Renzatic on 20/9/2009 at 22:57

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I decided not to worry about it sometime last week. At most, I might get a couple second advantage going from ext3 to 4, and only then, like Mudi said, if I installed it on a fresh blank partition. I ain't worrying about it.

By the way, is there a way I can force super user permissions for use in the desktop without heading to the terminal? For me, it's usually easier just opening a couple of folders and doing a few drag and drops instead of going in and typing it all out.

Renzatic on 23/9/2009 at 20:32

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Yeah, it took me long enough to get back to you, but thanks for the help there. The shortcut worked perfectly.

edit: Okay, I've got Gothic 1, 2, and Painkiller Black running in Wine. Even found a native copy of 3D Coat (which is so very nice). Things are starting to get fun, even if I did have to go through some trouble getting there. But I do have a couple of questions...

First off, my hardware list. Is there an equivalent to rightclicking my computer and checking out the hardware tab in Ubuntu?

Secondly, is there a list of programs I've installed using apt-get and whatnot I can browse through? And how do I go about uninstalling programs I've grabbed using apt-get? Going through Synaptic is nice and fun, but Synaptic doesn't always have what I'm looking for. Right now, I've probably got tons of stuff just eating up harddrive space I've played around with once or twice but haven't touched since. I'd like to cull some of it down. Only problem is, I don't see an easy way to do so.

Renzatic on 24/9/2009 at 05:23

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Okay, one last question and I think I'm fairly well set. This is a complicated one involving Wine, so brace yourself.

I wanna play me some Painkiller. I've already set up the install, got it at 1920x with a nice, smooth framerate, and everything looks good. All except for one thing. The ingame mouse controls are tied to the cursor on the desktop. I can only turn in roughly 180 degree arcs before the cursor hits the edges of the screen and stops movement. I've tried "allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window" option in Winecfg, I've tried setting it to run in a window, I've even tried using dinput8 off Winetricks. Nothing works, and I can't play the game until I get this fixed.

The only thing I've come across involving the issue is (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971) this. Something that, like most stuff I come across when googling up Linux crap, tells me everything and absolutely nothing all in one go. From the looks of it, it seems I'm gonna have to go about editing and recompiling some source code to get the patch active. I'm...I'm gonna need someone to hold my hand for that one. Maybe coddle me a bit and tell me everything's gonna be okay. Either that or introduce me to the simple solution no one in the Linux community ever cares to mention cuz hitting up the terminal and doing things the hard way is so much more geek chic.