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The latest issue of DistroWatch Weekly has a feature on reducing the memory footprint of Xubuntu 9.04. This is in response to an earlier comparison of performance and memory consumption between Xubuntu and Debian with Xfce, published in the previous edition of DistroWatch Weekly. Unfortunately the sequence of steps starts by installing a minimal Ubuntu […]

Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 12:59 | 0 comments
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After upgrading from Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to 9.04 (Jaunty), the automount feature stopped working for a particular USB memory stick. It wasn’t even listed when I ran commands like sudo fdisk -l and more /proc/partitions But interestingly, when I plugged in my camera via a USB cable, the memory card inside it was automounted, and […]

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 06:59 | 0 comments
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In a previous post I detailed steps on how to disable touchpad tapping in Xubuntu 8.04. Unfortunately the package gsynaptics-mcs-plugin which provides the Xfce Settings Manager plugin is obsolete in Xubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and therefore the annoyance of touchpad tapping and scrolling is back after upgrading from Hardy. Also, it turns out that the responsibility […]

Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 16:00 | 16 comments
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Wine adds a menu entry “Browse C: Drive” in the Applications menu. By default, this doesn’t work and produces an error message in Xubuntu 8.04. Here’s how to fix it. Run the following command to open the configuration file which controls what the menu entry does: sudo mousepad /usr/share/applications/wine-browsedrive.desktop Replace the line Exec=xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c with […]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 14:22 | 0 comments
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To save a bit of space, you can remove the menu bar in Xubuntu Terminal (Edit > Preferences > Appearance > uncheck “Display menubar in new window”. Here are the steps to restore it later on (since you can’t access the Preferences dialog without the menu itself!). Run the following command to open the terminal […]

Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 12:11 | 0 comments
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UPDATE: These steps work fine for Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy). For more recent Xubuntu versions you should take a look at this later post which has the correct steps. One of the things I find very annoying is the default “tap to click” behaviour of laptop touchpads. Here are easy steps how to configure Xubuntu to […]

Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 12:03 | 0 comments
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