Peppermint Update-with LXDE
This just to tell you few things one can do having installed Peppermint IV.
As one would realized Peppermint is Cloud Enhanced Light Weight desktop environment and it does not have many utilities.
I added another light weight word processor, Abiword, Xounal, SciTE (Text Editor which allows scientific functions), Brasero (burner utility), Gparted and was not happy with the Peppermint maroon coloured desktop (I like the LXDE, the desktop Knoppix uses) and wanted another desktop.
Yes Peppermint lets you choose LXDE and installed it.
Now I have three light weight desktops.
Peppermint, LXDE and Openbox (Debian) desktops to choose.
LXDE (is a desktop Environment which uses Openbox window manager) uses Openbox and has added blue instead of gray (Openbox desktop) background which is visually pleasing.
One does not need to install Openbox if LXDE is selected.
I love these light weight desktops which boots up quickly if one needs to open the email and browse the news and quickly exit.
These desktops are going to be vital for mobile phones and since FireFox is selling mobile phones with a light weight browser (no application as at present), I downloaded and installed Heavy Weight Browser, FireFox, too.
I still have not found a way to write my Updated Peppermint System to a iso in a DVD.
I wish, they have a utility to do that (not a script) in a graphic mode, like UnetBootIn.
I am still wondering what KDE distribution I am going to use for my workloads.
I have temporarily suspended using PCLinux.
I am going to try Korora 19, since it is Fedora based and supports Sinhala Unicode (which PCLinux cannot) and report to you soon.
I got everything right except getting it to type in Sinhala on LibreOffice.
It was installed all in Sinhala instructions and the LibreOffice work front has all Sinhala words for English (si package was installed) but refuse to use Sinhala fonts.
Why I do not know.
Many years ago Fedora let one use Sinhala fonts in OpenOffice but LibreOffice (coming from France) has to fix the last bit of obstacle in using Sinhala in an US keyboard.
I got all the Sinhala fonts but still I cannot type in a US Keyboard.
Linux guys (developers) wake up there is a little handicap in the libraries that integrate with Unicode and fonts.
