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Remember, besides the desktop, most systems are shared with Ubuntu and Xubuntu.

Configuration

Workarounds and Guides

The old pages are at Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides and Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Workarounds

Packages

Removing a Program asks to remove lubuntu-desktop. "I want to remove package xyz, and it wants to remove lubuntu-desktop" Yes, you can remove it. Please read this.

Fonts

Change Font Size in Interface

To change the font that window text appears in, you will have to look in different places for different windows.

  1. Use the LXDE preference menu to Open "Openbox Configuration Manager" in 12.04 and later, click "Appearance" tab.
  2. Right click on the bottom panel and select "Panel Settings" to change the panel font size
  3. Use the LXDE preferences menu to open "Customize Look and Feel". Click the Widget tab.

  4. Change the taskbar font size here.

Install and view fonts in Lubuntu

Here are the instructions for installing a font for all users:
On this page it instructs you to press alt-f2 and type
gksu nautilus /usr/share/fonts/truetype
For Lubuntu, you should press alt-f2 and type
gksu pcmanfm /usr/share/fonts/truetype

The window that opens, is a place for you to place your font files into. You will need to unpackage them to place each .ttf or .otf file in here.
(Optional) afterwards, do this command:
sudo fc-cache -f -v

Alternatively, you can install a tool to install or view fonts in Lubuntu, install this package:
gnome-font-viewer

Boot, Install, Login, Logoff

Here is HowToParition your PC.
How to Burn an downloaded ISO of Lubuntu.
How to install and run Lubuntu off a USB flash drive.
Edit "Launcher" menu and More topics here.

Add LXDE to Ubuntu

Installed Ubuntu and want to add LXDE and all Lubuntu packages?

Can't login, or need a new way to logout? look here.
Problems booting or installing?

Find Version of Lubuntu

Need Lubuntu Version number? Open "System Profiler and Benchmark" under the "System Tools" submenu. Click "Operating System" and even though it gives the version number for Ubuntu, this is your version number.

Windows, Desktop, Taskbar, LXDE

Use the Print Screen (PrtScn) button on your keyboard to save a screenshot of your current desktop to your home folder. Alt-PrtScn takes a snapshot of the active window.
Read Lubuntu/Windows for how to change the bottom panel, start menu and etc. To configure the bottommost desktop window, see Lubuntu/PCManFM

Files

Where is your HomeFolder?
Explore folders, find files.

Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad

See Keyboard, and Mouse

Time and Language

How to change the taskbar clock format: Lubuntu/Documentation/CustomizingTheClock

Add keyboard layouts, Localized language interface, and Date and Currency formats: Lubuntu/Documentation/LanguageSupport

Networking

Info about Lubuntu Networking

Configure your automatic network connection by going to the "Preferences" Menu and opening "Network Connections" or by right clicking nm-applet's 'Edit connections'. See Network Manager and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager0.7/

Sharing files? See Lubuntu/Setup#Share_Files_and_Folders
Need an VNC server? See Lubuntu/3rdParty

Sound

Sound should work in Lubuntu automatically. Although not included in Lubuntu, Pulseaudio can be installed if you need it.
Unless you have Pulseaudio, you will have to select audio devices with asound, and control volume with the "Volume Control" panel applet or the alsamixer command from the command line.
Read about alsamixer here or here. People with no sound should look here. Most Lubuntu sound troubleshooting is done in the command line.
There is no "Sound Preferences" in Lubuntu, but there is in Ubuntu.
Looking for a sound recorder application to test your microphone? Install this package:
gnome-media
However, by default it installs Pulseaudio, unless you tell it to install the package without the recommended packages.
If you would like to change the default sound card: look here.

Playing Audio CDs

Insert the audio CD. It should mount automatically. At this point you can play the CD by opening with PCManFM and opening audio tracks with Mplayer, or you can open audacious and choose "Play CD" from the Audacious menu.

Checking Pulseaudio

You may find packages with 'pulse' in their name on your system. to check if pulseaudio is currently running do:

pgrep -l pulseaudio

which will list a process named 'pulseaudio' if it is running, or not list it, if it is not.

If you would like install the pulseaudio layer onto Lubuntu, please see Pulseaudio Pulseaudio can help if you're having difficulty configuring USB headphones, Skype, or need to increase volume past 100%

Video and Graphics

Lubuntu/Video how to play your videos. Lubuntu/Monitor_or_Screens how to fix issues with monitors and brightness.

Installed Tools

System Tools

Preferences

  • Additional Drivers Have Ubuntu look for more drivers for your hardware. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17495/how-to-add-proprietary-drivers-to-ubuntu-10.04/

  • Bluetooth Manager Connect to Bluetooth devices http://blueman-project.org/

  • Customize Look and Feel Default font, icon theme, window and mouse pointer appearance

  • Desktop Session Settings Select programs and services automatically run at startup.

  • Desktop Preferences This is identical to right-clicking on the desktop and selecting preferences. This is Lubuntu/PCManFM desktop preferences.

  • Disk Utility or Disks Disk Utility Format and mount Disks

  • Input Method Switcher Input Method Switcher Select input method of asian characters

  • Keyboard and Mouse Mouse acceleration, Key repeat rate

  • Keyboard Input Methods IBus Input asian characters.

  • Language Support Language Support Add new languages to Lubuntu user interface, switch them, change number formatting.

  • Lxkeymap: LXKeymap Change keyboard layout from American to French, etc.

  • Monitor Settings LXRandR Change screen resolution

  • Network Connections: Same as right clicking nm-applet's 'Edit connections' Network Manager https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager0.7/

  • Openbox Configuration Manager obconf Window style, Window title fonts, Window Animiations, Double-clicking title bar

  • Power Manager: Xfce power manager Suspend PC when inactive, Lock screen when inactive, laptop screen brightness, power button

  • Preferred Applications: Set default web browser and mail client.

  • Screensaver: XScreenSaver Configure screen saver

  • Software Sources: Software Sources Manage sources of software packages, or your system's repositories.

Applications

Graphics

Sound & Video

Internet

Office

Accessories

  • Terminal: LXTerminal The command line interface.

  • Archives: Archive Manager Opens, extracts, unzips, Zip and Tar files. Does not include unrar package.

  • Character Map View glyphs of installed fonts, and pick characters.

  • Disks: Disk Utility Format and mount Disks

  • File Browser: File Manager (PCManFM) Browse directories and files.

  • Calculator: Galculator

  • Notepad: Leafpad Text editor.

  • Notes: xpad Simple note taking.

  • Image Viewer GPicView Display picture files.

  • File Search Catfish Search your computer for file, search contents of files.

Games

Topics

Fixing Your Third Party App

Some tweaks for 3rd-party applications here.

Coming from Windows

What is eating half my RAM? is a common question.

Running Windows Programs

Lubuntu can run some Microsoft Windows® programs with Wine. I suggest rebooting after installing this package: playonlinux
For help running programs in Wine, go here.

Defragment

Defragmenting Not in Lubuntu.

Antivirus

Do you need anti-virus scanning software in Lubuntu?

Firewall

Lubuntu isn't running any network services by default (very secure, no?) but here is a firewall you can install onto Lubuntu if you need it.

Clean System

You can remove installed software by Opening Synaptic Package Manager and clicking on the "Status" button on the bottom-left.

Maintenence

Get Updated Software

Lubuntu/Documentation/KeepLubuntuUptoDate

Check Hardware

Smartmontools#Testing_a_Drive and http://systester.sourceforge.net/ to test your CPU. Booting into GRUB or the LiveCD, there is a RAM tester.

Lost Password

When you installed Lubuntu, you should have given it a supervisor password for the default user. here is how to reover the password if you have forgotten it.

Share Files and Folders

Would you like to share files on your network? Lubuntu's Lubuntu/PCManFM can easily connect to your Microsoft Windows® file shares. If you need to share files from Lubuntu, you should install and configure Samba or NFS from the command line.
Let me say it again, if you want to share your Lubuntu files with Win7, please follow the SambaServerGuide

Customizing

Edit the Menu

Lubuntu/Documentation/EditingTheMenu

Change Look and Appearance

Lubuntu/Theming