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No it worked on my XPS 13 which now dual boots fine - but I needed my windows when I messed up, so remember to back up

Thanks. Whatever it does your advice has changed a pretty infuriating laptop into a working one

Thanks for this advice. It seems to have worked for me. Is anybody able to explain what these commands do?

Recently started happening to me as well on both laptop and desktop running 14.04

Just launch the application you want to attach to the Launcher and right click the icon and lock to launcher.

Detailed guide in this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217524&p=12991034#post12991034

Could not work this out - thanks for posting your soultion.

I suffered with no wifi / bad wifi until I installed the 3.14.1 kernel. Works well now. Radical surgery, but well worth it.

You can use Unity Tweak Tool -> System -> Desktop icons

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

If you launch chrome an icon should appear in your dock. You can right click this and make it a launcher

Thanks both for your replies. I was led in the right direction. I finally got it to work with

I've read this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToAddaLauncher -> "The Hard Way" but do not understand :oops:

I am trying to create a launcher for a programme (shredder Chess). If I use a terminal to cd into then run the command the programme starts. However when I use alacarte to try and create a launcher...

I used the instructions here to enable screensaver in 11.10: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/10/enable-screensavers-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/

I have problems with videos on youtube slow and choppy in fullscreen. They work fine with minitube which is in the software centre.

According to this thread on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/876450

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

You could try this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/37519/removing-conky-drop-shadow

or this

http://saraithegeek.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/how-to-fix-conky-flickering-borders-and-drop-shadows/...

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I had this problem for months until I came across this discussion on a bug. Might not be a solution to your problem but it worked for me:
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Just in case you haven't seen these - there are more options on the bottom of the login screen

My computer was freezing constantly and (seemingly) randomly for a few months - tried everything but no luck. The tip to disable irqbalance here solved this for me - no lockups or freezing for about...

Thanks for the reply. I (sort of) see it now!

Hello - I have a strange symbol representing the weather for tomorrow under Llu in the screenshot. Is it possible to change this to something more meaningful? This is the relevant part of my .conkyrc...

Have alook at this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1391768