1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Opinions requested from home Linux users (Message 91844) Posted 15 Jun 2019 by Specter7 Post: Hello, I'm using what I believe is the latest BOINC Manager (7.9 something) on my old Sony VGN-FZ150E laptop running Lubuntu 18.04 LTS. I'm a beginner to Linux and definitely an unwilling refugee from Windows, since support for Windows Vista, the original OS that came with this laptop, ended. I for one need the manual suspend activity function in the BOINC Manager, since I'm unable to save any performance changes in preferences. The window form doesn't allow for mouse-clicked corner resizing to show the off-screen save button for changed settings nor does the maximize button on the top right corner function to show the hidden, off-screen save button. The unchangeable, for me at least, default preferences in BOINC eat up my computer resources causing my computer to slow to a crawl, thus requiring me to manually suspend activity to actually use my computer. If novice Linux users like me have less control with the proposed changes, then we will have to remove BOINC in order to use our computers when we hit unfixable or unchangeable performance snags. As a side note, I can only access the preferences in advanced view, since the default simple view shows a blank form (window) when accessing preferences. It took me awhile to realize this. Oops, sorry. I didn't realize this was closed.

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