It is the time to submit your ideas on how to make Xubuntu better: the brainstorming phase for the 12.10 roadmap is on now! It is also a good time to start contributing, since every item needs an assignee – without assignees, even good ideas will not be approved – thus not implemented. Everybody is [...]
FAQ for Xubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
1. Is there a way to use folders shared from Windows? Yes, using Gigolo. If you are not able to see the network check if gvfs-backends is installed. 2. Thunar loads very slowly on first launch, how do I fix that? Unfortunately, this is a known bug. There are two possible solutions: Edit the file [...]
Xubuntu Artwork Update: Unity Support
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 [...]