Ubuntu 11.04 on Core i5 - ASUS EAH5750
Here we go with a brand new and shiny Ubuntu Natty.
The goal of this page is mainly to be some kind of `backup reference guide´ for my `customized´ system.
Post-installation
Ubuntu 11.04 has a new installer. It detected my Ubuntu 10.10 partition and my Windows7 partition. It asked for updating Ubuntu 10.10, overwriting 10.10, or manual installation.
After installation, the system needs to reboot (without the live USB).
Graphical booting is a bit better since 10.10: screenresolution is as it should be. (however, the hideous purple makes me nauseous)
Theme
The Unity windowmanger is... well... different...
Originally, it was intended for netbooks... as a result, it looks f*cking hideous on a 1920*1080 big screen:
Compares this to the Windows7 equivalent:
Exactly the same functionality, but Windows7 wins this one BY FAR !
Freaking big-ass font and icons in Ubuntu 11.04 :|
Another downside: I cannot see which windows I have open in Ubuntu; there is no taskbar !
For the default Ubuntu-theme: I'm sick and tired of the 'Dust' and 'Radiance' theme. In reference to Windows7 or KDE, Gnome looks bulky (big fat font for menus for example)
Also, I've tried Kubuntu: the look and feel is just awesome (but I hate working with KDE).
Then I tried Xubuntu (don't like working with xfce too much), but the theme is just great: BlueBird theme
Download the 'Bluebird-xxx.tar.gz'. Extract the archive (backdrops, gtk-2.0, xfwm4).
sudo mkdir /usr/share/themes/BlueBird
sudo cp gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/BlueBird
A nice blue-ish icon set: Classy-V2_ocean_blue
Change your GDM theme at login (default is orange, make it compatible with BlueBird by doing the following):
link
(in short: sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
Logout and login. On login, you can choose/set your theme. Continue to log in after setting theme.
When logged in: sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop
Done !)
Compiz-Fusion
AAARGHHHHHH IT IS GONE !
No more Compiz because of Unity :'(
I really miss all the Compiz features :''(
Synaptic
Things I need to remove:
f-spot, tomboy, Evolution (via synaptic: all), ekiga, nautilus-sendto, totem (everything)...
Things I need to install
make, autoconf, gcc, irssi, cheese, bluefish, inkscape, build-essential, aria2c, smplayer...
pecan for pidgin
Firefox - Thunderbird
Firefox: standard in Ubuntu. FF4 seems to have fixed the slowness and crashing I was having in 10.10.
My main mailsystem is Thunderbird on Win7, so I use Popper (mailchecker, integrated in the Ubuntu messagesystem).
Pidgin - Empathy - aMSN
- Pidgin: still sucks donkey balls. Still no voice/video.
- Default Empathy (which is basically the same as Pidgin): lacks some plugins
- aMSN: haven't looked at it since more than a year; seems dead/
Ubuntu Tweak
A must-have ! Ubuntu Tweak helps you install needed packages easily.