On 28/04/12 17:31, Bill Baker wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 15:55 +0100, alan c wrote: >> On 28/04/12 14:14, kpb wrote: >>> On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: >>>> Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of >>>> questions, I pointed him to the poster. He found it very helpful. >>> Hello Barry and all >>> >>> That is exactly what/who the poster is for, I'm glad it was useful. >>> >>> The Ubuntu Desktop Guide really is good documentation once you get the >>> names of things and the basic actions sorted out. >> I think it has been noticed that Ubuntu 12.04 does not make it at all >> easy to find a useful Help facility, not sure if a bug has been raised >> at all, I hope so. One guinea pig I saw use it here immediately >> searched around for a help list. Unfortunately even I did not know >> where that was ... :-( >> >> My try was F1 but this is context sensitive. >> >> -- >> alan cocks >> > Reading this - and purely as a guess.... > > I hit the <Super>** key which, of course, opened the main lens. > I typed "help". > There it was. > > Whilst that might be an obvious route to me - it most definite;y would > not be to a new Unity user. > > ** I would hit the <Super> key - wouldn't I. I am <Super>Engineer. ;D > As the super key is the windows key on windows, people may not realise that the windows key works in Linux and is called the super key. if you press the windows key on windows the start menu pops up straight away, with linux the super key is pressed there is a delay, the fact there is a delay (good thing and i guess reasons for this ) may make people think it does't do anything.
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