Re: is anyone here using the new ubuntu, 11.10?

On 16/11/11 09:52, Steve Withers wrote:
> I dislike Unity enough I make check out Mint....
>
> I've been Ubuntu-only for most of 5 years now, but Unity may just put an
> end to that.
>
> Unity buries all the things I use a lot too deep to bothered with. I do not
> like it. But it won't go away. I tried changing to Gnome and the lock
> screen stopped working and I wasn't able to login without powering the PC
> off. That wasn't going to carry on...
>
> Looks like someone at Ubuntu wants to *enforce* Unity.
>
> F*ck that...
>

The above behavior in Gnome I get on my 10.10 box too.  The interactions
between power saving, screen locking and X seem to be buggy, as does the
dealing with an external monitor when using a laptop... the combination
meaning that if I disconnect my laptop for external screen, keyboard,
mouse and power in the wrong order, I either end up with no display, or
a hung session.  I also intermittantly find that resuming from
hibernation fails.... for example just last night I had to hit
ctrl-alt-f1, login to shell, and then kill -HUP the Gnome session.  This
then gave me a login box which did say 'already logged in' but when I
relogged in i'd lost all my apps.

I also find that if its running and I connect an external monitor it
wont use it unless I open 'display settings'.   Inversely if I
disconnect the monitor it doesn't realise i've done this unless I close
the lid and open it again. Closing the lid triggers hibernation if im on
battery power (which is desired behavior) but with intermittant resume
failures I take my (life, work in progress) in my hands each time I do
it.  Works about 90% of the time without drama, havn't yet found what
circumstances cause the 10% failures.

Mark.

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