This is my first attempt at a how to. I tried just about everything to get my Xubuntu running with as much functionality as I had in Gnome, I am running a lot of gnome as you will see.
Incert the Ubuntu install CD into the CD-drive
when the boot screen comes up type "server" and press enter
after the server install is complete the fun begins
open up the source-list with the nano editor
"sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list"
uncomment the universe repositories and save&exit (ctrl-x)
"apt-get update"
"apt-get dist-upgrade"
"apt-get install Xubuntu-desktop gdm"
installing gdm because a display manager makes logging in nicer
next I wanted to use Nautilus because it has a lot of functionality that you just can't get from rox, thunar, and xffm. The only drawback I see using Nautilus is its slower, but I don't really see the difference on my system.
Ok first you need to apt-get nautilus, another drawback is it brings a lot of gnome with it.
open a terminal:
"apt-get install nautilus"
Once its installed to get it to not draw the desktop the best way I have found is a method psychicdragon mentioned in another post.
open a terminal and enter:
"gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool false"
this stopped nautilus from drawing my desktop everytime I logged in. To change the file manager in the Xfce menu right click the Xfce menu button select properties and copy the menu file:
"/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml"
open a terminal:
"sudo mousepad /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml"
scroll down to <xfdesktop-menu> and change <app name="File Manager" cmd="rox" icon="file-manager"/> to <app name="File Manager" cmd="nautilus" icon="file-manager"/> here is what is should look like:
<xfdesktop-menu>
<app name="Run Program..." cmd="xfrun4" icon="gnome-fs-executable"/>
<separator/>
<app name="Terminal" cmd="xfterm4" tip="Terminal emulator" icon="gnome-terminal"/>
<app name="File Manager" cmd="nautilus" icon="file-manager"/>
<app name="Web Browser" cmd="sensible-browser" icon="gnome-globe"/>
<separator/>
next you need to go into the file manager in the Xfce4-MenuEditor
left click Xfce-menu go up to settings and select XFCE4-MenuEditor
right click File Manager select edit and change command from rox to nautilus save and close
next I used arniboy's Automatix to install most of the video and auto codec and a few other things like j2re-1.5, firefox pluggins, and acrobatreader
Automatix will change you sources.list file
to get Automatix to run in Xubuntu you need to install gnome-terminal
open a terminal:
"apt-get gnome-terminal"
get Automatix from "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563" arnieboy is a genius, saved me hours of install time.
With gnome-terminal installed just follow arnieboy's install instruction.
to set up a network printer you will need gnome-cups-manager. The cups manager was disabled for some reason.
"apt-get install gnome-cups-manager"
This is the easiest way to get a printer working, at least for me.
I used vnbuddy2002 How to (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...printing+linux)
to set up samba and connect my two computers.
I really didn't like using so much of gnome in XFCE, but I really wanted a more complete system. A hybrid system isn't that bad is it.
Using Nautilus my usb drives automount without gnome-volume-manager. Just plug in the usb drive and open nautilus and click on the computer icon in the task bar.
Hope this helps someone. Also if anyone has a better way of doing any of what I have done please let me know. I'm just a noob, only been using Ubuntu 6 months.
Matt
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