[Ubuntu-BD] LXDE desktop and two problems that I have faced.

[Saad M Niamatullah]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Miah M. Hussainuzzaman
<mmhzaman at gmail.com> 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,
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>
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Saad M Niamatullah