Labtix comes with a number of useful tools preinstalled:
(partly smaller deviations between the Labtix versions possible)
| Application | Description |
|---|---|
| Arandr | A tool for configuring the screen layout. Very useful when your device has the internal monitor removed and an external display is connected. |
| Audacious | CD/DVD drive functionality test |
| Avahi network scanner | scans the network (please connect first) and shows e.g. the path to a server or similar. |
| Backlight Brightness | Sometimes the screen is too dark and cannot be made brighter with the keyboard (function keys). Then you can change the brightness with Backlight Brightness. Works most of the time, but not always. |
| battery-plugin | in the panel gives you information about the status of the battery when you mouse over it. The plug-in can be activated with a right mouse click and "Battery Monitor Settings", if not already done. |
| Conky | A tool for displaying system information on the desktop. The output window is in the upper right corner. The configuration file is in Labtix 1: /etc/conky/conky.conf, in Labtix 2: ~/conky.rc. In Labtix 2 with even more information, such as battery status, etc. |
| Firefox esr | is the "enterprise version" of Firefox, which is not updated as often. For example, Firefox can be used during installation to research the web. It can also display pdf files. By default it doesn't collect cookies and doesn't store data to avoid bloating Labtix with unnecessary data in persistence mode. |
| Gparted | a great tool for disk partitioning, file system repair and partition copying. |
| Gsmartcontrol / DiskCheck |
a tool to read the S.M.A.R.T data from a hard drive to see if the hard drive is healthy. If yours is "red" in the registers, you should use a different hard drive. Tip: If a Seagate disk shows thousands of reallocation reallocation events in the Attributes tab, the drive is not damaged. These hard drives have different firmware specifically for Lenovo computers that uses the memory bit for reallocation events for other purposes. |
| hard info | gives you extensive information about the hardware and software of the computer. |
| ISO Snapshot | a tool to create an ISO snapshot of the system. All changes to the system are saved in the snapshot. While running ISO snapshot, mark the directories NOT to be added to the snapshot, except for the "Desktop" directory which contains the .desktop files. You should move existing snapshots to a directory that you do not want to include in the snapshot. The snapshot is saved in /home/snapshot. If the snapshot is created on a non-persistent system (e.g. boots from CD-ROM), it should be saved on another device. If there is not enough disk space to save the snapshot, the save path can be e.g. to another USB stick. The snapshot can be installed to a USB stick using UNetbootin or burned to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM using the IG Burn Tool plugin in SpaceFM. |
| Keyboard layout handler | With the Keyboard Layout Handler on the right side of the panel you can change the keyboard layout with a left mouse click. To make a permanent change, right click and use the "Keyboard Layout Handler Settings". The top keyboard layout in the list is preassigned at startup. With a left mouse click you can go through the pre-installed keyboard layouts (German, US English, French, Spanish). |
| Live USB Maker (Labtix 2) | to copy Labtix to other USB sticks. |
| Magnify | Magnifier on/off |
| Onboard | show/hide monitor keyboard. |
| SimpleScreenRecorder (Labtix 2 only) |
Tool to record videos of the session, e.g. for training purposes. |
| Psensor | A tool to control the temperatures of CPU, GPU and others. |
| SpaceFM (Labtix 1) / zzzFM (Labtix 2) |
is a file manager for the usual file actions and for integrating external devices. It has plugins to e.g. mount shares and burn CDs or DVDs. SpaceFM/zzzFM is highly configurable and can be modified with additional plugins. The trash can is disabled to prevent accumulation of too much data in persistence mode. If required, the trash can can be added as a plugin. It should not be removed as it is part of the desktop environment! |
| Speaker Test | Speaker test right / left. |
| UNetbootin (Labtix 1) | a tool to create bootable USB sticks. Start Unetbootin, enable "Diskimage", select the ISO snapshot (should be in /home/snapshot) and select the target USB drive. The USB stick should be formatted with fat32 and it should be mounted (use SpaceFM for this). After installation on a thumbdrive, Gparted should be used to check if the boot flag is set correctly! |
| wipefs | Fast deletion of the file system (but does not replace overwriting with random numbers). |
| Xfburn | to burn Labtix from CDs/DVDs. |
For more information, please use the man pages of the help function in the terminal (e.g. "man gparted" or
type "psensor --help" there and press (enter)) or use the Internet.
Desktop Settings:
The Labtix desktop environment is based on openbox with the additional lxpanel. If you right-click on the desktop, you can select "Desktop Settings" to make changes to the desktop. To install new program launchers on the desktop, copy them from /usr/share/applications to the desktop. To move icons on the desktop, use "Shift + Drag". Please note that in some cases SpaceFM moves the items out of the folder. If so, please copy it back.