Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop - Revision history

Marc Saric at 16:00, 1 May 2025

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			= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS =

	Installation notes for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my new Intel Core i5 4440. You can find more complete Howtos on the Net, so I won't repeat this here.		Installation notes for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my new Intel Core i5 4440. You can find more complete Howtos on the Net, so I won't repeat this here.

Marc Saric: /* Transient desktop problems */

2014-09-08T18:49:53Z

Transient desktop problems

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	== Transient desktop problems ==		== Transient desktop problems ==

	I had some transient issues with infrequent hangups of Mate Caja during file copy operations , which may or may not have been related to the somewhat broken Mate 1.8 install I used before. Fixed with current Mate 1.8.1 install.		I had some transient issues with infrequent hangups of Mate Caja during file copy operations , as well as broken applets in the task bar, which may or may not have been related to the somewhat broken Mate 1.8 install I used before. Fixed with current Mate 1.8.1 install.

	= Final words =		= Final words =

	For a LTS release, which is supposed to be stable and well tested, this has a surprising amount of annoying glitches and bugs in central parts (LightDM, the whole Unity mess, shutdown (probably kernel and/or motherboard related). Otherwise working quite stable so far.		For a LTS release, which is supposed to be stable and well tested, this has a surprising amount of annoying glitches and bugs in central parts (LightDM, the whole Unity mess, shutdown (probably kernel and/or motherboard related). Otherwise working quite stable so far.

Marc Saric at 18:45, 8 September 2014

2014-09-08T18:45:10Z

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	Ubuntu fails to shutdown the keyboard properly (legacy PS/2), the Num lock LED keeps on on shutdown. This sucks, as it has been an issue with e.g. Fedora 13 several eons ago. This should not happen...		Ubuntu fails to shutdown the keyboard properly (legacy PS/2), the Num lock LED keeps on on shutdown. This sucks, as it has been an issue with e.g. Fedora 13 several eons ago. This should not happen...

			== Transient desktop problems ==

			I had some transient issues with infrequent hangups of Mate Caja during file copy operations , which may or may not have been related to the somewhat broken Mate 1.8 install I used before. Fixed with current Mate 1.8.1 install.

			= Final words =

			For a LTS release, which is supposed to be stable and well tested, this has a surprising amount of annoying glitches and bugs in central parts (LightDM, the whole Unity mess, shutdown (probably kernel and/or motherboard related). Otherwise working quite stable so far.

Marc Saric: /* Oracle Java */

2014-09-08T18:41:05Z

Oracle Java

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	= Oracle Java =		= Oracle Java =

	~~FIXME~~.		Boring:
			<pre>
			sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
			sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
			sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
			</pre>

			Prerequisite for Eclipse.

	= Truetype fonts =		= Truetype fonts =

Marc Saric: /* Eclipse */

2014-09-08T18:39:45Z

Eclipse

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	= Eclipse =		= Eclipse =

	~~FIXME~~.		Needed Java JDK. Otherwise -unpack, start, done.

	= Tweaking =		= Tweaking =

Marc Saric: /* The quest for a usable desktop */

2014-09-08T18:38:34Z

The quest for a usable desktop

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	As Unity sucks anyways, as does Gnome 3 and Gnome Classic, I decided to use [http://mate-desktop.org/ Mate], which at least is a decent interface.		As Unity sucks anyways, as does Gnome 3 and Gnome Classic, I decided to use [http://mate-desktop.org/ Mate], which at least is a decent interface.

	See http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar for current install instructions of Mate 1.8 (now part of Ubuntu 14.04). I used the Ubuntu Mate Remix install, which solved some bugs with the 1.8 release I had installed previously.		See http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar for current install instructions of Mate 1.8 (now part of Ubuntu 14.04). I used the Ubuntu Mate Remix install and the [http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/replace_unity_by_mate Replace Unity with Mate] Howto, which solved some bugs with the 1.8 release I had installed previously.

	Aside from the broken menu editor, which prevents you from removing unwanted Gnome and Unity related packages from the Applications menu, there where some issues for me regarding Sound settings (had them disabled in Gnome 3 shell, and they stuck to that setting no matter what I choose in Mate).		Works pretty good so far.

	The font settings for the default Firefox and Thunderbird appear to ignore the Mate font settings and look more like tweaked for the default too large and too bold font of Gnome 3 -with no way of correcting this (at least not using any of the usual GUI tools (Gnome-, Unity-, Mate-tweak-tools).

	~~Default bold coloured fonts for the Mate terminal where horrible, had to change them from "Ubuntu" to "Monospace"~~.

	== Legacy OSS games ==		== Legacy OSS games ==

Marc Saric: /* The quest for a usable desktop */

2014-09-08T18:36:11Z

The quest for a usable desktop

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	As Unity sucks anyways, as does Gnome 3 and Gnome Classic, I decided to use [http://mate-desktop.org/ Mate], which at least is a decent interface.		As Unity sucks anyways, as does Gnome 3 and Gnome Classic, I decided to use [http://mate-desktop.org/ Mate], which at least is a decent interface.

	See http://~~www~~.~~webupd8~~.org/~~2014/03/how-to-install-mate-18-in-ubuntu.html~~ for ~~short and painless~~ install instructions of Mate 1.8 (~~not~~ part of Ubuntu 14.04 ~~at time of writing~~). ~~This has a glitch (~~Mate ~~menu editor "mozo" not working due to a packaging error) but otherwise works as advertised and is not worse than the slightly old Gnome 2~~, which ~~shipped~~ with ~~CentOS 6~~.4.		See http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar for current install instructions of Mate 1.8 (now part of Ubuntu 14.04). I used the Ubuntu Mate Remix install, which solved some bugs with the 1.8 release I had installed previously.

	Aside from the broken menu editor, which prevents you from removing unwanted Gnome and Unity related packages from the Applications menu, there where some issues for me regarding Sound settings (had them disabled in Gnome 3 shell, and they stuck to that setting no matter what I choose in Mate).		Aside from the broken menu editor, which prevents you from removing unwanted Gnome and Unity related packages from the Applications menu, there where some issues for me regarding Sound settings (had them disabled in Gnome 3 shell, and they stuck to that setting no matter what I choose in Mate).

Marc Saric at 21:34, 14 May 2014

2014-05-14T21:34:40Z

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	Unity sucks -even more so, because it does not work with my mouse. LightDM (the standard graphical login greeter) sucks as well. Or maybe my mouse sucks. In any case, there where strange problems with 30 second delays from entering the password to the desktop (on a quad-core SSD-only machine...). The mouse stops working after around 30 seconds into using the desktop (even with the tweak described below), log off/log in helps. This is a known problem, see http://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/using-the-cyborg-r-a-t-7-with-ubuntu/		Unity sucks -even more so, because it does not work with my mouse. LightDM (the standard graphical login greeter) sucks as well. Or maybe my mouse sucks. In any case, there where strange problems with 30 second delays from entering the password to the desktop (on a quad-core SSD-only machine...). The mouse stops working after around 30 seconds into using the desktop (even with the tweak described below), log off/log in helps. This is a known problem, see http://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/using-the-cyborg-r-a-t-7-with-ubuntu/

	As Unity sucks anyways, as does Gnome 3 and Gnome Classic, I decided to use [http://mate-desktop.org/\|Mate], which at least is a decent interface.		As Unity sucks anyways, as does Gnome 3 and Gnome Classic, I decided to use [http://mate-desktop.org/ Mate], which at least is a decent interface.

	See http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-mate-18-in-ubuntu.html for short and painless install instructions of Mate 1.8 (not part of Ubuntu 14.04 at time of writing). This has a glitch (Mate menu editor "mozo" not working due to a packaging error) but otherwise works as advertised and is not worse than the slightly old Gnome 2, which shipped with CentOS 6.4.		See http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-mate-18-in-ubuntu.html for short and painless install instructions of Mate 1.8 (not part of Ubuntu 14.04 at time of writing). This has a glitch (Mate menu editor "mozo" not working due to a packaging error) but otherwise works as advertised and is not worse than the slightly old Gnome 2, which shipped with CentOS 6.4.
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	UT2004 had no sound and refused to start out of the box (as usual for the last -Idon'tknow- 10 Linux installations.		UT2004 had no sound and refused to start out of the box (as usual for the last -Idon'tknow- 10 Linux installations.

	See e.g. http://~~mate-desktop~~.~~org~~/ (german, but you will get the important stuff) for a setup.		See e.g. http://www.holarse.de/wiki/unreal_tournament_2004 or http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Spiele/UT2004 (german, but you will get the important stuff) for setup instructions.

	Currently I still don't have sound and am to bored to fix this (I'm not playing UT2004 a lot any more due to a diminishing number of servers with acceptable ping times).		Currently I still don't have sound and am to bored to fix this (I'm not playing UT2004 a lot any more due to a diminishing number of servers with acceptable ping times).
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	== Steam ==		== Steam ==

	Just works.		Just works. Counter Strike:Source just works, as do the other HL2 based games. Great.

	== Cyborg R.A.T. 5 mouse ==		== Cyborg R.A.T. 5 mouse ==

Marc Saric: /* Tweaking */

2014-05-12T19:15:08Z

Tweaking

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	xinput --set-prop "Saitek Cyborg R.A.T.5 Mouse" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1		xinput --set-prop "Saitek Cyborg R.A.T.5 Mouse" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1
	</pre>		</pre>

			== Shutdown issues ==

			Ubuntu fails to shutdown the keyboard properly (legacy PS/2), the Num lock LED keeps on on shutdown. This sucks, as it has been an issue with e.g. Fedora 13 several eons ago. This should not happen...

Marc Saric: /* Legacy OSS games */

2014-05-12T19:00:29Z

Legacy OSS games

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	== Legacy OSS games ==		== Legacy OSS games ==

	~~FIXME~~.		UT2004 had no sound and refused to start out of the box (as usual for the last -Idon'tknow- 10 Linux installations.

			See e.g. http://mate-desktop.org/ (german, but you will get the important stuff) for a setup.

			Currently I still don't have sound and am to bored to fix this (I'm not playing UT2004 a lot any more due to a diminishing number of servers with acceptable ping times).

			== Steam ==

			Just works.

	== Cyborg R.A.T. 5 mouse ==		== Cyborg R.A.T. 5 mouse ==