New to ubuntu - some problems/questions

[Daniel Dalton]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 04:19:39PM -0200, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
> If you installed ubuntu using orca, unity 2d is configured by default.

Hi José,

Yep, that must be it since it is what I did. 

> In the login screen you can change to unity or to gnome-shell, but
> you need to install gnome-shell.

Yes - I did that and gnome-shell seems to be better for me. 

The problem accessing the menu bars went away (in my first post) and can
now navigate the desktop easier it seems :)

Thanks for your help. 
Dan