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Turns out all I had to do was move the sub folders of Photos into Pictures and Shotwell just updated its library to reflect the move.
Bit of a non-event really!

Hi
I use Shotwell to manage my photos on Ubuntu 12.04. Most of my photos are in the Pictures folder, as standard, but for reasons I can't remember now I have some in a folder called Photos. I'd like...

Hmm, well I've half fixed this, I used My Unity to set the numer of workspaces to 4 horizontal times 1 vertical and it now works OK on Unity but not on Gnome. I'll keep searching.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and I can see the ws config being changed to 1 row of 4 spaces, but I still can't select anything other then the first one!

Thanks for the reply. That link refers to 12.10 and 13.04; is it still valid for 12.04?
I think tyhat dconf reset command is one of the thing's I've tried (had to use sudo) but it didn't seem to...

Hi all,
I have a problem with using multiple workspaces on Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome (and indeed Unity).
I have been playing with Compix to enable some effects, while using Gnome session fallback....

Hello

I attempted to install Nokuntu as I was looking for a Linux equivalent of Nokia PC Suite. It said there were a lot of additional packages required, so it installed them first then the...

Well here's a link to instructions, but I couldn't get it to work.
The PPA seems to be invalid. WHen I added it and did a refresh, I got a 404 error....

Hi, thanks for your reply in posts 752 and 754
Good news and bad news...





Well, neither of these 2 suggestions made any difference.
So I tried installing lightdm, but the repository for...

Hi MaFoElffen



I'm actually on 10.04 .... but I found instructions on installing lightdm on Lucid so will try that when I'm at home

Thank you
Paul

Hello MaFoElffen


(Post 719)

I tried all this and nothing has changed.
I still get these messages in syslog


Oct 26 09:55:44 paul-desktop gdm-simple-slave[1467]: CRITICAL: Error while...

Hi MaFoElffen

Did you have any thoughts on my problem ? (post 689).
I posted my lspci output as requested but it probably got lost in the traffic.

I'm wondering if this is actually a graphics...

Hello and thanks for your reply. yes that's exactly right.
here is the result of the command.



paul@paul-desktop:~$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia...

Hello

I have a blank screen instead of a logon screen. Grub displays fine, plymouth boot splash displays fine, then just a blank screen. I can get to a TTY terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1 to shutdown...

Even shorter ... Use StartUpManager ... can chose your default system, and change the timeout

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/StartUpManager

dmidecode may help you find what type of memory you need.
See this how-to-geek article for details

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28475/how-to-tell-what-type-of-memory-your-linux-pc-has-installed/

yes this is possible, there may be several methods but this is one I stumbled upon ( but haven't tried ) .. remastersys

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1045214

Paul

You're right, crazy4nix, Ubuntu 10.04 is not tied to Grub2, it just ships it as default..
I installed 10.04 and didn't write grub, I just added an entry to Ubuntu 8.04's legacy grub. Its quite...

Hi Ravi

I had this problem as well ( no splash screen ), it was resolved by following the instructions at the bottom of this bug report
...

Thanks also to Kansasnoob, sounds like a plan.. ( and yes, I've already defragged Windows :) )

Thanks for the advice Darko.
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and install Grub2 while I'm at it. There are plenty of solutions posted in these forums if it goes wrong. :)
Hopefully I'll be...

I'm currently running Hardy and XP in a dual boot setup. I want to install Lucid but don't want to overwrite my working Hardy partition and am worried by the number of reported problems with Grub2.
...

I think you left out some spaces

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Install StartUpManager from the repositories and run it. It allows you to set the default

sudo fdisk -l ( that's l ( lower case L ) not 1 (one) )