Monday, June 25, 2012

Moving on with Ubuntu


It's the second day of linux, and now I am getting use to all its general interfaces. The quick launch, the dash, multiple workspaces, the small e-mail button in the upper right corner(i don't know what it is called) and the terminal.

Another problem I faced with ubuntu is related to it's music player (Rhythmbox). I should provide that it's very easy to access Rythmbox in Ubuntu, and that's through the speaker icon appearing in the upper right corner of the workspace. However, the problem is that I have to import my music files to Rythmbox each time I run the application. That is sure a pain in the a**. The pain becomes severe due to the fact that I have plenty of songs in my 'songs' folder and it gets quite a long time to import them all to the application.

I'm beginning to understand the reason for this; I think linux is treating each of the partitions as one single disk which can be mounted and ejected from the root. In that way, if I have not mounted my disk partition where the songs have been stored in Windows, I have to go through all the trouble just to play my music. It is just like playing music from a CD. But I might be wrong, or there can be an easy way.

Still it's pretty hard to type long articles in Ubuntu because the touch-pad does not get switched off when I'm typing and when ever my palm touches it the cursor goes to somewhere else. :D I hope I will be able to find a patch for that.

The next problem I faced was regarding the applications which I wanted at the start-up. Specifically skype. The solution was easy. Just click on the upper right corner where you have the power off icon, and select 'Start-up Applications' from the drop down menu. For the command just type 'skype' (if you go to the terminal and directly type 'the name of the software' you can access it, that's the logic behind the entry under command label). Problem solved.

That's all for now.  

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