On 08/12/2011, at 6:51, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Comments inline > > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 11:07 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: > 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.) > I looked at my Ubuntu installation. The only > switching that I see is switching users. However, if a person uses two > users (classic desktop for one and Unity for the other), then switching > users will switch desktops as well.
It's possible that switching desktops can be done only when logging in. I haven't checked and don't have an Ubuntu machine with me today. > >> 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. > > I followed your instructions below for creating a desktop launcher. I > even created a script that will create it. Finally, I created a desktop > launcher for the script which I dragged onto the top panel. (You can > still drag an icon from Applications on to the panel, but always where > you would want them. Their positions are limited.) Here is > something that I just discovered! Alt+right click on the top panel > opens a context menu similar to the one that use to appear with just a > right click (Add to panel, Properties, Delete this panel,and New > panel). Use this key combination to make changes in the panel. > >>> 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 > > If anyone is going to use LibreOffice on Ubuntu for writing > documents, the Ubuntu version of LO needs to be removed completely > using Synaptic. (This is required to prevent Ubuntu from downloading > and installing its version of LO updates over your installation.) After > this is done, LO 3.4.4 can be installed. > I have a document that I can update describing how to remove > Ubuntu's version of LO. I also have a script file that can be used to > install LO from the LO website after removing Ubuntu's version. (The > script requires running in a terminal window.) > I can upload these two files in my Dashboard if others would like to have > a copy. > So parallel installation doesn't work any more? It seemed to on my machine, but I haven't been through an update cycle with Ubuntu LO yet. --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
