Merry Christmas! Today I received an addition to my geek arsenal: an Asus Eee PC.
The Eee’s default interface: Easy Mode.
They really are telling the truth in their slogan; it is indeed “Easy to Learn, Work, and Play.” But if you’re like me and require that default-looking desktop environment to satisfy your needs, probably want to activate the Eee’s Full Mode.
The interface that we’ll be activating, Full Mode.
So! Let’s get started with this. We need to get two packages to make Eee able to run this Full Mode.
Open a terminal (press Control+Alt+T) and type this command:
sudo apt-get update
All we’re doing here is updating our repository so that your Eee knows the latest available versions of the packages that we will be downloading right now:
sudo apt-get install ksmserver kicker
Now, reboot your Eee. Don’t be surprised if you don’t see the Full Mode on your next login, because we still need to tell our Eee that we want to use Full Mode.
Our new option in the Shutdown menu for activating Full Mode.
Click on the power button in the lower right corner on your Eee, or press that shiny power button in front of your keyboard. There should now be an option for Full Mode. Click it, and within a minute your Full Mode will be loaded.
Booting Directly Into Full Mode
There is a fairly easy way to have your Eee PC boot directly into Full Mode so you don’t have to switch to the new mode from Easy Mode.
Open a terminal, and type these commands sequentially:
$ cd ~/
$ nano .xinitrc
Type this content into the .xinitrc file:
#Needed to get automount working
xhost + si:localuser:root
sudo rm /tmp/nologin
#Needed to get the network working
sudo /opt/xandros/bin/start_netserv &
startkde
Save the file (Ctrl+O) and exit (Ctrl+X). Reboot, and you should be given Full Mode immediately.
Enjoy your new Full-Mode-enabled Eee PC!
Very good site with a lot of useful
information
works fine till the $ cd ~/ part where i get “command not found”
bes just type at the prompt:
cd ~/
not literally “$ cd ~/”
it didnt work for me after I enter “sudo apt-get install ksmserver kicker”
I get this message:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Package ksmserver is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ksmserver has no installation candidate
I have the same problem :
it didnt work after I enter “sudo apt-get install ksmserver kicker”
I get this message:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Package ksmserver is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ksmserver has no installation candidate
What should I do?
ditto: no installation candidate. I’m on a 901, so I’m guessing things have changed.
I have the same problem… Package ksmserver is not available
that shit wont work!!!!:
$ cd ~/
$ nano .xinitrc
Type this content into the .xinitrc file:
#Needed to get automount working
xhost + si:localuser:root
sudo rm /tmp/nologin
#Needed to get the network working
sudo /opt/xandros/bin/start_netserv &
startkde
now my system wont start!!
shit..
tadpchlidocaxbonwell, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch