Re: oddball upgrade question for Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-02 Thread David Ohlemacher
Kyle, You're right. I got that from this: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/gnome-shell-vs-ubuntu-unity-which-desktop-wins/2291 I had my wife (who upgraded) try alt+f2.It works for her to. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@m

Re: oddball upgrade question for Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-02 Thread Kyle Smith
Alt f2 opens the unity menu in command search mode for me. Win+s enters file search mode and win+a is applications as well which is handy. On May 2, 2011 11:16 AM, "David Ohlemacher" wrote: > > Hi all, > > Regarding natty, this upstream kernel issue is a show stopper for me: https://bugs.launchpa

Re: oddball upgrade question for Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 05/02/2011 11:14 AM, David Ohlemacher wrote: > Hi all, > > Regarding natty, this upstream kernel issue is a show stopper for me: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131 > > 40% less battery time?That will need to get fixed before I would > upgrade. > > Also, I believe

Re: oddball upgrade question for Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-02 Thread David Hardy
Without a mouse and without ability to bring up Terminal and with other keyboard combos disabled, a total show-stopper here, and I am happily back to 10.10 and Mint 10.0 on an old laptop, all working great. Thanks for the attempted help; I appreciate it. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:14 AM, David

Re: oddball upgrade question for Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-02 Thread Susan Cragin
>Also, I believe the alt-f2 run dialog has been removed from Unity. Another >show stopper. I rarely use the menus. Ubuntu-Studio is a good distro to try since it has stayed with gnome and is less fussy overall. When installing, just uncheck the "extras" such as sound, video, etc. I also have F

Re: oddball upgrade question for Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-02 Thread David Ohlemacher
Hi all, Regarding natty, this upstream kernel issue is a show stopper for me: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131 40% less battery time?That will need to get fixed before I would upgrade. Also, I believe the alt-f2 run dialog has been removed from Unity. Another show