Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi :)
A lot of work has gone into Gnome & Unity recently with new releases already 
done or imminent.  It's going to take a while for those to settle down again.  
Oddly, KDE is completely stable right now so you might be better with a K 
desktop environment, if you can bear that Windows look.  (Allegedly Win7 copied 
a lot of KDE elements, specifically the new "Start" button) .  Ubuntu 11.04's 
implementation of Gnome DE is very rough compared to Gnome in their previous 
releases.  So the resolution issue is not a huge surprise.  Disappointing but 
not a surprise.

Have you heard that Mark Shuttleworth made a very pro-Lubuntu speech possibly 
signalling that Lubuntu (with the LXDE) might become an officially supported 
branch, like Kubuntu (KDE) and Xubuntu (Xfce).  Hmmm, that's a thought.  I've 
not heard of a new release of Xfce for a while so that must be rock-solid by now 
(unless you dislike blue so much that you can't change the colours fast enough).

Obviously this doesn't just affect Ubuntu and does have implications for other 
distros such as openSuse, Mageia/Mandriva, Mint, Fedora etc as they use the same 
DEs but Ubuntu's officially recognised family is what i am most familiar with at 
the moment.  

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 3 May, 2011 22:58:08
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard 
resolution widescreen monitor

On 05/02/2011 02:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Ok, the trick is to use a LiveCd/Usb to install but when youget to the
> Partitioning Sectiopn choose the last option at the bottom of the screen to do 
>a
> "manual partitioning" sometimes called advanced and now in 11.04 called
> "Something else" lol.
> 
I use the Live DVD mostly to install it new.  The issue I had was during an 
upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04.
I just wish I knew why it did not except the resolution that was being used for 
10.10.  Even without having the nVidia driver[s] "active", 10.04 LTS defaulted 
to the 1366 x 768 resolution of the Acer monitor.  Why 11.04 did not, I only 
have to guess.

I also planned on no using Unity as well, since I prefer GNOME over what was 
written about Unity.  I use GNOME as the default with some KDE packages 
installed as well.

> It has to re-scan your drives which takes a slightly worrying time.  Select 
all
> the same partitions such as / and /home but make sure they are all UNticked in
> the "Format?" column to make sure no partition get re-formatted.  The swaps 
>will
> get reformatted anyway but just make sure your /home or / doesn't get
> reformatted.
> 
> Once the install has completed look at the hidden folders in your /home/users
> folder to check which programs you had installed and re-install any that are
> missing.
> 
> See, it's quite straight-forwards really so i don't know why people claim to 
>not
> know of this trick.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
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