[NTLUG:Discuss] Distro Advice

[Ralph Green]

Patrick,
  One of the thing about Ubuntu I like is how well they handle a
variety of desktop environments.  Mandrake used to do a good job of
that, but I think Ubuntu does it even better.  With the disaster that
is Unity, I have been trying other desktop environments.  For the last
6 months or so, my primary environment has been KDE on Ubuntu.  One
thing bugs me.  I bet it is a simple fix, if I knew where to look.
Whenever I log in, I have 2 programs launch that I don't want to
launch.  One is the synaptics trackpad manager.  It always gives me an
error that it can't find a synaptics trackpad.  I ran the program
once, by accident, when I was intending to launch synaptic, the
package utility.  And, nautilus launches and shows me my home
directory.  My startup would go quicker if I did not have to wait for
those to finish drawing and then close them.
 I am about ready to give up on KDE and switch to XFCE.  Maybe someone
here knows how to fix this.
Thanks,
Ralph

On 8/29/12, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
  Kubuntu in particular has been a pleasure to use.