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On startup, the HP program gives me a message saying it can't detect the system tray, and then force-exits. (though for some reason it doesn't do that every time I boot)

When I try to print...

What's a tray, and why do I fail to have one?
Also there were earlier error messages about a missing python package and a "System Problem Detected"

As far as I've tried it, it works fine in Windows, but I feel more at home in Ubuntu, so I would not want to keep doing the shut-down-and-reboot dance every time I want to print something out.
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Thank you, oldfred. I tried it. Not quite there yet. Same quit-in-the-middle problem as before. Also the auto install script screwed something up resulting in a bad boot which I had to recover from...

So I sometimes send a thing to the printer, and it dies after printing only half a page.
So far I have only experienced this when I print a thing that has a lot of color, off of a web page. In one...

It seems that my scanner utility scans grayscale, rather than black/white and I see no setting to reset for that. Is there a good utility for changing the image so it's strictly black/white...

I just acquired an HP6310 All-in-One printer-scanner and it works. But I am still working out the best ways to use it.

One thing I noticed, it only scans one side of the page. So if I scan a stack...

I lost the view by clicking into the "search contacts" pane, and now I do not know how to go back to it.

When I am on the go and I don't want to carry lots of stuff with me, I sometimes do some writing on the "Notes" app in the iPod Touch.

Then I can send them to myself by email and open them in my...

Thank you. I ended up reinstalling everything clean, since I figured that even if those fixes worked, I wouldn't understand what I had.

thank you, darkod. This sheds some light. But how do I run a bootinfo? Is that something that can be done from within windows? within linux if I could get to it? from a cd-rom? and how do I use it?
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I should add, Thinkpad uses three partitions, one for Windows and two for its system utilities and recovery software. I can create a fourth to run Ubuntu in, but it does not allow the machine to have...

So I have a dual-boot Thinkpad, with Vista and Ubuntu. I decided to re-install everything because Vista was getting messed up.

I installed Vista from disks provided. Okay so far. Have Vista...

Orange Crate, you misread me. I have exactly seven problems dealing with Ubuntu, as described above. I have an infinite number of problems dealing with Windows, which I only go near when I absolutely...

pqwoerituytrueiwoq, I tried your command for installing Microsoft fonts, and it went a little wrong. It gave me a Eula, but when I tried to click "accept" it somehow read me as having hit "decline"...

I like Ubuntu most of the time, but I am still not sure whether the grass is greener on the other side of some other fence when I feel frustrated by some things.

Things I like:
It's Linux.
It's...

Thank you, Kostkon, but still:

a) I don't see anything named evince on my machine.

b) I am wondering whether these are just plain djvu files or whether they are encrypted in a way only...

I got a copy of the eight-cd set The Complete New Yorker, and as it is, I can read it on my Windows partition [I have a dual-boot machine] with the reading software provided, but I am wondering if...

I use a Thinkpad T500, dual boot Ubuntu and Windows Vista.

I have very short battery life, which I have blamed on a decaying battery.

But it occurs to me: my OS is a one-size-fits-all distro,...

Habitual, I typed that command and the terminal output is reproduced below, as you requested.

It seems entirely possible that I accidentally merely added a URL to the menu bar with an accidental...

So immediately after running the latest update, I saw a new icon on the menu bar I have never seen before. (I use the "classic" view.)

The icon looks like a picture of a globe. If you mouse over...

As others might have also experienced, the font menu has so many things in it, it is hard to see what they all are. I find this very annoying.

This includes, notably, foreign-language fonts for...

Thank you, Kansasnoob. I tried logging in and out in the various modes, and after logging back in it's behaving itself again. I am still a little confused and I wonder whether it's going to do...

I should add:

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In case it's relevant, I ran that script when I upgraded to version 11 last time, that gets rid of the cute new interface and restores the old one.

Now I don't have the new...

I just ran the upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04, and now something very weird is happening.

When any window opens up, it no longer has its little dots or x's in the corner that you click to close,...