Comment by Chris Morgan on Is Alt+Tab made obsolete by Super+W in Unity?
Are you sure that Alt+Tabis slow? Not just delayed in appearance? You can tweak those parameters as desired in CompizConfig Settings Manager (I reduced the delay time to about .1 seconds for myself).
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on What web browsers are there for Ubuntu?
@Ancide, @The Negative Shape: here is one: Is Iron a Scam? Yes. It's out of date now, as it deals with no later than Chromium/Chrome/Iron 4 and now it's up to 11/12/13, but the situation seems to be...
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on How do I remove Windows 7 from my dual boot system...
A bit of information which may potentially be useful for others: when I was removing Vista, having booted into it not one single time after almost a year, I was somewhat worried by the fact that the...
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on Where has all the RAM gone?
Main memory access time is in the order of nanoseconds, hard disk drive access time is in the order of milliseconds. You should rather wonder that it isn't (quite) a million times slower when it's...
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on Screwed up my .bashrc file
@yayu: have you logged out and logged back in?
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on How to hide the Bluetooth icon in the panel?
So, you have to turn it on to get rid of it? Weird.
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on "The upgrade has aborted" error, how to proceed?
@Extender: put that as an answer
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on How can I turn down the sensitivity of my volume...
Unfortunately, this doesn't do anything in Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity any more. (Not sure about Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity as I gave up on Unity after a couple of days' trial.)
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on Unity, VMWare Workstation and the Super (Windows) key
A couple of bug reports to get you started: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/unity/+bug/704231 (claimed fixed?) and bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/806255; I know it annoys me, using VirtualBox.
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on Is there a way to run MS-DOS alongside/within Ubuntu?
Why do you say to use Synaptic to get them? In 11.10 it's not installed by default, whereas the Ubuntu Software Centre is, and is the recommended way of installing apps.
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on Alt+Tab is not switching between windows on Ubuntu...
@harisibrahimkv: as soon as you are using a different desktop environment, you've got what is quite definitely a non-standard arrangement.
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on 12.04 UI problems
Removing things in ~/.gconf/apps is often a good place to start for clearing config - e.g. the compiz-related things in there. Or you can just drop the whole folder, but that would remove things you...
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on DELL Inspiron 7520 and amd radeon driver 13.1: How...
git clone link Intel Ubuntu drivee doesn't make sense. After git clone there should be a URL to the repository location, which will probably end with /acpi_call.git.
View ArticleComment by Chris Morgan on What does Vi stand for?
Vim certainly does not stand for Visual Improved. Expanding acronyms multiple times is not valid—far less something that isn't even an acronym. Also, incidentally: quoting the Vim manual: "VIM stands...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris Morgan for Cannot Windows+Tab in Ubuntu 11.04
With ConpizConfig Settings Manager, turn on Shift Switcher. Its Next Window and Previous Window commands - <Super>Tab and <Shift><Super>Tab - are what do it. I had it enabled in 10.10...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris Morgan for Is Alt+Tab made obsolete by Super+W in Unity?
Alt+Tab isn't slow, it's just that by default there's a 0.2 second delay, I imagine so that a quick Alt+Tab won't get slower by creating thumbnails of windows or altering window opacities or things...
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