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moving_from_ubuntu_to_xubuntu [07.05.2012 18:39] – Pascal Suter | moving_from_ubuntu_to_xubuntu [07.09.2012 11:53] (current) – Pascal Suter | ||
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===== Office suite ===== | ===== 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 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 " | 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 " | ||
===== 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 < | ||
+ | ln -s .gvfs/ Shares</ | ||
+ | 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.. | ||
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+ | ===== 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.. | ||
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+ | ===== 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 |