Precise known bugs with workarounds

[philinux]

Have you tried to run nautilus with root privileges and see what happens. With me nautilus was behaving very strangely - changing color of window with almost every click ... or it is normal? Can you try it?

Looks fine here although gksu nautilus does not have a global menu and the drop down menus are light grey with black text. So fine here.

[philinux]

Did not work for me. Same light-colored menus and such as with plain old Ambiance theme. I am using Gnome Classic.

Also, the theme only showed up in the Advanced Settings tool, not System Settings/Appearance.

Could be gnome classic related.

Like it says use the tweak tool of your choice, they recommend myunity.

System settings appearance does not seem to recognise any custom themes.

[bigoten]

Can anybody back me up on how to fix the ALT-TAB bug in Gnome Classic? Or is this a bug that is in progress of being fixed? I'm not using Gnome Classic until this bug is fixed.

I agree. This feature is driving me crazy. How can we ALT-TAB among ALL opened applications in ALL workspaces, as we used to?

[brad1138]

Crap Nvidia driver included on .iso. Solution is to remove any proprietary drivers and then revert to old Nvidia driver.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install nvidia-current=295.33-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1

Reboot and you should be good to go.

What does this fix?

[codingman]

I agree. This feature is driving me crazy. How can we ALT-TAB among ALL opened applications in ALL workspaces, as we used to?

Hey! Go to CCSM and then enable application switcher,it works quite beautifully,ALT-TAB then shows the Compiz window switcher, but at least it works for now.

Hope this helps

Codingman

[whatthefunk]

What does this fix?

The nvidia drivers that came on the iso dont work with a lot of graphics cards. This is a way to get the old driver.

[jsavga]

I agree. This feature is driving me crazy. How can we ALT-TAB among ALL opened applications in ALL workspaces, as we used to?

Super+W is broke too, showing only applications from current workspace instead of all workspaces. Driving me nuts.

[bigoten]

Hey! Go to CCSM and then enable application switcher,it works quite beautifully,ALT-TAB then shows the Compiz window switcher, but at least it works for now.

Hope this helps

Codingman

I tried before, it does not work. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. I tried to set up one of the three following options: Application Switcher, Static Application Switcher, and Shift Switcher. I just fail to get the ALT TAB working as I think it should. Did anyone find a specific configuration to solve this issue?

[raphifix]

I tried before, it does not work. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. I tried to set up one of the three following options: Application Switcher, Static Application Switcher, and Shift Switcher. I just fail to get the ALT TAB working as I think it should. Did anyone find a specific configuration to solve this issue?

Idk how the key binding is for you, but for me the default is Super+Tab, NOT Alt+Tab.

[gunksta]

There is an open bug regarding external monitors and users of intel graphics. I have a Sandy Bridge processor and I have to be very careful how I plug things in.

If I plug in my USB Hub, External Monitor, etc and then boot the computer, LightDM comes up as expected and then Unity / Gnome Shell goes into a hard freeze upon log-in.

I was intrigued that LightDM worked correctly. So, I tried various window managers and eventually discovered that xfwm from XFCE4 / Xubuntu works just fine and does not trigger this bug. Alternatively, I am able to avoid it by first connecting the external monitor, logging in to Unity and THEN inserting my USB hub with external keyboard, mouse, printer, etc. A small hassle, but everything seems stable.

This problem drove me nuts because I loves my external monitor. Hope it helps someone else. I'm using a Lenovo X220 laptop. I don't know if desktop users are affected by this. YMMV.