netbook v. laptop / remix

[Harry L. Lee]

i always installfrom alternate.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:25 PM, art <artmartz at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> Steve Lamb wrote:
> >     I would avoid UNR like the plague.  Designed with a netbook's smaller
> > screen size in mind means "foisting a stupid launcher on you and forcing
> all
> > your apps to go full screen whether you like it or not."  Seriously.
>  There's
> > this application called maximus.  The sole purpose of that app is to
> force all
> > your windows full-screen; even if they are not intended to ever be used
> full
> > screen (like some configuration dialogs).  There is NO configuring it.
>  NO
> > telling it to not run.
> I've been using UNR on my Acer Aspire One for a while now. Maximus takes
> some getting used to, but it is usable. Right-click on the title bar,
> and there is an "unmaximize" option, that puts the window back to it's
> original size, if you want. Now, if it would just remember by app which
> ones I unmaximize, I'd be a whole lot happier with it. But it hasn't
> annoyed me so much that I went back to the regular desktop.
> Art
>
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