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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