problems after upgrading to Xubuntu 16.04

[Ron Swift]

Bonnie I am not familiar with light locker or terminator. 
My suggestion is to copy your common partition, /home and /etc configuration files to an external device and then install a clean version of xubuntu 16.04 and restore your files from the external device.
There are backup and restore programs like simple backup, deja-dup or tar compression you could also use.
Thanks 

Ron Swift
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> On Jun 17, 2017, at 5:23 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:
> 
> Support for 12.04 expired so I decided to upgrade. Fortunately I keep my / and mt /home as separate partitions and I have a large storage partition that is called /common which is distinct from / and /home where almost all my important folders are. I do symbolic links from /common to /home. So I did not loose any data in the upgrade.
> 
> First I did the distribution upgrade that is suggested when you use the desktop update app.
> 
> Did not work very well. Could not get new Xubuntu to boot. But there is an installation of Mint on the computer - so I booted into Mint and downloaded the 16.04 AMD64 iso burned a DVD and installed 16.04 in a new partition.
> 
> Spent quite a while getting sim links back to the files in /common.
> Spent a while reinstalling my favorite apps.
> 
> OK so here are the problems I am having with 16.04
> Despite a lot of time with google I cannot get the screen blanker to turn off! Would it be safe to delete light locker? (which seems to be the screen blanker).
> 
> My favorite terminal is terminator but I cannot get the system to accept it as the preferred terminal. There is a  current release of terminator which is NOT the one to which synaptic has access.
> 
> My favorite file manager is gnome-commander but the mime associations seem to be messed up for it.
> 
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