I had been toying with Hardy in VirtualBox and playing with the Live
CDs; after Alpha 6 was released I decided to take the plunge and
install it to my HD (after backing up may data, of course! :). In the
graphical installer there was a nice option to let me wipe out my /
partition while leaving my /home partition intact. It started up with
all my files just where I left them (more convenient than a fully
clean install).
The "Simple Compizconfig settings manager" (package: "simple-ccsm")
makes setting up Compiz a breeze. Nitpicky stuff can still be done in
"Compiz configuration settings manager" (a dependency) aka Advanced
Desktop effects. I'm thinking that I might actually use multiple
workspaces now... Window List only shows the apps on a single
workspace, but Window Selector shows them all; I'm using both of
those. Ring switcher (via simple-ccsm) is neat for alt-tabbing.
I was playing around with the "Screen Resolution" settings and changed
it to something that resulted in a black screen (oops!) so couldn't
restore it... I tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg from the
failsafe terminal... but that only seems to make changes for the mouse
and keyboard! 8-) Turns out they've shifted the video settings to
~/.gnome2/monitors.xml Removing that file reverted the settings to
the default, getting me back to GUI-goodness ;)
Firefox 3 is neat, even if most of my extensions aren't working
(yet... its just a matter of time).
Some new programs in the repositories; I like the games pipewalker
(though the Ubuntu package has a bug that it doesn't show up in the
GNOME menu; installing the Debian package fixes that) and lightyears.
CK
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