[GRLUG] Ubuntu Oneiric

[Mike Williams]

On 10/30/2011 07:26 AM, Ben Rousch wrote:
> Many of your gripes can be fixed by installing Gnome Shell. In Ubuntu 
> 11.10 you can easily do this, and switch between Unity or Gnome Shell 
> at the login screen. sudo apt-get install gnome-shell Reboot Click the 
> little gear thing next to your name at login, select Gnome 
I have considered that, but I was trying to force myself to do things 
"the new way" rather than always changing the interface back to what I 
was used to. That worked with Windows and not having My Computer on the 
desktop. I'll give it a week or two, and if I still can't stand it then 
I'll go back to GNOME.
>> And for my final gripe of the evening, it should not have taken me as long
>> as it did (somewhere around two hours, I think) to figure out how to get ANY
>> of the various media players to stream DLNA or DAAP from my media server /
>> NAS box. None of them had it available at first, and there was no rhyme or
>> reason to give me a hint where to go to activate the necessary plug-ins. It
>> could be in the program's configuration menu, a tick-box in software center,
>> or a completely random-sounding separate program to install, which may or
>> may not even appear in the search if you don't tell it to display "hidden
>> technical items".
> Sorry, I have no idea what these are. All I can do is point you at
> relevant-sounding Ask Ubuntu posts:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/1755/what-dlna-server-to-choose
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/11147/setting-up-daap-in-banshee
I got it working eventually, but it took far more Googling and trial and 
error than it should have. Basically, DLNA is a protocol for streaming 
media across a network. I store all my digital music on my Netgear Stora 
(a consumer-grade 2-drive network attached storage box), and my 
computer, xbox, or probably even Android phone can play it across the 
network without having to make a local copy. I'm not sure what the 
difference is between DLNA and DAAP or if they're two versions of the 
same thing. I think DAAP might be the protocol that itunes uses while 
DLNA is an open standard rather than a reverse-engineered one.
>> And one more thing (the above was going to be the final gripe until this
>> message reached the bottom of the thunderbird window): when Unity is
>> designed for laptops and netbooks, and thunderbird is the default mail
>> client, under no circumstances should a window open up with part of it
>> hanging below the physical screen. I about went nuts trying to add mail
>> accounts to t-bird when I couldn't find the Add Account button because it
>> was down below my keyboard. See, if there was a little bit of variety to the
>> window borders I would have been able to more easily tell that that was what
>> had happened! And I don't have all that small screen. If bad things like
>> that happen on a 1280x800, what about 600-line netbooks???
> I've found that under Unity this is usually caused by the window not
> being maximized. Once you maximize the window, it fits correctly.
That is one solution, but it shouldn't be necessary. A window shouldn't 
just pop up where you can't see some of it, and if it does it should be 
a lot more obvious that that's what happened.

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