Disabling touchpad tapping in Xubuntu Intrepid

I have reinstalled Xubuntu from the Xubuntu iso and it seems to be working fine.
The thing that bugged me the most though was that the touchpad on my vaio laptop was set up for “tapping” by default.
Tapping is something that people either love or hate, and I am in the latter category.
Gnome seems to have [...]

Xubuntu session problem

Just had a blank screen after starting an xfce session which is a bit annoying. Luckily I could still Alt-F2 to start firefox from terminal.
This handy hint by xerodeth seemed to solve it:

” Re: Xfce Session won’t start
so not sure if anyone still needs help with this… but this is what works for [...]

Xubuntu

I have been trying out the xubuntu-desktop package today, and I’m actually pretty impressed with it.
To install it in Ubuntu Intrepid the command is:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
As I have got quite an old laptop I thought I’d give Xubuntu a go as it’s supposedly a good choice for running on “legacy” hardware such as my [...]