Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-30 Thread Susan Cragin
rself. -Original Message- >From: Jerry Feldman >Sent: Apr 30, 2011 7:21 AM >To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >Subject: Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions... > >On 04/29/2011 08:59 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >> I fired up Beta 2 a couple weeks ago. Seemed nice enough, thou

Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 04/29/2011 08:59 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I fired up Beta 2 a couple weeks ago. Seemed nice enough, though I was > trying to get the feel for the interface. And what finally turned me back > to 10.10, though, was the fact that I could *NOT* find a way to access > what I'll nominally call th

Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-29 Thread mkomarin...@wayga.org
ecided I didn't like it. -Mark - Reply message - From: "Ken D'Ambrosio" To: "GNHLUG" Subject: Speaking of 11.04 questions... Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:59 pm I fired up Beta 2 a couple weeks ago. Seemed nice enough, though I was trying to get the feel for th

Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-29 Thread David Hardy
That is what I thought, however Ctrl-Alt- plus any of the F1-7 keys get me only a blank black screen and no prompt whatsoever. And then, I can only do Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get the normal window back again, with the top bar listing Applications, Places, etc. Strange. Methinks the upgrade and subsequent

Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-29 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:30:40PM -0400, David Hardy wrote: > I have a list here close by of a half-dozen things we should do after we > upgrade to 11.04 but without the mouse or command line I am stuck right now. You should always have the command line unless Ubuntu has gone and done something t

Re: Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-29 Thread David Hardy
I know I mentioned that it was an older Dell desktop with 2GB of RAM, but I should also point out that the Unity desktop was not going to run on that hardware, which I knew, and on boot-up the first time the system told me this and also told me I could choose the usual Gnome desktop on log-in. How

Speaking of 11.04 questions...

2011-04-29 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I fired up Beta 2 a couple weeks ago. Seemed nice enough, though I was trying to get the feel for the interface. And what finally turned me back to 10.10, though, was the fact that I could *NOT* find a way to access what I'll nominally call the "preferences" and "administration" menus. And, yeah