Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed

[valtam]

Our next addition to the Lite application family will be Lite Tweaks.

Install:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install lite-cleaner

Source here: https://github.com/linuxlite/litetweaks



Before we embark on this, I'd like to ask the community for the type of tasks they'd like to see in a cleaner.
For example:

• Clean out package cache
  
• Perform autoremove of packages no longer needed
  

Let the ideas flow. Remember, no idea is a bad idea

[rokytnji]

What? Like Bleachbit? Personally. I am too much of a control freak to trust a autocleaner.

Hope you don't mind what I post. If so I will modify and delete

Remove unwanted junk.

Code:

apt-get autoremove

Code:

deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove

Code:

  COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2} ' | xargs dpkg -P

[Alex]

When I was in windows (last week) I used a free program called CCleaner it seemed to do the job quite well and had/has a number of functions from cleaning to registry checking to uninstalling unwanted progs and their components. I don't know how much of that sort of thing would apply to LL. but something similar might be good.

[anon222]

There should be an option to remove old kernels.
I guess these are already in the script.

Code:

sudo apt-get autoclean

Code:

sudo apt-get clean

Code:

sudo apt-get autoremove

Maybe clearing thumbnail cache

Code:

rm -f ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal/*

Purging unused configuration files

Code:

sudo dpkg --purge $(COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep "^rc" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2)

Trash cleanup

Code:

rm -r -f ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Browser cache cleanup, would also be usefull.

[valtam]

Thanks folks, keep'm coming, some good ones there already

[anon222]

I've found this 7 year old, yet very interesting script called "Ubucleaner" License: GPL
It might help you.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

OLDCONF=$(dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}')
CURKERNEL=$(uname -r|sed 's/-*[a-z]//g'|sed 's/-386//g')
LINUXPKG="linux-(image|headers|ubuntu-modules|restricted-modules)"
METALINUXPKG="linux-(image|headers|restricted-modules)-(generic|i386|server|common|rt|xen)"
OLDKERNELS=$(dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}'|grep -E $LINUXPKG |grep -vE $METALINUXPKG|grep -v $CURKERNEL)
YELLOW="\033[1;33m"
RED="\033[0;31m"
ENDCOLOR="\033[0m"

if [ $USER != root ]; then
  echo -e $RED"Error: must be root"
  echo -e $YELLOW"Exiting..."$ENDCOLOR
  exit 0
fi

echo -e $YELLOW"Cleaning apt cache..."$ENDCOLOR
aptitude clean

echo -e $YELLOW"Removing old config files..."$ENDCOLOR
sudo aptitude purge $OLDCONF

echo -e $YELLOW"Removing old kernels..."$ENDCOLOR
sudo aptitude purge $OLDKERNELS

echo -e $YELLOW"Emptying every trashes..."$ENDCOLOR
rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null
rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null

echo -e $YELLOW"Script Finished!"$ENDCOLOR

[valtam]

So far ...

[anon222]

So far ...

I like it.
May I see the code? I have a few ideas.

[Coastie]

This will be great for those of us like me who dread the Terminal.  :-[

[Wirezfree]

This will be great for those of us like me who dread the Terminal.  :-[

Yes agreed...
I'm waiting for the next tool "Lite Optimise" 
For those little tweaks to make things run smoother & quicker 

Dave