E17 on Archlinux

E17 is a good but it doesn't come with alot of application. So now that I found all there program for a complit desktop I'll post them.

Desktop envirement: E17

sudo pacman -S e17-svn e17-extra-svn

Package manager: yaourt

You have to add a repository to the pacman config file like this:

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

then add at the end:

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686


then you can do:

sudo pacman -S yaourt

File manager: pcmanfm

Although E17 does come with it's own but i don't like it much.

sudo pacman -S pcmanfm

Terminal: xterm or lxterminal

Lxterminal has copy/paste so that why I like it xterm doesn't.

sudo pacman -S lxterminal

sudo pacman -S xterm

Browser: Firefox

sudo pacman -S firefox

File compresor: Xarchiver

sudo pacman -S xarchiver

CD/DVD burning: Graveman

sudo pacman -S graveman

Music player: cmus

sudo pacman -S cmus

Video player: VLC

sudo pacman -S vlc

Text editor/Programing: Geany

sudo pacman -S geany

Image editor: Gimp

sudo pacman -S gimp

Java IDE:

sudo pacman -S netbeans

Network manager: Wicd

sudo pacman -S wicd

Msn clone: Amsn

sudo pacman -S amsn

Office application Openoffice

sudo pacman -S openoffice-base

PDF reader: Acrobat Reader

yaourt -S acroread

Runing windows programs: Wine and/or virtualbox

sudo pacman -S wine

sudo pacman -S virtualbox

Task manager: lxtask

sudo pacman -S lxtask


And thas my complit desktop.

Archlinux and LG P1

I first started to use linux with Ubuntu. Then I explored all the posible distros that derived from Ubuntu but did find and think that I like. Then i explored alot of diffrent desktop environment like Gnome, Kde, Lxde, Openbox and a few more. I was looking something lightweight, good looking and have good support for laptops. As Ubuntu is very user friendly but is a bit heavy. Then I turned to Archlinux. It's very custemizeble and lighter then Ubuntu. It has a good community. At first I installed Gnome but then once I was more finilier with Archlinux I started to look for a liker alternative to Gnome. That when I found Enlightement and started to use the newest version E17. It look very good but I don't know about how light is it but it is more custumuzeble and easy at the same time with out taking out all the options. Now that a snopshoot E17 is in the repo of the Archlinux it easer to install. Althought, I am working on a script that would download and install the bleeding edge of E17 for svn repo. It's almost complite but still has bugs.

Now on my LG P1, the speaker don't work out of the box. To make them work I did:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.conf

Then add this line:

options snd-hda-intel model=lg

Now my speaker work flowlessly with ALSA.

To have the wireless card work I need to edit the /etc/rc.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/rc.conf

Then in the MODULES section add an ! to the ipw3945 module and add iwl3945 it should look like this:

MODULES=(!ipw3945 iwl3945 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)


The other modules are for sound. So far that the only this that I know about.