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Ah, thanks for the heads up.
I haven't tried Cinnamon yet. I'm waiting for them to fix things and re-implement how the Mint Menu used to be. If this 'bounce' you speak of is anything like E17's, yeah, I get what you mean. Sometimes I think these devs go a bit overboard with their effects, just to show they can. Wobbly windows? Really?
It's kind of too bad that Ubuntu and Mint are getting all experimental on us. I'm not normally a fan of OpenSUSE, but it's almost to the point where that's going to need to be the go-to newb distro.
Incidentally, you'll also find important Openbox files in ~/.config/openbox. If they're missing, look in /etc/xdg/openbox and copy menu.xml, autostart (it used to be called autostart.sh) and rc.xml to ~/.config/openbox. Assuming there isn't already stuff in there, I mean.
menu.xml is the right-click menu (you can manually add stuff with a text editor if you want, just observe the syntax, you'll figure it out), autostart autostarts stuff, and rc.xml is... well, I just use it for keyboard shortcuts. I don't know what else it does, but it looks like it's got other stuff in there.
If you use autostart, make sure to include an & at the end of all the commands so they don't lock shit up. Here's mine, for example:
KWin (KDE's compositing backend) may drop support for AMD Catalyst drivers. Looks like I picked a good time to switch to NVidia.
Future Flash in Linux goes (effectively) Chrome-only. Meh.
Ubuntu (actual, real Ubuntu) on smart phones. This is pretty neat in theory.
I hope this Flash shit dies suddenly. Like, PAFF and it goes away.
Just fucking open source the thing and you'll keep it from relevant on all platforms for years to come.
First impressions are, the full Gnome Shell is buggy as hell, but Gnome Classic works just fine.
I'm really not a fan of this tendency to put ridiculous dependencies in for basic functions though - the Gnome "Aero snap" like functionality really shouldn't depend on pulling in a UI which needs a whole OpenGL stack to work. It's just not that complicated.
EDIT: Next up, setting up a ZFS on Linux root filesystem so I can have easy Linux containers.
Pretty sure you have to tell GRUB to write the config to the MBR, it's not automatic. The call escapes me, but it's something like grubconfig, or configgrub, or something along those lines.
Gnome Shell largely works just fine on my wimpy ATi Radeon HD card in Ubuntu. The screensaver has a glitch on multiple monitors where it would paint black over the password box, but that was about it.
Are you sure it's not your drivers? I initially had a lot of issues with the expose feature and switching desktops until I installed an XOrg driver update or two.
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Thanks. That should hopefully work then. I'm going to be doing some crazy chain loading and Windows 8 bootloader seems to be particularly stubborn, so I'm betting it wouldn't be able to tolerate Windows not being the active drive.
1: Wasteland 2 has a kickstarter page, if you didn't know: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
Anyone who donates $15+ gets a DRM-free copy of the game. If they make it to $1.5 million, they'll also do Mac and Linux versions, and so far they're at $1.3 million. So uh, you know... go donate.
2: New Humble Indie Bundle is out: http://www.humbledundle.com
Same deal as always. Check out the link to see the games.
That's not fixed yet. You still have to download/compile from ATI to get it working, and I didn't have any success with that either. This was with a Radeon HD5450 card. On my other box with an nVidia GPU it was smoove sailing.
So I cut that shit out and put Xubuntu on it. I'm quite liking it so far, actually. I don't intend to use this box for much than experimenting with a new OS, but I do like the Xubuntu interface. Simple, fast, basic. I'm hunting around for fun programs that I can mess with to help get my GNU-Linux skills in order.
If you're up for it I also recommend Lubuntu.
I always hoped that Lubuntu is a Lu Bu branded ubuntu flavor.
Are newer of the kernel getting better about power management?
There was a fix a few months back that fixed a serious power usage regression (in sandy bridge chipsets I think?). It was fixed in the 3.3 kernel maybe?
I'm not sure what version of the kernel mint 12 uses.
I feel like a happy little clam with my Box of Powerful Hardware and a lightweight yet versatile OS. I kinda feel guilty, because we're not going to be able to come close to maxing out the power that box has (and it's not even a top-of-the-line box).
I accidentally installed linux-image-3.3.0-2.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64. Can someone explain what "dmz" means in this context? Should I just go with the vanilla one?
Any ideas how I can fix things like logrotate and /var/log/ being completely missing?
Selling my 16GB Wifi iPad 1. UK people only, £150. PM me.
This change would make sense if there are hundreds of complex entries. But most users have 3 OSes at most on a actual machine.
I need to run a redis server locally
so I put ubuntu on my old laptop
runs like a champ
except I am paranoid about leaving my laptop plugged in 24/7
Uh...wipe everything?
If you've been compromised that badly, then you have no way of ensuring the box is safe. Strict procedure is a bare-metal restore from a fresh BIOS. That's probably going too far, but the easiest thing to do is going to be to backup the configuration files you customized, data, and then wipe the machine and reinstall.
Otherwise you're going to be fixing little broken things for a while, and you'll never know if it's secure.
What was the entry point, incidentally?
Going to do a wipe and restore to 12.04 LTS this weekend. Balls.
Selling my 16GB Wifi iPad 1. UK people only, £150. PM me.
Yikes.
On another topic:
Does anyone know why pppd seems to be utterly useless at running the ip-up.d scripts?
I'm using my Ubuntu Linux box as a firewall/router, but I just cannot get DynDNS to reliably update. My ISP renumbers my address on a 12 - 24 hour cycle, but pppd doesn't seem to fire the ddclient script in the directory.
If I login manually and run it from the command line it works fine, but it never seems to fire when the IP address actually changes.
Am I missing something? Does something different happen if my IP address changes as opposed to I get disconnected/reconnected.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&num=1
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/1241241/phoronix-confirms-gnulinux-steam-and-source-engine-clients (slashdot story)
This time he took a trip to Valve's offices, they're primarily testing L4D2 as the first port, and then there is stuff like this job position which lists one of the responsibilities of "Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform." And they are supposed to be hiring for that stuff.