[daip] [bananas] UBUNTU 11.04

[Michael Bietenholz]

The system manager is likely right.  I got rid of Unity fairly quickly
because it was annoying and reverted back to Gnome before I even
installed AIPS.  I think all I had to do was select "gnome classic"
desktop from a menu on the login screen.

                 michael b


>
> 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
>