Upgrade 10.04 -> 12.04, no menus in top panel

[Colin Law]

On 18 March 2013 17:29, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 17:21, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That gave me the idea of googling for
>> ubuntu disable global menu
>> which led me to
>> http://www.noobslab.com/2012/10/important-thingstweaks-to-do-after.html
>> which suggested uninstalling some appmenu packages and by comparing
>> the problem machine with another 12.04 one I discovered that
>> appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt indicator-appmenu appmenu-gtk3 were not
>> installed.  Installing them seems to have fixed it.  So your excellent
>> comment has led me to get the menus working and potentially for
>> yourself to disable them.
>>
>> That is what I call a result.
>
> Excellent!
>
> The reason I was asking which GPU chip is that I have discovered
> before now that with a carefully-handcrafted /etc/X.11/xorg.conf file,
> one can enable *enough* 3D functionality in an over-a-decade-old GPU
> to get Unity to run, including elderly ATI Rage and Matrox devices.

OK, not necessary in this case though, he will be quite happy on 12.04
using Unity-2d and I don't want the hassle of updating him every six
months.

Cheers

Colin