Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu etc .....

2014-06-09 Thread SuperEngineer
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 20:57 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Yesterday, I tried Lubuntu on it. Have you found a magic key combo for the command box yet? It used to be in 12.04 but that doesn't seem to do anything on Lubuntu !4.04 - the only option found is via menu & "run", followed by app name. A bit

[ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu etc .....

2014-06-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there ... The recent thread on old, slow computers came to mind when I installed Trusty in place of 12.04 on my Samsung netbook. It was sightly faster after the upgrade, but still felt very slow at the side of my desktop. It has a single core i386 processor running at about 1.5 GiHz. Ye

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 11 February 2011 09:19, alan c wrote: > On 11/02/11 08:56, Scrase, Eddie wrote: > >> Chromium gets on my nerves but I thought I'd try Midori which seems >>> >> OK. >> >> Personally I quite like Chromium, and it's screen space saving design is >> really useful on the EEE's 7" screen. >> > > Ho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Kris Douglas
On 11 February 2011 09:19, alan c wrote: > On 11/02/11 08:56, Scrase, Eddie wrote: >>> >>>  Chromium gets on my nerves but I thought I'd try Midori which seems >> >> OK. >> >> Personally I quite like Chromium, and it's screen space saving design is >> really useful on the EEE's 7" screen. > > How

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread alan c
On 11/02/11 08:56, Scrase, Eddie wrote: Chromium gets on my nerves but I thought I'd try Midori which seems OK. Personally I quite like Chromium, and it's screen space saving design is really useful on the EEE's 7" screen. How do you block adverts in chromium? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Scrase, Eddie
> By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've > finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook > sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter > and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman. I can second that: Lubuntu has b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-10 Thread Jim Price
On 10/02/11 15:04, gazz wrote: By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman. I woul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-10 Thread Phill Whiteside
John, The Lubuntu team help maintain LXDE and vice-versa :) Regards, Phill. On 10 February 2011 17:09, John MM wrote: > You could try LDXE, I think that is what its called, that is a basic Ubuntu > as well. I quite liked it when I had it running. > > > > > On 10/02/11 16:47, Rob Beard wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-10 Thread John MM
You could try LDXE, I think that is what its called, that is a basic Ubuntu as well. I quite liked it when I had it running. On 10/02/11 16:47, Rob Beard wrote: I might have another look at Lubuntu, I've been looking into a basic lightweight distro for two P3 laptops for a local Surestart cen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-10 Thread Rob Beard
gazz wrote: By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman. Xubuntu's too big as wel

[ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-10 Thread gazz
By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman. Xubuntu's too big as well. I tried Pupp