ubuntu 11-10

Ioannis Vranos ioannis.vranos at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 19:20:36 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> I finally installed ubuntu 11-10 as a virtual guest (under Vmware) but,
> contrary to a loat of moaning and screeming about Unity I was pleasantly
> surprised by the user interface as I thought it was much worse!.
> Installation went like a breeze and even network was no problem (wired).
> Even adjusting time and date was easy and simple and I could even enter my
> personal location (Almere, a small town below sea-level).
> OK, the window handles are on the wrong =Apple) side but I assume I can
> change that with Ubuntu Tweak.
> I have but one -small- problem. The real estate taken by the menu-list (on
> the left side of the screen is awfully big. I would like to reduce it to 25
> % (or 30%) and position it on the upper side of the screen. However, I don't
> know how 'flexible' the interface is.
> I hope somebody has answers and als if there are other means that Ubuntu
> Tweak to chage the window buttons location.
> Joep


Keep in mind that currently, you do not see the normal Unity, but
Unity 2D in VMware (it falls back to Unity 2D without informing you).


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