On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Denis you could also try to change the keybindings to get them working. > > -- > *Benjamin Kerensa*
I will look again, but the last time I tried to do that I found that none of the function keys were listed, as if the function keys are handled through a different mechanism. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
