Hi :) Switching users or logging in are about the only times you can switch DEs (eg Unity to Gnome). Switching user doesn't always close down all the apps the user is using (unlike Windows). ANother way to get a different DE is to run a virtual machine. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 8/12/11, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] OT: Returning Ubuntu to Classic Desktop To: "documentation@global.libreoffice.org" <documentation@global.libreoffice.org> Date: Thursday, 8 December, 2011, 6:26 On 08/12/2011, at 6:51, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> 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 documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
