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GSDog

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Hi all.

I am new to Ubuntu and I have seen some screenshots of clocks, calenders, etc on desktops.
How do I do this?
I did read a thread about "gdesklets" and I tried it, it looked great but for some weird reason the calender and clock wouldn't stay on the desktop, they were always on top of everything...

Also, I have installed Beryl which is great, but how do I change the taskbar into one of those cool dock things?

Another problem I have is:
I tried to install Beryl without GFX drivers when I first installed Ubuntu (I THOUGHT I installed the GFX drivers, but I obviously didn't).
Anyway, when I realised why Beryl wasn't working, I installed the GFX drivers, and now Beryl is working OK, but when I open and minimize windows, or scroll down web pages, or open new tabs, close tabs, etc. the graphics seem very slow and laggy...
Is there something else I should have installed with the drivers? ANy idea's why it's slow?
It seems OK when moving the Beryl cube, and moving windows... :confused:

Any help would be great, thanks...
 
Damn!
I restarted Ubuntu and it said something like "/dev/sda7 has been mounted 30 times without being checked, checkforced.
Then it restarted. I logged in, and the screen is very, very distorted, I can't read anything, everything is messed up...
I'm going to reformat later and reinstall.
When I was installing Ubuntu, I did the manual partition's and I wasn't sure when I got to the mounted section - it listed all of my partitions (including windows, DELL MEDIADIRECT, etc). I chose which ones to use /home and / etc.
But when I started Ubuntu for the first time, I could see my windows partitions and Dell partition mounted on the desktop... :confused:
 
Zildjian said:
But when I started Ubuntu for the first time, I could see my windows partitions and Dell partition mounted on the desktop... :confused:
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That would just be the automounter at work looking at all partitions attached to the machine and mounting them for your use. Don't worry about that. It's a feature, not a bug. ;)
 
Zildjian said:
Hi all.

I am new to Ubuntu and I have seen some screenshots of clocks, calenders, etc on desktops.
How do I do this?
I did read a thread about "gdesklets" and I tried it, it looked great but for some weird reason the calender and clock wouldn't stay on the desktop, they were always on top of everything...

Also, I have installed Beryl which is great, but how do I change the taskbar into one of those cool dock things?

Another problem I have is:
I tried to install Beryl without GFX drivers when I first installed Ubuntu (I THOUGHT I installed the GFX drivers, but I obviously didn't).
Anyway, when I realised why Beryl wasn't working, I installed the GFX drivers, and now Beryl is working OK, but when I open and minimize windows, or scroll down web pages, or open new tabs, close tabs, etc. the graphics seem very slow and laggy...
Is there something else I should have installed with the drivers? ANy idea's why it's slow?
It seems OK when moving the Beryl cube, and moving windows... :confused:

Any help would be great, thanks...
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i had the same problem, well resizing windows was very slow... all i did was have a play in beryl manager and changed the resize method and it became a lot faster... also there are lots of tweaks that u can do. like use gnome manager to disable app animations, which speed up things a lot and since u are using beryl for the animations u can disable the gnome ones. its what i did. i just said goodbye to vista and xp ;)
 
Mana said:
i had the same problem, well resizing windows was very slow... all i did was have a play in beryl manager and changed the resize method and it became a lot faster... also there are lots of tweaks that u can do. like use gnome manager to disable app animations, which speed up things a lot and since u are using beryl for the animations u can disable the gnome ones. its what i did. i just said goodbye to vista and xp ;)
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Hi,

I have looked through the Beryl Manager and changed a few settings, but nothing has helped it so far.
I have just tried changing back to the default Window Manager (metacity) and it is much smoother, especially when scrolling, so I think it is Beryl that is causing this lag.
 
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