for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

[Mark Wieder]

Peter-

> To install new software, you would normally use Synaptic - Elive is 
> standard
> Debian.   Its in the control panel (the one part of Elive that I find
> aesthetically really jarring).

Thanks. I've found it now. That was certainly non-intuitive. Beats me why 
anyone would bury a package installer that far down in the availability 
pool - that's normally the thing I would use more often than anything except 
the terminal window. Let's see now...

right-click on the background to bring up the contextual menu
navigate down the menus through Utils | Elive Control Panel
Hover over the three huge icons until you find the one where the scrolling 
text underneath says "Admin and System Configurations" (and look quickly 
before it disappears)
Click on that icon (the keychain)
Stare at the available icons until you can read the small print that says 
"Synaptic" (or hover and catch the scrolling text that says "Packages 
Manager" before it scrolls off the screen)
Click on it to launch, enter the admin password, etc - all is good from here 
on out.

I tried to drag the icon out of the control panel to place a link somewhere 
more obvious (dock, desktop), but no go.

If you really want to try stretching the boundaries of what a desktop 
environment can be like, check out BumpTop:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/131

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net