On 01/07/12 10:48, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > On 1 July 2012 09:56, Chris Liddell <c...@spamcop.net> wrote: >> >> A bit late to this discussion, but never mind..... >> >> I gave up on Unity *very* quickly..... it took me a good (bad!) fifteen >> minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was >> not for me, at all - I switched to Xfce for now. I may go back to Debian >> next time I have to setup a machine. >> >> This is Unix, for heaven's sake, how can a terminal window *not* be >> available right there, "front and centre"? > > For me, the terminal is: > Press "Windows Key", then press "t", then press "ENTER" > Far easier than moving the mouse around a bit and clicking.
And I'm not saying that's wrong. You prefer it, great! You should certainly not have my preferred working methods imposed on you, that would be totally unfair. Oh, hang on........ Just to be clear, James, I'm not having a go at you - to paraphrase: I may not like your way of working, but I'll support to the death your right to work that way! In general, I'm not really having a go at Unity, it just seems unfortunate that both GNOME (my previously preferred desktop) and Ubuntu (my previously preferred distribution) contemporaneously decided that I really didn't want all that ability to configure stuff, and I should just work as their designers saw fit. That just doesn't feel very "Linux" to me..... Chris -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
