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I'm looking to purchase a new laptop to run Ubuntu on and am after some advice from any UK readers (I'm asking for UK so I can make sure the models are available to me) who have recently...
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Hi,
I'm looking to purchase a new laptop to run Ubuntu on and am after some advice from any UK readers (I'm asking for UK so I can make sure the models are available to me) who have recently...
Hello,
Could anyone in the know let me know the current status regarding Snaps and Flatpaks and use of GTK Themes and Icon sets. I have researched this topic and have found a number of posts on...
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I have installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 18.04 on my PC with an AMD HD7900 Graphics Card. I believe the code name is 'Tahiti'
First thing I did was install the Oibaf PPA
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Thank you Claus, I think you may have hit gold there! I will try this over the weekend and report back.
OK, so I installed the PPA and did a sudo apt-get update and a sudo apt-get install mesa-utils. OpenGL version is 18.2.0-devel.
However from my visualisation software I still get No 3D support...
Hello and thanks for the quick reply. Are you on a fresh install of 18.04 Final, and have you installed anything else such as mesa-utils, or did you just install VirtualBox and it worked?
Thanks...
I always seem to struggle with graphics cards on Linux.
I'm using a desktop PC with an AMD HD7900 graphics card. I understand that the AMD open drivers are included by default.
The issue I am...
Is there any way of ungrouping the 'Utilities' applications group?
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Is there a version of the 'Additional Drivers' tool in 18.04?
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I have installed Gnome Tweak and it is telling me that no Shell is installed. Is this normal?
https://s14.postimg.org/x33kj1wch/Tweaks.png
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I'm adding shortcuts to my desktop and have done this by firstly installing gnome-panel with:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel
Then running in terminal:
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Hi, Sorry for the delay in my reply. I have been on holiday.
I'm using an GT 750M, alongside my Intel Graphics Controller on a Dell Inspiron.
I have now been able to get things working by...
Hello,
I have a Dell laptop with the Intel / Nvidia combo of graphics cards. I've been looking around for guidance on installing the correct drivers to get things working, but there seems to be...
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I have installed VMWare Workstation Player 12 on my Ubuntu 15.10 box, but the menus seem to be detached from the rest of the bar which is a different colour.
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Is it possible to...
Sorry, please delete this one. I managed to save it twice. Sorry
Hi,
There are a number, but nothing will be as advanced as Dreamweaver if you want to use the visual options. Take a look at these one:
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Thanks, I fully agree. No intention or wish to be anti AU.
I was afraid to ask the question on the Ask Ubuntu site for fear of getting more mark downs! This was the point I was try to make about the 'fear' of asking questions.
Thanks to 'howfield' to the...
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I got the idea by 'Ask!' link on the Ubuntu home page. Best wishes
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I wonder if I could ask for some community views on this one?
Ubuntu seems to gently push users to ask questions on the Ask Ubuntu site. Having used it I have found that there seems to be...
Very many thanks,
Peter
Thanks for the detailed reply. I have run glxgears and can see the difference when I use optirun
The only remaining issue is that Nvidia settings still says 640 x 480. Please see the image on the...
Hi Again,
Thanks for your help. I changed the code to:
## Section with nouveau driver specific options, only parsed if Driver=nvidia
[driver-nouveau]
KernelDriver=nvidia-319
PMMethod=auto...
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Many thanks for the quick reply. The card is an 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650M on a recent Dell 17R. I will give your guidance a go and let you know how I get on.
Are they reasons why the...
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I have a Dell laptop with Nvidia and Intel graphics cards. I have followed the instructions below to install BumbleBee on a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04 32Bit
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