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Re: [LUG] ubuntu 11.04

 
Peter

On 08/05/11 18:17, Peter M Le Mare wrote:
It's me again wanting help. I have just (foolishly?) downloaded U 11.04! I am finding it very difficult to use. I seem to be unable to open several windows with my Web Browser and find them again! If I then have opened Thunderbird I can't find my web pages or back again to my e-mails(I do a lot of copying and pasting and need to easily swap from one to another).

Are you using the new Unity Interface? I swapped straight back the the familiar Gnome interface when I upgraded. Logout. At the login screen, select your ID and then down on the bottom of the screen there's an option to login using Gnome.

Once you're in, you can set your login preferences to default to Gnome.

Worse still if I open the new Libre Office (what was wrong with my open office?) I can't find anything without reducing them to min and then not being able to maximise again - or I have to close them.
LibreOffice is the fully "Open" fork of OpenOffice which Oracle have screwed up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

Is there anyway I can have the opened windows listed somewhere like I did with the previous versions, at the bottom of the desktop or can I install a different desktop which will do so.

On top of all this I am unable to set a default page setup for Libre Office e.g. I do not like large margins so that I don't waste space and use less pages but everytime I set the page when I get a new "untitled" page it reverts and I have to reset it to what I want.
The current version of LibreOffice is pretty much a re-branding of OpenOffice 3.3 - Maverick is on OpenOffice 3.2 I think (I use the PPAs to get the latest in any case). I'm sure you should be able to do what you want. I'm not sure how at the moment ;)

Can I somehow reinstall the previous Ubunto version and/or Open Office if I can't get this to work - without losing my documents etc.

Lastly if you can help, tell me how, in simple steps 'cos all software still confuses me! Hardware no problem, all software and operating systems - big problems. 
Life, love, peace and freedom

Pete (Le M)
PS Thanks for the help with skype. It works excellently.

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