[ubuntu] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is here!

[srochford]

Probably just talking to myself now but that's OK. Just thought I'd say it's all working OK. Not quite sure how I did it because I didn't expect it to work! I booted into single user mode, copied the failsafe xorg.conf to xorg.conf and restarted. Magically, it came up in full colour and seems to be working fine.

 

Now, the reason I was trying Ubuntu out on this was to see what the tablet support is like. The answer seems to be that it's not there at all which is weird because I'm sure I had read that it did do tablet stuff. Does anyone know if you can turn on tablet features or am I wasting my time? (The touch screen is working as a mouse but I'd like to be able to draw, write etc like on a Windows tablet)

[TwoZeroAlpha]

If it's not already install, get yourself a copy of gimp (sudo apt-get install gimp)

 

Then load it and go into Edit > Preferences

 

Click on "Input Devices" then Configure "Extended Input Devices"

 

Find the tablet screen in the drop down list (may be listed as something wierd) and set the mode from disabled, to screen. You should now be able to draw in gimp.

 

Worked for my Wacom tablet anyhow. Good luck.

 

If you get that working and want to write to input text give "cellwriter" a whirl.

Edited May 10, 2010 by TwoZeroAlpha

[RabbieBurns]

Finally just got round to booting to ubuntu to do the upgrade.. And forgot the thing that annoys me the most about it.

 

Its the size of everything. The icons on the desktop are massive. I can one by one make them smaller, but that doesnt really help. The start menu takes up most of the screen when Ive expanded a few menu items.. Monitor is plugged into the laptop and is at 1280x1024 (I cant remember what resolution it is when its plugged into windows.)

 

Is there any way to shrink all these things down?

 

Another example, firefox only shows 5 open tabs, whereas on xp/7 I can get about 10..

[llawwehttam]

I'm having no end of trouble even getting it to install. I'm trying to install Xubuntu on an older p4 system but after two keypresses it acts as if the 'A' key is stuck down and won't respond to anything but a hard reset.

Bit strange as no other version has this problem.

 

Finally just got round to booting to ubuntu to do the upgrade.. And forgot the thing that annoys me the most about it.

 

Its the size of everything. The icons on the desktop are massive. I can one by one make them smaller, but that doesnt really help. The start menu takes up most of the screen when Ive expanded a few menu items.. Monitor is plugged into the laptop and is at 1280x1024 (I cant remember what resolution it is when its plugged into windows.)

 

Is there any way to shrink all these things down?

 

Another example, firefox only shows 5 open tabs, whereas on xp/7 I can get about 10..

 

Usually you can just right click on the desktop, 'change desktop background' > 'fonts', and making the sizes smaller usually helps.

[srochford]

OK; thanks again to @twozeroalpha. I've used Gimp and it works well and cellwriter also works. My handwriting is rubbish so I think it'll need a lot more training and, in the end, I'm not sure it will do what I wanted :-( (Really wanted something like OneNote rather than a line by line entry system)

 

The other problem is that the machine is just very slow (and slower in Linux than Windows which doesn't help - I think there are AMD optimised drivers for Windows which aren't there for Linux)

 

Still, it's been fun playing and learning more new stuff :-)