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That has indeed been my own experience.
Sadly, Unity config seems set in cement, at least at the moment.
I do like choice and variety in desktops, the *boxen, KDE3, Gnome2, XFCE, LXDE,...
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That has indeed been my own experience.
Sadly, Unity config seems set in cement, at least at the moment.
I do like choice and variety in desktops, the *boxen, KDE3, Gnome2, XFCE, LXDE,...
Really hate?
That's a bit harsh.
I do get pi**ed off when things don't work right (or not the way I expect) - Unity is (unfortunately) a good example of that for our family.<sigh>
I might...
Hi Mikodo - sorry for delay...
But 5 weeks later the most recent Xubuntu Precise is still looking good!
Hope yours is working well.
Found the above (by Vaidotas) on the Bodhi Linux forums - there's some more discussion on it there - this worked for me!
hth, Ben
Xubuntu Precise Alpha 2 looking good
We love the LTS releases, but always check out the 6-monthlies so as to be aware of the latest stuff - and out of sheer curiosity.
With the next LTS - 12.04 Precise Pangolin - due in a month or...
That's pretty scary... Let us know how it pans out, please.
Have not had great success with upgrading *buntus cleanly over the years since Breezy - it's a big ask, imho. Usually just back up the...
The Puppy Linux 'Wary' variant would be my recommendation for older hardware. Currently at V5.2.2, released a few weeks ago.
You can pick which browser you use, too. Info here
Did it all come good in the end?
....or is your system borked? Do hope not...
Been offline a bit, or I'd have come back earlier.
Suspect it depends on what/how the XFCE wallpaper config came about.
I have no experience of mixing XFCE with Gnome3 so cannot elaborate.
Hope someone comes up with a more helpful reply!
How did you get on, James?
Hope all went well.
We've been traveling for a bit, and then I succumbed to the Dreaded Lurgi!
Up and about again now, thought I'd check back..... Ben
Well done!
I'd have replied much earlier, but I've been traveling and have just recovered from a 10-day-long bout of the Dreaded Lurgi.
Better now! :)
...and the necro-ghoul exhumes the thread to say hi! Been traveling, been poorly. ( Don't ask! ;) )
Hope to see those of you who can make it - PM me if you want to make contact before...
I seem to have struck lucky with the fix in This Link...:)
Well, I managed a full game of Freecell in AIsleriot without problems, so it has certainly helped....;)
Apologies for the multiple...
....and I just found this page with lots of twisty little links, all different.... ;)
This is an old problem, sadly still with us.
Still not sure why/what/how it happens, but this ancient Itronix GoBook 250 (P3-700, 256 RAM) with Synaptics touchpad (id: 0x8f40b1) still shows it...
Xubuntu has had its own modest compositor for a while now (much less demanding than Compiz).
It adds transparency to menus, window decorations and foreground/background windows according to your...
There's a post on the forum that seems that it might be relevant here.
Could you spell out what your hardware & network setup is, please?
Presumably we are dealing with a Canon MG5200?
Yes, Avi Miller on BTRFS does look interesting - but as always there's a clash with something else I'd like to see - the OGPC idea is pretty much what I like to do.
Always the way with these...
Excellent!
Hope to see you there - do you have any specific interests this year?
Ben
Conky works well for us in Xubuntu Lucid. We're half-a-planet away from that machine or I'd offer the .conkyrc file to get you started.
Xubuntu's low-resource composting means that you can have...
Hello n2000 - I'm not an expert but have managed to set up a couple of HP printers in Ubuntu 10.04 and earlier versions without problems.
BTW, did you mean Ubuntu 11.10 for Notebook B?
One...
Welcome to Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 ! ;)
This happens to us on a couple of our machines. Better than Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 which crashed/locked up/would not boot on 6 of 6 machines at...
May I suggest trying Lucid Lynx - 10.04 LTS? The Long Term Support is very stable and (IMO) better for
day-to-day use than the latest releases.
It has a standard Gnome 2 installation that just...
About a year back I re-tasked an Acer Revo desktop and needed to switch from the Ubuntu Netbook version of Lucid (10.04) to XFCE4.
iirc, we just grabbed the XFCE4 meta-package in Synaptic, and...
Hello Danny - been having a look at our small Acer laptop using acpi & sensors - the Celeron 540 cruises along happily for hours at the temperatures you are seeing. Not entirely certain that it is a...