Ubuntu with Unity versus Kubuntu with KDE

[Tom H]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> In my VirtualBox 11.04 Unity I just opened LibreOffice and the monitor
> settings program.  The Monitor Preferences program has a huge pink,
> "Unknown," for the monitor.  That's strange but OK, but it also puts it
> on the menu bar as a pink rectangle that says, Unknown," which is just
> as helpful as Hell, especially as it is placed over the, "File," part of
> the menu bar and refuses to allow my access to same:
> http://img3.imageshack.us/i/unitystupidity.png/

This is not a Unity problem. I have a 10.04 VBox VM where "Monitor"
behaves this way.