I got a Gateway Netbook for the wife. Installed UNE 10.04. Wife hates the interface and wants it to look like her full sized laptop.I went into synaptic and installed ubuntu-desktop. I can't figure out how to get the ubuntu-desktop interface to load and the ubiquity interface to go away.How can I do this without having to reinstall everything?
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I'm new to KDE and am running KDE 4.7.1 on top of Arch Linux. It's fantastic however I have one problem - virtual desktops. Yeah I know there are those "activities" things which people say replace virtual desktops and I will look into them, but for the moment I want to stick with what I know.
And it's almost set up too. In fact, it is, apart from one issue: Say I'm on desktop 3 and I click on the desktop (as in - the bit with my wallpaper, etc, not the little square in my panel) - it immediately switches to desktop 1. Got no idea why I'd want it to do that and it's bugging me.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Dell XPS Studio 8000 - I find that on occasion the desktop theme seems to change itself. I have selected Clearlooks. The desktop generally looks correct as shown in the first attachment. Then for some unknown reason the desktop changes - most obvious are the buttons which are now square cornered rather than round cornered. See the second attachment. Appearance Preferences usually still shows the Theme as Clearlooks although I have had it change to "Custom" a time or two. Logout/login does not fix the problem. A reboot will fix the problem and return to the correct Clearlooks Theme
View 14 Replies View RelatedI just started using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10 Karmic) a couple weeks ago. I've added my own and removed a few of the default icons in the simplified, menu-driven desktop interface. However, the icons are in the order in which they were added (particularly in the "Favourites" tab. How can I rearrange or sort these icons?
I've tried right-clicking the tab and desktop, but no sort option appears. I've tried dragging the icons to the desired spot in the window, but that doesn't work either. Is there a control panel in the "System" tab that will let me sort the icons, or is this not possible in the netbook remix?
In ubuntu 10.04 I have compiz installed and when I try to rotate the cube or simply change desktops screen goes black but not entirely, I mean I can still see the cube. This happens only during the change of desktops. Its very annoying,it doesn't create trouble but I cant see the cube effect.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy desktop theme is automatically changing when ever I switch on my comp... And if I change,the effects are only partially... That is the panel and other buttons change but the file and applications design remains the same... But however if I restart, it becomes ok.
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow do i change the desktop background on Lubuntu from a photo i downloaded?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know where I could find the commands with which you use to change the desktop settings.
I want to write a script which changes my monitor settings on Kubuntu 10.10 and redraws the taskbar.
is possible to put the desktop background changing images?
View 3 Replies View Relatedright now am posting this from ubuntu safe mode, when i login normally what i get is just a plain space without desktop alt+f2 also not working there, only thing i can do from there is ctrl+alt+del and a window came without borders and i can restart or shutdown pc.
i had installed compiz configuration window and tried to enable cube desktop and it showed some conflict with other plugins and i had pressed disable this plugin and all tick mark in that configuration window gone after that this problem occurred
I am running ubuntu 10.10 desktop, i have my /home on a seperate partition and its encrypted. Today i was changing my password on the all the machines in my house ( netbook, desktop x2 and server all ubuntu) and i didnt want to go in the bedroom to change the password on my one desktop, (pure laziness) so i did it through ssh using
Code:
sudo passwd lynx
now when i restarted it later on i realized i cannot log on to the GUI. I get an error "Could not update ICEauthority file /home/lynx/.ICEauthority" and "There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)" also "Nautilus could not create the following required folders:/home/lynx/Desktop,/home/Lynx/.nautilus. Before running nautilus ,create the folders or set the permissions so that nautilus can create them".
recently I have been trying to create the perfect custom ubuntu .iso to write to a usb drive so i could carry around a live cd version of my current desktop operating system. I have 2 problems...
1: using various tools like Remastersys, Ubuntu Customization Kit, and Ubuntu's own LiveCDCustomization tutorial I have managed to install most of the packages that I want.... Truecrypt is not in the repos and i would very much like it on my custom live cd. while in chroot i tried using wget to download it then extract and install it, but i got a 404 error so it did not seem to be connecting to the place to download it. is there a workaround to getting truecrypt to install into my extracted squashfs? would it be possible to download the packages to my desktop then copy them over to my chroot squashfs to be installed?
2: I have not been able to customize the default appearance of the desktop environment like the background, icons,colors, window border, panels, applets, and so on.... Ubuntu's tutorial states that I need to edit .xmls in /etc/gconf but i do not understand how to edit those to get what I want. LiveCD creates a new user with default settings everytime it is started so its a matter of editing the files that control the settings of a new user.
Today I installed Xubuntu desktop on my normal Ubuntu, to see what it's like, and to have the option to run a more minimal desktop when I want.
My only problem is that my login screen loads with the Xubuntu theme. This wouldn't be a problem except it makes it take significantly longer to boot into Ubuntu (Gnome).
How can I change it back so that Gnome is the default, and XFCE only gets loaded if I pick it at login?
what are my options with customizing Gnome at the login screen?
i installed debian but i choosed the german as native language ...! So i´m trying to switch to english ...! or to add it (at least).
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just updated to SUSE 11.3 and got the latest version of KDE 4.I'm not thrilled with the default theme (the taskbar running applications are really fuzzy) and would like to install a new one, but there isn't anyplace in the settings menu to change it. Did I miss something?
How do I change the theme?
I have checked the thread about the referred subject. However, I cannot find the gdk in /etc/sysconfig. I have fedora12 i686.
View 6 Replies View Relatedwhen I set images as desktop backgrounds, Firefox or Nautilus saves them in my home folder. Does anyone know how to change this to ~/pictures/backgrounds?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSomething keeps changing the mode of ~/Desktop, ~/Music, ~/Pictures and ~/Videos to 0777! Anyone know what's doing this, why it's doing it, and how I can stop it?
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to avoid changing the wallpaper/Desktop background other the onces which come as default on fedora?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was doing a tutorial on scripting in bash. I saved my file on the desktop and I cannot seem to get to that file to execute it. Here is what I have been using:
I try cd Desktop says that there is no such directory.
I tried /home/me/Desktop same thing.
is everytime i reboot , my keyboard is reset to USA. im in canada & it pisses me off each time i need to change it also.all my options on EMESENE is the same issue always RESET.it's like if nothing keeps the changes once rebooted.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu 9.10 inside windows to a USB hard drive. Later Windows had a fatal error and I had to reinstall it, and lost the MBR. I've tried several "fixes" that were supposed to work and none of them worked. I don't want to lose the Data that was on Ubuntu since I've already had to lose everything that was on Windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedExcept for the obvious home folder, how can I save at least some of my settings, like the background picture, the icons, my customizations to the menu?
Also, If ubuntu on the USB is not working perfectly (software center crashes most of the time without any reason) it shouldn't impact the resulting install on my hard drive, right?
What do you back up usually except the Home folder?
And a last thing: What is, in ubuntu, the closest thing to syncing in Google Chrome? What else would you recommend to do before deleting everything and making a new ubuntu on your pc?
I thought I installed properly, but once again I've made a mistake. I'm trying to make use of the 114 gb I didn't assign as file system space, but I can't seem to access it or write to it. I've officially run out of space in my file system and I've got a lot to do still. Any thoughts on how to make the unused partition accessable?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI had 9.04, then upgraded to 9.10. After screwing it up, it won't boot. Is it possible to just reinstall Ubuntu using the CD? Cause then I would get GRUB 2. I installed kde-desktop, then it failed to boot (I selected KDM) and that somehow screwed it up.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have to reinstall windows on to my disk to run certain programs and I know I really have to uninstall ubuntu. Is there a way I can backup my whole ubuntu o/s or will it be easier for me to download a whole new disk from Net.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCurrently I am having a pc with AMD athlon 64 3000+ and I am thinking to to upgrade this with a 64 X2 4800+ processor.I want to know whether reinstallation of OS (XP sp2 and UBUNTU gutsy) is required for this or they will detect the new processor and work fine without any problem?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI wasn't thinking at the time, but after I installed Ubuntu 9.10, I installed Xp. Did it the wrong way around, is there anyway to get grub going again, without reinstalling Ubuntu?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've installed Ubuntu on my Pavilion dv4. I did not, when doing it, delet the other partitions. But now I want to. How can I do it without reinstalling it all?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was on line and viewed a Picassa slide show. I went to F11 for the full screen and after I closed Picassa,my Firefox browser had been reset,creating all kinds of issues,taking out my status bar,making it impossible to access the three icons in the top right hand corner of the screen,and so forth.
When I removed and reinstalled Firefox from the Synaptic Package Manager,it did not give me the option of not saving the settings and the same issues pertained to the newly installed one.
Does anybody know the shell code to remove and reinstall the Firefox Browser unsullied,pristine,not saving the existing settings?(realizing I'll lose the bookmarks and have to set it up anew?)
