Get Natty Shortcuts with Lucid Stability
I like the latest Ubuntu Natty 11.04, but it doesn’t like my system. It locked up much too often to be used here. That’s too bad because I became addicted to the quick launch using keyboard shortcuts. Addicted.
So after the last crash running unity-2D, I gave up on Unity, 11.04, and started using my LXDE-based Ubuntu 10.04 again. I missed those built-in keyboard quick launchers enough to look up how to create them. It was pretty easy to add them to LXDE. I suspect it is possible to do similar settings for Gnome-based desktops, but the examples below will not work for stock gnome.
First Look at Natty Narwhal - Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity 5
A first look at Natty Narwhal, aka Ubuntu 11.04, under VirtualBox 4.0.6. I’m coming from this as a daily user of Lubuntu 10.04 LTS. I don’t use Gnome much as I find it bloated and slow.
I’ve been using Natty for about a week. In general, I like the new interface. It isn’t nearly as big a change as others would have you think. It is easy to change to a different interface like the old Gnome or even the Unity-2D for the graphics impaired machines, like mine. Give it a week and learn the keyboard shortcuts, I think you’ll like it. I found myself trying to use them on my non-Natty systems and missing those shortcuts when they weren’t available. That says something to me.
