hi, I have recently installed ubuntu14.04 on a HP laptop. The touch screen works properly in Unity but in Gnome Shell when i have 2 windows open touching the second window brings it to the front but...
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hi, I have recently installed ubuntu14.04 on a HP laptop. The touch screen works properly in Unity but in Gnome Shell when i have 2 windows open touching the second window brings it to the front but...
Can anyone tell me how i set the default search list in the dash smart scopes. I want to set 1 or 2 categories by default to search in certain sources only. I can then manually add another(s) if...
hi hil4vitkutin,
My login page remains the same (no options) BUT i now get straight into gnome3 desktop. YAY!
Even my font problem appears to have gone, and I can live with the login page quirk....
i created a new .desktop file in xsessions, excecutable. Re-booted. same. I uploaded installed packages file for you but i think it might be time to consider re installing ubuntu, perhaps 12.04. ...
hi no alternatives. I installed fluxbox but it didn't appear at login so how can i manually add another wm to my sessions?? file/dir . Or perhaps i just don't turn off my computer.. :)
Hi, reinstalled all those packsges, got 2 errors-unable to locate libmutter0a and gnome-themes-standard-data (have libmutter0 , gnome-themes-standard ). I am using fluxbox at the moment but usually...
Thanks hil4vitkutin, I've only recently install 12.10 and don't really want to do it again if i can get this fixed. Unity seems to work ok, but no hot corner and strangely i can only start synaptic...
just rebooted and after i got the terminal up i tried gnome -shell and there are many errors- something a bout ibus outdated??
also my usr/share/xsessions/ has flux,ubuntu,gnome,gnome classic in...
ok reinstalled gnome-shell but no change to anything..
OK, reinstalled gnome-shell as above, no change. checked tweak tool, no extensions no themes ?? how do i start gnome shell from the terminal?
just installed fluxbox, session didn't appear at login page but started from the terminal OK.
hi
thanks for your quick reply, at the login page i used to get a choice of sessions-ubuntu,gnome, etc but now there is none of those, i click on my pic and it goes to my current wallpaper. No...
hi
not sure if it was ubuntu tweak to tool or not but i am using gnome3 desktop on 12.10, a recent upgrade. I am on a laptop and dont usually shut down but when i did i found that i have the same...
hi
i have a similar problem, login screen gives me no options (gnome3 gone etc.) hit user name and end up with wallpaper, must hit ctr-alt -t for terminal and typing unity to get desktop. All gnome3...
OOps,sorry my mistake., thanks for your help. I think it was the comma that threw me.
OK, tried again with link above and by changing the mount command to
mount -rw -o remount /
got it to work.
hope this helps
Hi this link
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
has the command-
mount -o rw, remount /
which didn't work for me
mount -rw -o remount /
did work for me so my password has been...
Hi I am also having password problems (seems i dont have one!) This link is supposed to show you howto re set your password-
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
Didn't work for me but...
followed those instructions- received error "authentication token manipulation error". password unchanged.
Re: gnome shell ceased to be
Hi,i decided to upgrade to 12.10 in the hope that this would fix the problem, upgrade went very smoothly and computer back to normal. I appreciate all the help, thanks.
Hi, recently upgraded to 12.10 and decided to have auto login to my computer. Went to settings>users put in my password and then hit change password and entered no password. Shut down restarted auto...
thanks, but didnt work, error "root visual is nor GL visual" and then "GLX missing on display 0:0" I reinstalled compiz but no change. I don't want to reinstall the OS , anyone?
hi, i have 12.04 installed on my laptop and after auto shut down due to a flat battery (oops) gnome shell no longer a works. When i log in it appears as gnome desktop (i think) unity also is broken,...
When i minimize the app disappears, a small arrow appears near my icon but thats it, the computers freezes or takes a minute to reopen when i click on it. Cant see if i have more than 1 window open,...
Try iwconfig
should list wifi connectiion--am at work on windows so can't give you any more info about it