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Re: less maladjusted


I've had some very similar issues. Since I wanted not to have to
recreate my old app settings, I actually copied my old Lucid /home to
the new Precise /home, which turned out to be a mixed blessing: on the
upside -- and this might be a help -- somewhere deep in that Lucid home
directory the program objects in my Lucid directory got recognized as
such by Precise -- including XyWrite -- and I was easily able to simply
drag them to the launcher.


About a week into my beta testing, something got badly confused and I
had one or two crazy reboots -- after which everything settled down. A
month later (a week or two ago) after I applied one of the updates, my
Midnight Commander object got lost in the shuffle -- and I am basically
in the same boat as you, unable to create a launcher object for a bash
script/batchfile that by reason should be the easiest thing of all to
create -- for the moment just stuck the mc bash script in my
~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder where I start it with a click on the
desktop background.


I haven't tried XFCE but if I had more space on the netbook and/or a bit
more time, I'd try it there. & I concur about Quicklists -- I spent a
few minutes jiggering these over the weekend & am delighted to be able
to open LibreOffice templates straight from the launcher, a great
hurdle-remover when you're concentrating on doing something (composing
and printing out a letter) and want to be able to do it in one step
rather than having to open LO, navigate to Templates, remember which one
you wanted & click on that. The HUD is a champ as well, particularly
with something like GIMP where every time I used it I'd spent literally
5 minutes looking for the simplest tool.


Not sure what you mean about fighting for the Win key -- do you use it
in XyWrite? I didn't think that was possible.


-Rafe

On 05/21/2012 11:44 PM, Paul Lagasse wrote:

Rafe, I like Unity much better than when I first met it, and by Ubuntu
11.10 I switched to it gradually.


Now, however, my current 12.04 setup, which was an upgrade of 10.04
rather than a clean install, has developed some malfunctions with
respect to the launchers that I can't seem to fix -- or find discussed
online. I have a clean installation on my netbook that I had not added
the more recent 12.04 updates to (I was about to travel and didn't
want to trash anything on that), but I'll proceed with the 12.04
updates now and see if things remain good or behave like my main
Ubuntu box.


Dosemu remains extremely stable. I do hate having to fight Ubuntu for
the Super (Win) key, and some things have become harder to tweak, but
it's brought other features (Quicklists for Launchers, and the message
indicator) that I'd hate to give up. It took a little while to figure
out how to get a custom icon to work with my XyWrite launcher. I would
like a "minimize on click" function added to the launchers, and have
found the patch that adds that helpful. And did I say I hate having to
fight for the Super key? That said, I'm basically a satisfied
nonpaying customer.


I hate Gnome 3, and don't want to go back to the limitations of Gnome
2. Mint is good for what it is, but I like Unity better. Should Unity
get too weird, I'd probably see what I can do with LXDE or XFCE --
I've used both desktops before and liked them well enough.


Paul


On 05/20/2012 02:33 PM, Raphael wrote:



Can't help it, but when I see these OT threads about the horrors of
malware -- as well as the demise of DOS support in the MS kingdom --
I have to pipe up about Linux. The latest version of Ubuntu, Precise
Pangolin, is at the same time 1) very easy to use out of the box and
2) potentially extraordinarily powerful and with the right tools, not
at all difficult to configure. I just posted a little entry about it
on my blog (they've got it up on ubuntu-news.net!) and it contains a
glancing reference to XyWrite


http://ray-field.com/content/blog/2012/05/18/ubuntus-unity-is-a-terminal-case



& as bears repeating, malware/virus is a non-issue and dosemu support
shows not the least sign of eroding. Is it for everyone? Well,
actually, it is. One of these days I'm going to put together a page
about running XyWrite under Linux -- but for the time being, Edward
Mendelson's WordPerfect for DOS under Linux will get you started.


Paul Lagasse, how do you like Unity?

-rafe