Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: They are telling you something, the folks at Ubuntu. Its fluxbox. Or Openbox. Or maybe it could even be WMII. Or that Finnish tiling WM I was using a few months back. F1 for the man pages, F2 for terminal. What else do you really need? I suspect they are telling you

Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-07 Thread Andre Garzia
if we had an engine that would run on FreeBSD I would never ever look back On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > They are telling you something, the folks at Ubuntu. > > Its fluxbox. Or Openbox. Or maybe it could even be WMII. Or that Fi

Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Alcibiades
They are telling you something, the folks at Ubuntu. Its fluxbox. Or Openbox. Or maybe it could even be WMII. Or that Finnish tiling WM I was using a few months back. F1 for the man pages, F2 for terminal. What else do you really need? I suspect they are telling you something else. They are

Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Never try any Ubuntu Beta on a production machine. Every iteration they break something that was working on the previous version. For every new animal that Canonical releases there are a ton of improvements but they also tend to have some regressions. There is a cautionary tale that I learn

Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 04/04/2011 05:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Good news for them: Gnome 2 is still available in Ubuntu 11.04. Just choose that option from the login screen if you prefer it. Possibly; but not for me. If I select "Ubuntu Classic" (err . . . slipped there a bit; not very origi

Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/2011 05:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Good news for them: Gnome 2 is still available in Ubuntu 11.04. Just choose that option from the login screen if you prefer it. Possibly; but not for me. If I select "Ubuntu Classic" (err . . . slipped there a bit; not very original) I get sc

Re: [OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: If you have been running GNOME as your window manager, upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta will "hose" GNOME: I know, I did just that; now having to use XFCE (which isn't bad in itself, I just prefer GNOME). A little background for those here who haven't been up on the news with Ub

[OT] Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2011-04-04 Thread Richmond
If you have been running GNOME as your window manager, upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta will "hose" GNOME: I know, I did just that; now having to use XFCE (which isn't bad in itself, I just prefer GNOME). ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru