kokoshmusun wrote:Hello. I'd like to use KXstudio in LXDE. Is it possible to do this without installing any branding packages (Oxygen cursor, etc) and KDE parts (Phonon, etc)?
I only want the jack infrastructure thing and all the nice packages. I'm not interested in changing the way my desktop looks or pulling in any unneeded KDE/GNOME/Unity/Xfce stuff.
Revisiting this in the days of 12.04
Working with
Ubuntu Studio 12.04, so the desktop (for now
) is XFCE.
It might not make a lot of difference whether we use command-line or gui installers, but this is what I did:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kxstudio-team/kxstudio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kxstudio-repos
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
At this point, I wanted to be careful about what I was asking for (in case I got it) and used Synaptic to check out the dependencies and the stuff that would get pulled in as well, before clicking on the green arrow. I
unchecked 'Consider recommended packages as dependencies'. The Synaptic approach also enabled me to take a good look around as to the contents of each KXStudio PPA.
I installed:
kxstudio-desktop-xfce, kxstudio-meta-audio, kxstudio-restricted-extras*.
Unlike my earlier virtual-machine experiment of a week or so ago, everything went smoothly, with no cannot-installs, dependency problems or broken packages.
I figure this gives me all that I really need, and time for a reboot to see if it works.
In
welcome to KXStudio, I did a
force reset and unselected
Update theme
First login, I get a message that cadence crashed. Maybe because Jack has not been configured (not a graceful exit, though!) and I took one minute to configure the firewire driver, and another to log out and login again.
Cadence says that all is well, Audacious is playing
Calamity Jane (which is, by one of those silly personal traditions, the first thing I try on every new audio setup.
) so all
is well
Hats off to falkTX. Again,
Firewire-made-easy=KXStudio
The next bit is not going to be so easy: making the environment suit my eyes and fingers, looking and feeling like my 10.04/11.04 Gnome2/Compiz desktop. But at least
Ubuntu Studio + KXStudio gives us 12.04 without any of the more outlandish Ubuntu User interface designs.
(Sorry about the prejudices, but hey, I'm not telling anybody else how they should decorate
their houses
)
*hope I didn't forget anything there. I wrongly relied on Synaptic's history to tell me what I'd done, but it works at package level. Thing is, looking through the dpendencies etc, it is fairly easy to see what one wants/needs.
Synaptic is quite a good tool for this. Ubuntu Software Centre is OK if you want a shopping mall
.
)