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Building a highly functional desktop with lightweight software

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT
When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can imagine how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it's quite irritating. I didn't want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu because the mini PC doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of data that would have taken a long time to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience.

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exo-desktop-item-edit

EXO-DESKTOP-ITEM-EDIT(1)					   User Commands					  EXO-DESKTOP-ITEM-EDIT(1)

NAME

       exo-desktop-item-edit - Create icons on the desktop

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
	      exo-desktop-item-edit [OPTION...] [FILE|FOLDER]

   Help Options:
       -?, --help
	      Show help options

       --help-all
	      Show all help options

       --help-gtk
	      Show GTK+ Options

   Application Options:
       -c, --create-new
	      Create a new desktop file in the given directory

       -t, --type
	      Type of desktop file to create (Application or Link)

       --name Preset name when creating a desktop file

       --comment
	      Preset comment when creating a desktop file

       --command
	      Preset command when creating a launcher

       --url  Preset URL when creating a link

       --icon Preset icon when creating a desktop file

       -v, --version
	      Print version information and exit

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

AUTHOR

       Written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.

       exo-desktop-item-edit  comes  with  ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, You may redistribute copies of exo-desktop-item-edit under the terms of the GNU
       Lesser General Public License which can be found in the exo source package.

       Please report bugs to <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005-2006
	       os-cillation e.K. All rights reserved.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for exo-desktop-item-edit is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info  and  exo-desktop-item-edit  programs  are
       properly installed at your site, the command

	      info exo-desktop-item-edit

       should give you access to the complete manual.

exo-desktop-item-edit 0.3.1.10rc1				  September 2006					  EXO-DESKTOP-ITEM-EDIT(1)

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