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shawfield
July 16th, 2008, 11:15 AM
Hi all, having laughed out loud at the 'how can I make my Ubuntu more like Windows thread, where the guy wants to have a 'blue screen of death' to make him feel more 'at home', I now find myself getting as many 'hangs' in Ubuntu as I used to in Windows.

Could this be a Compiz problem ?

Examples of the problems are:

Mozilla dies..goes grey, I force it to quit. When I try to run it again, nothing happens...just the spinning wheel as it loads, then no program.
This also happens with Pidgin from time to time & also Open Office.

Closing the session & re opening solves the problem.

Also, today, I got a 'grey screen', when I opened a window to play with files on my desktop. I forced it to quit & all my desktop folders have vanished. A 'search' also goes grey & refuses to respond.

I use Ubuntu 8.04 with all the latest updates installed.

shawfield
July 24th, 2008, 08:36 AM
Well, although no one offerred any assistance on this, it seems that the latest series of Ubuntu updates has cured the problem.

Back to trouble free operation & happy that Windows is now consigned to the bin.

Cheers