Meeting with the Linuxlsc LUG

Last saturday was our monthly meeting with the LinuxLSC Linux User Group. Rain was expected so it was all unclear weather the meeting would be held or not until the last minute. Meeting was originally scheduled for 4.30 pm and rain kind of stopped by then just to fall down again, too bad! (and so good at the same time cause I had the chance to spend the entire day with my so beautiful daughter and my girlfriend, played and laughed alot together!) so the meeting was canceled and re-scheduled for saturday 23th, same time and same place so I hope to meet the guys there and then. Topics are posted in our website’s wiki (www.linuxlsc.cl) so if you want to join us, come with us!

I’ll bring my OpenSuse 11 DVD copy for all of you who don’t have it. By the way, Ubuntu is running extremely well on my Vostro 1500.

See y’all there!!!

What I’ve read and what I’ve known about Ubuntu

Through this week (due to my trash icon related trouble!) I have been back to reading users’ first experience after installing and using Linux Ubuntu. Most of them complain about it’s brownish colors over and over again, like they had not checked out Gnome-Look nor even played around the Appearance menu.

First option is just a kickass website for lazy users like me, who do not feel like spending time creating new themes, after all in that website you could find all artwork you are looking for: Wallpapers, icons, splash screens, desklets, screenlets, fonts, system sounds, screensavers, themes for GTK-Metacity-Compiz-Beryl, etc. I visit it on a regular basis to see if there is something I’d like to add to my system. it’s eyecandy for your gnome desktop!

When it comes down to changing appearence settings by using resources available right out of the box, the only thing to do is checking the appearance menu. From there you’re ready to modify colors, window border, icons, etc., almost everything to get rid of that ugly brown color.

So I hope to see less and less mournings about appearance, since it’s all configurable, like many things in Ubuntu.

Hardy’s Trash does not work!

Well, yesterday I tried to delete all items from my trash can. I do that task very often and to tell the truth, I only had a couple folder there so it was not much of a waste of hard disk space but it became a waste of time to me. No matter how many times I tried, it never worked out and I really wanted to make it work that way, no terminal and commands=). I got no luck after rebooting so the only thing that did work was running the terminal as root and typing:

rm -rf .local/share/Trash/*

Good! Now trash remains empty