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A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by vetinari »

pritambaral wrote: post #154
vetinari wrote: post #147

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The blurriness seems to be a bug with Xwayland: it runs the apps at @1 scale and scales them UP to the required fractional size. It should run them at the @2 scale and scale them DOWN, to preserve the sharpness. Meanwhile, the best way to achieve fractional scale is to run X11, use the nearest highest integer scale and scale it down using "xrandr --scale 1.somethingx1.something". Not very user friendly, though.

> Meanwhile, the best way to achieve fractional scale is to run X11, use the nearest highest integer scale and scale it down using "xrandr --scale 1.somethingx1.something". Not very user friendly, though. KDE's Kwin on X11 supports fractionally scaling displays, and is user friendly. Go to Displays -> Scale Display

Not correctly, though.

When talking about fractional scaling in Gnome, it is meant for all apps, not just GTK apps. Most apps do respect Xft.dpi, so they will scale their fonts, as the desktop environment sets it up, but not the other assets. Scaling all the other assets is the issue, not just the font rendering.

So yes, Qt apps in KDE do work correctly, (KDE is seting their QT_*_SCALE env variables). It does not work with GTK apps. Similarly, GTK apps do work correctly with fractional scaling in Gnome, but Qt apps do not, because Gnome doesn't set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE=0 and QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS like KDE does. Qt apps in Gnome look broken exactly like GTK apps look broken in KDE.

Proper fractional scaling means scaling all apps, not just apps made using single framework.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by coatmatter »

lobo_tuerto wrote: post #268
slezyr wrote: post #56

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With antergos you can use nice graphic installer to install arch.

Same with Manjaro. I've been happily using the i3 distribution for like 6 months now. And I only have minor complains.

It should be noted that i3wm installs and runs easily on distros such as Ubuntu and Fedora too - which is how I was introduced to it (after liking the tiling aspects from Unity, but not the graphics card/RAM hit that came with it).

The i3 edition of Manjaro is heavily customised and almost an entirely different beast (i3-gaps etc).

This is the piece that swung me: https://adereth.github.io/blog/2013/10/02/why-you-should-try...

It mentions notion so I tried that for about 2 days before taking up a comment's suggestion to try i3.

Edit: I don't think there's an official guide for actually installing i3, but the official fedora blog has a good one. Searching for "install i3wm ubuntu" (or arch) would likely also show some good default setups.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by gregknicholson »

tambre wrote: post #155
gregknicholson wrote: post #5

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Ubuntu uses Gnome now. This option exists in the Tweaks app.

I'm aware that Ubuntu uses Gnome now. But it's especially annoying now, that I know Gnome has got functionality for it, but they didn't bother to add an option for it in the settings for normal users.

That's Gnome's design decision.

I don't understand the comparison between Ubuntu and Gnome when Ubuntu is simply inheriting Gnome's design decision.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by majewsky »

lobo_tuerto wrote: post #267
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #246

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If only we lived in a world where developers could just distribute their application binaries to the end user without having to rely on a storefront.

SourceForge?

> GitHub

FTFY

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by criddell »

jhasse wrote: post #286
criddell wrote: post #215

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1. I think the maximise button is still there. I don't think they altered it at all. 2. If small targets like the maximise button aren't a problem for you, then stopping the windows drag a few pixels before the mouse hits the top of the screen should be easy for you as well. The drag to the top is nice because it mirrors the drag to left and right side. Since this is Linux, I'm sure you can configure this stuff somew…

It's GNOME, so nope, no setting for that.

Try this:

    dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/classic-overrides/edge-tiling false

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by unethical_ban »

Izkata wrote: post #317
yellowapple wrote: post #251

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I use the default scroll direction (down is down, up is up) with mouse wheels, but invert it for touchpads. It just feels more correct; with the wheel, it feels like the bottom of the wheel is the thing moving the page up, while with the touchpad it feels like it should be moving the page directly. Works almost perfectly. The only problem is the Slack desktop app (which inexplicably ignores the settings for literally…

Meanwhile, I can't stand that way. For me, that means having to think about it and switch direction depending on which one I'm using (which happens several times a day at work, depends on if my laptop is docked or not). I prefer it where if I want to scroll down, I just drag my finger down, regardless of whether it's on the touchpad or the mouse.

Think of the scrollwheel as sitting above the screen. When you roll the wheel down, the bottom of the wheel is going up, moving the screen up.

The touchpad IS the screen, so to speak, so moving the finger up would move the screen down.

That's how I visualize it. YMMV

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by cabalamat »

criddell wrote: post #215
cabalamat wrote: post #197

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> I use this all the time when working with several monitors. Just press Alt, click somewhere onto a window, move this window to a different monitor, smash window to the top of the screen. Bam, instant monitor-switching of full-screen windows. 1. What's wrong with the maximise button? It wasn't broken, it didn't need fixing. 2. What if you want the window at the top of the screen without being maximised?

1. I think the maximise button is still there. I don't think they altered it at all. 2. If small targets like the maximise button aren't a problem for you, then stopping the windows drag a few pixels before the mouse hits the top of the screen should be easy for you as well. The drag to the top is nice because it mirrors the drag to left and right side. Since this is Linux, I'm sure you can configure this stuff somew…

> If small targets like the maximise button aren't a problem for you, then stopping the windows drag a few pixels before the mouse hits the top of the screen should be easy for you as well

I certainly could do that. However (1) it wastes space, and (2) it's a crappy UI: moving the window some distance does one thing, moving it a bit more does something completely different.

> Since this is Linux, I'm sure you can configure this stuff somewhere.

I agree, the relevant command is:

    $ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
:-)

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by andrepd »

yellowapple wrote: post #248
andrepd wrote: post #104

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A counterexample to that is the many other DEs done right: Xfce, Cinnamon, etc.

Maybe this is different nowadays, but my initial experiences with Cinnamon a few years back (right when I first switched to Mint in light of Ubuntu's Amazon Lens debacle) were very strongly negative. It was ugly, unstable, slow, difficult to customize, and in general just as shitty as GNOME 3 was at the time. MATE , on the other hand, was/is fantastic. GNOME 2 already was just about perfect for me, and though I was w…

Cinnamon has matured quit a lot in the last years. You should give it another go.

I agree that Xfce is excellent. It's my go-to choice for any older/underpowered machines.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by yellowapple »

rlpb wrote: post #337
yellowapple wrote: post #241

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"it was designed and advertised as a global search" No it was not. There were Lenses that were advertised as non-local searches, yes, but the main Lens was (to my recollection) not one of them. What actually happened was that Canonical took the main search bar (which had traditionally been designed to search for local files and programs) and stuck Amazon search results in it. Then, when users (like myself) recommende…

> There were Lenses that were advertised as non-local searches, yes, but the main Lens was (to my recollection) not one of them. The label got changed to "Search your computer and online sources". I believe this was after a few iterations. I don't remember the original text, but I think it's clear that there was no intention to mislead users.

Even assuming there was no intention (of which I'm skeptical), that doesn't mean users weren't misled anyway.
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