Lubuntu (make it look like default Gnome?)

[bornagainpenguin]

Hi, I'm giving LXDE a try (me a confirmed Gnome user!) due to frustrations with the way Gnome has been moving. My biggest question after trying to use the live cd installer via USB key on my eeepc 901 was whether it was possible to default the theme to the Gnome way of doing things--two panels, clock on the top right, apps showing up in tabs on the bottom panel, that kind of thing.

I've already played with the panels a bit and think I can sort've tweak things a bit, but really would prefer an easy button of some sort if it exists. Is there a script or something I can run to automatically set the theme to behave like the way Ubuntu's version of Gnome does things? I saw the thread on running Gnome panels in LXDE, but that would defeat the point for me, since one of the issues I have with the current direction is the broken panels in Gnome, and the stupid removal of panel apps like battstat for no apparent reason.

So is it possible to do this easily or am I stuck trying to cobble together a theme by hand?

--bornagainpenguin

[kerry_s]

it's linux, you can do anything you want.

[bornagainpenguin]

it's linux, you can do anything you want.

Perhaps all things are possible, but not all things are easy to make possible. Hence why I am asking if there is an easy way to reconfigure the default desktop so it moire resembles the Gnome desktop, much like Xubuntu comes defaulted to the same layout seen in Ubuntu.

--bornagainpenguin

[23meg]

Moved to Desktop Environments.

[kerry_s]

Perhaps all things are possible, but not all things are easy to make possible. Hence why I am asking if there is an easy way to reconfigure the default desktop so it moire resembles the Gnome desktop, much like Xubuntu comes defaulted to the same layout seen in Ubuntu.

--bornagainpenguin

i doubt there is a easy way, you have to do the work to customize it to you. i just downloaded lubuntu, so give me about 5 minutes to boot it up & look around.

[kerry_s]

dude, it's so easy, took me less then a minute to get 2 panels, remove & add stuff. are you lazy?

oops, forgot to remove top taskbar, fixed.
duh, on that spacer just check stretch. lol

[kerry_s]

lubuntu is still a little buggy, somethings just don't work at all & pcmanfm2 has crashed on me several times.

i got most of the gnome look done, i had to create a launcher for the trash, to use on the panel.

anyways had enough, i'll wait till release. back to gnome.

[bornagainpenguin]

dude, it's so easy, took me less then a minute to get 2 panels, remove & add stuff. are you lazy?

Lazy? :roll: No...

Frustrated? ](*,) Yes!

I spent quite a bit playing with the alpha 3 I downloaded and hadn't had much success; of course, now that I've seen someone else has managed to do it I'll keep hacking away at it. I was hoping for something easier (a script perhaps), but knowing that I wasn't just wasting my time gives me what I need to keep at it.

Thanks for your time.

--bornagainpenguin

PS: Could mods give a PM next time they move stuff? I had to backspace some twenty times to find this thread again.

[kerry_s]

Lazy? :roll: No...

Frustrated? ](*,) Yes!

I spent quite a bit playing with the alpha 3 I downloaded and hadn't had much success; of course, now that I've seen someone else has managed to do it I'll keep hacking away at it. I was hoping for something easier (a script perhaps), but knowing that I wasn't just wasting my time gives me what I need to keep at it.

Thanks for your time.

--bornagainpenguin

PS: Could mods give a PM next time they move stuff? I had to backspace some twenty times to find this thread again.

yeah, everything's in the right menu of the panel, you just basically remove stuff & add it back on the other panel. it would be nice to have it drag & drop like gnome, but it's not that much harder. i'm downloading the gnome alpha version to try, i might try lxde on that to see how it is without the lubuntu tweaks.

[overdrank]

Moved to Desktop Environments.



--bornagainpenguin

PS: Could mods give a PM next time they move stuff? I had to backspace some twenty times to find this thread again.

Hi and 23meg did post on moving the thread. :) You may always use the search, find all your threads.

[bornagainpenguin]

i'm downloading the gnome alpha version to try, i might try lxde on that to see how it is without the lubuntu tweaks.

Please keep me posted on what you find!


Hi and 23meg did post on moving the thread. :) You may always use the search, find all your threads.

That doesn't help me much if I can't find the original thread to see that 23meg posted he was moving it, does it? Searching would have been the next step but I was getting a bit freaked out when I hit the Forums and couldn't find the post.

--bornagainpenguin

[kerry_s]

Please keep me posted on what you find!


i tried the gnome & just didn't like it at all. i ended up just installing lubuntu instead, i been slowly cleaning it up adding/removing, trying to get everything right. i moved the panel to the top & have launchers on a hiding panel.

let me know if you need help, since i'm using it, should be easy.

mine looks like this.