On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 16:50, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Randy Clarksean wrote: >>> Anyone upgraded to 11.04 yet? I've taken the plunge and upgraded my laptop as well as my desktop here at work. Did it on Day 1, actually. :) > It will take me awhile to find all of the things I love and hate about the > new environment, ... Agreed. I'd made a move to the Macbuntu setup for a few months on v10.10, so I was already getting used to some of the changes Unity itself makes. I'm not sure if I like them, but at least I was used to them. > gnome-terminal is there as before, but nothing happens when I click on it. If you go into Settings, you can click the "Main Menu" selection in the Personal section. Then, under Accessories you can check the Properties of the gnome-terminal icon. I've found that whatever I edit there is reflected in the Unity bar. However, I see that Natty v11.04 is including byobu now and it seems they want to make that the default (which is, of course, just gnome-terminal automatically running the newer byobu version of good ol' screen). Since I run screen all the time, I was quite pleased to see my own .screenrc brought in and layered on top of the default byobu settings, which I think are quite nice. Something to look at. > To get a terminal window, I had to open Nautilus and find the executable, > which was in /usr/bin/, I think, and click on its icon. Alternatively, you could just press <ALT-F2> and then just type gnome-terminal. > Second, the task "Launcher" on the left side of the screen behaves quite > badly when there is an open window near that side of the screen. It tends > to jump in and out making it very difficult to click on an icon. I've also changed that setting in the Settings application. There's a Launcher & Menus selection that I changed to "Touches the top left corner of the screen." This shows a wee little colored triangle in the upper-left corner that I can mouse to and show the Unity Launcher bar. Works everytime. When I had it set to the default of "Pushes the left edge of the screen" I saw the same behavior you report. > Another thing: The scroll bars work in a new way that I find very > bothersome right now. Maybe I'll learn to like it. I'll give it a chance. I agree, I don't like those, ... but suppose I'll get used to them. Another annoyance I've found is that my mouse scroll-wheel doesn't seem to work to scroll windows in all applications. I haven't done a controlled experiment on that yet, so it just seems random, which makes it more frustrating. > Does anyone know how I can fix the problem with the gnome-terminal setting > in the Launcher? I'd try doing the edit I described above. If that doesn't update the gnome-terminal Launcher icon, you can always <right-click> the icon in the Launcher and uncheck "Keep in Launcher," then go do the edit I mention above, then use the Launcher to show all Applications, navigate to the Accessories, and then drag-and-drop the newly modified gnome-terminal icon into the Launcher. That should "force" the issue and update what's in the Launcher. I'm going to continue giving Unity a fair shot. But ... I'm getting closer and closer to moving back to fluxbox. I was an fvwm (and then fvwm2) guy in the 90s. Then, when I moved to Gentoo in early 2002 I shifted to fluxbox, which I used until 2006 when I made the switch to Kubuntu (KDE-based). I soon tired of that (too much to configure) and shifted to straight Ubuntu in 2008. I've been lucky enough to run on machines with sufficient resources, so the bloat of KDE and GNOME never "bothered" me, so long as I could keep a fairly minimalist desktop. I agree with another poster that Unity seems to make sense for touch interfaces on hand-held devices (of any size) but doesn't make sense on a modern, large LCD or across a multiple LCD display system. Oh, one last thing: I _had_ to go into the Compiz settings and change the window switcher back to a "standard" (I use the ring switcher) so I could use my ages old <ALT-Tab> to move between windows. :) Just my $0.02US -- Brian D. Ropers-Huilman 612.234.7778 (m)