While there are many people who project a competition between Ubuntu and its flavors, I’d like to set a (small) sign that this is definitely not the case. With respect to our default theme, “Greybird”, I have been striving to expand the supported window-managers in the last release “Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10″ (metacity, emerald), to give [...]
Window resizing in Xubuntu (and Xfce)
For quite a while now there has been questions about resizing windows in Xfce, especially with theme with narrow window-borders. Usually people would ask for wider window-borders, but there are several methods of resizing a window and the thin borders in Xubuntu’s current default theme Greybird are not as much of a usability issue as [...]
The Countdown is on
It’s already less than a month before Xubuntu 12.04 is released, and we thought it would be a good thing to finally provide you something to build up the excitement (and hype) with. So here it is… Countdown banners for Xubuntu 12.04 The “normal”, legacy-sized banner: …and the alternative, wide version: How to add these [...]
Beta 2 released & new branding
The Xubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta2 release of Xubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin! Updates for this release include The i386 images use a non-PAE kernel to support a bigger variety of machines Pavucontrol is now used over xfce4-mixer Some default shortcuts have been changed and some added, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/DefaultShortcutKeys#Detailed_specification for the complete list [...]
Help test Xubuntu!
Xubuntu Beta 2 is coming out this week and we need testers! Testing is an excellent way to get involved with Xubuntu. It’s a vital part of our release cycle and anyone with a virtual machine (or even better, a spare computer!) can help out with it. The Xubuntu community maintains extensive documents related to [...]