You can get the pre-Unity desktop back: http://complete-concrete-concise.com/ubuntu-2/ubuntu-12-10/ubuntu-12-10-installing-gnome-session-fallback
Hope this helps -- -- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected] > wrote: > I am beginning to understand people's dislike of Unity. I use the > term dislike to be generous. > > I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, and am trying to use Unity. Please > refrain from the cat-calls and I-told-you-sos. Humor me. Try to > help. > > I want to create a new launch item in the launcher, specifically > gnome-terminal -e virtualbox. > > The "help" says drag the icon of the application to the launcher. OK. > Create an icon. > > Using Dash, I enter in the search bar "terminal". I get two application > hits: Xterm and Uxterm. Neither of them are gnome-terminal which is > what is launched using the "terminal" icon in the launch bar. And a > search in Dash for gnome-terminal yields nothing. Yet top shows > gnome-terminal to be running when I use that icon, and "which > gnome-terminal" shows /usr/bin/gnome-terminal. wtf. > > Also, I can launch but one terminal from the launcher. I need to use > the first terminal to launch another. > > So I guess I need to find some non-gui way to put something in the > launcher. > > I know most here know better than to use Unity, but if some brave soul > has some knowledge which might help, I would appreciate hearing it. > > Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
