On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 13:07 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: > On 07/06/12 17:54, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 17:55 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: > > [...] > >> Summary: > >> a fresh install of 12.04 was worth the hassle. I like it. > > How is Compiz fairing on 12.04? > > > > Sadly on Fedora17 - what I'm using now - it has been orphaned. > > > > But I see it included in precise:universe:updates > > > > http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/precise/universe/updates/compiz > > > > and there is some activity on launchpad.net > > > > https://launchpad.net/compiz > > > > Did you try it? How buggy is it? > > > > Adrian > After the upgrade to 11.10 (from 11.04 to 11.10) the skype icon in the > top panel was near useless. It did not display a > red circle to indicate I had missed an incoming call. which meant I had > to periodically check the skype window for activity. > The box was then upgraded to 12.04 - and I was hoping that skype would > "come right". It didn't. After the fresh install of > 12.04, the skype status icon in the top bar behaves correctly. > > After the upgrade to 12.04, where the box went from 11.10 to 12.04, the > window experience was horrible. The vertical > bar on the left did not display correctly - it would sometimes "hide > itself", but leave a solid thick white bar behind. The > white bar was the same width as before the hide event. The area where > the bar on the left was - could not be used. > This pushed me over the edge, and I did the fresh install. Post fresh > install, I have seen nothing untoward. All window > behaviour appears normal... > > I note from wikipedia that compiz fusion is the default in Ubuntu, and > I did stick with the default - much easier that > way - so yes - I am using compiz. > > I hope this answers your question.. > > Cheers, > Derek. >
Yesterday I made the switch to Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm not looking back, thanks Derek. To add to your comments, compared to Anaconda the installation process is messy. Unlike with Fedora, my 570GTX Nvidia was not seen by the nouveau driver from the installation CD, and Ubuntu 12.04 (unlike Fedora) doesn't have a "Basic Graphic Mode" to perform the installation with. You have to press the F6 key in the first splash screen and select "nomodeset" to be able to do so - this as per instructions from Steve when I bought this machine. Later I used the guidelines from this link: http://www.noobslab.com/2011/09/nvidia-drivers-for-ubuntu-1110-oneiric.html to install the Nvidia drivers. It just works. The graphic part was not the most annoying. What was most annoying was that (unlike with Fedora) to encrypt the entire disk during installation you have to use the alternate installation disk. But even then, if you use the "Guided - use entire disk" option to create the partitions and then encrypt them, the installation stops dead with an error saying that an error occurred and the installation cannot proceed further. The reason is that there is no /boot partition created. So you have to create all partitions by hand and then encrypt them, save the /boot one. And after the installation is finished, the boot sequence is messy too, with requests for passphrases within the text gibberish scrolling on the screen. However, after all these hurdles are overcome, the end result has a nice polished look. Unity is something worth looking at, and the cube in Compiz is working, together with all other effects, no hitch. The themes do look better - you can see when a menu is open and where a window frame finish and another one begins - and don't crash. And both pulse and alsa sounds work as they should right "out of the box", including for skype. Unlike on Fedora. There is a small matter of some warnings and errors at boot time, but that's a subject for another thread. Cheers, Adrian _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
