And here I think the Unity interface sucks, and much prefer XFCE. You might check out LXDE, it's light but a bit more polished than XFCE.
Frank wrote: > I've been using ubuntustudio for some time with Rosegarden and not > had to do anything much more than configure Jack. Mind you, the stuff I > do is pretty light weight. > > I've also just downloaded and installed the latest 11.10 and man am I > getting frustrated. Although Rosgarden and all the soft synths seem to > work fine so far, however, the default XFCE interface sucks. Have been > playing around with Unity and trying to configure it to my liking and > that is the primary source of my frustration. Unity is not very > configurable but it does have potential. I liked the way compiz and > desktop cube worked in terms of task and desktop switching on earlier > versions but I've had no success with that on versions 11.04 and 11.10. > All this messing around, adding and removing desktop packages has > resulted in a useless system so I'm re-installing from ground up with > the hope that what I learned the first time around will get me to a > better place. > > Frank > > > > On 11-10-16 12:18 PM, Ian Gardner wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Just upgraded my kubuntu to the latest release, and to my astonishment >> the ubuntu vanilla kernel seems capable of doing a reasonable job >> rosegarden+jack+qsynth type audio. This is with jack in RT mode with >> the default fairly conservative settings. I'm not trying to do >> almost-zero latency audio work here, just trying to play a non-trivial >> midi file (carnival of the animals as it happens), and it sounds ... >> well, fine really. >> >> This is the first time I've experienced anything other than >> practically useless rg/qsynth performance on a vanilla kernel (ubuntu >> version). First time I've not had to immediately try to compile my own >> low latency/high resolution/pre-emptive kernel after an upgrade just >> to use Rosegarden to play a midi file. I'm actually quite happy about >> this :-) >> >> I don't follow kernel development that closely - have things been done >> in kernel v3 to improve latency/resolution/preemption of the vanilla >> version does anyone know? I guess to do proper pro audio work you >> still need to roll your own rt or low latency kernel, but it would be >> nice if the bog standard kernel just played nicely with rosegarden out >> of the box, for the casual user. >> >> Of course there are plenty of reasons never to put yourself through >> the potential hell of a distribution upgrade with (k)ubuntu, but for >> once, for me at least, kernel-midi-rubbishness doesn't seem to be one >> of them. >> >> Unless I'm alone in my experience with previous vanilla kernels and >> rosegarden, and you've all been happily using vanilla kernels and >> rosegarden together for years, in which case ignore me and carry on as >> you were :-) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ian. -- David [email protected] authenticity, honesty, community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
