Hi, after a lot of digging I have got my panel back, perhaps I have been confused between panel and system tray but never mind. The answer is on the forum - follow this link ...
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Hi, after a lot of digging I have got my panel back, perhaps I have been confused between panel and system tray but never mind. The answer is on the forum - follow this link ...
I would but when I 'right-click' on the top panel at any point nothing happens. Clicking on 'Applications', 'Places' or 'System' does nothing either. I did find the following
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Sadly I can't offer any help. I just wanted to add that my system when asked to shut-down (Ctrl+Shift+Delete) says that "Panel not responding" and do I really want to shut down.
PS. How do I get a...
When I installed 9.10 I could not get the sound to work. After a few attempts this is what worked.
1 Make a clean install of 9.10
2 Do not fiddle with pulse settings apart from making sure
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Thanks themanattheback, I think I can reply via you profile or something so I will try that.
Failed to parse existing x config file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf
It seems that the same routines do not work for al. Here is my fix.
I tried run sudo nvidia-xconfig to create a new Xorg.conf. and...
The problem hasn't been 'solved' as such but a work around is to use partition editor from boot and then install Ubuntu.
Hi stlsaint. How I wish I could format the HD. I did try that through the vista instal disk and no luck, I cannot reach the HD although | can 'see' it with Ubuntu live. It appears that somewhere on...
Hi, I have aquired an Advent 8117 laptop without the recovery disk. I have tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 on it but I get an error which says "The installer encountered an error copying files to the...
Many thanks for that. It's kinda late now so I will follow your suggestion during the week.
Hi, yoou wrote "weird, what happens if you ping localhost?"
neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ ping http://localhost
ping: unknown host http://localhost
then I tried
neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ ping localhost...
I was told that the network manager would overwrite that file and the advice I had was to remove it, bet to read all of this thread first though.
Hi Dgortze380, here it is
neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 neil-ubuntu3
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost...
So near yet so far. great I thought - now I can get on the web etc. Well nearly - I cannot yet get to http://localhost
Sorry friend but I didn't even then notice that you told me first ! Perhaps my kids are right ....
Why is it that the best errors never become obvious until someone else walks up behind you and says "it's obvious, look what you have put there". Now I feel a right d*** head :lolflag:
many thanks...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Part of what I read said that due to a bug in 8.10 (thanks for correction) if you leave them in all the static stuff gets overwritten.
Em yes that's what the instruction read
Hello. For reasons that are unimportant here I want to have a static ip address on my ubuntu box. Using my ******* box I found some advice that said I should remove the Network Manager which I have...
Hello, my problem is with permissions and mounting anything other than the main HD. I have a PC fitted with /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc my system appears to be on sdb as seen in partition editor.
I...
Hi, under 8.04 I was able to use Sound Recorder, but with with fresh install of 8.1 (32 bit) it (SR) goes a bit crazy. The same happened with a trial install of 64 bit 8.1 but there were other issues...
The answer was easy once I was told. Ensure that the MPlayer plugin is in place and Firefox works just fine...
Hi, to do what you want and produce a file you can play back. Here is what I do.
Check that you have the MPlayer plugin in Firefox (this was my cure to recording a local radio station).
Use Sound...
Thank you very much Overdrank. The line that you sent pointed me in the right direction. For the benefit of anyone else who has this problem here is what I did.
1 Boot from my CustomLiveCD (make...