I finally bit the bullet and upgraded the desktop to Intrepid today. I was going to go to the course with P. but the sun wasn’t out by the time he was ready to leave, so I decided to stay here and tidy up a few things that the upgrade hadn’t got. Considering my system was a fair bit away from a standard install, the upgrade went better than expected. I thought it had broken X, but I’d just run into the .dmrc thing again, so it booted into ICE WM instead of my default Gnome. All I had to do was change the permissions on that file and it could save the session type. The only other problems I had were with my custom fstab (expected that), but that was simple to fix, and I had to tell Pulseaudio to do 5.1 sound. I thought that would be a pain in the arse because everyone seems to hate PA, but it wasn’t; I just had to edit the daemon’s config file to change a 2 to a 6. I think there’s a GUI way to do it, but gedit is fast, and I can type a number. I don’t think I’d have recommended that a n00b do an upgrade on a system configured like mine, but they don’t recommend upgrades for n00bs (only clean installs) unless all they’ve done is make a few minor changes, and anyway, I’m not a n00b. 🙂 All I have left to do is remove a few unused mount points, and check some custom shortcuts to make sure they’re pointing where they ought, but I’m currently having an attack of The Tireds, and mount points don’t run away if they’re not in use. They’ll still be there when I wake up, and so will the shortcuts.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 😀

EDIT: Posted from my iPhone because I can, and also because I’m lazy. Energetic enough to sit up…desktop. Energetic enough to prop myself up in bed…laptop. Too lazy to do more than turn over on one side…iPhone. Hee!