How to convert OLPC into OLPSS

One Laptop per Senior Student

This is how you do it: Install XFCE desktop on OLPC XO:

To install XFCE on OLPC XO, need an active internet connection on your XO running sugar. Go to terminal and download the XFCE4 packages. Follow the instruction at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xfce . It will download and install on your XO machine. After installing the entire package you just need to change default desktop from Sugar to XFCE.

This is how you do this: In /home/olpc/ create a copy of .xsession-example called .xsession:

1. cp /home/olpc/.xsession-example /home/olpc/.xsession

Edit the .xsession file to launch Xfce on startup:

1. nano /home/olpc/.xsession

Find the commented line that reads #exec xterm - below that line, add the following code. exec startxfce4.

use CTRL+X to save and exit. use CTRL+ALT+Erase to restart XO, starting XFCE.

Now you are in XFCE desktop and you can modify it according to your requirements. Go to Command Prompt and login as root by typing su -. Follow the instruction to install open office & Skype on your new XO desktop. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OpenOffice http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype After Skype installation, don’t forget to change audio settings otherwise your sound will not work. Go to options and then sound, chose “CS5535 Audio (hw: Audio, 0)” for In, Out and ringing. Now you are all set to run Skype.