On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote:
I installed Ubuntu 11.10. It comes with Unity. After some exposure to
Unity (see wireless comments below) I decided that Unity
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:06:50 -0700
Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com dijo:
Another annoyance is that I cannot stop from dragging my fingers
across the touchpad and loosing my work in various mysterious ways. I
found out how to shut it off while typing, which helps a lot. I would
like
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
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
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
... the battery state is not available, the power controls are absent,
Install the plugins. They're available at the xfce site (and, perhaps, via
Settings on the panel.)
My first question is would starting over with a clean install of Xubuntu
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.comwrote:
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
