gui working and LXDE was the easiest way for me to accomplish that.
The partition was prepared with "noatime" to reduce write backs to the flash.
weechat is the IRC chat client. Sign from the terminal with:
"weechat-curses irc://you@irc.freenode.net/#webdt"
Clicking on the weechat icon will sign you on to the #webdt room as "webdt-user"
If you wish to use btscanner please do so on cli as su or root. You will not pick any devices up as a user.
Let me know how the blueman application works if you think of it. I have no bluetooth devices and cant easily test it out.
Xournal is a little slow to update the screen, I am guessing that 256 may not be enough ram for it to keep on on the draw. Cool application to have so I left it for those on the go.
Adding launchers to the LXDE dock is a matter of making the associated "desktop file". For instance, xvkbd did not show up in a menu so I had to make the xvkbd.desktop file in a text editor and put the file in /usr/share/applications. Once there we can select it as an application to add to the launcher from the gui. Here is a link to an example:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/apa.html
Please use full paths to the icon when making a desktop file and be careful not to be root when making the files. They will not show up for the user.
Thanks goes to Penmount for releasing this driver and making lenny possible on a DT.
The md5 on the zip file is:
373511ef51315933edebc87a31645959
I am using an apple computer to zip these so please double check the md5's. I have had odd reports on sizes when unzipped. The md5 for the image is inside the zip file.
Image is here:
****Temporarily removed due to image not working. A new one is being built currenlty****
This release packs a lot of features. Although LXDE is a little slow on the DT please test out the new bluetooth connection gui and let me know if it works or not. Also on the slow side is a scribble application called Xournal. It lets you take notes on the screen in your own handwriting. May be too much application for the DT but I left it in for testing purposes.
This is an image of Debian 5 aka lenny.
Root pass: webdt
User login: webdt
User pass: webdt
Included software:
LXDE - Window manager
Xvkbd - On screen keyboard.
Pcmanfm - File manager
MC - Ncurses file manager
Lxterminal - Terminal
Xcalc - Calculator
Opera - Web browser
Wicd - Wifi profile and connection utility
WeeChat - Ncurses IRC chat
BTscanner - Bluetooth device discovery
Obconf - Open Box configuration panel
LeafPad - Text Editor
gCal - Touch screen calibration
Xournal - Scribble note taking application
MC - File manager
Spectool_gtk - Gui for the Wi-Spy device
Xarchiver - Archiving utility
Sonata - Mp3 player
Gpicview - Image viewer
Gv - PDF viewer
Synergy - Share mouse and keyboard over wifi
Xpaint - Painting applications
Blueman - Bluetooth gui application for sharing with devices
gnome-bluetooth-services - receive a file over bluetooth (needed for blueman)
Bluez-audio - Use bluetooth as an alsa output
Debian is very stable and you can feel free to remove and add
packages as you wish however, please know that apt-cache can claim
upwards of 60mb in one update. I would advise downoading the deb
of the package you want the use "dpkg -i " to install.
If errors happen from unmet dependencies use "apt-get -f install"
to repair missing dependencies.
Disc usage is 505964 total
469708 used
36256 free
Use it wisely. As always I suggest a CFcard and some symlinks. LXDE is a little slow but this is the most featured release yet. In the future after I relocate I will work on building a image with a lighter weight to it. I wanted to get a bluetooth gui working and LXDE was the easiest way for me to accomplish that.
The partition was prepared with "noatime" to reduce write backs to the flash.
weechat is the IRC chat client. Sign from the terminal with:
"weechat-curses irc://you@irc.freenode.net/#webdt"
Clicking on the weechat icon will sign you on to the #webdt room as "webdt-user"
If you wish to use btscanner please do so on cli as su or root. You will not pick any devices up as a user.
Let me know how the blueman application works if you think of it. I have no bluetooth devices and cant easily test it out.
Xournal is a little slow to update the screen, I am guessing that 256 may not be enough ram for it to keep on on the draw. Cool application to have so I left it for those on the go.
Adding launchers to the LXDE dock is a matter of making the associated "desktop file". For instance, xvkbd did not show up in a menu so I had to make the xvkbd.desktop file in a text editor and put the file in /usr/share/applications. Once there we can select it as an application to add to the launcher from the gui. Here is a link to an example:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/apa.html
Please use full paths to the icon when making a desktop file and be careful not to be root when making the files. They will not show up for the user.
Thanks goes to Penmount for releasing this driver and making lenny possible on a DT.
The md5 on the zip file is:
373511ef51315933edebc87a31645959
I am using an apple computer to zip these so please double check the md5's. I have had odd reports on sizes when unzipped. The md5 for the image is inside the zip file.
Image is here:
****Temporarily removed due to image not working. A new one is being built currenlty****