i upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 two months ago and i don’t have much to say about it. which could be taken as a good or bad thing. to me, it’s mostly good because i keep getting a desktop that i want with little to no changes. i know there’s still so much talk about the HUD, unity, and gnome3. i watch videos on them from time to time, but i really have no interest in trying them out. i’ve firmly decided those desktop models are not going to work for me. so as long as new ubuntu releases keep including a gnome classic option i’ll keep using ubuntu. otherwise i’ll probably move on to linux mint and cinnamon.

for about the first month after upgrading i was receiving a message after login – “system program problem has been detected”. seems like it was something related to the gnome-settings-daemon crashing. at some point ubuntu updates resolved this issue.

i’ve decided to get rid of the new hovering scroll tabs. i actually liked them a lot at first, but then they really get in the way of resizing windows. on a small laptop screen i am constantly resizing windows and every time i tried to horizontally resize them the scroll tabs pop up. anyways, cool idea i just think it needs to be tweaked some more. to return to the normal visible scrollbars uninstall the packages “overlay-scrollbar” and “liboverlay-scrollbar*”.

the screensaver is all jacked up in release 12.04 apparently due to the inclusion of gnome-screensaver. to return xscreensaver functionality, gnome-screensaver will first need to be removed and then the xscreensaver daemon will need to be added to startup applications like so “xscreensaver -nosplash”.

i’ve also noticed that the battery indicator applet appears to be missing from the system tray region. i’ve enabled it to always be present under power options yet it still isn’t visible. this appears to be a reported bug on launchpad.

screensaver info source:
http://www.howtogeek.com/114027/how-to-add-screensavers-to-ubuntu-12.04/