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So I updated to Ubuntu 18.04.

Ubuntu dropped Unity as the default interface in favour of Gnome. Fine, I'll try it...

I had the laptop on the top of my lap and it seems that Gnome got some info about orientation and flipped the screen and the touchpad 180 degrees. If i tilted the laptop the screen flipped back, but the touchpad stayed upside down. And the touchpad had gotten insensitive. No more soft taps, now I had to PRESS until the touchpad "clicked". I worried it would break.

I rebooted from a USB-stick with 16.04 of Ubuntu and googled to figure out what was going on. got some clues. "Touchpad synaptics".

With intense concentration I rebooted the new install and managed to install touchpad synaptics using an upside down touchpad. Then I installed the community supported version of Unity and touchpad and screen settled down as supposed. Sigh!

But the VPN app didn't work. What to do...

I mailed support and they couldn't help. But they promised to notify the techies.

I ended up reinstalling 16.04 and running that way for a few days.

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my desktop instead. No real need for VPN there. And when installing on a desktop with a normal mouse the screen and mouse orientation stayed put.

But I had gotten used to how Unity was really frugal with vertical space. Reusing the titlebar for menus. Gnome had some shell extensions that promised to do the same, but I never got it to work. So I installed the community version of Unity on the desktop as well. And finally took the effort to attach to the NAS using autofs. The man-pages described one thing, I saw another. Some experimenting and I got it working. Bliss!

Then I heard back from the VPN-support. They wanted to know how I felt about how the incident was handled. I said that the staff seemed to do what they could, but the product didn't support the updated Ubuntu.

After a day the VPN-support came back and wanted me to test a new version of the VPN software. I tested it on the desktop and it worked fine!

So back to reinstalling the laptop. Upside down screen and touchpad again, but now I knew how to fix it. No need for research. And in with old unity again. And autofs to my NAS as well! Great!

After that everything seems to work fine. Latest calibre and all bookmarks and addons on firefox came back from sync.

So now I have updated both my laptop and my desktop to latest version of Ubuntu LTS and everything looks and works exactly as it did when I started... Oh, well...

(Autofs is new (for me) and works real nice!!!)