[daip] [bananas] UBUNTU 11.04

[Eric Greisen]

Michael Bietenholz wrote:
> HI Eric: Just to sow confusion, I can report that I'm running 31DEC11
> AIPS on Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit) and have not found any X11 issues.  Mind
> you, unlike most, I did a text installation of AIPS.  I also did not
> upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04, its a new laptop and I did a clean install of
> it.
> 
> What problems were people having?

The TV does not come up[ at all - or once in twenty tries or ???

Other comments received are:

One user writes and at least one other says:

I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and my AIPS XAS seems to work okay. I
installed AIPS under an earlier version of Ubuntu, and recently
upgraded to 11.04. I just checked quickly with VPLOT and IBLED and
both seem to be working fine for me on this distribution.

A system manager points out:

In 11.04 they've switched the default desktop to Unity and Wayland; no
more X windows.  I'm told you can revert these and that X11 (with Gnome
or KDE as usual) is still there but it's just not the default anymore.
Maybe that's what's hitting some people.

And this may be the solution:

With test on Ubuntu 11.04 the problem appears to be generated by the
new gnome desktop manager, when XAS starts the icon to bring up the
windows does not appears (ALT-TAB shows the icons) . Using xfce4 this
problem disappears.

Eric Greisen