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What happens if you right click on the Desktop? Does gnome-panel run from a terminal On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 00:30 +0100, james kilty wrote: > Hello > > I installed xubuntu on my daughters old computer to see if it would work > any faster than her snail-like W2k. I took 3 goes as I overwrote another > ubuntu (8.04) which had a 50MB /boot partition which was not enough for > the immediate updates. So I had to repartition a couple of times > increasing its size reformatting it in the end - leaving the /home and / > partitions unreformatted (the swap file was too big and adjacent). I did > have the menu bars the first time but not when it finally got itself > installed and everything updated. > > I cannot find any menu anywhere that will put up these essential > facilities - at least when I minimise a window it would be useful to see > it there so I can open it again without having to try opening the > application again. It would also be nice to have the updater visible. > > Can you help please. I am hopeful that it will seem good enough to > please the princess and release the queen's new shiny macbook pro and > her work desktop for her exclusive use. > > James (the serf) > -- > james kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk > > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html