While it has nothing to do with Xubuntu, a tragedy has occured and now the world is not as good a place.
R.I.P. Frank Frazetta you will be missed.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
A Windows Fix
So my XP box as much as died in the middle of January, and until the first week of May I was pretty exclusively using Xubuntu Karmic for everything. I was quite happy to see that aside from some gaming, I was not in the least bit negatively impacted by this. Over the course of the past several years I've slowly but steadily migrated from using predominately commercial software to F/OSS simply because there are enough apps out there to do what I need. To a first-time visitor here, make no mistake, I'm a Windows user, and have been for quite a long time. I'm not a platform nazi and I don't think my OS is better than your OS, even though in fact it might be. I've been running at least one linux machine 24/7 since 1996 to do my LAN routing/internet sharing and such. For that machine I've stuck with Slackware since day one, but Ubuntu was the first desktop linux that ever worked well enough for me to actually use, which is why I picked up Xubuntu and then after I had to write an app for it, started this blog.
I didn't think when I started this blog that I'd be doing any kind of regular updates to it, and I'm not surprised to see that I haven't. That's not likely to change anytime soon. I'll update this blog when I think I have something to say about Xubuntu or something related.
That brings me to the point of this post. Since 1997 I've been using the Logitech MouseMan (later re-released as the Logitech Wingman Gaming Mouse) which is, in my mind, the perfect shape for a mouse and will likely never be improved upon. However, with only two of them still 100% functional, I just threw a generic Logitech wheelmouse on my Xubuntu box when I put it together, and that's what I've been using the last few months. When I ordered my new parts for my XP machine, it didn't have a PS2 mouse port, and I decided not to just get an adapter, so I ordered a new Logitech LX3 Optical mouse with my new motherboard and processor. After the install, I got around to actually using the new machine and it didn't take long to get annoyed about something. I'd gotten used to using the scroll wheel in Xubuntu, where it acts on whatever window is below the cursor, not the window that has the focus. In XP, this is not the case. After a while, I just wrote it off as a difference that I'd have to live with. And I could live with it, it's not that big a deal, really. Thankfully though, I don't have to. If you use Windows as well as (X/K/etc)Ubuntu and prefer the X method of scrolling applying to the window under the mouse rather than the focused window, relief is just a download away!
WizMouse is here to save the day. Now if I could just find something to make Firefox in linux automatically select the text in the address bar when I click on it like it does in Windows...
:)
I didn't think when I started this blog that I'd be doing any kind of regular updates to it, and I'm not surprised to see that I haven't. That's not likely to change anytime soon. I'll update this blog when I think I have something to say about Xubuntu or something related.
That brings me to the point of this post. Since 1997 I've been using the Logitech MouseMan (later re-released as the Logitech Wingman Gaming Mouse) which is, in my mind, the perfect shape for a mouse and will likely never be improved upon. However, with only two of them still 100% functional, I just threw a generic Logitech wheelmouse on my Xubuntu box when I put it together, and that's what I've been using the last few months. When I ordered my new parts for my XP machine, it didn't have a PS2 mouse port, and I decided not to just get an adapter, so I ordered a new Logitech LX3 Optical mouse with my new motherboard and processor. After the install, I got around to actually using the new machine and it didn't take long to get annoyed about something. I'd gotten used to using the scroll wheel in Xubuntu, where it acts on whatever window is below the cursor, not the window that has the focus. In XP, this is not the case. After a while, I just wrote it off as a difference that I'd have to live with. And I could live with it, it's not that big a deal, really. Thankfully though, I don't have to. If you use Windows as well as (X/K/etc)Ubuntu and prefer the X method of scrolling applying to the window under the mouse rather than the focused window, relief is just a download away!
WizMouse is here to save the day. Now if I could just find something to make Firefox in linux automatically select the text in the address bar when I click on it like it does in Windows...
:)
