Tips/Tricks for Ubuntu 6.06?

[imported_LoKe]

What have you done with the latest version to make it more interesting? Grahpic wise it's pretty plain, have you modified it? If so, how?

 

[Brazen]

check out ubuntuguide.org. I don't think it's updated yet for Dapper, but most of the guide will probably work the same for Dapper. The few parts I've followed have worked fine anyway.

edit: I just checked it and it is updated, but they've also drastically changed the layout (using the standard mediawiki/wikipedia layout now). I liked the old layout much better. Although it is also drastically expanded beyond what the old one covers.

 

[mect]

If you want to improve the look, check out www.gnome-look.org (or kde-look.org for kubuntu). It sure can be made pretty with a little personallization. I prefer the look and feel of kde, so I'm using kubuntu, but played with both a little and the appearance of both can be customized a lot. I've been very impressed so far with the distro itself. It is the first distro where all the hardware on my laptop has worked out of the box.

 

[EndGame]

Found out one thing...............Linux boot loaders don't know how to deal with the new bootloader packaged with Vista. Had to find out so I installed and upon reboot got nothing but Windows bootloader..............

 

[imported_LoKe]

Installed Compiz, finally got it working. I absolutely love it!

 

[magomago]

Graphics wise I didn't do much...I like how it is. I changed the top bar to not extend to touch each side so it sits in the middle. I also changed the color to white. Beyond making fonts looks incer...thats all really

Now Breezy was a different story I just didn't like almost anything. It looked so rought to me, the brown was just too ugly, and the icons were horrid. Dapper is defintitely much sharper that I enjoy keeping the default.

 

[magomago]

Compiz is nice...but I need my Cedega ^_^

 

[P0ldy]

Dapper with Compiz/XGL

No, it doesn't routinely rain on my desktop. Screenshots really don't do compiz justice. If I can get xvidcap working, I'll do some vids...

 

[imported_LoKe]

I like the plasma screensaver background. =]

 

[imported_LoKe]

Bah, I'm having a retarded issues with compiz. I've got everything working except Alt+Tab. It was working, but once I rebooted it stopped, now it does nothing.

 

[P0ldy]

It's probably unrelated, but maybe you should stop the dock plugin. Compiz was crashing for me regularly with dock on, who knows what else it could mess up. After that, I haven't had a single crash with Compiz and it's pretty stable surprisingly.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Yeah, I heard about not using the dock, water and dump plugins. I'll disable them just for peace of mind.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Well, I got it to work...can't exactly tell you which of the 1000 things I did made it work. Anyways...when I have one window in focus, the one in the background darkens. How do I adjust that? Which plugin handles that?

 

[P0ldy]

That's Trailfocus. I had to change that too.