One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Mon 07 Nov 2011 11:47:45 SAST, Gerry Boland wrote:
> On 11/05/2011 02:51 AM, Douglas Saylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Gerry Boland
>> <gerry.boland at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> Subject: One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu
>>>>
>>>> Part 1: http://youtu.be/A98xaimAF-g
>>>> Part 2: http://youtu.be/2TItsrnmmHw
>>> Hey Douglas,
>>> I'm a developer on the Unity 2D team. Your second video showing the 
>>> Launcher
>>> locked on screen is a massive bug,
>>> but I'm using Unity2D every day and I've never experienced it (aside 
>>> from
>>> this bug: [1] which isn't your issue).
>>> Nor can I find any such report in Launchpad.
>>>
>>> Would you mind answering a few questions:
>>> 1. Had you noticed a concrete way of reproducing this bug?
>> Sorry, no.
>>
>>> 2. Does the Launcher behave correctly ever? As in, is the auto-hide 
>>> working
>>> at the start, but then gets stuck?
>> The problem doesn't actually happen often; most of the time I have no 
>> problem
>>
>>> 3. This is stock Ubuntu install, or an upgrade?
>> Fresh install NOT an upgrade.
>>
>>> 4. Can you please tell me the model of the netbook you're using?
>> Acer Aspire One ZG5
>>
>>> 5. In a Terminal, please run
>>> dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
>>> and
>>> dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/use-strut
>>> and give me the shell output. These keys define the launcher's 
>>> behaviour.
>>> I'd like to check that they're set ok.
>> The program 'dconf' can be found in the following packages:
>> * dconf
>> * dconf-tools
>> Try: sudo apt-get install<selected package>
>
> Please install "dconf-tools" - sorry for the ambiguity.
>
> For hide-mode, the default output is "2", for "use-strut" you should 
> get no output.
>
> Thank you for helping us track this down.
> -Gerry
>
>

Thanks, it works! :)

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Best of luck,

Bruce