One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu

[Gerry Boland]

On 11/05/2011 02:51 AM, Douglas Saylor wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Gerry Boland
> <gerry.boland at canonical.com>  wrote:
>>> Subject: One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu
>>>
>>> Part 1: http://youtu.be/A98xaimAF-g
>>> Part 2: http://youtu.be/2TItsrnmmHw
>> Hey Douglas,
>> I'm a developer on the Unity 2D team. Your second video showing the Launcher
>> locked on screen is a massive bug,
>> but I'm using Unity2D every day and I've never experienced it (aside from
>> this bug: [1] which isn't your issue).
>> Nor can I find any such report in Launchpad.
>>
>> Would you mind answering a few questions:
>> 1. Had you noticed a concrete way of reproducing this bug?
> Sorry, no.
>
>> 2. Does the Launcher behave correctly ever? As in, is the auto-hide working
>> at the start, but then gets stuck?
> The problem doesn't actually happen often; most of the time I have no problem
>
>> 3. This is stock Ubuntu install, or an upgrade?
> Fresh install NOT an upgrade.
>
>> 4. Can you please tell me the model of the netbook you're using?
> Acer Aspire One ZG5
>
>> 5. In a Terminal, please run
>>          dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
>>     and
>>          dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/use-strut
>>     and give me the shell output. These keys define the launcher's behaviour.
>> I'd like to check that they're set ok.
> The program 'dconf' can be found in the following packages:
>   * dconf
>   * dconf-tools
> Try: sudo apt-get install<selected package>

Please install "dconf-tools" - sorry for the ambiguity.

For hide-mode, the default output is "2", for "use-strut" you should get 
no output.

Thank you for helping us track this down.
-Gerry