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

[Miah M. Hussainuzzaman]

Dear Saad,

Thank you for your suggestion. I shall try those when I get time for
playing with it again. At this moment I am mailing you using lxde in my
home desktop with ubuntu hardy without any pain (as mentioned before).

But you see, in those jaunty machines, the network manager is already
been installed with gnome, as I have mentioned ... when I log back to
gnome it works perfectly. In those Jaunty machines, lxnm (network
manager) was not installed from synaptic due to this reason. I have
tried to install lxnm, but the installer said that it won't do it as it
conflicts with the existing network manager.

Unfortunately, these three machines in question are located in three
different places. So, checking and comparing one with another is not
very frequent/easy for me. Free time is very scarce for playing with
these things lately.

Even though I have been using ubuntu since version 6.10 RC, not being
someone working with IT, I have not dared to experiment much with
linux/ubuntu. Being content just being a user. 

Anyway, this asking was not just to enable me to enjoy lxde ... as those
machines have enough resource to run the better GUI/DE (i.e. gnome). As
Shabab mentioned, it is because lxde seemed a very promising desktop for
thin clients(- better than xfce; and more stupid friendly than Puppy, I
guess.). In my workplace, most of the machines (a few dozens) contain
about 256 MB or RAM some of those are even shared by the graphics
card ... only about 240 MB is left for the OS and the softwares. But as
a senior member of the office I got a better PC with much better
configuration (2GB RAM).

One solution may be to try hardy with lxde in those machines ... but why
should I defy the better versions (like jaunty, karmic koala etc) if
there is a solution to that problem. I can readily suggest our network
people to go with this solution to those thin machines.

I shall let the community know the progress, when I can spend some time
for that again (Apologies for any inconvenience).

If anyone else have any experience with it, please share.



Hey Shabab, cool down man! 

I proposed for a distro for the thin clients of typical Bangladeshi
corporates with lightweight desktop managers, and the team working for
bangla linux pick that idea. I really feel shy to claim that as my plan,
because I am like Jobbor kaku in such technical matters... you know what
I mean ;-)

Best wishes.

Shamim.
(Miah M. Hussainuzzaman)