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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    I don't have that ppa, bmbaker.

    I reinstalled Natty 64-bit on my laptop a few days ago, and I have the latest NVIDIA drivers. A few hours into it, I started encountering frequent screen flicker....
  2. [gnome] Re: Black Screen Flicker in Ubuntu 11.04 / Gnome3?

    Okay I am wrong. The flicker has reappeared. BUT it happened when I was on the nvidia website, so I am wondering if it is connected to Flash.
    ...
  3. [gnome] Re: Black Screen Flicker in Ubuntu 11.04 / Gnome3?

    Looks like its a power manager issue. I unchecked the dim brightness when idle (on battery) option, and the flicker seems to have gone...for now <fingers crossed!>.

    See attached screenshot and...
  4. [gnome] Re: Black Screen Flicker in Ubuntu 11.04 / Gnome3?

    I reinstalled Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit on my Dell XPS 15 just a couple of days back. I have not yet reinstalled Gnome 3, but I am experiencing VERY frequent and very irritating flicker. So I can tell you...
  5. [SOLVED] Re: Cracking sounds and some applications not playing sound at all!

    Apart from Thunderbird still not playing a notification sound, everything else appears to have been resolved. I also reinstalled Natty, so :p

    Marking this thread as solved.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    Have reinstalled Natty.

    Btw, I am not going to use wicd from now on, unless I have a strong reason. My main problem with Network Manager was that it reset my static DNS settings. I found a fix...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: 11.04 kernel overheating and battery drain bug

    I think laptop-mode-tools and some recent system updates have brought the temperature down, and I am getting a decent battery backup too (~3 hours). I can't pinpoint if its the updates or...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    Now I have a fresh problem. I just turned on my laptop, and it seems neither the taskbar (the top bar in the Gnome Shell), nor the title bar of any window show up.

    Any ideas what could be wrong...
  9. [ubuntu] Re: 11.04 kernel overheating and battery drain bug

    I think you mean laptop. ;)



    That's so against the hacker culture that Linux/Unix operating systems were envisioned around :). The idea always was to show people the tools to fashion their own...
  10. [gnome] Re: Black Screen Flicker in Ubuntu 11.04 / Gnome3?

    You're not alone. I have the same problem on my Dell XPS 15 (NVIDIA GT435M). Are you using the latest drivers from NVIDIA?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    I have tried changing the icon theme. It is now ubuntu-mono-dark (the default icon theme). But the wicd icon is used for wicd, dropbox and anything I start manually (vlc, ktorrent, whatever).

    I am...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    I still have the flicker, and the messed up icons. I am contemplating backing up my data, and reinstalling Natty and Gnome3. Any ideas on what could be wrong, so I could fix it before resorting to...
  13. [SOLVED] Re: Cracking sounds and some applications not playing sound at all!

    Yeah, this seems to have restored the startup sound, and the notification sounds. Thanks. But, I still have cracking sounds.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    This is what my notification bar looks like.

    Strange, isn't it? They're all wicd icons. Any ideas how I can fix this?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    I have a peculiar problem with the laptop volume control keys.

    When I increase the volume using the increase volume key, the indicator shows maximum volume. When I reduce, it displays the mute...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    Do you have an NVIDIA graphics card?

    Also, which updates from testing did you apply?

    Btw, using the App@Indicator extension, I get notifications of wicd, dropbox, etc on the top bar. Of late,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    Is anyone experiencing frequent flicker in the Gnome Shell these days?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    This might help for the 'something has gone wrong' error:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10767963&postcount=2
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    You need to install gnome-session. Please follow the steps given in the first post of this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1742343 (which is also a better place to discuss Gnome3...
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    [ubuntu] Re: desktop configuration file

    Welcome to the forums. Are you on Unity or Gnome3?
  21. [ubuntu] Re: Crackling sound in 11.04, already searched for solutions

    I have the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10928891#post10928891
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    And the error is back :-(

    Keith, are you getting it too?
  23. [SOLVED] Cracking sounds and some applications not playing sound at all!

    Hi,

    I am running Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 64-bit and Gnome 3 on my Dell XPS 15 laptop.

    1. The default startup sound no longer plays.

    2. Every time I start an application that accesses the...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Unity Nvidia Nightmare

    Assuming you are using nvidia drivers, can you please post the outputs of


    ls -l /usr/lib/libGL*.so*

    and


    ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx*.so*
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tweaking Gnome3

    Not facing the issue since a Sun Java update a few hours ago...
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