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 <michael@butash.net
> <mailto:michael@butash.net>> 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
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