Made the full switch to Linux, got some questions

[benjo]

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 Now it just wont open at all.

What music player do you use?

Thanks for any answers

 

[benjo]

It seems that that's a feature in Firefox. Have you tried Edit ➜ Preferences ➜ Advanced ➜ Check 'Use autoscrolling'?

I removed Firefox and installed Chrome, don't think it's got an equivalent setting

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

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.

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

I'll take a look at the others. I'm wondering if Lightroom woud work with Wine, I'll see how it goes

 

[benjo]

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.

Apparently, you need this extension for auto-scrolling.

Thanks, both worked

New question, does anyone know how to get an android phone mounted using mtp?

 

[benjo]

Not wanting to play music from it, just need to transfer files from it. My S3 doesn't support usb mass storage ¬_¬

 

[benjo]

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

 

[benjo]

Another update, settled on Exaile for music. Very similar to foobar2000, and extremely lightweight