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If Looks Could Kill

I

am a fan of MS office just

because of its looks, except I

do all my work on LibreOffice.

MS office gives me some

frustrating experience every time I

tr y to do something incredible

with it. Looks can be deceptive but

Looks kill. MS office is one of the

reason why most of my friends are

not switching to Ubuntu.

LibreOffice needs a grand

makeover of its UI to create a first

impression... love at first sight as

you may call it! But LibreOffice

developers do not have much

resources for such a grand

makeover in near future. As

LibreOffice is now the default

office suite for Ubuntu, I think

Canonical should foster the

LibreOffice project. LibreOffice is a

much better office suite than even

MS office. Leave alone the UI, a

few little tweaks like HUD

integration at deeper level and

cloud support with Ubuntu One

may take it way ahead of MS

office.

Uttamv

FVWM FTW!

I

read about Alan Ward's article

(Linux Lab - Making *buntu

12.04 Boot Faster) in FCM#63.

At the end of his article he

showed his desktop, which is

FVWM (F Virtual Window Manager)

in nature. Is it possible to give a

step-by-step instruction to install

FVWM from an Ubuntu 12.04

command-line-system?

JP

Alan Replied:

B

oth FVWM (the simple

version) and FVWM-

crystal (a bit more

beautiful) are in the

Ubuntu repositories, more

precisely in the universe section.

So all you need to do, at the

command line, is:

sudo bash

apt-get update

apt-get install fvwm-crystal

(or "apt-get install fvwm" if you

only want FVWM )

and you should be good to go.

Alternatively, any graphical

software installer such as Synaptic

should also find them for you.

You then log out of your

session, and should find the fvwm

entries have been created in the

display manager list of desktop

sessions. For example, in lightdm:

As for configuration, there is

not too much information to be

found on the Web. The Gentoo

guide on FVWM is about the most

comprehensive I have seen so far:

http://en.gentoo-

wiki.com/wiki/FVWM/Configuratio

n

Alan Ward

Simple Solutions

I

started using Ubuntu back in

2006 with Edgy Eft. It always

has been and always will be a

great Operating System. I

support Ubuntu and what it stands

for. It is great to see Canonical

working hard to satisfy the

demands of users who use touch-

screen devices such as tablets,

smart-phones and All-in-one PCs.

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 a few

weeks back on my 15.3” laptop,

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