Linux Linpus - Acer Aspire One - activate normal Desktop

[Ariel]

You think there's a way to put the files on a thumb drive and work from there on the One?

the recovery cd that comes with the one does have the option to create a restore USB as well.

[liea]

I managed to install KDE Desktop from the software upgrade module and if I start it from the command line it works (with some errors). How can I set KDE as default window manager? .xinitrc won't work, any ideas what I have to change?

liea

[Andysan]

Many thanks for taking the time to screen dump that Tybor, its much appreciated!

[bjrn]

I just tried this and ran into a problem. I sued to root, killed the xfdesktop2 process, but when I run xfdesktop-xfce I get the following:

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** (xfdesktop-xfce:4693): CRITICAL **: settings_register_callback: assertion `cb && user_data && mcs_client' failed

** (xfdesktop-xfce:4693): CRITICAL **: settings_register_callback: assertion `cb && user_data && mcs_client' failed



And nothing else. Has anyone else run into something similar?

[nack]

I just tried this and ran into a problem. I sued to root, killed the xfdesktop2 process, but when I run xfdesktop-xfce I get the following:

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** (xfdesktop-xfce:4693): CRITICAL **: settings_register_callback: assertion `cb && user_data && mcs_client' failed

** (xfdesktop-xfce:4693): CRITICAL **: settings_register_callback: assertion `cb && user_data && mcs_client' failed



And nothing else. Has anyone else run into something similar?

I ran into something like that. Parts of normal xfce seem to be missing; if you switch to the normal desktop, you'll find you still can't configure the panels, and xfce-settings-show stops working. I wound up with my machine in a state where it would boot to X, but nothing would start and all I could do was shut it back down again. I've nuked it from orbit with the factory defaults disk, and I'm now working back towards an unlocked system again.

[Kev50027]

Yeah it's kinda iffy getting that desktop up, but if someone can get KDE up GNOME (I think that was able to be installed as well) that would be great to be able to have a normal desktop, much easier to make my own icons and install programs from there. I'll be toying with it, but I'm new to Linux, so I have a feeling I wont get very far.

Now that I look at it, maybe installing some more XFCE packages would make it work better? I might just go with Gnome or KDE since I know them better though.

The best I can do:

[bjrn]

The XFCE isn't bad in its normal form. I tried booting up the Aspire One with a Xubuntu Live USB (Ubuntu with XFCE instead of Gnome) and it looked pretty good; like a normal desktop really. I just had it up for a few minutes though.

[Davidcowling]

you'd think they would make it easy to transfer from basic to advanced GUI's.

but then again maybe they think that if users want a proper GUI, theyd have to shell out a bit more for XP

[zk2008]

@Kev...

How did you get your desktop to look like that? Did you find a way to disable those boxes?

Thanks in advance!

Zack

[Kev50027]

@Kev...

How did you get your desktop to look like that? Did you find a way to disable those boxes?

Thanks in advance!

Zack

That's what this thread is talking about. I read this thread and followed the directions to get the normal Linpus desktop. I also changed the background, but that's easy once you activate the advanced mode.