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Just found this thread, and thought I'd update it with the latest solution.

There's already a fancy colored prompt in your ~/.bashrc, at least as of 12.10, and I think 12.04. Look for this (for...

I have the same issue. I'm about to rebuild the machine on 11.10, but I'm hoping to find a solution before it comes to that.

I was having a similar problem upgrading from Oneiric. Running ppa-purge on all PPAs, and then removing them one by one with software-sources fixed it.

I'm pretty sure I have the exact same issue. I'm going to poke around tonight and see what I can see. I thought maybe its settings had gotten screwed up over the course of many upgrades. :)

Thanks for this -- really seems to have helped my performance on my old Mac G4 tower!

I am also seeing this problem.

Thanks for the tip, although my issue was unrelated! Every time I install a GTK app not from the repos, the font hinting doesn't match the rest of my desktop, but using:



<match target="font"...

Hey, all --

I'm considering an Intel GMA x4500 for my next mythfrontend, which looks nice to me because of quality, open drivers, low cost and low power consumption, but I can't find much info out...

If you think the only reason Linux isn't taking off is inertia, you've got blinders on. It's not taking off because it's not good enough to take off yet. Let me define the word "good" as I use it...

I love Free software, and the philosophy that goes with it.

But I have to remind myself that the FSF's free-software ideals are geared towards people who are competent coders. To most, the...