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I dislike Unity intensely and jumped ship pdq from Ubuntu to Xubuntu - and I haven't looked back.

Xfce does everything I need of it, and I have it installed on a MythTV front/backend, desktop,...

Agreed. It seems to me that Canonical have completely lost the plot with Unity.

An operating system should provide:
(a) an abstraction layer from the hardware to software that wishes to...

@chili555

Just a quickie to confirm things - I'd been mucking about so I did a complete reinstall and then, right after the mandatory reboot, did these:


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get...

Hi Chili, thank you but no, no to your 'The fun begins'. That started yonks ago!

Usually if it's not broken then you haven't tweaked enough ... but in this instance it's a brand new install.....

Just installed 12.04 and no wifi.

Settings => Settings Manager => Additional Drivers =>

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Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver
Tested by...

Gigolo works brilliantly (as long as you sudo apt-get gvfs-backends to get it to work) but I've run into a problem.

The Gigolo network tab shows all my local PCs and their samba shares, and it...

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I'm on Xubuntu 11.10 Oneiric and playing with a nice little pink 'n' fluffy headless (as in the only physical connection is for power) Zotac Zbox ID41 which will end up replacing my big...

I did and it did :oops:

Now I think I know why I should set up the partitions manually rather than let the Ubuntu installer just bung in root and swap...

I had this problem of losing ethernet a year or so back. Here's what I wrote up for myself - hope it helps!

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Ubuntu Lucid...

@LewisTM: Thanks! Shift-delete does what I want, so I've marked the thread as solved.

@gsmanners: Also thanks!
I've been mucking about with my /etc/fstab - specifically this line:
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In my flight to sanity from Unity to Xfce (Xubuntu 11.10) I've hit a little hiccup.

When I try to delete a file on a network shared directory using Thunar this message pops up in a window ......

Gigolo is slightly borked in that it needs a bit of fuse that isn't installed automatically.

Try this:
sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends

Then Gigolo can be used as described above.

You need to use Gigolo which, on a standard installation, doesn't work. Read on.

Gigolo is part of the standard installation.
Application Menu => System => Gigolo

Just check Gigolo is borked....

I've still got a PC on 10.04 running MythTv, but the LTS runs out next April, when I guess 12.04 LTS will kick in.
By then Gnome 2 may well have gone. There again it may well have not gone....

I'm not going to knock Unity - there are plenty of people who like it. Presumably.

Anyway, I've gone to Xubuntu, and I'm trying to make things in Xfce work as in Gnome 2.

Here's a screenshot of...

The reason I like 11.10 Unity is because it gave me the encouragement I needed to move to Xfce ;)

Thanks for that - it made me feel better! I'm pleased it worked for you.

K

Thanks very much - that's sorted it!

After you've installed it you just need to log out and back in, and Gigolo works.

Cheers, K

I wasn't trying to rub it in, I was just trying to clarify the exact steps I took.

I'm having real difficulty in getting Gigolo to browse my network in Xubuntu 11.10, although it works just fine if I boot into Ubuntu 11.10

I've attached two screenshots that show the problem...
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I've been installing the prerelease versions of 11.10 for the last few weeks, and I've had problems with the STA driver.

I've had occasional success by removing it, but the only guaranteed way for...

I've had this.

Disconnect from the net when you install Ubuntu 11.10
Don't install any extras or proprietary drivers when you install Ubuntu

If you've activated the Broadcom STA additional...

Fair comment - apols, I sounded picky.

Thanks very much! I hadn't appreciated that Compiz needed to be installed.

Why on earth wasn't ccsm included in 11.10??????

Anyway, it also sorts out the answer to my Q about Workspaces - it's:...

The questions are in the post title, and I'd appreciate a little help!

Q1: How do you decrease the size of the icons in the Launcher (the vertical bar on the left of the desktop)?
(and, while...