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Posts Tagged ‘dell’

Dell Mini 10 Trackpad fix for Crunchbang

Late last week I was griping about the poor trackpad performance on the Dell Mini 10 and decided to try to fix it. It was usable, but difficult and caused a lot of erroneous clicks and mouse-moves and was a bit like trying to use a Fisher Price toy to perform brain surgery. Clunky, imprecise, [...]

Dell Mini 10 with Ubuntu /Crunchbang touchpad issues

A commenter asked about the horrible touchpad on the Dell Mini 10. Not sure if he was using Linux or Windows, but a couple of quick searches found some mention of a better driver. Top link was on superuser.com and has some hopefully helpful links. I’ll post back with results when I’ve had a chance [...]

Dell Mini 10 and Crunchbang

Over the past week and a bit, I’ve been playing around with Crunchbang Linux on a Dell Mini 10 netbook. The experience has been entertaining at least and Crunchbang works surprisingly well once you get it configured.

Out of the box, Cunchbang is a fairly minimalist desktop environment, using Openbox and Tint as the desktop and [...]