Step-by-Step Guide to Bodhi Linux 4
By Roger Carter
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Based on the popular Ubuntu operating system, Bodhi Linux 4 incorporates the Moksha desktop, a customized version of the elegant Enlightenment E17 desktop manager. This guide explains in easy steps how to install, customize, and use Bodhi Linux 4 on your computer. Bodhi Linux can transform your computing experience, and this book will show you how.
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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Step-by-Step Guide to Bodhi Linux 4 - Roger Carter
Step-by-Step Guide to Bodhi Linux 4
By Roger Carter
Copyright 2016 Roger Carter
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Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 About Bodhi Linux
1.2 Which Bodhi version should you choose
1.3 Installing Bodhi Linux
2 First steps with Bodhi
2.1 The Bodhi menu system
2.2 Run Everything
2.3 Connect to your router
2.4 Update your system
2.5 The Bodhi AppCenter
2.6 Moksha desktop themes
2.7 Fonts
2.8 Introducing PCManFM
2.9 Single-click or double-click?
2.10 Hidden files
2.11 Terminology
3 Turbocharge your desktop
3.1 Shelves and gadgets
3.2 Change the contents of the shelf and iBar
3.3 Change the shelf and iBar settings
3.4 More gadgets
3.5 A second shelf with a launch tracker
3.6 The Tasks gadget (Taskbar)
3.7 The Engage dock
3.8 The Settings Panel
3.9 Key bindings
3.10 Edge bindings
3.11 Borderless windows
3.12 The default key bindings
4 Beef up your system
4.1 Download options
4.2 A Web browser: Firefox
4.3 An email client: Thunderbird
4.4 An Office suite: WPS
4.5 Printer support
4.6 Media players
4.7 Osmoma Audio Recorder
4.8 Photo and Drawing applications
4.9 Imagination
4.10 Get-iPlayer
4.11 Dropbox
4.12 Other apps
5 More power to your desktop
5.1 The Favorites menu
5.2 Application launchers
5.3 Startup applications and startup commands
5.4 Virtual desktops
5.5 Different shelves for different desktops
5.6 Desktop themes
5.7 Combining elements from different themes
5.8 Application themes and icons
5.9 Wallpapers
5.10 Colours
5.11 Yet more dialog boxes
5.12 Profiles§
5.13 Start again: the Default profile
6 Tune up and backup your system
6.1 Becoming superuser
6.2 Clean your system: BleachBit
6.3 Backup your system: Bodhibuilder
6.4 Unetbootin
6.5 Running Bodhi from a USB drive
6.6 Using Terminology to get things done
6.7 Conclusion
This book follows the same plan as my original Step-by-Step Guide to Bodhi Linux 2, 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 over 10,000 downloads to date (December 2016). This edition is a complete rewrite for Bodhi Linux version 4.0, this time produced in less of a rush!
Like Bodhi itself, this ebook is given away free of charge. If you find the book helpful, and if you like and continue to use Bodhi Linux, I would urge you to support Bodhi financially to help cover its ongoing development and maintenance costs: visit the Bodhi Linux website at http://www.bodhilinux.com/ and click on the Support tab.
I should emphasize that this is not an official Bodhi Linux publication, and 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 Bodhi Linux
Bodhi (rhymes with Jodie) is built on top of the latest Ubuntu version of the Linux operating system (Ubuntu 16.04), providing it with a particularly elegant desktop or user interface called Moksha. Besides its desktop, Bodhi also adds to the Ubuntu software repositories its own repositories, which host custom bodhi-related packages as well as specific applications requested by Bodhi users.
Why run Bodhi rather than standard Ubuntu - which is, after all, the most popular Linux distribution? The great thing about Bodhi is that it is fast, it will run on almost any computer, even old ones that you can pick up for almost nothing, and it is exceptionally good-looking. It is also highly customizable, probably more so than any other distribution. (A major criticism of the latest versions of Enlightenment - E18 to E20 - is that they are not so capable in this regard as E17.) The problem with being so customizable is that you face a bit of a learning curve to get to grips with what’s on offer, but hopefully this book will smooth the way.
And I should add that, in contrast to Windows, everything you’ll likely need is free, and you don’t need anti-virus software!
Note: I will not provide a glossary of terms used in this book. If you want to find out the meaning of words you don’t understand, such as ‘software repository’, look them up on the Internet, if necessary including linux or ubuntu in your search phrase.
1.2 Which Bodhi version should you choose?
You will be downloading and installing Bodhi Linux in Section 1.3 below. If you go to the Bodhi download page (at http://www.bodhilinux.com/download/) you will see that there are versions for 64-bit, 32-bit, and legacy (i.e. Non-PAE) computers. 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 version of Bodhi Linux will run on all machines, the 32-bit version will run on all PAE machines, and 64-bit version will only run on newer machines. If your computer has 4 or more Gbytes of RAM (memory), then it is definitely worth installing the 64-bit version, and if it is a newer machine with UEFI firmware (i.e. built for Windows 8 or Windows 10) then it requires 64-bit Bodhi. (It implies on the Bodhi website that WPS Office is not well-supported on 64-bit systems, but I am writing this using WPS Writer running on 64-bit Bodhi, and I haven’t noticed an problems.)
The 32-bit and 64-bit versions come in two flavours, Standard and AppPack, the difference being that the later includes in the download a number of applications, including Synaptic, LibreOffice, VLC, OpenShot Video Editor, and a number of others. Some of these you will definitely want, such as Synaptic and VLC, but others you won’t want. Personally, I prefer to download the Standard versions then download just the packages I want from Bodhi’s AppCenter (e.g. WPS Office rather than LibreOffice), but the choice is yours. Note that the Standard version ISO will fit onto a recordable CD, whereas the AppPack version ISO must be written to a DVD or USB stick.
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 command grep flags /proc/cpuinfo. The output will be a number of flags (groups of characters), which give information about the cpu (central processing unit). If one of those flags is lm (meaning ‘long mode’), then your computer is 64-bit. If one of the flags is pae (meaning ‘physical address extension’), then it is not a legacy machine. So if the output for your computer has the pae flag but not the lm flag, it is a 32-bit machine.
1.3 Installing Bodhi Linux
What you download is an ISO file (i.e. an optical disk image), which can be written to either a recordable CD (or DVD) or to a USB flash drive, and which you can then use to install Bodhi on your computer. The official recommendation is that you use a USB drive, and the instructions for doing this