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I did a fresh install of 13.10 recently with no problems, but today I did an update and after a re-boot I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
The keyboard is not working and I cant get to a...

I never got this to work in 12.10.
I installed 11.10 and got a prompt after reboot to install the nividia driver, which is how I remember Ubuntu working before all this Unity stuff.

I might try...

I have to use the 173.14.* driver is there one available for 12.10 in the repo's?

I recently installed 11.10 on my laptop, this is my first experience with Unity and have some questions about it's use.
Been using Unity 2D mostly as it's a bit more responsive than the 3D one.

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Thanks that did the trick :)

Getting error:
No such schema 'org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences'

Using classic Gnome with effects, but they are no effects.
How do I enable them?

BTW I'm not sold on Unity>.

Great thanks!
But now how do I get the window buttons, max,min,close, on the right side?
What ever theme I chose they are all on the left and I hate that!

How do I change file manager behavior in 11.10?
I want to open files and folders with a single click.

Also How do I install different theme?
I have the tweak tool already installed but not sure...

I can't install the nvidia-173 driver.
I'm getting a "Depends: xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not going to be installed" error.
Says this is not installable :(.

What now?

Where is Synaptic??
I don't see it listed any where.

Tried software center but it giving this error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

nvidia-173: Depends: x11-common (>=...

No Go.
linux-headers-generic already newest version is what apt-get tells me.
I re-installed anyway but have same poblem.

the Vesa driver is loading.
Can't I blacklist it, or change it in...

Ok That sort of helps.
I can get a desktop, but no icons and the mouser flikers and dissapears
ocassionally.

I have to use keyboard shortcuts to get to a terminal to run apps.

I checked the...

After a fresh install of 12.10 i login but get a black screen for a few moments then a terminal with a GPU lock up error, then back to the login prompt.

Toshiba satellite P15-S479
Nvidia G-Force...

I've tried this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glasen/intel-driver
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

Then I had to make an xorg.conf file....

I have an Acer 4010 laptop with a intel 82852/855GM video card.
I cannot get compiz to run, even though i passed the 'compbiz test' in the 'system testing' although It did say I was using the 'vesa'...

I'm trying the live 11.10 version of Ubuntu and I have some questions.

Firstly and this is a deal breaker if I can't get it to work.
How do you change/handle workspaces in Unity?
When I click...

I have tried every thing and still having skipping problems.
I have removed pulseaudio and replaced it with alsa.

Here is my alsa info:...

Just discovered Geany will do Perl syntax highlighting and I think it will do debugging as well.
Already had it installed and was using it for C, didn't know it could do Perl.

Thanks for the replies.
Running manually from the terminal works fine, no error's.
This seems to be limited to the Padre IDE and clicking the script and choosing 'run in terminal'.

All my Perl...

When Im in Padre IDE and I click 'run' nothing happens, 'Output' screen is blank.
Same thing when I try to run in terminal, nothing happens.

EDIT:
It seems this is a problem with the Padre IDE,...

I have some perl scripts I wrote some time ago, maybe 8-10 months ago. that for some reason no longer work.

Only thing that has changed is I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10.
I have perl 5.10.1-12...

Output of locale -a
C
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8

No doesn't work, still in German.

My locale is all english
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"...