On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700 > Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo: > >>> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted >>> XFCE? Your still going to have tidbits that Unity needs if you throw >>> XFCE on top while if you use Xubuntu your getting a pure XFCE >>> experience. > >>Ignorance, basically, although the "amd" makes me wonder if it is >>suitable for an Intel machine. Thanks for the suggestion. > > Ignorance and miscommunication. Denis said "Ubuntu" and I didn't > realize until after he installed it that he intended to run Xfce. > > Because his netbook has no optical drive we had to make a bootable USB > drive. My computer has Fedora 16 which comes with a utility to make a > bootable USB, but it won't work with anything but Fedora images. > However, I had previously installed UNetbootin on the recommendation > that it could make a bootable USB drive out of any distro image. At the > Clinic Sunday was the first time I ever tried to use it. I am happy to > report that it made Denis' USB drive bootable with 12.10, exactly as > advertised. > > So Denis, if you want to start over with Xubuntu, install UNetbootin, > download Xubuntu, and repeat what we did at the Clinic. No guarantees > that it will solve the other issues you have, however, but at least it > will not have any unnecessary parts of other desktop environments in > it.
Thanks, John. I have little hope that a fresh install of Xubuntu will solve the function key problems, but it is certainly worth a try. If it does not, I will be looking at another choice. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
