11.10 mixed bag

2011-10-23 Thread dannyboy
I have successfully installed ubuntu 11.10 as a virtual machine under vm ware fusion. I had to raise the volume after installation, but that was no problem. I used the f 10 key and found some menus. Now I know how to shut down. But using fire fox was harder than using vinux. Getting to some menus

File Choosers Not Working with Orca in Oneiric

2011-10-23 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, I'm not sure whether this is an Orca bug, a Gnome 3 bug, or something peculior to Oneiric. File chooser dialogues, such as 'save as' crash the application that creates them. I discovered this when trying to save a text file from gedit. First, I tried just entering a name into the text

introduction

2011-10-23 Thread dannyboy
Hello. My name is Danny. I use vinux in my secondary machine. But I thought I would give ubuntu 11.10 a try. I like the fact that it may be installed using orca. When logged in, after install, I had to find system settings and raise the volume. but it was odd I could not find my way around and te