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I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 and recently noticed when I logged out there was an option available for the KDE Plasma Workspace desktop. I tried it out and liked it, however it became apparent over a...

Many thanks for your help Elfy and Mark - success! It's been a learning curve about partitioning for me. When I installed 12.04 I didn't realise what I had done as you have outlined Mark. Everything...

Elfy - please excuse my ignorance but this is all sweeping over my head and I'm not prepared to attempt any resizing using Windows Boot Manager. I can't understand why I have to resize in Windows if...

Thanks for your replies. My desktop dual boots using Windows Boot Manager, not Wubi - my screen briefly displays an error message concerning Wubi when it boots up. Don't know if that helps but do I...

Greetings - I know there are postings about this subject on the forum but I'm a little slow on the uptake and will need help to free up disk space on my hard drive. I received the following message...

Thanks but wget is terribly slow for me (will take over 4 hours to download) and I don't understand how to use the torrent. I did what you instructed and pasted into Transmission but nothing...

Thanks but wget is terribly slow for me (will take over 4 hours to download) and I don't understand how to use the torrent. Better order the CD/DVD.

I'm trying to download 14.04 32 bit however each time it gets to 771Gb, it stops and a "failed" message appears. Is there anything I can do or should I order the CD/DVD? I want to install on a...

Dave

I did what you instructed but as before, a window appears telling me to restart Nautilus, but nothing happens and after a couple of minutes the screen freezes completely. I switched off my...

Hi Dave

I originally installed Dropbox from the Software Centre. I'm still learning about Ubuntu and I would need to get instructions how to install from the repositories nautilus-dropbox. No...

I'm having issues installing Dropbox on my netbook after upgrading to 14.04. I get a message "Nautilus Restart Required", then choose that option and then a message displays "Authentication is needed...

When I typed "system-config-printer" the printer folder opened up but it had the following message: (process:9243): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C'...

Thanks for your help pdc - really appreciate it. I've managed to get the scanner working (after your suggestion) but still can't print double-sided. I installed all 3 files downloaded from the...

Greetings. I've tried to install my new Samsung Mono Laser Printer SCX-3405FW into Ubuntu 12.04 but I'm having issues getting full functionality. My machine dual boots with Windows 7 and there were...

Sorry, I feel like a clutz! The horizontal layout of my monitor was out of alignment and the left arrow was not visible on my screen. This must have happened when I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10. Case...

Appreciate your help but there has been no change. Does anybody else have the same problem? Or is this a bug in 12.10?

Hi there.
I've recently upgraded to 12.10 and I've noticed that when I minimise back to the launch bar, there is no indication that the program has been minimised. It doesn't matter what it is...

Hi

I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 and have found my Canon MP500 printer is now not working. It was working fine under 10.04 and now when I try to print, there is no response...

OK - thanks NikTh for your help. Can anybody else offer assistance?

Hello NikTh - here is the output of what you mentioned:


graham@graham-Aspire-3500:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]...

Hello again NikTh

Here's the output of the commands you asked me to check:


graham@graham-Aspire-3500:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm
[sudo] password for graham:
Reading...

Hello

Unfortunately no change - any other suggestions? Thanks

Greetings!

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on an Acer Aspire 3500 and after experiencing problems with the wireless connection (now resolved thanks to chili555 and wildmanne39), I find the...

@ chili555 - well finally I have some good news. I'm trying to fix this laptop for a friend, so I wasn't familiar with its functions. When you posted a thumbnail of the front section of the laptop, I...

Hi - I'm afraid nothing happened and have the same problems I've described previously. Here is the output - as you can see, nothing:

graham@graham-Aspire-3500:~$ sudo modprobe -r ath5k
[sudo]...