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I despair slightly when design decisions are made to make the maintainer's life easier rather than the user's. And I'm a fan of theming etc. if it makes life easier for those who want everything to...

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I am trying to change the font colour in Nautilus so it is not 'grey against light grey' which seems to be the fashion at the moment. I am familiar with, but no fan of, the command line. If it...

Thanks! I have the command somewhere on other machines, but I knew the brilliant forum would help me sooner!

Can anyone remind me of the sed command I need to use to change my apt.sources to lunar (or lobster) please? And anything else I need to get on to the toolchain quickly?

Thank you! This is my blue moon day!

I seem to recall a sed command to run on sources.list to simply upgrade repo's to the next generatio. can anyone remind me of it, (Particularly for groovy to hirsute) or have things moved on?

Tried to install curl (command line and synaptic - I know they are pretty much the same but thought I would give it a whirl). I get:


sudo apt-get install curl
Reading package lists... Done...

somehow managed to get to the ui before crashing and switched off 'show in systray' which seems to have helped for the time being.

Problem seems to lie with
TreeViewMulti::TreeViewMulti() : Gtk::TreeView(), pending(false) {
get_selection()->set_select_function(sigc::group(&negate, sigc::ref(pending)));
}
in actions.cc
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Easystroke has stopped working. If I run it from the terminal it draws the gesture on the screen and then crashes with
(easystroke:31196): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_new: assertion 'width...

Thanks ventrical, that did the trick.

Cut'n'paste from the linked thread:

sudo mv ~/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority.old
sudo service lightdm restart

for easy access for others.

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Following updates c 15/5 I found I could not login through lightdm - I was simply sent straight back to the login screen (logging in via tty was fine). I created a new user with sudo roles and...

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Just downloaded today's 16.04 updates and now all my desktop icons are twice (or so) normal size. I can resize them to a bit smaller, but is their an easy way to do this for all of them, rather...

OK one of those frequent issues where Hardware fails at the same time as software updates. Re-seating the cable between monitor and machine has sorted it.

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Just 'upgraded' from Vivid to Wily (Changed all references in sources.list from vivid to wily) . Screen resolution is now at 1024x768 rather than 1920x1080. I did

sudo apt-get install...

Thanks, did you use the version from the standard repos?

Please feel free to just say you have got it working, without providing nay details or solutions: I just want to check there is something odd with my set-up. I'm off to create a new user now to see...

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I have tried installing skype on an up to date version of 64 bit 15.04 via these instructions:

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

I can't get the sound to work (neither microphone...

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I have had my UU partitions crash silently for several weeks now. I tried working through various things to solve the problem to no avail, and have recently needed to get on with some other...

Can't get beyond lightdm with 13.15.0-1 at the mo (i.e. I can select user and enter password but then it just hangs) tried reinstalling nvidia, I'll try another user.

Thanks, that has done the trick, I wonder how I ended up with it installed - don't remember manually installing it.

I now have another problem, which is that something else appears to be using...

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Recently mediascanner-service-2.0 is consuming most of my CPU, seems to run constantly and creates massive log files in ~/.cache/upstart. (over 11Gb when I left it running while I was away!)
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Is everyone else still having conflicts with usb modeswitch data?

Problem gone now, but not sure what change or combination of changes sorted it. Marking as solved.

Thanks Col, that is very interesting, and a good insight regarding the ability to mess with the original png files to no effect once associated.