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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

  • 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
  • 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.
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