I have had an Acer Aspire One netbook (AA1) for a while and recently I decided to throw out the bundled Linpus OS and install a more flexible Linux. Linpus has served me quite well, but it has some shortcomings that many other popular distributions do not share. After some research I decided to try [...]
Update 2: David Rees has filed a bug report of this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/799986 (see his comment further down). Update: I have updated this guide for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. These updates are marked with Ubuntu 11.10 where they occur. I wanted to see if an old IBM Thinkpad A21P could be put to use and [...]
Today I will present a guest appearance by my friend and colleague Stefan Hellkvist, a fellow programmer and the guy behind the standingonabeach.com photo blog. He will describe how to fix some problems when running Ubuntu as a guest OS in VirtualBox on a Mac OS X host. Over to Stefan: “The installation of VirtualBox [...]
I am running Windows XP in VirtualBox on Ubuntu. Tonight when I tried to make it go into full screen (with Host+F) it just flickered and went back into a maximized window with all kinds of problems (the bottom part was covered by the Gnome panel, the mouse pointer was displaced at various points, et [...]
Using the Gimp I always become so frustrated with its multi-window concept. I am used to Photoshop in Windows and would like the Gimp to work the same way. At the Xubuntu Blog I found the solution. It involves running the X server Xnest in a window and then run Gimp on that server’s display. [...]