My efforts yesterday to find things on Ubuntu 11.10 with the new Unity interface drove me nuts, so this morning I found instructions to get the Classic desktop back. Tried it on my test computer and it worked fine. I can find things again, despite a few of them not being where I expected. Once the Classic desktop is installed, you can switch between it and Unity, so you're no longer stuck with one or the other. (The switching facility was built into 11.04, I think, but removed in 11.10.)
Then I found instructions for creating a desktop launcher (another thing that changed in 11.10) and got some more things back the way I'm used to them. Someone new to Ubuntu might not find the new interface as annoying as I do, but I'm glad others don't like it, because they post useful how-tos. For anyone interested, here are the instructions I used, of the many blogs that turned up in a search. http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/08/return-to-ubuntu-classic-desktop-in-ubuntu-11-10/ http://shuffleos.com/3274/how-to-create-desktop-launchers-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/ Now to update the other two machines... --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
