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Configuration Guide
Brightness control not working for you?
- First open up a terminal and type..
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/brightness-level
- Select All and replace with the following
#!/bin/sh activeOutput=$(xrandr | grep -e " connected [^(]" | sed -e "s/\([A-Z0-9]\+\) connected.*/\1/") alpha=`zenity --scale --text "Brightness" --min-value=10 --max-value=100 --value=50` alpha=`echo $alpha / 100 | bc -l` `xrandr --output $activeOutput --brightness $alpha`
Save and exit.
Terminal Weather
open a terminal and enter
gksu pluma /usr/share/applications/weather.desktop
change
wttr.in
to something appropriate based on the manual
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
save changes, panel icon may not take affect until restart or readd.
Lock Screen edit time. You can also lock screen by placing cursor in top right corner.
open a terminal and enter
gksu pluma /usr/local/bin/locker
change the 15 after -time to whatever you want
save changes and restart.
Power Management
Customizing an LXDE desktop interface.
Setting the clock
- Go to http:www.foragoodstrftime.com/
- Pick your layout
- Right click the time in the panel (task bar)
- Click Digital Clock Settings
- Enter code from webpage in Clock Format box
- Click Close
How to stop processes from starting at startup.
- Go to menu > Preferences > Desktop Session Settings or Default applications for LXSession
- Uncheck which ever one you don't want to run at startup.
- Click OK
- If you want to renable just repeat but check instead of uncheck.