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I'm looking to purchase a new laptop to run Ubuntu on and am after some advice from any UK readers (I'm asking for UK so I can make sure the models are available to me) who have recently...

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Could anyone in the know let me know the current status regarding Snaps and Flatpaks and use of GTK Themes and Icon sets. I have researched this topic and have found a number of posts on...

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I have installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 18.04 on my PC with an AMD HD7900 Graphics Card. I believe the code name is 'Tahiti'

First thing I did was install the Oibaf PPA

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Thank you Claus, I think you may have hit gold there! I will try this over the weekend and report back.

OK, so I installed the PPA and did a sudo apt-get update and a sudo apt-get install mesa-utils. OpenGL version is 18.2.0-devel.

However from my visualisation software I still get No 3D support...

Hello and thanks for the quick reply. Are you on a fresh install of 18.04 Final, and have you installed anything else such as mesa-utils, or did you just install VirtualBox and it worked?

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I always seem to struggle with graphics cards on Linux.

I'm using a desktop PC with an AMD HD7900 graphics card. I understand that the AMD open drivers are included by default.

The issue I am...

Is there any way of ungrouping the 'Utilities' applications group?

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Is there a version of the 'Additional Drivers' tool in 18.04?

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I have installed Gnome Tweak and it is telling me that no Shell is installed. Is this normal?

https://s14.postimg.org/x33kj1wch/Tweaks.png

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I'm adding shortcuts to my desktop and have done this by firstly installing gnome-panel with:


sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

Then running in terminal:

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Hi, Sorry for the delay in my reply. I have been on holiday.

I'm using an GT 750M, alongside my Intel Graphics Controller on a Dell Inspiron.

I have now been able to get things working by...

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I have a Dell laptop with the Intel / Nvidia combo of graphics cards. I've been looking around for guidance on installing the correct drivers to get things working, but there seems to be...

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I have installed VMWare Workstation Player 12 on my Ubuntu 15.10 box, but the menus seem to be detached from the rest of the bar which is a different colour.

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Is it possible to...

Sorry, please delete this one. I managed to save it twice. Sorry

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There are a number, but nothing will be as advanced as Dreamweaver if you want to use the visual options. Take a look at these one:
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Thanks, I fully agree. No intention or wish to be anti AU.

I was afraid to ask the question on the Ask Ubuntu site for fear of getting more mark downs! This was the point I was try to make about the 'fear' of asking questions.

Thanks to 'howfield' to the...

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I got the idea by 'Ask!' link on the Ubuntu home page. Best wishes

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I wonder if I could ask for some community views on this one?

Ubuntu seems to gently push users to ask questions on the Ask Ubuntu site. Having used it I have found that there seems to be...

Very many thanks,

Peter

Thanks for the detailed reply. I have run glxgears and can see the difference when I use optirun

The only remaining issue is that Nvidia settings still says 640 x 480. Please see the image on the...

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Thanks for your help. I changed the code to:


## Section with nouveau driver specific options, only parsed if Driver=nvidia
[driver-nouveau]
KernelDriver=nvidia-319
PMMethod=auto...

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Many thanks for the quick reply. The card is an 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650M on a recent Dell 17R. I will give your guidance a go and let you know how I get on.

Are they reasons why the...

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I have a Dell laptop with Nvidia and Intel graphics cards. I have followed the instructions below to install BumbleBee on a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04 32Bit
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