ubuntu 11-10

[Joep L. Blom]

On 10/24/2011 04:10 AM, 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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> [[Ubuntu 11.10] Lost Unity Launch bar&  top panel
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All,
Thanks for the info. Gary especially thanks for pointing out that VMware 
doesn't allow GLX extensions.
As I wanted to tame Unity I acquired ccsm (Compizconfig-session-manager) 
but that is practically useless. You can set all fancy things to windows 
etc. but simple things like moving the controls from upper left corner 
to upper right corner (as it should be even since the first MS Windows) 
cannot be done just as diminishing the ridiculously large size of the 
icons in the menu-bar has no item (or I didn't find it due to the 
peculiar nomenclature used by the developers. question: is that 
apple-speak?).
I have found ubuntu-tweak for 11.10 (but not in the software centre) but 
that is 'experimental'.
I find also the the fact that synaptic is not included in the standard 
applications shows me that developers follow the MS and Apple attitude 
that users lack the ability to chose their own applications and can only 
chose what they deem appropriate for them. Although the KDE package 
manager, Muon, can be found in the software centre.
All in all I'm not much dissatisfied with it but I have no idea how a 
full-blown 11-10 behaves especially with respect to efficiency and 
resource load.
Joep