I tried using it for business (Ubuntu 8.04) but the network for window
shares is not easy to setup (for the avg user)
I am using it at home though.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Eben King wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded my main computer from Ubuntu 5.something to 8.04. Most
>> things are workable, but some things I need to change.
>>
>> Gaim got upgraded to Pidgin and the Jabber protocol got renamed to XMPP
>> (both of which are OK). I kept many of my old partitions and simply put
>> them in once the installer had done its dirty work (NOT / and /usr). For
>> most things, this is great -- no reconfiguration. Alpine (was Pine) picked
>> up its old color scheme and prefs with no work on my part, for instance,
>> other than making the terminal's "black" _black_, not dingy grey.
>>
>> But Pidgin runs and makes sounds for buddy logins and all, but never draws
>> a window. If I don't run it from the command line I have to ps for it.
>
> OK, figured this out. It goes to the system tray. Bit of a bother if you
> don't have a system tray defined. It must reason "oh, he's running $WM so
> he _must_ have a tray"...
>
> Now I find that it gets wedged, using 100% of one CPU. So I set its "away
> time" to something low like a minute, so it'd be more likely to go offline
> during normal use, and I'm re-enabling the protocols one every few hours to
> see which one(s) is/are problematic.
>
> Anyone used XMMS2? I haven't been able to make it consistently follow my
> instructions.
>
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