Lubuntu 10.10

I recently installed Lubuntu on my AAO110L.

I am very impressed. It runs faster than just about any operating system that I have ever run, and is completely stable.

Boot time must be about 12 seconds.

Chromium (the default web browser) starts almost instantly.

Wireless works perfectly.

And the SSD, which is very slow and locks up quite a bit on UNR, takes almost no strain.

Default apps are:
Chromium
Sylpheed
Abiword
Gnumeric
Osmo
Aqualung
Gnome MPlayer

While the LXDE environment isn't the prettiest, it is an incredibly fast DE.

 

Lubuntu: Stuff You Might Want To Customize After Installation

Adding icons at the desktop.
Pretty sipmple. So simple that many of you might have already noticed. Just right-click at any icon in the main menu and click Add To Desktop

 

How to install Dropbox in Lubuntu

Open up a terminal session and type the following lines separately, hitting return after each.

cd
wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.dropbox.com/download\?plat=lnx.x86
tar -zxof dropbox.tar.gz
wget -nd http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6995/dbmakefakelib.py
wget -nd http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6995/dbreadconfig.py
python dbmakefakelib.py
Let DropBox complete its’ initial sync and then, in future, start Dropbox using the following command (either via the terminal or by making a launcher for it)

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

 

How to add trash and home to Lubuntu desktop?

There's no checkbox for that, afaik. But you could use *.desktop files. Copy and paste the code into a file:

CODE: SELECT ALL
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Icon=system-file-manager
Name=Home Folder
GenericName=Home Folder
Comment=open home folder in PCManFM
Categories=FileManager;Utility;Core;GTK;
Exec=pcmanfm
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-directory/normal;inode/directory;

and save this as home.desktop.

CODE: SELECT ALL
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Icon=user-trash
Name=Trash
GenericName=Trash
Comment=open trash in PCManFM
Categories=FileManager;Utility;Core;GTK;
Exec=pcmanfm trash:///
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-directory/normal;inode/directory;


and save this as trash.desktop

 

Horizontal Scrolling
To enable horizontal scrolling for the touchpad (as in Linpus install),create /etc/x11/xorg.conf and paste this :

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
EndSection

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

FAN control

Create /etc/modprobe.d/acerhdf.conf and add the line:

options acerhdf kernelmode=1

then reboot.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

SSD Performance
The performance of the SSD drive can be significantly improved by a few tweaks described in an article by Jason Perlow (But ignore Tweak #1, which does not apply.). The most important of these are described here.

Change the file system mount options on SSDs to "noatime"
Edit /etc/fstab (sudo gedit /etc/fstab) and change the the option "relatime" to "noatime". The line for the root partition should then be something like:

UUID=f0ae2c59-83d2-42e7-81c4-2e870b6b255d / ext2 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

Reduce SSD Wear
Frequent writes to the SSD will cause failure eventually. We can reduce the number of writes to the SSD by moving our logs to a temporary filesystem in RAM that gets destroyed on every reboot. Now this means your logs will not be persistent across reboots making debugging difficult in some cases. This step is optional of course, so if you need the logs for an extended period of time do not follow these steps.

Open your fstab again, and add the following lines:


sudo gedit /etc/fstab
tmpfs /var/log/apt tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

All USB ports are hot-pluggable, RH SD works if card is present on boot. LH SD is hot-pluggable on my model. RH now recognizes, but will not open, Sony MemoryStick (if present on boot). Have not tested XD nor CF cards. Karmic uses grub2 by default. The right hand slot can be made hot-pluggable by editing /etc/default/grub. Add pciehp.pciehp_force=1 between the double quotes on the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT (SSD users can also add elevator=noop to increase speed) then run (using sudo) update-grub2 and reboot.
Both Card readers work after bios update to version 3309, which makes the leftcard reader recognise cards even if empty at boot time, however the righthand card reader still requires some work if you edit /etc/default/grub as detailed below

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pciehp.pciehp_force=1 elavator=noop quiet splash"

Extending /etc/default/grub (or /etc/default/grub if you are already using grub2) to contain GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pciehp.pciehp_force=1 elavator=noop quiet splash enable_mtrr_cleanup" makes the already quite fast video chipset much faster.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

I hope this helps someone, who has more tweaks/tips is welcome

 

Thank you. I'll try these tweaks. I run the Fedora 14 LXDE spin om my AAO and it works very nice.

 

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