[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu Where's 'Applications->System->Preferences'?

[Andrew Hughes]

Thanks Chris,

Your explanation is very concise and accurate! It is a shame that the
ubuntu specific guides are rendered useless as they are often the most user
friendly guides available.

Thanks everyone for your responses, greatly appreciated.

--AH


On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Andrew Hughes <ahhughes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Probably going to learn a lot simply by posting this but here goes.
> Ubuntu's
> > menu is quite different from Mythbuntu's. In particular there is no
> > "Application -> System -> Preferences" menu item. Which for Noob's like
> me
> > makes it really hard to follow online guides and howto's that constantly
> use
> > this.
> > So where is this? Can I add this to the menu somehow or is this a
> > fundamental difference between the two?
> > Cheers :)
>
> The difference is quite fundamental. Ubuntu guides are written
> assuming that you're using the GNOME desktop environment, whilst
> Mythbuntu uses XFCE to save resources. As such, the GNOME specific
> tools aren't there by default. There's usually an XFCE alternative, or
> something you can install yourself, but it does render the
> Ubuntu-specific guides rather useless.
>
> Try searching for ways to do what you want from the command line, they
> tend to be pretty universal between similar distributions (ie between
> the *buntu's, Debian and Mint)
>
> - Chris
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