GDM2 is doing something very weird on my Ubuntu Lucid install. It occasionally decides randomly to put the toolbar (with keyboard layouts, the time and date, shutdown options, and so forth) at the top of the screen when it appears. I think it's always supposed to be at the bottom of the screen. Why is this happening?
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I have been working for the last three months with Ubuntu 10 on a destop. Doing just fine and loving it. I decided to try a new position for the toolbar that sits at the top of the screen. I did a right click and moved it to the right side of the scree, didn't like the look of that. Right click on the bar and moved it to the left, didn't like that either, so moved it to the bottom. having done all that I thought I could put it back at the top but alas, I can not right click on the Toolbar.
It seems as though the two bars are fighting each other at the bottom of the screen.I would like to go back to the default position at the top of the screen. I do have a terminal window available to me on the desktop so if I could find out the command line to type in, I should be able to reset my tool bar. Being new I have no idea what this command would be.
I really have tried Googling this over many, many hours, and I still can't make sense of it all, especially since I keep reading conflicting info.
In 9.10, the Usplash boot splash was replaced by XSplash, which is based on X11, and when we all realised something was up with GDM (when we couldn't find a way to customise the login anymore), I read it was not GDM controlling that anymore, but X11. So, the way I read it (on many different sites), XSplash in 9.10 controlled both the boot splash and the login, even though the hacks for customising the login involve commands with "gdm" in them.
Now, in 10.04, the short-lived XSplash has been replaced by "Plymouth", and I get all that... as far as the boot splash goes. What I don't understand is the login process.
There is talk of GDM2 coming out, and I've seen people asking when this will be implemented in Ubuntu, but if the move is away from GDM altogether towards a boot/login process totally based on X11, will this happen?
More importantly, what is controlling the login now? Is it still GDM, or is it X11 that gdm commands work on or something? (The hacks people used in 9.10 still work in 10.04)
Also, because I have Xubuntu and Kubuntu in the same system, and have had things like KDM taking over login happen after upgrades, I have to ask what is controlling the boot process and login for Ubuntu's siblings? (To me they now look almost identical, so wonder if they're all X11 based)
Take a look at my picture to understand what I'm talking about. I have a bunch of programs open right now and I can't see the name of the programs on my toolbar. Is there hopefully a way to see all open programs on your toolbar when this happens?
In windows OS's when you have multiple windows from the same program open they group themselves together, and on MAC OS's they have a toolbar that you can easily scroll through.
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know the bottom bar on the screen? yeah mines gone and idk how to get it back
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use_xft yes
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=11
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