I’ve switched to xfce from gnome. Much faster and less memory consuming enviroment (it’s not that I dont’ have enough, but rather I hate waiting for OS to do smth and I need all the memory I have for my work).
Just found the solution here to how to edit the xfce main menu:
# cp ~/.cache/xfce4/desktop/menu-cache-name-of-the-generated-file.xml ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu2.xml
# cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/
# cat menu.xml > menu3.xml
# cat menu2.xml >> menu3.xml
# mv menu.xml menu.orig.xml
# mv menu3.xml menu.xml
Restore:
# mv menu.xml menu3.xml; mv menu.orig.xml menu.xml
Still some things I like to solve:
1) How to open mani menu on “Super L” button
2) Is there a way to make CPU frequency plugin work the same masy as in gnome aka so I can change the frequency and the governor to my cpu. One solution is just to un gnome applet…
Well 8.04 up and running.
Remaining to install ATI 8.4 drivers and some of my work related software. In short I am as happy with it as I was with 6.10 and 7.04. 7.10 was not that successful. 8.04 is definately an improvement from 7.04…
1.SORTED OUT Microphone is SKYPE sometimes stops working. Initially it didn’t work at all and took a while to fix.
-> it seems that skype alters the audio settings on the fly and sometimes switches mic off… Anyway I got skype running in vmware under windows XP with all features (including video) So I’m not waisting more time on linux skype…
2. FIXED?Sound up, down and mute buttons on the keyboard sometimes start to work – didn’t investigate on that
-> it appears that the problem here and in 6 is psmouse module. I had to unload it before hibernate, standby, halt and shutdown and it seems to work now. Looks like a common problem for HPs
3. Bluetooth doesn’t work – need to have a look on that
4. fgrlx driver (ATI FireGL 5200) do not support composite extension: xgl and Beryl VERY slow. I want to try another radeon driver on a new kernel .
5. Standby doesn’t work (screen do not come back after it) Hybernate works great. Want to try Standby2 on new kernel
6. FIXED?F***KING battery indicator don’t work! My laptop almost went down because of that… Luckily
HP engineers made the battery charge indicator blink when critical. thanks guys!<Ð > ->See 2.