Re: Penguinistas to the bridge, please.

Guy King wrote:
OK, turning off security makes it jbex fine - as does switching to WEP -
so, I've got it jbexing well enough for now.

It seems very slow compared to XP.

Render me surprised!

Scrolling up and down lists and things you can see them ripple etc.

In ascending order of hairy-ness[sp] (sounds like a yeti hunt):

You could try turning off visual effects in system>preferences>appearance - visual effects tab.

Test the graphics performance by running glxgears - that should run smoothly. If it doesn't, summat is up.

It's also worth trying any alternate screen drivers if there are any - the easy choices are usually just the free driver or a proprietary one which appears in system>administration>hardware drivers. There are a few bugs in some of them which can slow things down a bit.

There is also an app called EnvyNG which can sometimes help by providing a graphical front end to do a custom compilation of the graphics drivers for your chamine, but it isn't much use if you don't have a supported graphics chipset (which means certain Nvidia and ATI ones), and it isn't installed by default. You also need to research how to recover from really screwing up your graphics - preferably before trying it, so it is a bit of a last resort.

How do I turn off all the odd services running in the background which I
don't need? It's got a Bluetooth thing, that can go for a start. Is
there an equivalent of Services in Windows?

system>preferences>sessions

and, for more serious stuff which might actually stop things jbexing if you get it wrong:

system>administration>services

Why is it all still driven from the command line?

*All* of it?

If the Penguinistas
want to take over the world they're going to have to make sure no one
ever has to type sudo into a terminal.

<stream of consciousness>

You only have to type sudo into an Ubuntu terminal when you are diagnosing a system with recalcitrant hardware or re-configuring a system in a nunusual way. This doesn't stop lots of people posting howtos with terminal commands when there are perfectly good ways of doing the same thing in a GUI, but a lot of the people capable of figuring such things out will do so from the command line and create the howto from the terminal log. It does occasionally get translated e.g.:

http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-linux/

That has a link near the top to someone who has graphically front ended the command line version. Not a bad selection of tips either, although I would redo it a bit more like this as a set of instructions for a GUI user:

From a brand new install:
0) Log in.
1) Install all the latest updates using update manager at system>administration>update manager.
2) Open Applications>Add/Remove, change the "Show" drop down menu to "All available applications"
3) Type "restricted" (without quotes) in the search box and click the flashlight icon in it.
4) Select Ubuntu or Kubuntu restricted extras, depending on whether you installed Ubuntu or Kubuntu, and click "Apply changes"
5 to n) Use synaptic to search for xyz, right click on xyz and select install. Hit apply when all software you want is selected for installation.

From here on, any software installation from the repositories is straightforward and graphical using Synaptic Package Manager (in the system>administration menu), as long as you realise the "quick search" is not a search but a filter for the applications in the list below.

The user has done several things which would otherwise require sudo from the command line, and also for good measure caused an edit to a config file, all without touching a command line or opening a text editor.

As for whirled domination, the point of Ubuntu is more to fix bug 1 than replace the cause of bug 1 with something just as bad.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/+viewstatus

With bug 1 fixed, the problems people hit with installations just go away, and they can get on with using their pooters without being locked in with a pbaivpgrq zbabcbyvfg.

<Whoa! How do you turn off stream of consciousness?>
<clunk>

[sp] The spilling chocker suggested hairiness, but that just lwks wrong. Manual override.

--
JimP
Hfvat the command line since George 3.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Linux Applications for OS X
    ... Why did you bring up command lines? ... I do know that to install software on Ubuntu the advice I was repeatedly ... How would you install mpg123, mpg321, and sox on the newest Ubuntu? ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • RE: GUI
    ... The result says that the command is not found. ... My feeling is that with standard ubuntu server installation, ... Subject: GUI ... I recall in CentOS or RH, after the initial install one use the 'startx' ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: Linux Applications for OS X
    ... Why did you bring up command lines? ... I do know that to install software on Ubuntu the advice I was repeatedly ... How would you install mpg123, mpg321, and sox on the newest Ubuntu? ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: keyboard remapping + installing DVD software
    ... I checked off these items on the Software Sources menu, but the command ... and I was able to play the DVD... ... I'm a new user of Ubuntu - just installed version 7.10 on my old Sharp ... Changes" to install them and you should be able to play DVD's and most ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: build-essential linux-header-ARCH
    ... I have successfully install the build-essential & linux headers in KUBUNTU ... Insert UBUNTU cd inwhich these packages are present ... Hmm - I'd assume that they would be found in Kubuntu Package Manager ... > Actually while installing modem when i type "make clean" command it ...
    (Ubuntu)