I have never had reliably good luck installing XFCE LXDE or KDE on top of the basic Gnome or Unity Ubuntu. Going all the way back to at least Ubuntu 9.04 KDE in particular seems to corrupt something in Gnome fonts while its own fonts are clearly screwed up versus a Kubuntu Mint or Mepis KDE install. Try Xubuntu or Lubuntu. My favorite would be Lubuntu, specifying the LXDE shell versus the other choices at login.
On 03/26/2012 05:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I installed Ubuntu 11.10. It comes with Unity. After some exposure to > Unity (see wireless comments below) I decided that Unity with its huge > icons and slow behavior does not suit a minimalist machine. I should try > Xfce. So I downloaded the meta-package xfce4. I really like it--fast and > does not fill up my small screen with stuff, but some of the function keys > do not do what is intended, the battery state is not available, the power > controls are absent, it does not suspend on closing the lid, and I suspect > there are other things I would find troubling if I continued. > > My first question is would starting over with a clean install of Xubuntu > 11.10 behave any better? Is it possible that there is an interaction > between the gnome/unity stuff on the thing causing a problem? I have done > some googling on xfce-ubuntu but have not found this problem exactly. I > see in the package manager that xfce4 is listed as "Canonical does not > supply updates for xfce4" yet xubuntu comes from Canonical and xubuntu uses > xfce! This is confusing. > > With Unity, after some considerable effort following the wireless trouble > shooter I got the wireless to work. I am not sure what fixed it since the > trouble shooting send me on a long path through various checks (lshw, > lsmod, iwconfig). But it worked after rebooting. The issue was that it > seemed to be using a driver (Ralink) for a 2800 card; it has a 3090 card. > My hesitation with starting over with Xubuntu is having to go through all > the wireless hassles again. > > Advice welcomed. > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
