Jaunty + LXDE on Android

Today I continued my hacking with Ubuntu chrooted on Android. I followed this guide based on Debian and I installed LXDE over the Ubuntu Minimal installation I prepared yesterday. All it’s pretty easy to do:

• edit ./startubuntu script and add “export USER=root”.
• Start ubuntu system with ./startubuntu script
• Add universe and multiverse repositories to /etc/apt/source.list (if you downloaded my image you have just main)
• apt-get install tightvncserver
• apt-get install lxde

both packages brings a lot of dependencies that are not really used in this specific case, but I hadn’t time for polishment. My image now, after a package’s cache cleaning, it’s 414MByte.

Now you can start vncserver to have a new display (called :1)

• vncserver -geometry 480×320

it will create .vnc directory under /root. It also will ask you a password (insert it twice) and for the viewing password answer NO.

NowIt’s time to stop it for few more configuration

• vncserver -kill :1

and move to the config files

• cd /root/.vnc
• vi xstartup

commenting everythings and insert 2 lines:

• icewm &
• lxsession

that’s all folks. Now start again vncserver and pressing “home key” come back to Android desktop leaving terminal emulator open in background. Using androidVNC application (it’s on the market) connect to localhost:5901 with the previous selected password. That’s what you will get

Few last improvement, I made 2 alias in /root/.bashrc

• alias vncstart=’vncserver -geometry 480×320′
• alias vncstop=’vncserver -kill :1′

And i changed the wallpaper with the Jaunty default

That’s all for today, i need to sleep 😉

Bye!