[orca-list] Vinux & Unity - Top Panel and resident drives

["Glenn / Lenny" <glennervin cableone net>]

Hi,
I was using the latest Vinux with Orca.
There were two things I was not able to resolve in Unity.
I could not access the top panel to get onto my WIFI with alt + F10, I had 
to activate the touch-pad, and move to the top, and do a left-click for the 
panels for the various items.
Also, nowhere could I find my resident hard drive, with two partitions.
I even did sudo mount -a
and then they showed up with fdisk -l, but not in the GUI.
So I installed Gnome, and after logging out and back in in Gnome Classic 
with no effects, I was able to find "places" and access my partitions.
The Vinux documentation does not address these issues, well, they do 
document the alt + F10, but that did not work for me.
What do others do in Unity for locating their internal HD partitions?
Thanks.

Glenn