Ubuntu hardy questions

**justinhj** · April 26th, 2008

I have a problem when I boot up after upgrading to Hardy from gutsy. The login screen is showing only the upper left quarter. I can still login and everything is fine afterwards.

Also, is there a way to skip the Ubuntu start up screen with the progress bar, and instead see the text scrolling showing me what is going on? That's one of things I used to prefer about Linux over Windows; you can actually see what it was doing if it goes wrong.

**sam_delta** · April 26th, 2008

to remove the boot splash screen

first make a backup of your menu.lst file

Code:

 sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.backup

go into a terminal and type

Code:

 gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

find the "kernel line", if more than 1, the latest kernel, and remove the words "quiet splash" off the end of the line, save and boot screen is gone.

tell us how it goes
sam

**frup** · April 26th, 2008

I have just one addition which always need to be pointed out and that is that sudo is for command line only apps and that gksudo is preferred for GUI apps. There is an important reason why but I never remember I just apply.

**sam_delta** · April 26th, 2008

ight, thx for pointing that out frup, already edited my previous post

heres a brief explanation on sudo vs gksudo
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo

sam

**justinhj** · April 26th, 2008

Thanks guys. I've gotten rid of the splash screen, that's a lot better.

I still have the very large ubuntu login screen. It looks like it's 4 times bigger than my screen. Once I login I'm fine.

Also, I'm using compiz and emerald, and any saved session windows that open up when I begin don't have window decorations. I have to close and re-open them.

**sam_delta** · April 26th, 2008

try this:

install simple-ccsm package (compiz advanced desktop settings) then, go into system>preferences>Advanced desktop effects settings

find the Window Decoration plug-in, you can use the top left filter to search for it.
click on "window decoration" to enter plugin settings and search for "Command:" in that line type "emerald --replace", instead of compiz-decorator

let us know if it works,
sam

**justinhj** · April 27th, 2008

I should have mentioned I installed compiz-git, which would have to be removed to install simple-ccsm

**justinhj** · April 27th, 2008

Trying to install ccsm removed compiz-git and now I'm kind of screwed. I followed the instructions at the start of this thread to reinstall it

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ght=compiz-git

But I have no window decoration now, and starting compiz-git fails.

Edit: I'm ok now, I just installed everything from the regular hardy packages and removed compiz-git.

**justinhj** · April 27th, 2008

I found the window plugin you mentioned and I am using emerald --replace

**darkoz** · April 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by justinhj

I still have the very large ubuntu login screen. It looks like it's 4 times bigger than my screen. Once I login I'm fine.

I had this same problem. It was because X was configured wrong for some reason. edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with your editor of choice and find the "Screen" section. It will look similar to:

Code:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8600 GTS]"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	Defaultdepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Virtual	2048	1536
		Modes	"1280x1024@60"	"1280x1024@50"	"1024x768@60"	"1024x768@50"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

All you need to do there is comment out the "Virtual" line like so:

Code:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8600 GTS]"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	Defaultdepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
#		Virtual	2048	1536
		Modes	"1280x1024@60"	"1280x1024@50"	"1024x768@60"	"1024x768@50"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

That should fix your login problem.