ubuntu 11-10

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/23/2011 09:10 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/23/2011 03:09 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> On 10/23/2011 03:50 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>>> On 10/23/2011 09:20 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>>> 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).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Colin, Ioannis,
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>> Colin, I want to see how different the new UI is 'under the hood",
>>> Ioannis, Thanks for the info. I didn't know that. Is it possible to try
>>> the 3-D look under VMware?
>>
>> Joep,
>>
>> I don't know about VMware but it runs for me in the PUEL version of
>> VirtulBox.
>>
>> Regards,  Jim
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> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.user/2733
> [[Ubuntu 11.10] Lost Unity Launch bar&  top panel
> w/vboxadditions_4.1.4_74291]
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Must have jinxed myself, now it behaving strange.  Not seeing what you 
saw. In my case alot of apps open with their title bar under the top 
panel and I can get at it to move them.  Resizing does not work either.

In my case it is not too surprising I have been experimenting trying to 
bend Unity into something that looks usable to me.  I've tried Gnome 3 
which is worse than Unity.  I fell back to Gnome classic but couldn't 
get the panels to work correctly, went back to Unity and that's when the 
problems started.

So I can't blame VBox too much with all the things I have tried.

Regards, Jim