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With this approach available, it should be possible to get very long periods between spinning up the hard disk, but still have the security of being able to save work.


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Idea 11, "Avoid Fsck Forced Irritation", has been marked as "done", on account of being able to prevent the fsck starting on boot under hardy, but its easy to miss that and still be stuck - so it only partially mitigates the problem, and isn't a solution.

Regardless of whether the fsck is at boot time, shutdown, or somehow a background process, there should be a way of aborting it cleanly after it's started - in case of imminent flat battery or other similar requirement.


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No attachments. ]]> Thu, 16-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7914/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6412/ One way to free up this space temporarily is to enable full-screen mode for the main application, but it's quite intrusive, and doesn't allow any way for notifications to show at all. You can enable hide/auto-hide on panels, but there it's difficult to switch quickly between compact and full mode. Even there, if you want a notification area, you are still stuck with losing a full panel height and titlebar height from the whole screen- just for 50x24 pixels of icons.

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Many people new to Ubuntu would get a better experience of it being fast and responsive if the default theme were more suitable. For example, Mist or Metabox.

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