PSUbuntu Fluxbox
Due to the low amount of available RAM on Linux PS3 systems, you should consider using a more lightweight window manager than the default Gnome or KDE environment. A good alternative is Fluxbox. This page shows you how to set up and configure Fluxbox on a normal PSUbuntu installation.
It assumes you have followed most of the steps from the
PSUbuntu Setup page.
Installing Fluxbox
Start up a terminal and enter the command
sudo apt-get install fluxbox
Running Fluxbox
To start Fluxbox, log out of Ubuntu (or hit Ctrl + Alt + Backspace) and click Options in the lower left corner of the logon screen. From the menu, choose "Select Session" and click on Fluxbox. You will be asked whether you'll want Fluxbox to be the default choice from now. You might not be ready for this yet..
For some reason, no application menu options appear when you right click the desktop. You will need to manually fix this from your normal Ubuntu desktop first.
Configuring Fluxbox
Everything in Fluxbox is controlled from text files residing in your /home/username/.fluxbox folder. You can find this folder from the Ubuntu file manager (Nautilus) by hitting Crtl + L and entering "/home
/username/.fluxbox" (replace username with your user name). Right click the menu file, and open it with Text Editor.
It will look like this:
[begin] (fluxbox)
[include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)
[end]
Replace it with the following example:
[begin] (psubuntu)
[exec] (Terminal) {xterm}
[exec] (Firefox) {/usr/bin/firefox-3.0}
[exec] (Opera) {/usr/bin/opera}
[exec] (Audacious) {/usr/bin/audacious}
[exec] (Text Editor) {/usr/bin/mousepad}
[include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)
[end]
You can add whatever application you'd like to the list. Just make sure you have installed them first.
If you don't know the path of a certain application, enter
which appname in a terminal.
Log out of Gnome and into Fluxbox again, and try right clicking your desktop. You should now see a menu with applications from the text file.
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