This week I upgraded from 8GB of DDR3 RAM to 16GB of slightly faster 
DDR3 RAM. I did this because in the past I had trouble rendering 
Datsville (depending on what features I had enabled or disabled).

This was probably stupid because now I am faced with the problem that 
the rest of my computer is not powerful enough to /design/ Datsville 
(mostly because of graphics card issues).

Oh well. At least I have enough RAM now to run more than one virtual 
machine in VMware.


Mike

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On 10/10/2018 08:52 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> This week I upgraded from 8GB of DDR3 RAM to 16GB of slightly faster
> DDR3 RAM. I did this because in the past I had trouble rendering
> Datsville (depending on what features I had enabled or disabled).
> 
> This was probably stupid 

maybe only partially stupid.  Doubling to 16GB is way more than worth it.

> because now I am faced with the problem that
> the rest of my computer is not powerful enough to /design/ Datsville
> (mostly because of graphics card issues).

I feel your pain there.

I wanted to add a third monitor.  Except to add the video card, I'd have
to upgrade the power supply and I'm not into spinal cord surgery on my
main workstation.

(I am just finishing updating from Ubuntu 16 to 18 (brain surgery).
tomcat isn't working, I'm sure there are still others.  But this was my
next step towards trying to get df3tools running.)

(Oh, and thanks Canonical/gnome for moving the close button from the
left to the right side. My muscle memory doesn't mind *that* at all.)

> 
> Oh well. At least I have enough RAM now to run more than one virtual
> machine in VMware.

16GB > 8GB :)

> 
> 
> Mike


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Le 11/10/2018 à 03:17, dick balaska a écrit :

> (Oh, and thanks Canonical/gnome for moving the close button from the
> left to the right side. My muscle memory doesn't mind *that* at all.)

I do not know your window manager, but you can choose the place of every 
buttons of window by going to the preference panel/window manager, style 
panel and edit the buttons (on the right of the theme list)

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On 10/11/2018 03:35 AM, Le Forgeron wrote:
> Le 11/10/2018 à 03:17, dick balaska a écrit :
> 
>> (Oh, and thanks Canonical/gnome for moving the close button from the
>> left to the right side. My muscle memory doesn't mind *that* at all.)
> 
> I do not know your window manager, but you can choose the place of every
> buttons of window by going to the preference panel/window manager, style
> panel and edit the buttons (on the right of the theme list)

There is no such option in gnome.  Gnome is very rigid (technically it
doesn't even support xscreensaver. Blank Screen is the only screen saver
you want.)

Even worse, app menus used to be in the screen title bar, a la Mac, and
they moved them back to the app window.  So now there is this 1920x80
window at the top of my screen that has an icon telling me my ethernet
is connected; has a button that is an alt-tab trigger; has a button that
is a ctrl-alt-delete trigger and a digital clock.  What a waste and I
can't turn it off. I swapped so my "primary" monitor is over yonder, let
it waste the screen real estate with big fat nothingness.

This version broke alt-tab.  It used to be if I delayed while moving
over firefox, it would expand all of my firefox windows and I could
select one.  Now I have to press down arrow while still holding alt to
expand the firefox windows.  Just painful.

And the task bar now has glaring issues too.  Ugh, just painful.
I wonder if there is a path to upgrade from ubuntu to kubuntu. I like KDE.

If I still can't get df3tools to build, I'm a gonna be really pissed ;)

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Le 11/10/2018 à 13:59, dick balaska a écrit :
> On 10/11/2018 03:35 AM, Le Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 11/10/2018 à 03:17, dick balaska a écrit :
>>
>>> (Oh, and thanks Canonical/gnome for moving the close button from the
>>> left to the right side. My muscle memory doesn't mind *that* at all.)
>>
>> I do not know your window manager, but you can choose the place of every
>> buttons of window by going to the preference panel/window manager, style
>> panel and edit the buttons (on the right of the theme list)
> 
> There is no such option in gnome.  Gnome is very rigid (technically it
> doesn't even support xscreensaver. Blank Screen is the only screen saver
> you want.)
> 
> Even worse, app menus used to be in the screen title bar, a la Mac, and
> they moved them back to the app window.  So now there is this 1920x80
> window at the top of my screen that has an icon telling me my ethernet
> is connected; has a button that is an alt-tab trigger; has a button that
> is a ctrl-alt-delete trigger and a digital clock.  What a waste and I
> can't turn it off. I swapped so my "primary" monitor is over yonder, let
> it waste the screen real estate with big fat nothingness.
> 
> This version broke alt-tab.  It used to be if I delayed while moving
> over firefox, it would expand all of my firefox windows and I could
> select one.  Now I have to press down arrow while still holding alt to
> expand the firefox windows.  Just painful.
> 
> And the task bar now has glaring issues too.  Ugh, just painful.
> I wonder if there is a path to upgrade from ubuntu to kubuntu. I like KDE.
> 

I leaved gnome when they went to 3 and broke everything including my
widgets, and installed xfce, lighter, less control-freak:

https://linuxconfig.org/install-xfce-desktop-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImuJljHTz4


Last month, I turned the top bar into a side bar, but that's personal taste.

> If I still can't get df3tools to build, I'm a gonna be really pissed ;)
>

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On 10/11/2018 11:46 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:

> 
> https://linuxconfig.org/install-xfce-desktop-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
> 

Thanks for that.

A single command and 20 minutes later I'm running kubuntu.

Font spacing is a little weird in a couple of applications, but other
than that, *much* better than gnome.



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