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10-29-2014, 07:54 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2014
Distribution: Mostly Ubuntu, with Arch and Kali thrown in for variety
Posts: 14
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Find GNOME progra list start menu thing
My old cmputer is running really slow on Ubuntu Gnome Utopic, so I'm going to swith it to lUbuntu Trusty. I'm trying to find where that start menu config thing is so that I can find out which games and programs I have on it. I don't want some sort of "dpkg -i" thing because I want the user-readable name of the program or game in question, and not the package name Does anybody know where the file that contains the names and catagories is located?
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10-30-2014, 04:32 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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unity doesn't have an app menu?
that's just sad.
maybe you can just type "game" in the dash?
or maybe you have to install an app menu.
however, hearing "old computer" and "ubuntu" - how old is your computer? maybe ubuntu is just not the right linux for it.
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10-30-2014, 07:48 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2014
Distribution: Mostly Ubuntu, with Arch and Kali thrown in for variety
Posts: 14
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What is this Unity?
When I said GNOME, I ment GNOME, Classic mode with the GNOME 2 app menu. And it's a Dell Dimmension e310, 1 gb ram with a 1tb WD Green. It runs GNOME pretty slow, and since I went to Utopic, not at all. Maybe I sould try to use Unity to retrieve my data, or install xfce so that I can retrieve that list beofre I reformat and start over. I'm planning to completely redo the partition table while I'm at it.
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10-30-2014, 04:42 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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1GB RAM? not enough for a current ubuntu.
try lubuntu, or crunchbang.
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10-30-2014, 05:14 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2014
Distribution: Mostly Ubuntu, with Arch and Kali thrown in for variety
Posts: 14
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That's exactly what I'm going to do. The problem is, I don't know which programs I have installed and I don't want to click some file in my home directory and find that I forgot to reinstall that program.
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10-31-2014, 03:36 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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ahhh, i see...
well, ubuntu is using apt as packet management system and i'm sure you can get a list of installed softwares from that somehow.
which you can probably filter by timestamps.
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10-31-2014, 04:11 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2014
Distribution: Mostly Ubuntu, with Arch and Kali thrown in for variety
Posts: 14
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Okay, wat I ended up doing was loading a ubuntustudio session, which runs under xfce and tht gave me access to a real program launher menu. This system started with a ubuntu-gnome and then I added in unity and ubuntu studio. Unity because you never know when it will be useful and ubuntu studio because I use the applications on occasion. Ubuntu Studio also comes with a pretty good desktop envoronment, particuarly when you need a real app list
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