I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10 today with Cinnamon as a desktop and am pleased with the interface. I noticed something when scanning some documents in lineart mode, though: the resulting images had a ton of noise, noise that I did not see in scans prior to my upgrade. After snooping around the … Continue reading “Ubuntu Yielding Noisy Black/White Scans”
I seem to occasionally find myself sparring with Ubuntu on getting VNC server configured correctly. I use the default (RealVNC) vncserver package included with Ubuntu. There are two main points of configuration I seem to rediscover each time: Make sure vncserver is looking in the right place for configuration For my setup, the “right” place … Continue reading “Ubuntu and VNC”
Ubuntu has been my Linux of choice for sometime now. Currently using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) with default VNC package. Along the way I have found some issues. Keyboard Malfunction I recently ran into a problem while upgrading distributions. In short, the keyboard mapping was completely messed up when connected over VNC. Typing characters over VNC … Continue reading “Ubuntu and VNC”