After some days tweaking the Desktop of my new shiny Aspire One ;-), I've decided to write a script to automate the process if I ever need to restore the system with Acer's Recovery CD. I think this can be also useful for those who are tired of the boring Linpus desktop and want a fully customizable Xfce 4 environment. My script performs the following operations:
- Replace Linpus modified Xfce4 packages with the standard ones.
- Replace kpowersave with acpid+xfce-battery-monitor.
- Install self-compiled kernel modules for USB Modem (including many mobile phones), PPP compression and Bluetooth.
- Install mplayer (fully featured), vlc (default player for Thunar), claws-mail, pidgin (IM) and bluetooth utils.
- Remove buggy gtkrc-2.0 (makes the xfce standard panel insanely big).
- Add the /usr/bin/rem_driver.sh script to remove the WiFi driver before suspend (without this the Atheros card sometimes hangs and I need to reboot).
- Download and install Firefox 3.0.1 (consumes less memory and has more features, what else do you want? ;-) and enable mplayer and flash-player plugins.
- Replace mplayerplug-in with a new version (gecko-mediaplayer). Now you can watch those apple trailers fullscreen in your Aspire One! (Added: 08/14/08 19:21 GMT+1)
To use this script, you'll need to have your AC power source plugged and (reliable!) network connection. Simply download it (aone-config.sh), open a terminal (ALT+F2 and enter "xterm"), and run the script this way:
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sudo sh ./aone-config.sh
BEWARE: This process can't be reversed, if you want to recover Linpus Desktop (or if something goes wrong with the installation) you'll need to use your Recovery CD, probably losing all your personal data stored in the SSD.
After running the script, you should get something like this:
- Linpus modded
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