![]() Until I tried to partition the hard drive. Maybe things will get better after it's actually installed. I played around with it, you really can't do much of anything. The first thing I noticed - the lack of any menus. The live CD boots straight to the desktop now, the same as the recent Ubuntu releases. I'll try to reserve total judgement until the final version is released, but usually an RC is pretty close to what we can expect. Both Xfce and LXDE fit very well their niche, so it’s a matter of taste after all in choosing either Lubuntu or Xubuntu if you prefer a lightweight Ubuntu desktop.I'm a little less than impressed with Mint 12 so far. ![]() To sum it up, Lubuntu is perfect for those who want a fast desktop with a classic behavior, the only major disadvantage maybe being the lack of a compositor manager, otherwise pretty rich in options. It has an interface similar to the one of Nautilus, support for tabs, editable location bar, dual pane mode, sorting by various factors, bookmarks, image thumbnail previews (can only be zoomed in by small factor).įor installing packages graphically, there is the powerful yet easy to use Synaptic Package Manager, which may be familiar to most of the users from the days before the Ubuntu Software Center: PCManFM is the default file manager in Lubuntu. Here’s how Clearlooks with Humanity icons theme looks like: You can change the theme ( widget appearance like Clearlooks or Crux), colors, icon theme, window border, mouse cursors, and fonts. The default panel also comes with a workspace switcher, while the system tray, the clock and the logout entry are location on the bottom-right side:Īdding panel applets – you can also set panel opacity here:Ĭustomizing the look and feel of Lubuntu is pretty straightforward, and the wealth of options gives you more than enough: You can access installed applications, run a program by name or configure Lubuntu from here: The classic menu style may fit just perfectly old-school users who prefer a simple menu organized in categories. For example, you could install metacity or kwin and use their compositing features by typing kwin –replace in a terminal. The window manager doesn’t have compositing support, so transparency effects are not available, but you can install and use another window manager instead. Lubuntu provides GNOME MPlayer for playing movies and other videos, which is based on the powerful MPlayer and has plenty configuration options:Īs for the terminal emulator, Lubuntu bundles two of them, namely LXTerm and LXTerminal, which are both lightweight: If you need a fast word processor which still provides decent formatting tools, it is the perfect choice: Both bundle enough features to get going, Abiword being less bloated and Gnumeric being quite powerful.Ībiword is fast on start-up and lighter than LibreOffice. The default applications include the Firefox web browser, Gnumeric spreadsheet application, Abiword rich-text processing tool, GNOME MPlayer video player, mtPaint painting program, Xfburn for burning CDs/DVDs and Audacious for playing music.įirefox 28 – other choices could have included Midori or Chromium:Īs an alternative to the more complex LibreOffice suite, Lubuntu ships with Abiword for rich-text processing and Gnumeric as a spreadsheet application. It comes with a bottom panel with several items by default: a classic menu to access your applications, a quick launch area, the taskbar, system tray, the clock and the logout entry. The main focus of Lubuntu is to remain fast and easy to use, which it accomplishes pretty well. Here is the default desktop as of April 11, 2014:Īnd below are the wallpapers which won the wallpaper contest, and which are included in Lubuntu 14.04: The new default wallpaper was chosen after the Lubuntu Wallpaper Contest finished. So, let’s take a look at what this Lubuntu release brings. This includes Lubuntu as well, which will benefit of three year-support. It has been announced earlier in Ubuntu development that except for Ubuntu itself, all the flavors based on it will be Long-Term Support releases. Well, LXDE is not exactly MATE, however to a certain degree it resembles the old GNOME 2. Lubuntu is the most lightweight distribution in the Ubuntu family (the other one being Xubuntu which uses Xfce), using LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), as well as a set of applications intended to be low on resources.Īlthough light, Lubuntu bundles all the necessary applications needed to surf the web, edit documents, listen to music and watch movies, or chat. With Ubuntu 14.04 closing in to the release date, which is set for April 17th, I took Lubuntu for a spin from the daily live ISO image. ![]()
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