My Eee PC 901 is more than powerful enough to play back 480p video, but not when it’s playing though Adobe Flash Player. 408p YouTube videos drop frames and don’t play back at full framerate. YouTube has an experimental HTML5 video player that should offer better better performance than Flash. I enabled it, but it [...]

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Recently I’ve fixed the tap-and-drag gesture, and swapped the right and middle click gestures on my netbook’s touchpad. I applied the configuration changes for these by adding the synclient configuration commands to Startup Applications. It didn’t take long before I noticed that some changes would revert after I suspended and woke the system. Even adding [...]

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I’m sure many heavy users of tabbed browsing use the middle mouse button much more than the right. Some number of Ubuntu releases ago, the two and three finger touchpad tap gestures were swapped to the current configuration, using two fingers for right click and three for middle. I’d rather have the middle button bound [...]

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One of the issues introduced by Ubuntu 11.10 on my Eee PC 901 is touchpad dragging. The tap-and-drag gesture, for moving the cursor with the mouse button depressed, is too sensitive. I have to tap as fast I can to activate the gesture every time. Today I pursued the bug report for this issue to [...]

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When waking from suspension or hibernation, Ubuntu prompts the current user to unlock the screen by entering their password. You might want to disable this prompt if you want your laptop to be ready to use faster, and don’t need the extra security. In previous versions of Ubuntu, the lock screen after waking could be [...]

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