Base Distro - Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) with Gnome 2.18

Addition: KDE (3.5.6)

Display Manager: gdm (allows user to login with Gnome or KDE and a different language)

Started with Feisty Fawn. Update to latest packages. Essential software included: firefox openoffice gaim

Added:

KDE meta package for ubuntu. It gets a lot of the KDE we stuff need.

vlc xine streamtuner msttcorefonts camstream

ktouch kstars khangman kalzium gcompris gcompris-admin childsplay childsplay-plugins tuxmath tuxtype tuxtypedata tuxtype-data-nonfree tuxpaint tuxpaint-data tuxpaint-stamps-default frozenbubble

supertux supertux-data ksirtet pingus pingus-data xgalaga kdegames kdegames-card-data kcalc ksudoku blinken gnome-chess

sun-java6-bin kscd kfloppy macromedia xmms xsane flash* gstreamer-plugins mpeg-tools gstreamer-pitfdll libavifile-win32-plugin avifileplayer libmms0 gstreamer-swfdec gstreamer-codecs w32codecs mplayer libfcaco libgg2 libgiio libgiio-targetx libmp4v2-0 libxvidcore-4 liblame0 libquicktime0 cabextract camorama mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts flashplayer-mozilla realplay10 (not helix as shipped as it does not work for flash/real combo) other multimedia codecs* adobe PDF reader = escript and plugins (acroreadplugins). Tools for DVD's.

gnucash inkscape scribus dia audacity google-picasa openclipart openclipart-svg bluefish skype xchat k3b gyachi amarok ark thunderbird gramps gtkam

kdenetwork meta package kdenetwork-filesharing knetwork-conf knetworkmanager kwirelessmonitor networkstatus pppstatus kwifimanager ndiswrapper

printer drivers - foomatic-filtersdb* - so that we have support for all current and older style printers.

and any dependencies that were required.

Removed:

bsdmainutils bluez-cups bluez-pin bluez-utils brltty brltty-x11 evince evolution samba-common samba-client

knetworkmanager-systray applet*

*Not sure of name and notes are sketchy

List-o-Tweaks

Computerbank Distro Configuration - thanks to Barry for this list.

Desktop

KDE (.dmrc: [Desktop]?|Session=kde)

Desktop Icons

Floppy Device Home Trash linux_userguide.pdf

Panel Buttons

K Menu Show desktop File Manager OpenOffice?.org Writer Web Browser (Firefox/Iceweasel) Clock (RHS)

Panel Configuration (normally locked)

Arrangement Position: left, bottom Length: 100% Size: normal Hiding Hide Mode: Only hide when a panel-hiding button is clicked Panel-Hiding Buttons: Show right panel-hiding button Panel Animation: off

TBC....when copy and paste help arrives...

More tweaks

Adobe - weblink set it to firefox

• " to cms
• display splash on start up
• For systems using 800*600 res change print dialog window properties. See issue tracker for info.

Firefox

• enabled mms stream
• google as home page
• links as documented above but change name: Linux Printing Linux Games Documentation
• Google as home page
• Point downloads to Downloads folder
• Removed ubuntu link on the browser toolbar (it is in a subfolder and the nice icon doesn't work)

k3b

• disable quicktray starter (ditto for all apps and klipper)

Games

• Games that run fullscreen should be set to do so using -f -fullscreen options in command. Also same applies for kids-edu games like tuxpaint tuxtype tuxmath. Help? Someone to list all games we include using a fullscreen option. Defendguin?

OpenOffice?

• As above for file associations.
• Memory - Graphics cache - increase from 20 -> 80
• Save path set to the My Documents folder in /home/user

VLC

• In preferences set video output to X11

Services

• Get rid of unnecessary services.

XChat?

• Configure username a.user a.user1 a.user2
• Configure auto connect to irc.freenode.net #computerbank channel
• Configure fonts so 12 point

Amarok

• Set browser as firefox
• No systray icon - show application instead
• Need to get rid of some shoutcast streams but no way to do so

Other

• Using kdm as login manager, not gdm. Set background for kdm to single colour and very minimal login box.
• logrotate.conf enabled compression
• did apt-get autoremove apt-get clean apt-get autoclean
• downloaded 3 mp3 classical tracks - royalty free to put in Music folder
• changed password for user and root
• applied kdesu to all su/sudo actions
• clear histories/cache and cookies
• tweaked menu more - sign posts, consistency on capitalisation
• updated /etc/issue
• added warning message for refresh user action re losing bookmarks in browsers
• added Music directory
• added LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) as it is a cool and fun app

29/02/08

• added digiKam
• added KompoZer? - wysiwyg style web editor
• added gimp help docs, and KompoZer? help
• Updated menu (again)
• Timed Firefox - 11-12secs loadtime

More changes to 13/03/08

• Added Gramps
• Put Gramps in Edutainment rather than office. Changed Description.
• Removed gdm
• Edited /etc/fstab - commented out usb refs. Deleted directories /media/usb1 /media/usb2
• Updated PDF guide.

Changes to 2/04/08

• Added gnucap (req for gcompris electrical circuit simulation)
• Added root account tool for cleaning up printer drivers (KD noted this as an issue when installing printer drivers, need to run foomatic-cleanupdrivers if the printer list goes missing in kprint). Basically we added a "Reset Printers" button to the account tools menu for root. When the user clicks the button the foomatic-cleanupdrivers command is issued.
• Label to swap in clone script as per barry's suggestion: add "-L SWAP" to the mkswap command in the clone script
• It was noted that Gnome PPP could not set up an account for Pacific Net. We had to use pppconfig talking to pon/poff. Menu items were created for this user - Configure the Internet (pppconfig), Connect to the internet (pon), Disconnect from the Internet (poff), Monitor Internet Connection (pppstatus -s 56). With regards to the Gnome PPP problem - we are looking into it but it could be related to PAP/CHAP authentication.

Changes to 01/05/08

• Fixed Gnome PPP problem - it presented again with respect to Planet Prepaid. The fix is documented over at http://vic.computerbank.org.au/wiki/193GnomePppSomeISPs
• Upgraded all packages on the distro. This seemed to help get a HP F3185 printer up and running.
• Updated /etc/issue with date stamp 01/05/08

Changes to 30/05/08

• Fixed Openoffice problems. Options dialog window too big. Installed AU dictionary.
• Updated /etc/issue with date stamp 30/05/08?

Changes to 25/06/08

• Added Burmese font - see http://vic.computerbank.org.au/wiki/209CantViewBurmeseFontInFirefox for details and link to install file.
• Upgraded software
• Updated /etc/issue with date stamp 25/06/08

Changes to 16/06/08

• Gnome PPP. Turned on option "ignore terminal strings (stupid mode)" This seems to help for connecting to some ISPS. Not tested with aapt.

Having trouble copying and pasting content --kylie, Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:48:36 -0600 reply

I have a 13 page doc that i need to copy into here - basically Barry's guide. I'm getting weird errors with certain slabs of text. This doc lists a lot of the changes we have made to KDE.k