On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Brian Dunn wrote: > So you guys helped me pick a distro, and i'm pretty > happy with it. Lets here the verdicts, what window > manager? Gnome 2.12 is what i've been using, but it > isn't the most stable. Sometimes i can't logout and i > have to switch to a vt and kill it. The absence of > easily configurable menus has me sticking all my music > apps in a "drawer," where those without icons apear as > big feet that must be mouse-overed until i get > tool-tipped to even know that program it is. I could > work around/live with it but then i resized one day > with <ctrl>+<alt>+- to read some fine print and all o' > the sudden the horizontal refresh was busted like an > old television. the whole screen was cycling to the > left at a dizying pace and my muse cursor disapeared. > Even after killing X and restarting this nonsence was > still going on and i hate having to reboot my machine. > So now i'm playing with e16... before i invest in > realy figuring out how to use it, what do any of you > using a jack studio setup with like MusE and Ardor and > the like prefer? Your problem almost certainly did NOT involve the window manager. The version of Gnome on my Ubuntu Dapper system, 2.13.91, works perfectly. Lee
