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Version Of Ubuntu: Trusty Tahr 14.04
2)Laptop Maker: Lenovo
3)Laptop Model: Thinkpad E545
4)Known Issue: Video driver produces random glitches on screen.

This laptop was ubuntu certified...

Hi all,

I am running linux mint 17 on a lenovo thinkpad e545 at the moment, but after running into problems with the video driver, I gave ubuntu a go. The symptoms are written down here, e.g.,...

Thanks for the code! This is certainly useful.
Cheer,
v923z

This indeed fixes the problem, though I am a bit wary of this solution: what if the user, either by accident or on purpose, closes awn? Is there really no other way of keeping the desktop alive? If I...

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I would like to get rid of the unity-2d-panel, because it is not really customisable, and I believe that all the relevant functionalities can be transferred to screenlets. However, I...

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Thanks for the link! I have done everything as written, but I still have the same problem: at login, I am thrown back to the desktop manager, no matter what I do. It seems to me that I cannot...

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I would like to have a minimalistic desktop, so I created /usr/share/xsession/custom.desktop, which looks like this


[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Custom
Comment=Nothing...

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I would like to ask if there is a relatively easy way of switching between video drivers. The problem I have is the following: my laptop has an nvidia card, and at the moment, it is...

Hi Kuniku,

Yes, indeed it helped! Many thanks for your comments! I will mark this issue as solved.
Cheers,
Zoltán

I have googled, and look what I have found:

In google


xconf ubuntu oneiric
http://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-the-x-org-config-file-how-do-i-configure-x-there

xconf is no longer...

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I have just updated my kernel as requested by the update manager, and I cannot boot with it. For a while, everything seems normal, but at the end of the boot process, I see only the boot...

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I just wanted to ask if there is perhaps some trick to getting the autohide function in cairo-dock working. I can make the dock retreat, if it would cover a window, but when I move the...

Hi,

Thanks for the pointers! I have removed Adobe's flash player, and installed gnash instead. It is OK now.
Cheers,
Zoltán

Hi All,

I was wondering whether someone else would have the same issue as I do. It seems that some colour channels are missing when I try to play a flash video in firefox. An example would be that...

I haven't yet got the dual boot up, but I am sure I can do that with some tweaking of the grub menu file. What I really wanted to have is linux, and that I have now. As I said in my previous post,...

Well, I have finally managed to boot into ubuntu. I had to boot from the livecd first, and then remove grub2, and install grub from there. Before that I had to chroot, so that I could operate on the...

Well, this is really a Catch-22 now. I managed to get to the console, and then I tried to do everything written at the beginning of this post. But there are still problems. I could not chroot,...

Sorry, I forgot to say that this all happens on a lenovo b570. I got past the black screen now, but at the end of the installation process, the only option I have is reboot. I cannot get into the...

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From the original post, it is not clear to me, whether this is the 32-bit, or the 64-bit version. I am trying to install the 64-bit version, but I don't even get to the end of the...

It is always a lot of fun to reply to one's own question. Anyway, the solution is https://launchpad.net/m210 .

Well, then, restart it will be.
Cheers,
v923z

Hi All,

I have seen that this question has been asked before, but those related to older versions of ubuntu or gnome-shell. In short, I would like to use gnome-shell. I have installed version 3.2...

In the meantime, I have figured out what causes the problem. This happens, when I install the gnome-shell-extenstions-alternative-status-menu. It's a bit odd, because yesterday it was all right......

Thanks for the reply! That didn't actually help, but since I had to backup the shell settings anyway, I just re-installed it. Still, it is a bit odd, that it went away so easily...
Cheers,
v923z

Hi All,

I did some changes to my gnome-shell, and in order to save a logout, I just pressed Alt+F2, and then typed 'r'. It seems that was a mistake. The shell is gone now. It is offered at login,...