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moving_from_ubuntu_to_xubuntu [07.05.2012 18:39] Pascal Sutermoving_from_ubuntu_to_xubuntu [07.09.2012 11:53] (current) Pascal Suter
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 ===== Office suite ===== ===== Office suite =====
 +  * abiword/gnumeric --> libreoffice
 for example open office or libre office .. abiword is fine and so is gnumeric if you just do simple spreadsheets.. but already on the first excel-sheet that i opened had some errors in the formatting of cell borders and i was instantly missing the brush tool for copying the style of one cell to another.. that might exist somewhere but it was not where i expected it to be.. so let's just go "back" to libre office :)  for example open office or libre office .. abiword is fine and so is gnumeric if you just do simple spreadsheets.. but already on the first excel-sheet that i opened had some errors in the formatting of cell borders and i was instantly missing the brush tool for copying the style of one cell to another.. that might exist somewhere but it was not where i expected it to be.. so let's just go "back" to libre office :) 
  
 ===== Thunar -> Nautilus ===== ===== Thunar -> Nautilus =====
-well i gave up on that one.. it just messed up my whole desktop.. the filemenager obviously does far too much to simply replace it.. so i decided to live with thunar which is pretty okay, i only miss the bookmark feature which is located in a separate application called gigolo and thus a little less comfortable to operate+well i gave up on that one.. it just messed up my whole desktop.. the filemenager obviously does far too much to simply replace it.. so i decided to live with thunar which is pretty okay, i only miss the bookmark feature which is located in a separate application called gigolo and thus a little less comfortable to operate
 +==== Living with Thunar ==== 
 +in order to overcome the missing bookmark feature i started to use gigolo. i select the mount at startup option on all bookmarks that i enter there and i created a symbolic link in my user home directory <code>cd 
 +ln -s .gvfs/ Shares</code> 
 +so now i can see all my bookmarks in a subfolder called Shares in my user home.. that works fine for me
  
 ===== Image Viewer ===== ===== Image Viewer =====
   * ristretto -> gpicview   * ristretto -> gpicview
 the standard image viewer of xubuntu is missing an important feature imho .. you can not double click an image in a directory and then simply hit next to see the next one.. that is annyoing.. so i removed ristretto and installed gpicview which does all that and more..  the standard image viewer of xubuntu is missing an important feature imho .. you can not double click an image in a directory and then simply hit next to see the next one.. that is annyoing.. so i removed ristretto and installed gpicview which does all that and more.. 
 +
 +===== movie player =====
 +  * parole -> totem 
 +the main problemw with parole is that it does not keep the aspect ratio when resizing the window.. parole worked so well in ubuntu that i decided to use this as my primary media player.. 
 +
 +===== Text editor: leafpad/mousepad -> gedit =====
 +choosing the right text editor seems to be a little bit of a regligious thing in linux :) i got used to gedit and therefore am not satisfied with the limited functionality that leafpad (default in xubuntu) provides.. so i [[change_default_text_editor_in_xubuntu|switched to gedit]] instead
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