Against my own advice, I upgraded Pinto, the Thinkpad T60, from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 using the Update Manager. To my surprise, it worked fine. Only minor things broke. One was the ctrl-alt-del function was changed to a shutdown dialog with no log out button. The other was the on-screen display of the volume control buttons.<\/p>\n
To get back my log out button, I ran System\/Preferences\/Keyboard Shortcuts. Under Desktop, I disabled “Log Out” (which doesn’t). I pressed Add to create a custom shortcut called “Log Off” and gave it the command To fix the Thinkpad volume key display, I found these ubuntu forum instructions<\/a>. After much reading I installed and built the bwalex source<\/a>, which will work until the Ubuntu bug report is resolved. After compiling, I ran System\/Preferences\/Startup Applications and added Against my own advice, I upgraded Pinto, the Thinkpad T60, from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 using the Update Manager. To my surprise, it worked fine. Only minor things broke. One was the ctrl-alt-del function was changed to a shutdown dialog with no log out button. The other was the on-screen display of the volume control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}gnome-session-save --logout-dialog<\/code> and bound that to ctrl-alt-delete.<\/p>\nnotify<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"