Software
Compiz Desktop Effect and SCIM
I tried to activate the virtual desktop but nothing happened. The “Ctrl+Alt+arrow” did not work. I finally figured out why. It was SCIM, which default hot key included “Ctrl+Alt+some arrows”. So, to activate virtual desktop:
Click “System->Preferences->SCIM Input Method Setup”.
Replace hot keys “Ctrl+Alt+arrow” with something else under “Next Input Method”, “Previous Input Method” and “Show Input […]
Ubuntu Hardware Set Up - An Important Step
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). The sound card did not work. I followed almost every “how-to” article I found on-line. None of them worked. It was always an installation failed, sometimes a package was missing, sometimes a dependency problem.
I messed around and finally took one step, and many of the […]
Ubuntu 7.10
Continuing my freeware search, I have tried Ubuntu 7.04 on my Mom’s desktop. It worked like a chime. I immediately hooked up with Ubuntu, and my dad and mom liked the build-in games. Even they did not have difficulty running Linux.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu 7.04 could not be installed on my notebook computer. So I downloaded and […]
Dinosaur Software
I bought a new notebook installed with Windows Vista in August 2007. I then installed other programs. Disappointed, nowadays commercail commercial software is too big to be useful, and is sometimes annoying.
Useful functions may have been exhausted. New functions come with new versions are too fancy or too advance. An average user just needs a […]