anyone done a ubuntu 9.10 upgrade yet?

[Andrew Farris]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 22:30 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> This depends on what you want out of the upgrade:
> For most desktop use, upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 is pretty smooth and
> painless, although you'll be stuck with the stupid chooser login, all
> of the other GDM options are gone.
[snip]

There's actually a ton of new ways to configure the new GDM, there's
just not a GUI to do it while logged into a session yet.

To customize the GUI:
     1. log out
     2. ctrl+alt+F1 to a tty terminal
     3. login, then run the following 2 commands:
             1. export DISPLAY=:0.0
             2. sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center
     4. ctrl+alt+F7 back to the gdm login, and rejoice at the menu
        available
     5. Configure away. you can change the fonts/wallpaper of the gdm
        screen from 'Appearences', as well as the window borders,
        colors, etc
     6. If you're like me and have dual-screens, you can go to 'Display'
        and configure them so they don't just mirror each-other.
     7. You can even enable basic desktop effects using metacity's
        compositing feature, if you want to by going back to the TTY1,
        and typing in sudo -u gdm gconf-editor, and editing
        the /apps/metacity/compositing key

[snip]
> After install, use "sudo apt-get purge update-manager update-notifier
> update-manager-core update-notifier-common" to get rid of the
> pop-under stupidity in update manager (introduced in 9.04 and still
> present in 9.10).  

or... you could restore the traditional notification functionality of
update-manager by doing:
    gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
as prescribed here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904

I agree that the update-manager popping up to tell you about updates is
very annoying and distracting... theres ALWAYS better ways to give
information to your users than popups (though I'll admit, the new
notify-osd system is pretty slick). 

hope that proves useful to you!



-- 
Andrew
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