So you want to watch all your movies on the aspire one? Not that hard, there are two possibilities. You could update mplayer or install vlc. Or just do both, that’s what i did.

First you need to add the livna repository

sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

Then, to update mplayer enter

sudo yum update mplayer

For a nice interface you could also install smplayer

sudo yum install smplayer

So that was easy, vlc is a little more work…

sudo yum install vlc
sudo mousepad /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=VLC
Name[de]=VLC
GenericName=VLC
GenericName[de]=VLC
Comment=VLC
Comment[de]=VLC
Exec=vlc
Icon=vlc.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

sudo mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

Now, replace media master

<app sequence=”0″>/usr/share/applications/pcmmvp.desktop</app>

with vlc

<app sequence=”0″>/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop</app>

Plus, you need to grab a vlc icon and copy it into the pixmaps folder

sudo cp /home/user/Downloads/Vista-vlc.png /usr/share/pixmaps/vlc.png

That’s it, have fun with all your media stuff!

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mount -t cifs -o username=server_user,password=server_password //server_name/share_name /path_to/mount_point

Do not use /mnt as mount point. Seriously, don’t. Reinstalling again…

To permanently mount a samba share, do the following:

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

at the bottom of the file enter something like this

//192.168.44.100/share_name /path_to/mount_point cifs
username=server_user,password=server_password,_netdev,uid=client_username,gid=users 0 0

or that

//server_name/share_name /path_to/mount_point cifs username=server_user,password=server_password,_netdev,uid=client_username,gid=users 0 0

all in one line!
haven’t tried it myself though, found it here…

Install thunderbird via yum (or package manager if you want…), add shortcut to desktop, bla bla

sudo yum install thunderbird
sudo mousepad /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunderbird
Name[de]=Thunderbird
GenericName=Thunderbird
GenericName[de]=Thunderbird
Comment=Thunderbird
Comment[de]=Thunderbird
Exec=thunderbird
Icon=thunderbird.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

sudo mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

Replace

<app sequence=”2″ acs=”email”>/usr/share/applications/AME.desktop</app>

with

<app sequence=”2″>/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop</app>

Et voilá, done

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Not possible… I tried to boot Backtrack from a sd card, but none of the card readers is bootable. I was able to boot from the sd card pluggin into a card reader, so it’s definitely a problem with the builtin readers. I think their drivers aren’t loaded yet when the aspire one is booting. Shit.

When trying to install Evolution from the Package Manager you’ll get the following error

file /usr/share/desktop-directories/Internet.directory from install of gnome-menus-2.20.3-1.fc8 conflicts with file from package xfdesktop-acer-lp-1522.no_spot.mcs_patched
file /usr/share/desktop-directories/Settings.directory from install of gnome-menus-2.20.3-1.fc8 conflicts with file from package xfdesktop-acer-lp-1522.no_spot.mcs_patched

This is because of a dependency problem with gnome-menus. You’ll get the same error when trying to install f-spot, so the following fix should work there as well.
So now we have to force the installation of gnome-menus and redhat-menus and then restore the original content of the conflicting files:

sudo yum install yum-utils
sudo yumdownloader gnome-menus redhat-menus
cp /usr/share/desktop-directories/* .
sudo rpm -U --force gnome*rpm redhat*rpm
sudo mv *.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories

now you can install evolution via the package manager or the terminal and run it

sudo yum install evolution
evolution

the next problem you’ll be facing is a huge setup window looking like that

hold alt while dragging the window with the left mouse button (you can click anywhere in the window and move it) - this way you can reach the bottom of those way too large windows…
Now just work your way through the setup and you’re ready to go. Well… i can’t get the window to fit my screen so i’m gonna try to get thunderbird working, maybe that works better.
Here’s a screenshot of the window, it’s just too big and not willing to be smaller… damn you evolution!

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To remove the search bar from the desktop open a terminal and write

sudo mousepad /usr/share/search-bar/start-search_bar.sh

now simply comment out each line and restart
(file should look like that)

#!/bin/sh
#resolution=`xrandr |grep \*|awk ‘{print $1}’`
#resolution=`xrandr |grep current|awk -F”current” ‘{print $2}’|awk -F”,” ‘{print $1}’|sed ’s/\ //g’`
#
#if [ $resolution = "1280x800" ];then
#   acer-search-desktop –x=650 –y=90 –width=490 –height=31
#elif [ $resolution = "1024x600" ];then
#   acer-search-desktop –x=510 –y=65 –width=490 –height=31
#elif [ $resolution = "1024x768" ];then
#   acer-search-desktop –x=510 –y=80 –width=490 –height=35
#else
#   acer-search-desktop
#fi

To change the wallpaper go to Settings > Desktop Settings. There you can select your new wallpaper. If you want the original one back, it’s located at /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/default.png, it would be a good idea to place your custom wallpaper in the same directory:

sudo cp /home/user/Pictures/coolblue.png /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/coolblue.png

kudos to dandesigns for the nice wallpapers found here

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In advanced mode, right-click on the desktop and open Settings > Window Manager Settings
Here you can change the style to get rid of the Windows XP look.

The default browser in Linpus Lite is Firefox 2, if you want to update to version 3 you just have to follow these steps…

Navigate to http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ and download the latest version.
Start a terminal with super user mode, extract the archive and move it

su
cd /home/user/Downloads/
tar -xvf firefox-3.0.2.tar.bz2
mv firefox/ /usr/local/firefox/

Copy the old plugins into the new folder

cp /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/plugins/* /usr/local/firefox/plugins/

Update the link on the desktop

rm /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/

To change the desktop icon to the official logo:

mousepad /usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop

Change “Icon=acs_firefox.png” to “Icon=firefox.png”

After a reboot, everything should be fine and look like this

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To active the advanced mode in Linpus Lite, you’ve got to do the following:

Open a Terminal (alt+F2 > terminal)

Type xfce-setting-show to open the Xfce Settings Manager.

Click on Desktop, then open the Behaviour tab. Check “Show desktop menu on right click” and close the window.

Now when you right click on the desktop, you’ll see the real context menu from where you can add and remove programs (under System)

But instead, you could just run pirut from the terminal…

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