Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Owen Thomas]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 10:49, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 10:20, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I have just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, and I find the Desktop
>> functions quite differently to the way it used to.
>>
>> I can no longer press ctrl-space-c to close windows; I have to use the
>> down arrow to select close.
>>
>> I can no longer alt-tab easily between applications; Pressing alt-tab for
>> some reason merely maximises my current window. Alt-shift-tab brings up the
>> open windows and I can select in there using arrow keys.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>
> All of this is really frustrating. Wherever the advice to make changes
> like these came from, it was dud advice.
>

No longer does it appear that the date and time can be displayed at the
upper edge of the desktop. It now appears only to show the day of the week,
the hour, and the minute.

This sucks because I refer to this information when I name files with the
current date and time. This really sucks!
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