Academic Laptop Overhaul

The academic laptop has been overhauled as Manjaro was too heavy. I followed this guide to installing the Openbox desktop in Bodhi Linux. Installiation was easy as the instructions are clear.

Once installed one must tweak openbox. For me this included installing; PCManFM filemanager, LXTerminal, Gtkviewer image viewer, Xournal for reading pdf documents, Calibre for reading ebooks, LibreOffice writer and calc for documents and spreadsheets, Chromimum, conky and the google now weather conky rc files and I had to sort out the ALSA sound settings.

Be sure to install LXApperance in order to make your desktop look nice.

One may grab desktops and themes from BoxLook and fonts and icons may be obtained from Gnome Look. I like the Faenza folder themes. I use Clementine for audio and I downloaded it from the Clementine site.

To install the Ubuntu software from the existing Bodhi repositories one may use a terminal to gksudo synaptic to use the Synaptic package manager as root or log into the enlightenment and install using the Bodhi App Center using the Midori browser. I tried to use as much lightweight software as possible.

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Bodhi Linux makes the old Dell Latitude D800 with 1 gig of RAM run efficiently so it may give life to old hardware.