Newer Ubuntu versions are less dramatically new these days, which is probably a good thing, but I like to take them for a spin anyway – old habits and all that. One nice change since the days of Dapper Drake is the ability to boot off a usb stick – much easier than having to burn CDs. On my laptop, I get to the boot menu by pressing the Esc key soon after booting and then selecting the USB stick to boot off. But there can still be problems. In particular, I was receiving the error message:<\/p>\n
Turns out you need to press the tab key and then type in “live”. Obvious really (not) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS live USB boot error (gfxboot.c32:not a valid COM32R imag<\/a>).<\/p>\n Another good thing about modern Ubuntus is that they generally work out of the box just how I like them. I remove items from the launcher, shrink the icon size and add the Show Desktop icon to the launcher (under System Settings > Appearance), and I’m almost good to go. There is still one thing that takes a bit of fiddling – adding the ability to minimise on click (Ubuntu 14.04 Adds \u2018Click to Minimize App\u2019 Option to Unity Launcher<\/a>).<\/p>\n Step 1: Open Ubuntu Software Centre On the one hand the version changes aren’t as exciting as they used to be, but on the other, it’s never been easier to check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newer Ubuntu versions are less dramatically new these days, which is probably a good thing, but I like to take them for a spin anyway – old habits and all that. One nice change since the days of Dapper Drake … Continue reading gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image<\/code><\/p>\n
\nStep 2: Install CompizConfig Settings Manager
\nStep 3: Open Ubuntu Unity plugin
\nStep 4: Launcher > Minimize Single Window Applications (Unsupported)<\/p>\n