Lubuntu Screencast: Encrypt files

In this Screencast I show you how to create a password protected zip file and how to encrypt/decrypt files & folders with gpg. 

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Tags: 
encryption
password protection

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Submitted by Matthew Tompsett on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 20:43
Thanks for the great screencasts they are very useful. I installed lubuntu-desktop out of interest on my ubuntu-desktop netbook. I like it a lot, it's much more lightweight than the full blown gnome desktop, without taking away any of the core features. I loved how PCManFM had my sftp bookmarks from Nautilus to connect to the university server and they worked perfectly and loaded much faster. So I decided to uninstall the ubuntu-desktop stuff completely, following the tutorial here http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde . But after doing that when I open PCManFM and click on the bookmark for the sftp location, it says "Error: The specified location is not supported" . What did I remove to stop it working? Those bookmarks are very important for my University work, if I can't get them to work I may have to go back to the classic desktop :( Any ideas? Cheers, Matt

Submitted by Matthew Tompsett on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 01:39
I figured it out, need to install gvfs-backends. I recommend that is added by default, only a few extra megabytes but very useful!

Submitted by Kevin George on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 20:37
Thanks very much for these informative screencasts. Could you talk a little about how to configure a touchpad in Lubuntu?

Submitted by Leszek Lesner on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 12:28

I will try to do one screencast on this. Currently it does not work under virtualbox so I need a installed or live system to create the screencast. 

Submitted by Matthew Tompsett on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 00:57
You can use the "synclient" command line utility to configure your touchpad. Open the command line and type: synclient -l What appears will be a list of properties for our touchpad and the current values set to the properties. You can then change a property by typing: synclient property=value changing "property" for the exact name of the property you want to change, which youve deduced from the previous step, and changing "value" to the value you want to set that property to. For example,for my touchpad I wanted to enable two finger horizontal scrolling. When I typed the first command one of the properties listed was "HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0" . So I typed: synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll= 1 And then voila, horizontal two finger scrolling was enabled. Note that you will have to run the command everytime you restart the computer unless you follow the instructions here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ#How I can autostart a program when logging in to Desktop to auto start a program on login. Hope this helps! Matt PS. Lubuntu guys you should add a gui app to make this easier!

Submitted by Kayes on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 08:08
Hi, RENAME: How can I rename a file on desktop? When I try to rename it comes up with the rename dialog box... but changing the name on the dialog box does not change the file name. MOVE: When an icon is moved by dragging they go back to the old position. Thank you

Submitted by Leszek Lesner on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 12:19

If you try to rename .desktop files you need to open them up with leafpad and change NAME=Foobar to your liking.
Moving Icons works from PCManFM version 0.9.8 on I guess. This will ship with the next Lubuntu release 11.04. 

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