After updating to Karmic, I hadn’t got around to doing things like making my storage partitions mount on boot, or setting up GIMP so I can use the Wacom stylus with pressure sensitivity, but don’t have to use the crappy mouse (reserving the option to use said crappy mouse if I so choose). Nothing serious, just stuff I hadn’t got around to doing. After buying a new monitor last night–YAAAAYYY for dual displays again–and not going anywhere today because P. was busy with paperwork, I decided that since I had to fuck around a little with xorg.conf (couldn’t get changes to save after enabling TwinView and telling it to use the new HP as the default display), I might as well sort out the rest of the little things I’d been meaning to do, and also install Dropbox, since M.’s Verizon mail seems permanently broken, and I guess he never did set up a Gmail account. Anyway, I basically rule. I won the battle with xorg.conf, so now I have all of my stuff appearing on the appropriate screen when I log in, I edited fstab so that my old FAT32 partition (I really need to copy the files elsewhere and format that to NTFS) will mount on boot with write access, and also will display the special characters in file names. I had a few songs with Cyrillic characters and the names were so badly mangled (mounting it from Nautilus, which apparently used UTF-8) that I didn’t even know what they were supposed to be. Karmic had support for my tablet, and I could use both the stylus and mouse, but I didn’t have pressure sensitivity. I couldn’t remember whether I needed wacom-tools for that or not, but installed it anyway, just in case, and then fired up GIMP. It’s now actually working better than it does in Windows because I can use any of the stylus, the Wacom mouse or my Logitech mouse for any of the tools, whereas in Photoshop, I can’t use the mouse for tools like the brush and the eraser; I have to switch to the stylus for that. I just need for GIMP to come out with a few more tools and I’ll dispense with Photoshop entirely. I use GIMP now for everything except complicated composites; I’m still not good enough with it for that, but it’ll be easier now that I’ve got my stylus working with pressure sensitivity. Even better, I can stick the Tools and Layers windows of GIMP over on the second screen and have the working window maximised on the main screen. Big yay…I love the hell out of GIMP’s SDI when I have dual screens because it’s soooo much more convenient, but I don’t like it much with only one screen because I’m constantly flipping through the goddamned windows, trying to find the one I want.