On 13 Aug, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Brian Morris wrote:
> ?!? I didn't think trackpads from this era were able to recognize
> multiple fingers.
>
> Oh, wait which exact model do you have ? mine is early 2005.
Mine is late 2003 [1 GHz]. A few years ago one of my coworkers brought
a MacBook by for comparison. His was using gestures [two finger scrolling,
etc.] and mine wasn't even though we both had Leopard installed; therefore i
assumed that the difference was hardware rather than software.
> > By the way, for speed, I am using the LXDE desktop environment. There is
> > now an lxde cd, as well as a netinstall option for it. much faster and less
> > resource consumptive than the other alternatives.
>
> Yeah, i might look into that. Presumably i don't need to install from
> scratch, so i'll search for an LXDE package.
>
> its a little tough to remove gnome and then put in lxde to replace it. easier
> I think if you are just getting started to just start over. It is a LOT
> faster though, plus saving a lot of RAM.
Installing LXDE was easy. I didn't feel the need to remove gnome, as
the linux partition is 75 GiBi and isn't in any immediate danger of filling up.
At login i can choose whether to go into an LXDE session, gnome, or KDE.
Since each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses, i'll use different
sessions for different things. In my initial foray into LXDE i couldn't find
everything that i knew how to use in gnome, so it's nice to be able to go back
and use it as needed. Choice is good, and those other interface components
shouldn't be initialized/loaded in a LXDE session - they won't slow me down
just by being on the hard drive.
Sent from my MacBookPro
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