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I just set up a new virtual machine with an installation of Ubuntu 11.10 desktop edition, and downloaded the xephem 3.7.5 .deb file referenced in the contributions section of xephem's website. I encountered a problem that I haven't seen before in other versions of Linux. The only xephem requester buttons that will work are ones that I can click by pressing the enter key. Clicking them with the mouse does nothing. By extension, it's also impossible to activate any buttons that aren't bound to the enter key. This even includes check-boxes.

Has anyone seen this before?

I had time to do more searching.

It seems that Ubuntu 11.10 broke Motif somehow. But I haven't found anything more than that. I'll be trying Ubuntu 11.04 next.

The Ubuntu 11.10 release shifted to their 'unity' desktop. reports are
that you can load a gnome desktop and move on.



seems to provides a quick hackaround, and a way to set the desktop to support
classic gnome. I don't have 11.10 installed, but the TO at? the University
near me tells me he suffered powerfully due to 11.10 switch he made and
reverted backwards.

--Wayne

Thank you for the helpful link.

I looked at the logon screen in 11.10 and, as predicted, there was no provision to switch back to the old interface. But there was a selection for "Ubuntu 2D", and when I tried it, I found that xephem runs perfectly with that option. I can't tell, really, what the difference between 2D and the presumed 3D version that it defaults to is. The windows in the 2D version are still animated. Maybe my "3D" version wasn't animated as much as it was supposed to be because I'm running it in a virtual machine. Who knows?

I agree with everyone at the blog you referenced -- the new look is both ugly and useless. It doesn't remind me of Windows though, I actually don't mind Windows; it reminds me of Android.

I have a feeling that I may be switching to a different version of Linux anyway. Ubuntu 11.10 was prompting me that there were upgrades available, but when I tried to upgrade, it hung.