Hi :) When moving to Gnu&Linux (or Gnu&Hurd, or Bsd, Solaris or other non-Windows system) it's a good idea to use DistroWatch.
DW lists many useful websites for nearly every distro that exists or has ever existed. Very few get deleted and very few are so new or obscure that they are not fully listed (and most of those are on a waiting list). The page for Xubuntu is http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xubuntu but it's an odd choice these days. It used to be a much lighter-weight version of Ubuntu but these days there is also Lubuntu http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lubuntu (which looks horribly Win98(ish) to me (and i don't like blue)) or even Kubuntu. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kubuntu Kubuntu used to be horribly heavy and almost unusable on extremely low spec machines but the KDE team have put huge amounts of work into making it so much faster that i'm even considering it for the reception machine at work! It has remained extremely attractive (even though i hate blue) and has kept the plush features but somehow made it all run a LOT faster. I found this btw; http://www.keyxl.com/aaac887/409/xfce-window-manager-keyboard-shortcuts.htm but i think Valentine's method is much better, and much more up-to-the-minute. Err incidentally i installed Lubuntu over the top of an old Ubuntu and used the same user-names but during the install i made sure the partitioning bit had unticked the "Format?" column. When i booted into Lubuntu i found Firefox still had my old bookmarks. All the files i had "temporarily" put on my desktop were still cluttering the screen. Firefox even opened all the tabs i'd been working on before getting rid of the old Ubuntu! Regards from Tom :) On 11 August 2014 03:53, T. R. Valentine <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 August 2014 21:13, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning > > I am trying for years already to get friendly with linux, but have not > > much luck with it. > > Right now, I am (again) experimenting. > > > > A new installation of (X)ubuntu 14.04 on two different machines comes > > with LibreOffice. > > However, the shortcut keys I am used to are different or non-functioning. > > E.g., F11 is suppoed to bring up the styles menu. > > -> Linux -> has to be Alt+F11 > > AFAIK, F11 brings up the Styles menu on both Ubuntu & Mint. > > > > Ctrl+F10 -> show non-printing characters > > -> Linux -> brings up the file menu > > AFAIK, Ctrl+F10 shows non-printing characters in Writer on both Ubuntu & > Mint. > > Perhaps the difference is XCFE. > > > > Is there some consistent, COMPREHENSIBLE system of assigning these > > shortcut keys? > > Or do I have to find out and learn one by one through trial and error? > > (File) Tools / Customise - Keyboard tab, will let you look at all the > keyboard shortcuts and change them. > > > -- > T. R. Valentine > A rich heart may be under a poor coat. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
