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  1. [ubuntu] Re: Empathy doesn't focus when I click notification

    Oops, just noticed a tiny mistake in my OP: the launcher, of course, is on the left side, not the right. "...the empathy icon on the launcher (left side) does the little pop-out attention-getting...
  2. [ubuntu] Empathy doesn't focus when I click notification

    On Ubuntu 12.10 and Unity, when I get a new IM it shows up in the notification menu (top right). When I click on the chat item (i.e. the person's name) I expect Empathy (which is already running) to...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: Thunderbird 3.0.4 - Ubuntu 10.04 - Lightning Extension?

    Man, this wasn't easy to sort out, but I finally got this combination to work:

    64-bit Ubuntu 10.04
    Thunderbird 3.0.10
    Lightning 1.0b1
    Google Provider 0.6b1

    Thunderbird I installed directly...
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    [ubuntu] Re: GL screensaver crashes GPU

    Geez, okay, this may not have anything to do with GLcells after all? I can now trigger a version of the problem without it, just by logging out of my default profile:

    1. Power down the computer...
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    [ubuntu] Re: GL screensaver crashes GPU

    whoops, think I wasn't subscribed properly to this thread, just noticed the last comment today. Tried creating a test profile, and.. things got even more confusing. Let me try to relate this...

    I...
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    [ubuntu] Re: reboot sometimes fails

    Yup, running the 10.04 it came with. Most drastic thing I can remember doing before discovering the problem is trying to use the GLcells screensaver.
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    [ubuntu] Re: reboot sometimes fails

    Thanks for the reply. Just tried a restart, got the failure, tried again to read the quick message ("failed to get kernal ME host configuration"???) After it powered off I went for a bathroom break,...
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    [ubuntu] reboot sometimes fails

    On a week old Ratel Ultra with 10.04, Ubuntu sometimes fails to load on a reboot. If I reboot after the computer's been running for a while, it pretty much always fails. If I reboot again right away,...
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    [ubuntu] GL screensaver crashes GPU

    Brand new Ratel Ultra showed up yesterday, with Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel 2.6.32-24-generic, and GNOME 2.30.2. The GPU took to crashing after an hour of inactivity. Luckily, I eventually figured out that...
  10. [ubuntu] Piles of total gibberish in /var/log/messages !?

    I've got Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Vostro 420 desktop. Every now and then it freezes and crashes at random times (either while I'm working on something timid like a plaintext email, or while it's just...
  11. Re: 10 Reasons Why Google Chrome Should Be Your Default Web Browser!

    Does anyone else here have a problem with Chrome not focusing correctly when opened from another program? I thought this was a gnome desktop problem, but it works fine with FireFox.

    This is what...
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    [gnome] Re: alt-tab shortcut mysteriously broken

    oh for the... after I posted that I figured I'd reboot as a measure of sheer desperation, and alt-tab works fine now. geeeeez, I'm a dork. And still in the dark about the problem, but I don't care...
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    [gnome] alt-tab shortcut mysteriously broken

    [edit: fixed by reboot. whatever...]

    On Karmic 9.10 with the default Gnome desktop, and I can't make Alt+Tab work for ANY function under System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. Specifically I...
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