Made the full switch to Linux, got some questions

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I've been running Xubuntu on my laptop for a while now, and I've just put it on my desktop. However I've got some questions specific to the desktop install.

I'm used to clicking the middle mouse button on my razer mouse and dragging the page to scroll. This doesn't work by default, is there a setting for it?

How do I set up the default audio output in pulseaudio? Every time a new application outputs sound, it defaults to the hdmi output on my ati card and not my asus xonar and I have to keep changing it.

I'm an avid Adobe Lightroom user, does anyone know anything that's similar? I've tried darktable and it struggled to import my 70gb of raw photos :p Now it just wont open at all.

What music player do you use?

Thanks for any answers :)
 
It seems that that's a feature in Firefox. Have you tried Edit ➜ Preferences ➜ Advanced ➜ Check 'Use autoscrolling'?

I've not heard many promising things about pulse to be honest. Are you changing it in pavucontrol, and if so how?

The only straight up Lightroom alternative i know of is darktable, although there are a few much simpler (or less feature rich, depending on what you want from it) programs like F-Spot or Shotwell. Just a word of advice though, even with the best home computer anything is going to struggle to sort through 70GB data :p

I use Rythmbox, but there is a lot of bloat. I've heard good things about Clementine, but really you'd have to try a bunch and see what you get on with. Depending on how hacky you want to get you could try MPD with various front ends...
 
PermaBanned said:
It seems that that's a feature in Firefox. Have you tried Edit ➜ Preferences ➜ Advanced ➜ Check 'Use autoscrolling'?
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I removed Firefox and installed Chrome, don't think it's got an equivalent setting

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I've not heard many promising things about pulse to be honest. Are you changing it in pavucontrol, and if so how?
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I am. At the moment, whenever an application is making noise, I just open pulse and there's a drop down menu next to the application. I just change it from the hdmi output to Oxygen HD audio, which I realised was my Xonar.

PermaBanned said:
The only straight up Lightroom alternative i know of is darktable, although there are a few much simpler (or less feature rich, depending on what you want from it) programs like F-Spot or Shotwell. Just a word of advice though, even with the best home computer anything is going to struggle to sort through 70GB data :p
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I'll take a look at the others. I'm wondering if Lightroom woud work with Wine, I'll see how it goes :p
 
You should be able to turn off your AMD HDMI audio device from the sound control applet - that should stop that device from becoming the default device.
 
pulse is horrible. source of many problems. Someone said disabling it and just use alsa but when I tried, it caused more problems.
 
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If they're using XFCE it might be easier, since a lot of the problems seem to come from Gnome and Pulse dependencies.
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good point. Especially because gnome is going downhill I won't feel regretted.



I hope the branched gnome2 will fix all the problems and undo all the wrongs.


at least I could alwyas go back to fvwm.
 
Not wanting to play music from it, just need to transfer files from it. My S3 doesn't support usb mass storage ¬_¬
 
Well SMB and MTP support was a bit dodgy so I just set up my phone as an ftp server and connected to it using filezilla :)
 
For music player I like to use mpd. It runs as a daemon (service) so you need a front end too. So takes up a lil more effort to set up.

IMHO its worth it though. It uses next to no resources and once your playlist is set up you can just script your media keys for play/pause etc and it will work with any GUI or none at all.
 
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