Ubuntu 10.04

BigglesPiP said:
What the **** is this indicator-applet ****? It's trying to replace the system tray and doing a **** job. You can't decide what goes by the clock and what doesn't. This single fault had made me not want ubuntu any more. Not sure what distro I'll use next, but I'm moving.
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Oh wow. That's quite extreme! :p

What exacatly is with the indicator-applet? I have played with Lucid for a total of about twenty minutes so far.
 
JHeaton said:
Oh wow. That's quite extreme! :p

What exacatly is with the indicator-applet? I have played with Lucid for a total of about twenty minutes so far.
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In UNR they have completely locked the panel, you can't edit it, they've also replaced the system tray (well, most of it) with an all in one icon applet thing, and there is no way for you to decide what icons are now shown. Don't want the mail/IM notification icon? Tough.
 
BigglesPiP said:
In UNR they have completely locked the panel, you can't edit it, they've also replaced the system tray (well, most of it) with an all in one icon applet thing, and there is no way for you to decide what icons are now shown. Don't want the mail/IM notification icon? Tough.
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Bloody Hell. I'm quite glad I moved away, now :/
 
I've managed to get it working now by hacking the gnome session to look ad work like UNR, that lets me edit the panel, with the indicator applet removed some of the icons now appear in the old system tray (YAY!), but I've had to install some karmic packages to get a volume icon, which is using horrid icons. :(

It's ugly, really ugly.






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I like the philosophy of Arch, I like it a lot. But I want a debian based system under the GUI, and I want amazing repos to draw on.
 
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The trouble with actual debian (my 1st distro) is that nothing works out of the box, you have to faf and fiddle with everything's config, often without success. It doesn't really look good either.

I like ubuntu for working well right away, but I hate them for frivolous modifications to Gnome and other UIs. Their attempts to improve them just end up trashing usability, or customizability.

I'd love an ubuntu fork with bog standard gnome, the ubuntu themes and a tray application for sound, network, power and bluetooth, all of which use the selected theme's icons. And that sounds a lot like Xubuntu.
 
BigglesPiP said:
The trouble with actual debian (my 1st distro) is that nothing works out of the box, you have to faf and fiddle with everything's config, often without success. It doesn't really look good either.

I like ubuntu for working well right away, but I hate them for frivolous modifications to Gnome and other UIs. Their attempts to improve them just end up trashing usability, or customizability.

I'd love an ubuntu fork with bog standard gnome, the ubuntu themes and a tray application for sound, network, power and bluetooth, all of which use the selected theme's icons. And that sounds a lot like Xubuntu.
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Debian comes as featured as you want really. You can get a minimal install that contains pretty much nothing as standard, or you can get a full Gnome/KDE desktop.

Thing with Xubuntu is that they've somehow managed to make it no less resource intensive than Ubuntu itself. XFCE has so much potential as the lightest of the 'full' WM/DEs, just feel like it's being wasted in Xubuntu.
 
Ubuntu is great, but what they really need is fan alteration with ATI Cards! OK I know there is aticonfig, but I want something like MSI Afterburner/Rivatuner, where I can change the fan speeds based on temperatures.

Also my 8800GT for Physx is just sitting there burning up and I can't do anything about it, well it get's to 72c or so, where it usually stands at 60-65c in windows.

So yep, GPU Fan controlling :)
 
deadite66 said:
gah! changed my gfx card to a 8400GS, rebooted and now sound doesn't work :/

Intel 82801DB-ICH4
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update on this problem : installing the nvidia driver kills the audio, pulseaudio control shows output on the VU meter but no sound.
uninstall the drivers and the sound works again.

so far no help on the ubuntu forums, damn.
 
Try the Ubuntu Nvidia Driver, rather than the one from the Nvidia website.

Go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and activate the Nvidia one from there. See if that works.
 
I don't have an option to suspend in my shutdown menu - anyone know why?

I've seen this once before, and that was when I wasn't running a swap partition, but I've got one this time round...
 
Well I upgraded (fresh install) to 10:04 64 bit on a new build and so far all is good except sound which is very muffled and low volume (even overdriving it, it remains low)

Mobo is Asus A4A87TD evo (bought from here). Someone on UF queries if that's becasue of Asus's sound filters ?

Buggered if I know, I bought the mobo cuz I thought it had the best features within the available Mullah I could spend on one !! (cpu is 965 Black Edition)
 
I tried to install this through the windows 7 desktop and after it configured all the files and then restarted, it froze just after I selected ubuntu on the grub screen. never had this problem before :(
 
rebel rebel said:
I tried to install this through the windows 7 desktop and after it configured all the files and then restarted, it froze just after I selected ubuntu on the grub screen. never had this problem before :(
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Did you MD5 check the download?

Also, why were you installing it through Windows?
 
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