Sorry for the late reply, but in Ubuntu 16.04, the default Window mgr is Unity and in 18.04 they switched to a more standard Gnome based WM. Yeah, the upgrade caused many problems, not the least of which was the WM. 

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> On Jul 2, 2020, at 22:42, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 2020-07-02, at 8:42 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Has anyone figured out how to get Squeak's behavior to behave in 18.04 like it did in 16.04 and before?
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> This is with the stock window manager for ubuntu 18? I got away from that horror story as quickly as I could work out. Not that xfce4 is looking much less annoying TBH. What is it with the unix world wanting to make life as miserable as possible?
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> It may just be from long experience but the least awful unix/gui pair I know is Raspbian - or more correctly since they recently changed the name - Raspberry Pi OS. It's Debian based, the UI is tolerably consistent and best of all the system is being cared for and developed by some people that seem to have a decent clue. It wouldn't be worth mentioning this if they didn't provide an X86 version but they do so it is.
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