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[tim-from-pa]

Nice scenery on your desktop, Garyn.

 

[tim-from-pa]

This is Linux Ubuntu 12.04 with Dash open showing about a 1/3 of my applications. In other words, unlike Windows, these icons don't stay there all the time, but only when Dash is opened, and that's how an application is executed that is not already in the launcher bar. In a similar manner to windows, the open "window" has a translucent quality to it, just like the Windows 7 title bars do and you can see a fuzzy image of the Great Pyramid in the background (which is perfectly clear when Dash closes). You can see the laucher bar to the left, and applications can be added or deleted from it. That bar pops in and out when one puts the cursor there. The top bar with the email, sound, time, etc is the only thing that stays there all the time. I'm not a big Mac user; that's more my kids and my wife, but from what I gather, this OS works a lot like a Mac in its GUI.

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[Vic C.]

Tim,

If you don't like the new Unity desktop or prefer to switch between Unity and the "Classic" Gnome2 desktop, try this:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/classicgnome

or this:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

 

[Jman96]

I'm mobile while visiting...

This is the background....

 

[tim-from-pa]

Tim,

If you don't like the new Unity desktop or prefer to switch between Unity and the "Classic" Gnome2 desktop, try this:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/classicgnome

or this:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

Thanks Vic. If I ever would want to switch (perhaps as I get more stuff on here), I'll know what to do. Actually, I like Unity Desktop. I was just showing others how this works and is easy and intuitive IMO. I said I was not a big Mac user because I meant that I did not have much experience with it, not that I don't like Macs.

I basically could run everything here on the whole computer knowing about a half dozen things.