Josh Saddler

Well it seems ext4 is a showstopper.
I had ue 2.3 installed on a corsair x128.
started good for about 4 times,the 5th time errors when booting.restarted computer...corsair completely dead.

Some icons are similar to Ubuntu's humanity-dark theme and I really like them.

And color scheme is similar to my favorite ubuntustudio theme,. Like this too.

But I prefer less of border thought. I suggest to people like me look for "totem" windows look.

@eva:

Thanks, but I already proxy-maintain enough packages for the time being. I don't mind helping out from time to time with other apps, but I don't want to make any more full-time commitments. :)

About abiword, you can join gnome-office if you'd like to maintain abiword in tree.

I tried to play Nexuiz on Karmic, and likewise ran into horrible performance.

I believe the problem is described pretty well in this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/450901

Perhaps you could check if you have the same problem? It's incredibly easy to test (simply start a game, then check dmesg).

Slitaz is really cool! i've got a pretty old machine (IBM T30), but ever since i installed Slitaz, its been working like a dream. i gues it feels young again!

Wow, thanks! Cool news! Have installed Kernel 2.6.32-rc3-git1, KMS and latest Mesa now on my Elitebook with a Radeon RV 635/HD 3650. Works great with KDE desktop effects :-) For people who can read german I've created a installation guide: http://www.tauceti.net/roller/cetixx/entry/3d_support_radeon_hd_2000

@baikis:

Wow, old post. The original entry was a year ago . . . you realize that, right? :)

Anyway, Xubuntu is a special deal; I think they have their own appearance control center. But if not, here's what you can do:

1. Install the corefonts package. I think Ubuntu calls it msttcorefonts or similar.
2. Go to Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts
3. Set your system font to "Verdana" - mine is 10pt.
4. Uncheck "Enable anti-aliasing"
5. Change "Hinting" to "Slight"

This may not work for you, as the freetype library I use in Gentoo is compiled on my local box. Freetype has some usage restrictions that do not permit the best font hinter (the bytecode interpreter) to be enabled on redistributed freetype packages. Meaning the ones supplied by Xubuntu and every other binary distro out there.

So you may have to compile and install your own freetype library on your local machine, being sure to enable the bytecode interpreter so that you get the best possible font shapes. With Gentoo, it's automatic, since we're a source-based distribution: we don't distribute binaries; the users build them on their own machines. So we're free of the usage restriction placed on freetype.

how do you change font settings in xfce (xubuntu) to have this look 20080427-himerge1.png?

@Jens:

I picked up my version from some random wallpaper site 'round the internet, but the original can be found on the author's website. Added to the original post.

I tried nexuiz and UT2004 only yesterday. Nexuiz is very playable (at medium/low settings, 800x600, I get 30fps). UT is broken right now and hangs on the loading screen.

The wallpaper is nice, where did you get it from ? The images in your devspace all contain some bars and icons.

Thanks!

To see the FPS counter in Q3, start it with "+set cg_drawFPS 1".

IMO any FS with journalling is a suicide for any SSD storage.

That means in Linux we've got few options: ext2, ext4 _without_ journal and ... I don't know anything else :)

@Chris:

Hey, long time no see! :)

I didn't know it was even possible to clean up Mozilla performance just by using sqlite to do the dirty work.

On a related note, I did find a couple of different methods on the Gentoo Forums for improving FF/TB performance regardless of hard disk type . . . by running 'em from RAM. There are a couple of startup scripts that put the necessary config directories into a RAMdisk and periodically backing them up to the HDD, and flushing everything to disk when the app is closed. Supposedly it dramatically improves the sqlite backend performance, reducing hitches when loading multiple tabs, for example.

One helpful thing with FF and TB is to use sqlite3 on the command line to VACUUM the database files (while not being used, of course) which will clean up older entries. This should speed up loads times fairly significantly, if you typically make lots of changes (or have never done a VACUUM).

Why Firefox/Thunderbird do not do this themselves, I have no idea.

@fresch:

Yeah, I originally based it on Elegant Brit. Actually, only two or three of the original "Brit" scheme is still in there; it just got reworked over a long enough amount of time that I forgot to call it something more descriptive. :)

And yes, it actually does feel snappier than most other themes. The pixmap engine, in my experience, tends to be one of the faster, as long as you're keeping things simple: by not using lots of individual images for corners, buttons, scrollbars, and the like. Simple color values, in hex, in the gtkrc, produce a faster theme than one that requires loading lots of images.

@Josh:

Thanks for answering a obtuse question. I seemed to have been in a denser state that day. ;)

Let me try again:
What theme did you base "Elegant Autumn" on? I'm guessing "Elegant Brit"?

I have mostly used very elaborate pixmap themes and they never *felt* fast. Since you mentioned the simplicity of "Elegant Autumn", I am curious if it *feels* snappier than those.

Thanks again!

@fresch:

As I said earlier in the post, I marked it with an asterisk (*) to show that it's a custom theme that I've created, mostly a color modification of another theme. It's for my own personal use; it's not something I've uploaded anywhere on the 'net.