FAT is most common on USB flash drives and can be read from many operating systems, so you can still use the drive. IIRC, it also doesn’t contain the overhead of a.o. journaling, which saves quite some writes and thus lengthens the lifetime of the drive.

lz doesn’t really help, but the line in general doesn’t really do anything anymore, I need to remove that from the post.

It does take long to load, because the whole operating system is compressed to fit on a USB flash drive, and needs to be uncompressed and loaded into memory each time you boot it. I have experienced that at some hardware, it takes ages to go from the language selection screen to the actual boot up, while on other hardware, it works just fine.

To change the language and timeout I suppose you’ll have to look through a few .cnf files to find the relevant options.

The pendrive partition where it was installed has FAT32 format (why FAT32?)

Persistency didn’t work, so I added the lines above, and it didn’t work either. I changed this: initrd=/casper/initrd.gz into this: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz and not it works. Did I make rigth?

Is normal that it takes so long to load? I mean since I pick “Start Xubutu” till the users selector appears.

How can I change the default language from the list on the beginning and the time out?

Thanks.

But LXDE is just buggy as all getout. I have been using LXDE since I read about it’s super-lightweightness, small RAM usage, etc. But then I also read about how Linux is MEANT to run more in RAM to truly speed it up.

I haven’t given Xfce a fair chance at all. I went from Gnome to KDE (omygosh, waaaaay slow!), then LXDE because of what I had read. LXDE prob’ly has a bright future, but it’s under such heavy development right now and they keep changing stuff, and it pulls in a surprising number of unexpected dependencies. And for me, it’s been just buggy.

I’d like to see some reviews by Xubuntu users who have tried LXDE. All the comparisons I’ve read show the “hard data” that indicates memory usage and such, but they don’t describe the EXPERIENCE of LXDE vs Xfce. That’s what I’m interested in.

Giovanni, did you prefix that command with “sudo”? Also, did you use the right quotes, i.e. ", not “?

Anyway, good that it worked

sed -i “s/xfwm4/compiz/” /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml

posted by sisco311 but does not work. I opened

/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml as root and edited one value. After the line

property name=”Client0_Command” type=”array”

there was this:

value type=”string” value=”xfwm4″

I replaced “xfwm4″ with “compiz” and it work fine!

could you please let me know?

Suyog

If there’s anything specific you would like to know, you could mention that on the Request a Post page, and I could see if I could write something about it.

Also note that the menu system still isn’t finished (4.6 is kind of a transitional period for that, which, too, is unfortunate – documentation on how to manually edit it is available on the Xfce wiki).