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Ubuntu Hardy Updates
A few days ago I was running updates for the first time on my new Ubuntu Hardy system. Actually this is not the first time I was running updates but the first time there was actually updates to install.
After the updates and even a full system restart (not normally required on Linux but I wanted to be sure), the issue with the login window manager crashing my system (ok it doesn't actually "crash" my system but the hard drive light keeps going on and off) has still not been resolved. Be that as it may, I just couldn't help thinking that this system is really really sexy.
Basically, my PC case is black, my keyboard is black, my mouse is black, the casing of my screen is black, and my theme (the ubuntustudio-look) is also black.
No, all this black is not because I'm trying to be politically correct. This is just because it looks so damn sexy. Back in the days all the PC equipment was typically white (yes, even well after apartheid ended). People got bored of it quite clearly and then started to play with the grays (or "silvers") and now black.
Then in addition I have gnome-terminal running on top of it with a yellow-green front colour and semi-transparency in the back. Holy shit this looks good! Now I really feel like a code hacker...
Only question I have now is when will this semi-transparency also work properly on top of other windows etc. At the moment it's just semi-transparent on top of the background. KDE had proper semi-transparency now for a long time so I don't know why Gnome is falling behind, although maybe it's just me that doing things wrong. Maybe I should give the fancy 3D environments a try as well.
Copyright © 2004-2008 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
1 Comments
Comment by
Daniel on Friday, May 23, 2008 7:13:00 AM
Thanks for this post. I have the same problem with the "login window" manager. But i just updated the packages and now -- for the first time with hardy -- i can configure my login. :)
But first i thought i was the only one with this problem. So thanks. ;)
daniel
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