<div>Please removed from whatever list on</div> <div class="mailbox_signature">— Sent from <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox">Mailbox</a> for iPhone</div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Larry Blodgett <<a href="mailto:lblodgett@inbox.com" target="_blank">lblodgett@inbox.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This is excellent work. Could this be put into a script to prevent all the typing? Sorry, I posted this earlier. I am having trouble replying with my email account. Larry On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:31 PM, ZP <zukeprime@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > Just a quickie with a how-to and keep the board alive. I was > researching how to make Xubuntu even lighter for an old HP Pavilion > laptop I use as a test machine. Previously, I was having trouble with > power-off...it just wouldn't. ACPI settings, BIOS, etc., nothing worked. > > So I attempted a minimal Ubuntu install with xubuntu-desktop > --no-install-recommends in accordance with this website: > > http://flux242.blogspot.com/2013/05/minimal-xubuntu-desktop-installation.html > > It actually works really well, and I was surprised by the result: it > powers down and reboots normally. Just thought I'd share and spread the > wealth. It's almost (but not completely) like installing Arch, but > without the headaches of the Arch wiki and laborious command-line > procedure. If you have the time and inclination, try it out and see if > your system is more responsive. > > Now I'm just trying to figure out what the difference is between a > standard Xubuntu ISO install, and an Ubuntu-mini install with > Xubuntu-desktop and no-install-recommends. Not sure yet. > > |ZP| > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users </blockquote></div>