Again thanks. I have been
able to change back to my Ubunto classic ( with your advice) and
all is well with the world (Oh how i wish!). I think there seems
to be some good features in the new unity interface but needs much
more work on it to keep some of the features that are good in the
previous version. It still seemed to me to be more difficult to
quickly access the applications: the long list of large Icons was
very difficult to use.
Life, love, peace and freedom
Pete (Le M)
On 08/05/11 18:43, Martin Gautier wrote:
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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