FRZ | # 81 | 2009-04-15, 02:54 | Report

Well, I notice the tablet to be a bit warmer running Mer than in Maemo and the battery dies much quicker than expected. As if the lock keys and screen/dim functions don't exactly do anything in saving battery. I am guessing the battery life using Mer to be between two to three hours.

meizirkki | # 82 | 2009-04-15, 06:53 | Report

Yes, i have same problem. After turning wlan-powersave manually on, Power usage is very similar to Maemo. I am now using Mer day-to-day, because it has a lot more features and, with the wlan-powersave on, it doesn't eat battery any worse that maemo does.

tso | # 83 | 2009-04-15, 10:51 | Report

gave mer a virtualbox spin, and the statusbar is highly "random"...

somehow i suspect the window selecting applet have been pushed off screen, for example...

Stskeeps | # 84 | 2009-04-15, 11:00 | Report

Yeah, panels are messed up in 0.11. 0.12 has it fixed already (did you know that Panels control panel dies horribly if there's no home applets installed?)

sleepy_sanchez | # 85 | 2009-04-15, 16:48 | Report

I have the same problem of mer desktop crashing and showing only the background pictures. Can you confirm problem is in the filesystem type of the swap partition?

FRZ | # 86 | 2009-04-15, 17:04 | Report

What apps do you have running and where can I find them apps. I've been searching the web for debian apps and ubuntu but, its taking me forever.

FRZ | # 87 | 2009-04-15, 18:04 | Report

I need 0.12.

qole | # 88 | 2009-04-15, 18:23 | Report

I found that editing the ~/.osso/hildon-desktop/marquee.conf file directly helps enormously. You can move stuff around on the marquee, and make sure that everything is loading properly.

I find that the clock-plugin tends to cause problems.

meizirkki | # 89 | 2009-04-15, 18:51 | Report

Googling for software is what windows users do it's not a good way to find apps for most linux distros, especially when using arm architecture. Hildonized apps (modified for the hildon-desktop used in Maemo and Mer) are available in Mer repository and they are installable via the Application Manager. All the ubuntu stuff is not hildonized, so it's not there. For Ubuntu apps, you have to use apt. Just goto XTerminal and type:
For another example:
If you want Arora web-browser, do the following:

This downloads list of latest packages and their locations.

This downloads and installs Arora from ubuntu repository.


If you want to search for packages, you can use apt-cache.
gives you a list of packages that have something to do with word "arora"

There are some GTK application-managers like synaptic you could also try

FRZ | # 90 | 2009-04-15, 18:53 | Report

Yes, I am definitely staying away from the clock plugin. I've learn my lessons by now.