Tag: xubuntu
- XFCE panel indicator plugin background fix (21 Jul 2018)
The indicator plugin in XFCE panel has been a very useful but also a very controversial plugin! The reason is that its the only plugin on the XFCE panel developed in GTK3 (whereas rest of the panel is developed in GTK2) and this causes some theming issues. Specifically, only those...
- How to make your Xubuntu 16.04 desktop look and behave like Ubuntu-MATE (18 Jul 2018)
Xubuntu is one of the most popular among the “lighter” distros as it hardly consumes 200MB when idle and even older machines are able to run with acceptable performance. Ubuntu-MATE which is based on MATE Desktop (a GNOME-2 fork) is also a similar competing distro though its debatable whether its...
- How To Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Faster (19 Sep 2017)
The usual advice you get when seeking a more resource conserving distro is to use a lighter spin-off such as Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc. However, not many people know that even a “heavy” distro such as Ubuntu LTS with the default Unity Desktop could be made much lighter by uninstalling some...
- How to create a screencast in Xubuntu using ffmpeg (19 Jul 2016)
In this article, I’m going to describe how to create a desktop screencast recording with or without audio in Xubuntu 16.04. With little changes, however, it should work on other distros too. The first thing to do is to ensure that your headphone microphone is enabled in Xubuntu audio settings....