canonical released ubuntu 11.10 on october 13th 2011. after downloading the new operating system and rebooting i wanted to record some of my experience.
canonical has left out the regular gnome desktop as an option from the user account screen. it can be invoked using the terminal application. the terminal command is : sudo apt-get install gnome-panel. once the option has been enabled it is available from the login screen.
to remove the overlay scroll bars in the 11.10 version the following terminal command works great:
sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar liboverlay-scrollbar3-0.2-0 liboverlay-
scrollbar-0.2-0
you may have to restart the computer for the change to take effect.
ubuntu 11.04 did not allow for saving of added wallpaper. at the advice of a fellow linux user i added an administrator account and the problem seemed to be resolved. the same issue was not present in 11.10. may have just been user error.
the new login screen that was added is very slick. it slides up and down in a fluid jquery style.
i have used slackware, mint, xubuntu, kubuntu, elementary linux and tiny core linux. ubuntu is my favorite linux distribution so far.
the link below is to the canonical corporate web site.
have a good week.