[PLUG] Netbook function keys

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 19:50:35 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700
> Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> dijo:
>
>>> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted
>>> XFCE? Your still going to have tidbits that Unity needs if you throw
>>> XFCE on top while if you use Xubuntu your getting a pure XFCE
>>> experience.
>
>>Ignorance, basically, although the "amd" makes me wonder if it is
>>suitable for an Intel machine. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Ignorance and miscommunication. Denis said "Ubuntu" and I didn't
> realize until after he installed it that he intended to run Xfce.
>
> Because his netbook has no optical drive we had to make a bootable USB
> drive. My computer has Fedora 16 which comes with a utility to make a
> bootable USB, but it won't work with anything but Fedora images.
> However, I had previously installed UNetbootin on the recommendation
> that it could make a bootable USB drive out of any distro image. At the
> Clinic Sunday was the first time I ever tried to use it. I am happy to
> report that it made Denis' USB drive bootable with 12.10, exactly as
> advertised.
>
> So Denis, if you want to start over with Xubuntu, install UNetbootin,
> download Xubuntu, and repeat what we did at the Clinic. No guarantees
> that it will solve the other issues you have, however, but at least it
> will not have any unnecessary parts of other desktop environments in
> it.

Thanks, John.  I have little hope that a fresh install of Xubuntu will
solve the function key problems, but it is certainly worth a try.  If
it does not, I will be looking at another choice.

-Denis



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