Due to the size of the Xubuntu ISOs starting from Raring (13.04), they no longer fit on a standard CD. This guide will help you if your BIOS doesn’t support booting off of USB drives by showing you how to use Plop boot manager. Getting Plop You can download the most recent version here (plpbt-*). [...]
FAQ for Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal
Welcome! To provide a better experience to all the Xubuntu users we gather what we consider to be common questions any user might come to find. We have been doing this for the last few releases, check the previous FAQ to find out interesting and probably helpful information about your system. In this particular release [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FAQ for Xubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
1. I can’t hear a sound. How can I get my sound back? There are many reasons why sound can be lost on a system, most of them if you try to use different audio protocols. The usual way to get sound back is to run sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart. If this doesn’t work you can [...]