Happy for Kubuntu 9.10

Posted on | November 17, 2009 | No Comments

It’s been about one year now from my ‘forced’ move from the Fedoras to the Kubuntus. And I didn’t give in without a fight .

Recently I upgraded my 2 Kubuntu 9.04 machines to 9.10, and I have to say that I am quite pleased with the outcome. I am happy to say, that this is my FIRST Kubuntu upgrades that didn’t pose any headaches for me.

My 9.04 upgrade was quite unsuccessful, I had to write a small cron job to kill wayward KDE processes. After I upgraded to 9.10, the wayward processes are no longer there, so my machine got snappier again. Furthermore, it didn’t use to automatically re-size the screen resolution when I plugged in my external monitor. And then, after I manually re-sized it, I had to restart synergy, because the screen boundaries were all wrong. All these issues are now gone.

I am pleasantly surprise that now Pidgin also notify me when I get new messages. Also, gone are the few hiccups that I had with the sound server.

One minor issue tho, GTK error spews!!

I fire up Firefox via a terminal because I run several versions for testing. To my surprise, I got a gazillion GTK error messages in my terminal, “(firefox-bin:2767): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead” at nauseoum ex vomitum. Good think that I discovered that it was a known benign issue. It was a problem that was shoved under the rug, and now exposed. I guess I either have to put up with them, or redirect them to /dev/null. Oh well, I shouldn’t really expect for perfection, right?