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Customize Lubuntu part 1 : My personal customization for powerful, fast and comfortable OS

My hope for low spec computer

It is another hobby of mine to mess around with my OS, but in the end I got bored and want some light yet fast OS. Microsoft Windows is definitely no option and after some research it come down to Lubuntu. Here I will record of what I did for this new project. First part would be installing the Lubuntu desktop

1. This is the most important step BACKUP YOUR DATA. 
2. Clean the application. Psychocats have good command line for that here. You might also check other command or good tutorial from him. In this case if you not sure from which Ubuntu derivative you are coming, just combine all the command there. 
3. After finish you get your new OS.

But these step are only installation part. But as the title said

customization for powerful, fast and comfortable OS

Lubuntu default applications are great, but I need something more. So I have to research through a lot of package, change some setting and make some list of what I need

• Jdownloader and Autokey. Both are my important applications.
• For Autokey to autostart at the beginning, I simply change /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart (credit to this post here)
• Find the alternative for Ubuntu software source. here I use Kpackagekit. Muon could be another alternative.
• Install Kate, because I need some firepower on simple everyday text editing. Sorry Leafpad
• Ubuntu Tweak is tool that you cant miss for this session. Since I need option from this application to change the default application for specific extension.
• Install Browsers, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium. It seems overkill but it work. Put an exception to chrome, because it always need a lot of resource at the start of program. I may have to work without it. I already uninstall it and switch to chromium. Note for Opera, if it cant be installed from repository, you have to install from official website.
• I just have Deadbeef and Audacious as the default mp3 player. But Deadbeef have this last.fm plugin, so I choose this as default mp3 player.
• Same thing also happen by Gnome Mplayer to VLC. 
• This would be difficult, Pcmanfm or Nautilus. Both are simply good file manager, but I prefer Nautilus. After installing Nautilus, you cant change 100% to it but I though of another way.
• Change file manager shortcut from "pcmanfm" to "nautilus --no-desktop" 
• edit /home/user/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml by change every "pcmanfm" command to "nautilus --no-desktop"
• Download Nautilus script from g-scripts, another nautilus script site. I take this website because they have archiver-unarchiver which can replace default extract here option
• XArchive and File Rollerare not a good file archiver application, and Q7z isnt working on lubuntu. My last choice come to Peazip. It is good application when you handle with CJK filename.
• I install LxMenuEditor to arrange my menu

Miscellaneous thing that I find when writing about this post

• Calibre, a good ebook manager. If you have a lot of ebook this application will help you to sort them.
• I also install Dropbox integration to nautilus.

Things that cant be done with lubuntu

• Easystroke or mouse gesture application in general is not supported on Lubuntu. I am still researching about this one. when I found a good application, I will report here. Another alternative is installing add on for every browser.

For now I think thats all. My lubuntu is ready. If everything is worked as planned then maybe there will be no second part of this.