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    Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners
    Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners
    Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners
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    Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners

    By Roger Carter

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    Based on the popular Ubuntu operating system, Bodhi Linux 3 incorporates the latest version of the elegant Enlightenment desktop manager. This guide explains in easy steps how to install Bodhi Linux on your computer, how to customize and use it, and how to install a range of recommended applications. Bodhi Linux can transform your computing experience, and this book will show you how.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoger Carter
    Release dateFeb 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311920027
    Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners
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    Roger Carter

    Roger Carter has had a varied career, including working as a studio manager at the BBC, working for the British Overseas Civil Service in the Solomon Islands, and running his own business. From 1975 to 2000 he was a lecturer at what is now the Buckinghamshire New University, and during this time he wrote 20 student textbooks, including Quantitative Methods for Business Students, and Business Administration for the Computer Age (both published by Heinemann) as well as books on information technology and computer software (various publishers).He is now retired and lives with his wife Sandra in Buckinghamshire, England. They have two children and five grandchildren.In 2018 he helped set up the Bourne End & District U3A and became its first Chair, and in 2021 was appointed its Honorary President..

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      Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners - Roger Carter

      Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners

      By Roger Carter

      Copyright 2015 Roger Carter

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      1 Introduction

      1.1 About this book

      1.2 What is Bodhi Linux?

      1.3 Which Bodhi download should you choose?

      1.4 Installing Bodhi Linux

      2 First steps with Bodhi

      2.1 The Bodhi menu system

      2.2 Connect to your router

      2.3 Update your system

      2.4 Some initial tweaks

      2.5 The AppCenter

      2.6 Firefox

      2.7 An email client

      2.8 Install PCManFM

      2.9 PCManFM’s features

      2.10 Single-click or double-click?

      2.11 Using PCManFM

      2.12 Hidden files

      2.13 Setting default applications

      2.14 The Enlightenment File Manager (EFM)

      2.15 Terminology

      2.16 Switching between the E17 and E19 desktops

      3 Turbocharge your desktop

      3.1 Shelves, launchers, and trackers

      3.2 A first look at shelves and iBars

      3.3 Change the shelf and iBar settings

      3.4 Tracking launches (E19 only)

      3.5 More gadgets

      3.6 A second shelf with a launch trackers

      3.7 The launch menu (E19)

      3.8 Alt+Tab and the windows menu

      3.9 The Settings Panel

      3.10 Run Everything

      3.11 Key bindings

      3.12 Edge bindings

      3.12 Borderless windows

      4 Beef up your system

      4.1 Download options

      4.2 The Systray gadget

      4.3 Osmo personal organizer

      4.4 An Office suite

      4.5 Printer support

      4.6 Media players

      4.7 Osmoma Audio Recorder

      4.8 Photo and drawing applications

      4.9 Imagination

      4.10 Google Chrome

      4.11 Get-iPlayer

      4.12 Skype

      4.13 Dropbox

      4.14 Other applications

      5 More power to your desktop

      5.1 The Favorites menu

      5.2 Applications name display and other menu options

      5.3 Application launchers

      5.4 Personal application launchers

      5.5 Startup applications

      5.6 Virtual desktops

      5.7 The Launch Tracker iBar and virtual desktops (E19)

      5.8 Different shelves for different desktops

      5.9 The Tasks gadget

      5.10 Enlightenment themes

      5.11 GTK themes and icons

      5.12 Wallpapers

      5.13 Yet more dialog boxes

      5.14 Profiles

      5.15 Start again: the Default profile

      6 Tune up and backup your system

      6.1 Run PCManFM as Root

      6.2 Create a launcher ‘PCManFM as Root’

      6.3 Clean your system: Bleachbit

      6.4 Back up your system: Remastersys

      6.5 Unetbootin

      6.6 Running Bodhi Linux from a USB drive

      6.7 Using Terminology to get things done

      6.8 Conclusion

      Preface

      This book follows the same plan as my original Step-by-Step Guide to Bodhi Linux, which itself had grown out of tutorial notes I had prepared for a University of the Third Age (U3A) computer group here in the UK. Although that book was a rushed job with many shortcomings (I wrote over the last three weeks of 2013 and published it on New Year’s Day 2014), it has proved surprisingly popular, with almost 8,000 downloads to date (February 2015). The only serious criticism I have had was its lack of screenshots. Encouraged by this, I have completely rewritten it for Bodhi version 3, this time with screenshots and a more carefully thought-out text.

      Like Bodhi itself, this ebook is given away free of charge. Bodhi is free because all the talented people who have given of their time to build such a remarkable product are volunteers. However, it does have ongoing server and other maintenance costs, and if you find this book helpful, and if you like and continue to use Bodhi Linux, I would urge you to support Bodhi financially. Even that need cost you nothing - just set DuckDuckGo as the search engine in your web browser, then follow the instructions at http://www.bodhilinux.com/w/adding-bodhis-duckduckgo-search/. (See also Section 2.6 in this book, where I include the instructions for Firefox.)

      This is not an official Bodhi Linux publication. However, I should like to thank Doug Yanez (aka Deepspeed), one of the developers, for help with proofreading and technical editing. Any errors are entirely my own.

      Roger Carter

      1 Introduction

      In this first short chapter you’ll learn a few basic facts about Bodhi Linux, and you’ll install it on your computer.

      1.1 About this book

      It describes in easy steps how to install the Bodhi Linux operating system on your computer, how to customize it, and how to install the applications you will want to use (web browser, email client, office applications, photo software, media players, and so on).

      As its title implies, this book is aimed at those who are coming to Bodhi Linux for the first time, including people migrating to Linux from Windows. It does not assume any knowledge of Linux, though it does assume you are reasonably computer-literate. (If you struggle with computers, steer clear of Linux!)

      The Enlightenment desktop used by Bodhi Linux is a tinkerer’s paradise - it is highly customizable and can be tweaked endlessly - and no two users will end up with the same desktop profile. However, a step-by-step guide such as this is necessarily prescriptive, so that by following it you end up with a very specific profile. Don’t worry about that. The point is that having learnt how to create and save that profile, you are then in a position to set up your own profile with your own customizations and preferences, and you can do so either by playing around with what you’ve already produced or by starting afresh. Moreover, if you mess things up, you can easily restore your saved profile. And as for the various applications that you will be installing as you work through this guide, they can be easily removed and replaced with alternatives.

      Note: I will not provide a glossary of terms used in this book. If you want to find out the meaning of a word you don’t understand, such as ‘kernel’ (see below), look it up on the Internet, if necessary including linux or ubuntu in your search phrase.

      1.2 What is Bodhi Linux?

      Bodhi (rhymes with Jodie) is what’s known as a Linux distribution or ‘distro’, meaning a variant of Linux packaged with a window manager or desktop. All distros are built on the same Linux kernel, so they all share a common core. Probably the most popular distro is Ubuntu, and it is on this that Bodhi Linux is based. There are a number of different desktops (i.e. window managers with added features) that are available for Linux, and the one that Bodhi uses is the Enlightenment window manager.

      The latest release of Enlightenment is E19, and this is the default for Bodhi Linux v.3. The earlier release, installed with Bodhi v.2, was the much-loved E17. This earlier version runs faster on old (legacy) computers than does E19, and to cater for these the Bodhi developers have released a legacy version of Bodhi 3 packaged with E17 instead of E19, and running on an older (and less demanding) Linux kernel.

      This book covers E19, with a small amount of additional material inserted where necessary for E17 users.

      Enlightenment can be used as the desktop for other distros, and it has become a firm favourite for many Linux users, as it is agile, elegant, and highly customizable. But it is only Bodhi Linux that puts Enlightenment at the heart of its design philosophy. No other distro employs Enlightenment to such good effect, and the Bodhi website is unrivalled for the Enlightenment support that it offers: the wiki with its Enlightenment Guide and other articles, the Art Wiki (currently under construction), the AppCenter with its comprehensive range of software applications, and the Forum, where you can get advice from the friendly community of Bodhi users.

      Although Bodhi is based on and is very close to Ubuntu, it is not Ubuntu. In particular it adds to the Ubuntu software repositories its own repositories: these host custom bodhi-related packages as well as specific applications requested by Bodhi users.

      And I should add that, in contrast to Windows, everything you’ll be likely to need is free, and you don’t need anti-virus software!

      1.3 Which Bodhi download should you choose?

      You will be downloading and installing Bodhi Linux in Section 1.4 below. You have three download choices: one for 64-bit computers (with E19), one for 32-bit computers (with E19), and one for legacy (i.e. non-PAE) computers (with E17). As a rough guide, computers designed for Windows Vista and later are generally 64-bit, those designed for Windows XP and earlier are generally 32-bit, and pre-Windows XP computers are generally (32-bit) non-PAE, i.e. ‘legacy’. The legacy (E17) version of Bodhi Linux will run on all machines, the 32-bit (E19) version will run on all PAE machines, and 64-bit (E19) version will only run on newer machines.

      So which of these downloads should you choose? The official advice is that most people should choose the 32-bit download, even if downloading to a 64-bit computer. The 64-bit version is for people with heavy-duty demands such as running a server or running virtual machines, and the legacy version is for people with old, slow computers - E19 may not run on these, or run very slowly.

      You can even switch between E17 and E19, without needing to reinstall. The instructions for this are in Section 2.16.

      Note: If you are running Linux and you want to know whether your computer is 64-bit, 32-bit, or Legacy (i.e. non-PAE), then open a terminal and enter the Linux

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