Hi all!
Ubuntu's latest long-term-support release, 12.04, is only in beta
1, but it seems to be very polished already. I tried the previous
alpha, and had install problems. I'll probably even use it for a
production box, unless I find any problems.
As many others have said, the
I've been a long time desktop Linux user but the recent Gnome3 and Unity has
soured my hopes of the future.
I still run Fedora 16 on of my work PCs but I switched it to Gnome 3 fallback
mode (kind of like Gnome 2 but crappy).
The argument with Linux is 'just install x desktop' but the problem
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
Julian Yap julian_...@yahoo.com wrote:
I've been a long time desktop Linux user but the recent Gnome3 and Unity has
soured my hopes of the future.
I encountered my Linux desktop crisis with the transition to KDE4. Running
Debian Lenny helped put it off
Hi Guys!
Getting back the gnome-2-ish look for Ubuntu 12.04 is really easy:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
My laptop and desktop run Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) and Gnome 2
allows me to be very productive. However, I wanted to see if another
box, that will primarily be
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:45:43 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Getting back the gnome-2-ish look for Ubuntu 12.04 is really easy:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
I have one computer running Ubuntu with XFCE (from a PPA) installed. I use it a
lot. It was a netbook from
Interesting comments.
I noticed an irritating anomaly in XFCE behavior under Ubuntu
10.04. I was unable to copy something from the desktop and then paste
it into a sub folder using Thunar, the default file manager. When I
opened the desktop in Thunar and copied from there, the
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:56:33 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Interesting comments.
I noticed an irritating anomaly in XFCE behavior under Ubuntu
10.04. I was unable to copy something from the desktop and then paste
it into a sub folder using Thunar, the default file
Excellent suggestion! I'll try the updated PPA later.
Aloha,
-Jeff
On 03/20/2012 10:36 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
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Thunar got better in version 4.8, but I still don't use it. I use PCmanFM.
With both XFCE 4.6 and 4.8 I could not duplicate the problem. I created a
folder in Thunar off
