My transition to Ubuntu 8.04 (Conclusion)
I must say that my recent system upgrade from Ubuntu/Xunbuntu 7.10 to 8.04 went with astonishing little fuss. As I described earlier, I had the usual problems with my broadcom WLAN driver and some trouble getting Compiz to work on my outdated graphics card, but all together the transition was easy and smooth.
And I like a lot of the changes: Continue reading "My transition to Ubuntu 8.04 (Conclusion)" My transition to Ubuntu 8.04 (Compiz)
After having solved the WLAN problem, I am now trying to get Ubuntu 8.04 (or hardy heron) to deliver what version 7.10 did on my T40.
Getting Compiz to workI loved Compiz. Using xfce for speed, it worked very nice and fast and some functions make work a little easier (not wobbly windows but the zoom feature and some other plugins are great).Now, what happened? My T40 laptop has an ATI Mobility 7500 graphics card and that is blacklisted for Compiz in 8.04. It wasn't in 7.10. After an hour of surfing the ubuntuforums, I found a solution from a user named Rocket2DMn. I tried it and without a hitch, compiz works on my machine. UPDATE: The Ubuntu developer RAOF explained how to solve the problem in a more secure way: Continue reading "My transition to Ubuntu 8.04 (Compiz)" My transition to Ubuntu 8.04 (Broadcom/WLAN)
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu distro to 8.04 and lost my wireless. Broadcom wireless card drivers are not installed automatically, I think, because of copyright stuff. I'm glad I found a blog entry at davidwatson.org which tells exactly what to do:
Continue reading "My transition to Ubuntu 8.04 (Broadcom/WLAN)" Xfce on a cube
I tried out gnome on my T40 laptop, but after being used to the quick xfce4 desktop environment, it's reactions on events and input felt too slow and so I switched back.
 But I missed compiz! Damn, it's addicting!I tried to run it after starting a standard xfce session and it worked perfectly. Based on that, this is how I made xfce/Compiz/Emerald my default setup: Continue reading "Xfce on a cube" tpb can look good
I love tpb!
It's a linux program to manage the Thinkpad's buttons. Agreed, in default configuration it is an ugly blotch on your screen, but with a bit of tuning, it can look quite nice and nearly sexy. Let's work on that: Continue reading "tpb can look good" Thinkpad buttons and gnome DO mix!
With me switching from xfce to gnome desktop, synaptic automatically removed tpb, a program that manages the special buttons of my T40 Thinkpad. The reason I could find on ubuntu forums was a comment, it would interfere with the internal hotkey management of gnome. Distrustful as I am, I chose to verify that issue...
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