Xubuntu Take-Over

[Damir B]

Hi Tony, hardware specs of the "old netbook"?

Usually netbooks are heavily underpowered and I would definitely NOT run a latest *nix distro on them as it would be a very poor experience (even if everything DID work as expected). If it is what I think it is (1GB RAM, Intel Atom etc style netbook) I would look into hacking something like ChromeOS onto it instead as it is essentially only a browser so it *should* be able to run that OK.

Damir

> Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 07:42:03 -0700
> From: agents4jesus at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Xubuntu Take-Over
> 
> Hi, Tony here,
> 
>      I recently installed Xubuntu (as some of you may know) because my 
> old netbook couldn't handle Ubuntu's amazing graphics (sadly :-( ). 
> Well, it worked fine, things opened pretty fast and all that, but a 
> couple items are bothering me:
> 
>      One, the Lock screen doesn't work. It displays a Light Display 
> Manager, and it won't let me log in (the password is always incorrect, I 
> haven't tried the su password yet, but still, you shouldn't have to put 
> the su password every time you lock the screen of a standard user...).
> 
>      Two, when I switched back to Ubuntu, whenever I lock the screen it 
> displays the beautiful lock screen, but if I put my password in, it has 
> me put it in again in a Xubuntu-style window.
> 
>      Three, now, whenever I log in, the computer wants me to report a 
> crash.
> 
>      Four, the computer often displays weird, distorted characters and 
> colors when I log in.
> 
> Help!
> 
> P.S. If this isn't the right list to ask about this problem, pls let me 
> know!
> 
> 
> 
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