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moving_from_ubuntu_to_xubuntu [04.03.2012 23:01] – Pascal Suter | moving_from_ubuntu_to_xubuntu [07.09.2012 11:53] (current) – Pascal Suter | ||
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but luckily there is Xubuntu which is based on xfce which is a nice clean and fast desktop environment that looks almost the same as good old gnome 1. So if you have a computer to work with and not to show off, i think this is the first choice in desktop environment right now. | but luckily there is Xubuntu which is based on xfce which is a nice clean and fast desktop environment that looks almost the same as good old gnome 1. So if you have a computer to work with and not to show off, i think this is the first choice in desktop environment right now. | ||
- | changing from one to the other is pretty simple in ubuntu. you simply | + | at first i simply |
- | Annoyingly | + | what followes now are some applications i had to install to get comfortable with xubuntu |
- | I switched to xubuntu on all my computers | + | ===== Office suite ===== |
+ | * abiword/ | ||
+ | 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 | ||
===== Thunar -> Nautilus ===== | ===== Thunar -> Nautilus ===== | ||
- | while thunar does the job it is still a bit hard to get used to it as a former nautilus user.. so i prefer | + | well i gave up on that one.. it just messed up my whole desktop.. the filemenager obviously does far too much to simply replace |
+ | ==== 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 < | ||
+ | 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 | ||
- | - install nautilus (in case it isn't there already) < | + | ===== Image Viewer |
- | - replace < | + | * ristretto |
- | * ''/ | + | the standard image viewer of xubuntu is missing |
- | * ''/ | + | |
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- | ==== Automount of USB Disks not working | + | |
- | this only happened on one pc where i moved from ubuntu to xubuntu and kept using gdm: when plugged-in a usb stick it did not mount and when i clicked it to mount it in the gui it showed | + | |
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- | Unfortunately i did too many things at once to explicitly tell you what fixed it in the end but here are the two things i did: | + | |
- | - installed '' | + | |
- | - edited ''/ | + | |
+ | ===== 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/ | ||
+ | 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 |