On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 20:14:20 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>A recent post alerted me to the existence of Lubuntu, of which I was >heretofore unaware. I just spent a couple hours taking Lubuntu for a spin via the live CD. My computer is far from the target for Lubuntu - it has 4 GB of RAM and a 320 GB hard disk. Still, I wanted to check it out. The good news is that it does seem to be more responsive than Gnome. (I have always preferred Gnome.) The bad news is that there seems to be a problem with daughter windows in some applications. An application pops up a daughter window, but the window manager fails to give it a title bar or any way to move it, minimize it, or close it. I was using whatever window manager comes on the live CD; I did not try installing any alternative window managers. While it was running I installed OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, Scribus 1.3.7, and Inkscape, the Gimp, Firefox, and a few other apps, all from the repos. All seemed more responsive, in spite of the fact that I was running from the live CD. I tried to copy application configuration files from ~/ on my hard disk to see if my custom settings for the above applications would still work, but the file manager faced me with a very confusing scene. It listed "210 GB partition," which must have been my hard disk. The weird part is that my hard disk is 320 GB, and all of it is one partition. Gparted shows it as 288 GB. And when I looked in "210 GB partition" I found a strange assortment of folders that I had never heard of before, yet the folders that were supposed to be there (filesystem folders) were missing. I tried going back to /media, which showed the partition, but when I looked in the partition I saw the same thing. From the command line I also got the same thing. It's as though the live CD mounted the hard drive, and then hid most of the contents, and made up new things. Other than the fact that the file manager can't figure out the size of a partition and lies about what is in it, it appeared to have all the functionality I get from Nautilus. My computer currently runs Fedora 11, x86_64 / Gnome, but I have Xfce installed as insurance. I see that LXDE is in the Fedora 11 repos. Perhaps I should install it and then take it for a run with all my installed apps. Who knows, LXDE may convert a long-time Gnome user. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
