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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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OK WTF? Just upgraded from 11.04 with the classic desktop. Two simple questions... 1. How do I kill Unity? I hate it. Seriously; what's the point? It's just bigger and uglier and less efficient. Maybe a good idea on a netbook, but not on a 24" screen. 2. Where the hell are my hard disks now! The system menu has vanished, I can't find the disk utility and none of my drives are mounted. I have 2TB of data simply not there any more... media and mnt are empty and I don't know where else to look. I expect I'm being thick, but any pointers would be appreciated. On the plus side, it's using a fraction of the swap it did before. Maybe that's just because it's the first reboot in months though 
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Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:22 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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OK found disk utility by typing it into the search box on "Dash". At least I have my data back, although I still can't find the system menu... or the application menus... or any of my lovingly placed shortcuts. 
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Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:33 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5150 Location: /dev/tty0
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Everything Gnome based (i.e. everything on a Gnome toolbar) is gone.
Although I do like Unity, the way they've just switched people over with no transition is a bit MSish, IMO.
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:25 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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It's broken my remote access too - NX doesn't bring up the dock, so if you ever get to run anything it totally vanishes when you minimise it. I guess the next release will fix it, but the help at the moment is slightly farcical!
I'm thinking of going Kubuntu, but it's a pain because I've spent ages installing stuff on there...
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:42 am |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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Just install & use Gnome. It's easy. Google is your friend.
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:23 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Yeah I've found that now, thanks. I didn't really get that Unity was a replacement for Gnome - I thought it was just window dressing.
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:33 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Yep - Unity is okay- ish, but it's just not ready for prime-time. Xfce for teh Win!
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:14 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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*installs* Ooh, that's a lot cleaner looking. We'll see how I get on with this 
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:16 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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I think I'm sticking with Xfce. It does everything I want, and it does it well. I even really like the "Thunar" file manager  Been playing around and you wouldn't recognise it now. I've just got a single vertical panel on the side, so I have the full vertical height of the monitor usable. I did toy with not having any panel at all - you can do everything from the middle mouse click anyway! Finally, a desktop environment that doesn't get in the way 
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:49 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Snap! I've turned autohide off for this piccy: 
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:40 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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OK here's a weird one - I opened Nautilus and it killed my Xfce desktop. I didn't actually intend to open it, but it was still the default application for opening folders...
I still have my panel, but the desktop background has gone back to the one I had under Unity, my desktop icons have vanished and the click-menus are gone too. This despite my desktop settings still showing correctly. I'm sure if I log off and back on it'll be fine again, but I really wasn't expecting that.
I don't really want to do a clean Xubuntu install, but it looks like it might be the easier option. Took me ages to get Apache / php set up the way I wanted last time, so the web server will be off-line for quite a while. Also took quite a while to get all the Android tools set up, and some other stuff I'll remember when it's not there.
*logs off-and-on again*
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:23 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:52 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Thanks, I'll check it out tomorrow.
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Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:16 am |
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