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Re: [LUG] Ubu 11.04 is a disaster! How do I make fonts on left toolbar smaller?

 

The most important thing is how I can get back a nice menu bar of little
firefox icons. I've got into the habit following several losses of
masses of tabs in a window due to a misbehaving flash app of opening
windows instead of tabs (and then sub tabs) and they used to line up
neatly at the bottom of the screen so I knew that 3rd from the left wad
boing boing and sub tabs and 1st as BBC and subtags and I'd just scroll
on them. I can't figure out how to recreate this apps bar. Any idea???


On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 10:16 +0100, Dava wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
> > On 17/07/11 00:50, Malcolm Blackmore wrote:
> >> I wish I had never upgraded. Its a total disaster interface wise
> >> compared to 10.04. For a start all the app fonts on the left hand side
> >> are about 10 times too big. I've been poking about for an hour. How do I
> >> make them smaller so they all fit down the left hand side (or move them
> >> to the top where they used to be?). I can't find any menu.
> >>
> >> Also firefox refuses to line up all the open windows in a neat line on
> >> the bottom line leaving me searching for ages for windows open with tabs
> >> open within them. Again I can find no formatting option! And it insists
> >> on making everything full window too.
> >>
> >> HHHEEELLLPPP
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You can use Gnome still, on the login screen I believe there is an 
> > option to choose which desktop environment you use (I believe it's 
> > under session), by default it's Unity but at the moment I gather you 
> > can change it back to Gnome.
> >
> > As far as the other issues you're having, I'm afraid I can't help, I 
> > dumped Ubuntu in 10.10 when I knew what was coming.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> Same here, unity imho was a complete mess up, like Rob said you can 
> still access it via the login. I'm starting to lose a lot of faith in 
> Ubuntu lately, they are removing synaptic from the install soon, ok it 
> can be installed again but it just seems a bit backwards. I was running 
> my trusty Mint 8 install triple booted with backtrack and 11.04, that 
> lasted about a week before Ubuntu was removed!  If it isnt too much 
> hassle, is it possible to try the latest Mint?
> 
> Dave
> 




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