Agreed - that was one of the first things I killed: sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt Just reverse that to put it back if you really miss the stupid mac-like behavior. Biggest reason for me to be rid of it is I can't spawn unity menus on each framebuffer set, so nothing on my second monitor set had menus... Brilliant! This was a good find for making oneiric suck less: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html -mb On 12/01/2011 11:34 AM, Ariel Gold wrote: > I just started using 11.10 and Unity and the only thing I find annoying > is hiding the File, Edit, etc menu and minimize, close buttons until you > hover over them....and that I needed to know ctrl-alt-t opens a terminal... > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Michael Butash > wrote: > > Correct, though those came long after it'd already nauseated me the > first time. When I needed to compile everything I needed anyways, > slack was a much better option - in 1999. > > Fast forward to 2007, the last time I purposely had to deal with > RHEL, my experiences were not all that dissimilar. Much of the > software I use is of a network monitoring nature (snmp, perl, > pgsql), and for better or worse a lot of dependencies that simply > didn't exist in repos. I ended up having to compile a lot of > things, and still fell into weird linking errors to things that were > simply never an issue in ubuntu whether I had to roll my own or not. > It was just as cranky as it was 7 years prior. > > Perhaps I'm a bit grizzled and stubborn, but I really don't get why > I or my companies should use RH or its ilk. It's always felt... > solaris-ish - day late, dollar short. With ubuntu on the poop list > these days too, I need to rediscover new/old options so maybe I'll > see what the rpm loving world has to offer these days. > > -mb > > > > On 11/30/2011 11:47 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > On 11/30/2011 05:05 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > I've used every version of ubuntu since 6.04 on the desktop (and > extensive server) full-time, and while it's always been a > bit cranky, it > was always the most together and solid linux. Packaging was > simply never > a problem, nor were dependencies (ahem, redhat and spawn). > > > Ahem. 1995 called, they want their FUD back. Package > dependencies has > not been a problem since up2date first, and now yum. > > TC > ------------------------------__--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.__us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__discuss > > > ------------------------------__--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.__us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss