You can disable and/or remove the lens features that go to Amazon. This article has a lot of good info, including how to do that: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks To install a new wm in Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install openbox" (or similar, or use the software center), though in my experience you have to hunt around for the window manager chooser - it's that little circle near the login box. You could also install an Ubuntu variant, such as Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (Xfce) or Lubuntu (LXDE) to have the window manager fully configured (and without Unity installed at all). --Adam On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM, B-o-B De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com>wrote: > On 3/18/2013 2:13 AM, Mike Miller wrote:: > >> >> In Solaris about 12 years ago I had it running OpenWindows, KDE or >> Gnome, depending on which I selected. That must be easily doable in >> Linux, too. >> >> > It's super easy on Linux. Each distro has it's own way. On Ubuntu first > install desktop GUI you want. Log out, and when you log back in you will > see the option to select what window manager you want. > > On Slackware, just type xwmconfig & select one of the installed, log out & > log in. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130319/91b7cbfb/attachment.html>