Xubuntu11.04 usage

In fact, at alpha 11.04, I was a little overwhelmed. The beautiful UI of unity makes you think of the mac system, and I heard that it is very simple and fast. It is really easy to understand. In addition, the ultra-bloated office software openoffice has also been stripped off and switched to the new libreoffice. In addition, in order to make better use of the netbook desktop space, unity is more user-friendly. In terms of xserver, we have heard that wayland is also experimental,

In fact, at alpha 11.04, I was a little overwhelmed. The beautiful UI of unity makes you think of the mac system, and I heard that it is very simple and fast. It is really easy to understand. In addition, the ultra-bloated office software openoffice has also been stripped off and switched to the new libreoffice. In addition, in order to make better use of the netbook desktop space, unity is more user-friendly. In terms of xserver, we have heard that wayland is also experimental, but it is only for developers to try. So many advantages, although this important update is not much, because the entire process has changed from gnome destkop to gnome-based unity desktop, and the interface has changed a lot, when I showed up with beta1 on the Ubuntu interface, I made a dial before the official version was released for the first time. I can't wait to install it on a notebook I bought five or six years ago. The configuration of this notebook is not clear, but it is also an independent graphics card, it is a very vintage running four 1.7 GB. Some people may not know that ubuntu has always been hailed as the gospel of old computers. Besides, this unity is very lightweight and super fast, so I didn't think much about it, however, the next experience is terrible.

After installation, I thought it was Lili's unity interface. However, when I log on, I came up with a saying: Your video card is not powerful and you cannot experience unity. My God! Why is my video card so bad !! Is the configuration required by unity so high ?! So I suddenly remembered from the sixth sense that my video card is from the nvidia brand, which does not provide open-source linux drivers. Therefore, nvidia drivers are not installed by default and must be installed manually, it's okay. Just install it. However, I think the ubuntu team should not even take this into consideration. Instead, you can directly classify it as a video card, so you cannot make it clear .. After some installation, we finally installed the nvidia graphics card driver. So I first came into contact with unity 3D! La la ~ The first time I saw a meeting with unity, I was as excited as a girl who fell in love for the first time. I shook my hand and touched the dock. Wow ............ He Lili stretched out the semi-transparent black dock, which showed a lot of software on top by default. It seemed to trigger to me, so that I could not help myself. But looking at these icons, I really don't know what to do. =. = As the default software, you can also do some common work for me. The result is a home folder, paralyzing four office icons !! Where is the chat tool? Yes! What about music player? Yes! Shit ...... I think most users who use ubuntu at home will regard it as a netbook. Who can work hard with so many advanced offices at home! Well, this is not the most important thing, so I deleted these default icons to prepare for putting on my frequently used software.

I think about the process of putting common software on the dock: it is necessary to enter the desired software in the application List below, and then drag it to the dock, the dock will be very small to suck these icons. I followed the all-evil applications list button, and my machine got stuck ...... Unity ...... Coquetry .. The amount of memory needed to expand the list can be stuck. I am a little confused .. Everything gets stuck. What else can I do .. My little Ben lives in unity. I entered the software name in the war, so his icon library flashed a few times (because he still searched every letter ), I immediately turned my eyes to myself again... Stuck again .... After about half an hour of struggle, I finally set my dock to an ideal state...

Now, after setting various languages, go online and check the webpage! I clicked the pretty firefox icon, and it fell into a very perfect gradient, and slowly recovered. Wow, it's beautiful! At this moment, as the icon gradually fades out, my heart finally seems to have a bit of relief .. Ah, I sighed and looked forward to filling up my desktop in the firefox window .... But... My firefox... Fuck, no ?! Should I try again for the second time... When I hesitated, it took about two seconds. The window finally popped up, but I... Turn it off. Because when I want to enter the Chinese search, I get stuck again, and the old lady doesn't want to play with you.

Card! The whole experience is terrible, reaching the point of flying down three thousand feet! Maybe you want to say that my laptop configuration is too bad, no nonono, and the system before installation is windows xp, you can also play online games (too advanced online games do not work ), the simulated City 4 is also running on it. So in some cases, unity 3D may be more difficult to serve than a game! I was so anxious about this brand-new experience, but the system is as hard as a zombie. I once remembered that ubuntu is not like this. What's wrong with it, suddenly changed from a considerate home desktop to a proud queen. What changed its values? I don't know. Maybe the current operating system desktop is gorgeous. What is the 3D effect? Otherwise, it is outdated. Can't you see it hurt me so much ..?! In order not to abandon it, I decided to give it another opportunity. Yes, the advantage of linux is that the options are very large. Although the default desktop system is unity, there are other options. If you select the old interface, nothing will be changed. Except that the software is updated to the latest version, it makes no sense to install the new system. I suddenly thought of the well-received non-mainstream emo system, xfce, after a great tangle of unity intercourse (I probably uninstalled and installed it four times before and after, How tangled I am ), I resolutely wrote down the command line, and xfce was installed successfully. I want to change everything !! This non-mainstream emo interface is really nice to me !! The default blue color instead of black! However, this is not the most important thing. What we need in the end is his speed !! This is the real lightweight system. It takes 0.0001 seconds to open any window! Is there a second kill! (I admit I'm exaggerating ..) After being defaced by unity constipation, we finally let it go ...... I think xfce is too disappointing to become such a non-mainstream desktop. To be beautiful, everyone has their own aesthetic. Maybe unity is more beautiful than xfce. After all, it is more like mac and trendy. Compared with xfce, xfce is indeed a little dull, but it does not prevent this new joy from becoming my favorite! After such a fight, I was ready to boast such a non-mainstream desktop on the Internet. However, to boast about it, we have to make some adjustments, because my system is actually half-left. Although his heart has recovered to the gentle and considerate xfce, however, his internal software is still under unity, which is like a considerate man who still uses the whip of his proud queen brother .. So I thought, why not try xubuntu (ubuntu Based on xfce ). Burn a disk again. (By the way, the official introduction to xubuntu seems to be a pity. Sorry, because you chose xubuntu, the default desktop is no longer unity ...)

After xubuntu is installed, the smoothness is the same as the original one. In addition, the theme of ubuntu for xfce is also very simple and beautiful, and the composite used by xfce xfwm is true transparent, the settings are also very simple, so the transparent settings of the window are completed in a few steps (I like to use non-transparent windows ). So I still feel at ease using the official version. It is very important that after xubuntu is installed, he did not prompt that my video card is not powerful. Instead, a window pops up asking me that this video card is a restricted video card (no open source software ), manual activation is required. This is considerate! It's not as proud as his hot brother! This makes me love him more.

Most xubuntu software is based on xfce. For example, terminal emulator uses gnome-terminal. The chat tool uses pidgin instead of empathy. I think I may change it to empathy. The commonly used tool bar also contains firefox, mail, image editing software, and music play software. In terms of office, abiword is a more streamlined Word document processing software, which is enough for most people. There is no problem for the time being when it is used all the way. The only annoying thing is that his font settings (non-mainstream emo gods and horses are illiterate .. Don't blame him ). I used to change the font settings in 69-unifont.conf and any Chinese language-selector after installing the Chinese font. However, this is not the case. I have changed almost all the configuration files that can be thought of. I still cannot change the Chinese wenquanyi to the default Chinese font, he always gives priority to a very ugly Japanese Gothic font as the default Chinese font. In fact, wenquanyi also contains Japanese, so as the default Chinese font is absolutely no problem. After checking for a long time, I finally found a method to create a new file named local. conf in/etc/fonts. The file content is as follows:

Serif


Ubuntu
WenQuanYi Micro Hei
Ar pl UMing CN
Ar pl ShanHeiSun Uni
Bitstream Vera Serif
DejaVu Serif
Ar pl UKai CN
Ar pl ZenKai Uni




Sans-serif


Ubuntu
WenQuanYi Micro Hei
Bitstream Vera Sans
DejaVu Sans
WenQuanYi Zen Hei
Ar pl UMing CN
Ar pl ShanHeiSun Uni
Ar pl UKai CN
Ar pl ZenKai Uni




Monospace


WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
DejaVu Sans Mono
WenQuanYi Zen Hei
Ar pl UMing CN
Ar pl ShanHeiSun Uni
Ar pl UKai CN
Ar pl ZenKai Uni

Just give priority to your favorite Chinese fonts. The Ubuntu English font here is mainly intended to use the ubuntu font as the default English font and use the wenquanyi font only when encountering Chinese characters.

I am still exploring other things. xfce also has the default dictionary, which has been installed and is in the DICT format, this form of dictionary is available for translation in almost a variety of languages (unless it is very unpopular). Use Google to search for it. If you do not like to search for every word, you need to access the Internet, we recommend the famous stardict. We believe that most ubuntu users are familiar with the installation method: sudo apt-get install stardict. The stardict dictionary is available on Sina's ishare and stardict official websites, both of which are comprehensive (more comprehensive on the official website ), after the download, directly copy to/usr/share/stardict/dic/and open stardict. This dictionary has been used for many years and is indeed the best offline dictionary in linux.

The official version has been released on the 28th. I continue to use the official version of xubuntu, Which is concise and clean. Some friends said that the operating system is pursuing 3d effects, but I still hope that unity will not go too far in the future for the sake of beauty. Speed is the most important thing, if a desktop occupies too much resources and space, it will be abandoned after all (so proud to have a limit ), after all, there are too many choices in linux, and gnome 3 has also been released, which is a new option. I heard that it has been installed by default in the new Fedora version, if you are interested, you can "Try it out". According to the reports of the experienced people around you, it is not stable yet. However, fedora has been a long-overdue task for me. I think it is no longer possible for me to use it. Many places are designed too unhumanized, I am used to apt and sudo. I may never use su and yum again, and I feel that the hardware recognition function of fedora is worse than that of ubuntu, in fact, in most cases, Recognition Hardware can be installed by default, especially new hardware. The hardware compatibility of fedora is relatively poor.

Finally, let's go to the desktop. The transparent window function is enabled (this function is not a problem at all, and there is almost no difference between opening and not opening). Common Software is hidden at the bottom.