Just wondering if there's such thing where when you press a function key it dims and widgets slide in from the edges, like in Mac OS. If there is such thing what's it called and where can I find it?
View 5 Repliesi would like to disable the aero snap function when using the mouse to drag a window to screen edges... i like to keep multiple small windows with various sizes at the edges of the screen (i.e. with media players listening to music or watching videos to have the screen in one corner while using the remainder of the screen for something else)
i would still like to keep this function with hotkeys (<super> + up/down/left/right) is there any way to work around this?
I have Virtualbox running on Windows Vista, and Debian running inside Virtualbox. Everything's running great, for the most part. Everything looks correct.
But when I'm in full-screen mode, the top edge seems to act (to the mouse) like it's the bottom edge, and the left edge seems to act like the right edge. For example, if I click in the middle of the desktop and drag left, as if to select some icons, when I hit the very leftmost pixel of the screen, the selection (but not the mouse pointer) jumps to the far right edge of the screen).
For the left edge, it's not such a big deal, but not having the top edge is kind of annoying: it means I can't select things from the menu in my top panel by slamming the mouse against the top of the screen.
I have enabled compiz on my mum's 64 bit Ubuntu desktop. It works well, but the screen dims significantly once I click the mouse button to rotate the cube. Releasing the mouse button brings the screen brightness back to normal. Is there a setting that controls the screen brightness whilst rotating the cube?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a recurrent problem happening when the display dims for power saving while I am making a skype call.Most of the times when this happens then the call drops and I am not able to make another one. Whenever I try to make a new call I get a window with "conference call" instead of regular call, but there is no audio and it doesnt work. Chat messages don't go through. When eventually I logout, Skype freezes and I have to kill it. After this I cannot relogin, but keep getting the message "Another Skype instance may exist". The only way I can login is then to delete the directory ~/.Skype/username. I tried with chown -R user:group ~/.Skype All this is very annoying, because I have to reset all the Skype options I customized. Moreover, the last time this happened I also lost my credit (luckily very low...) I am totally stuck and cannot even say if it's a problem with Skype or pulseaudio or power management.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis is a bit complicated to discribe because I don't know the cause, but this problem has been happening for some time (over a few years and generations of kernals), with different Gnome distributions, including Ubuntu (and family) and Fedora. When using Gnome (and only Gnome), I frequently see the screen dim. At the same time, all processes will be locked up. This may happen for a second or two, or it make require a reboot. The mouse can usually move and the underlying program GUIs are still visible, it's just that one or more of the GUIs will be dimmed. This is usually most noticeable with a browser, but that may just be a coincidence.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm running openSUSE 11.3 with an Intel GM965 on-board video card. After upgrading xorg-x11-server to 7.5_1.9.0-62.2.x86_64 from Index of /repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.3/x86_64 after a suggestion to fix a different problem, I noticed that the screensaver seems to work fine as mentioned above. However, I've noticed now that when the screen starts to dim before applying the actual screensaver I apparently can't cancel the screensaver initiation until after the screen finishes dimming (that is, goes completely black) and the screensaver actually starts. No amount of mouse gestures, clicks or key strokes will cancel the screensaver once the screen starts to dim until the screensaver itself starts running.
View 6 Replies View RelatedRunning 10.10 with compiz and gnome
The whole screen goes dim for any of the below examples. running "compiz --replace" fixes it until any of the below happens again. When the screen is dim, a new window opened (ex: firefox new window or a new gnome terminal) is full brightness while the rest of the screen stays dim.
Following causes the screen to go dim: In the screen saver - hit the delete key to backspace when the password field is empty. in firefox - ^f to find on a page - start typing and as soon as the find field has text that does not exist anywhere on the page "Phrase not found" the screen dims. in gnome terminal - the profile has the terminal bell checkbox ON - hit backspace on a bash input line with no text on it.
I had installed Ubuntu 10.10 and there was a dim spot on the left side of the monitor. I could move the window to the right, but anything on the left was dim, and if I set the window to full screen, the whole screen went dim. I was able to find a fix online, I followed the instructions, and Voila! It was fixed, so I knew it was not a hardware issue. I installed 11.04, and have the same dim screen issue, but I can't find the instructions that fixed it last time. I tried to download and install the latest driver from NVIDIA, and I get this error:
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. If anyone has any fix for the dim screen
I'm having an issue with my display. Every few minutes or so it dims and a 4 note chord is played.
I have isolated it to: "new-host-5org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelperQDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave".
And it most certainly is misbehaving. I'm running Jessie 8.2 with the KDE desktop on a HP Elitebook 8730w with NVIDIA Quadro G94GLM graphics.
Since moving my debian server over to a Gigabyte H97N-WIFI motherboard the console dims on booting and generally stays dark. Strangely the screen the brightens up if I go to an emergency shell, but if the boot runs successfully I don't see the resulting login prompts. Also, during the boot process the messages to the console are too dark to see.
I've tried the i915.invert_brightness=1 fix mentioned here [URL].... but that seems to have no effect. I'm assuming that this has something to do with moving to intel graphics as my previous hardware had a radeon graphics card and didn't display this problem.
I for one find Unity not as bad as others. What I despise is that screen edges don't work any longer for me. Respectively corners. In the 'old' Gnome, I used to have full screen applications on the desktop; for example Virtualbox running something in full screen. Then I would have compiz set to expose all desktops by an upper left corner mouse event. Then I could easily click on another application to switch to it.
With the event of Unity, this doesn't work any longer.
Worse, the launcher doesn't pop up when I create a mouse event on the left edge in Virtualbox. So I cannot switch between Virtualbox and other applications any longer, except by un-full-screen Virtualbox in order to navigate. Is there any possible way, for example by setting, that the unity launcher overrides the present screen (Virtualbox) like it did before for edge events?
Im running suse 11.2 on a gateway lt3103u during boot i noticed the screen goes dim. i thought nothing of it untill i tried to watch *ahem* educational video *ahem*. ive found that no matter what program i use xine vlc or anything else that video sets the screen to dim as if it were in power saving mode. this problem also occurs when i close the lid. it locks the screen into dim mode. in both cases i can use both Fn keys and the power management widget to reset it to bright, but this problem is annoying having to keep turning it back u to see.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have just set up my new Acer R3610 Atom/Ion netbook attached to my TV via HDMI. I installed UNR 9.10 and the NVidia restricted driver 185.Unfortunately, the edges of the screen are cropped off and invisible. This is a problem regardless of which display mode I use.
The Windows7 NVidia driver has a configuration option that sets the visible extent of the display.How can I configure UNR to fit the actual space on the screen?
I'm using Lucid and trying to connect my box to my HDTV over HDMI. The only resolutions I have available are 1280x720 and 720x480, neither of which work. Obviously, 720x480 is way too small, and the other one results in the edges of my screen getting chopped off.
Where do I start on fixing this? I assume I need to set a custom resolution, but where the hell do I do that?
i just installed ubuntu studio and it seems to be working fine but i'm having an issue where the both the left and right side edges of my laptop monitor are unresponsive/unclickable for about two pixels all the way down. it's a minor issue that i could probably get used to, but it's particularly annoying when trying to use a scroll bar in firefox or any other window that when maximized would have it just against the right side of the screen. instead of simply swiping the cursor all the way to the right i have to stop just short of the edge in order to use the scroll bar/any other function.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI find that changing the window size is extremely difficult. The area to click and then drag is very tiny and requires very precise arrow positioning. Is there a way to increase this area?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSince this afternoon every edge on my screen has gone fuzzy. It looks like a horizontal blur, I have attached two small screen shots of this window (although the problem is not limited to firefox, even just icons on the desktop looked smear towards the right). I do not think it is a problem with the screen because when I turn on the computer all is well. The problem only starts at the login prompt. I have had this problem once before using a previous version of fedora. Back then I did find a solution online but now I have spent my afternoon looking for a solution, trying any suggested change to xorg.conf and rebooting without success.
What does not work: Changing the resolution or colour setting Some Xorg.conf changes adding mode, a different depth, not sure what else. Here is a copy of etxX11xorg.conf # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
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Just installed and updated Fedora 14's XFCE spin and got the kmod-nvidia drivers installed and finally took a good look around the desktop and noticed a few graphical issues. In the Glossy theme, the effect for pushed-in buttons looks a little broken (i.e. on the task bar, there's the glossy background image behind the button but there's also a solid white-ish colored border on the top and left of the inside of the button). This makes buttons, progress bar troughs and other elements look really weird. I installed and set the Nimbus theme and it seems to be alright.
Secondly, icons seem to be broken. On the XFCE desktop, all the icons for removable media in their un-mounted state show up as a generic sheet-of-paper icon, and when I mount them, the icon turns into a generic blue folder icon (instead of a removable media icon like in FC13). In the Thunar file explorer, the icons for all removable media shortcuts are completely missing, and the Filesystem icon is a blue folder instead of a hard drive icon. And in the Places menu the removable media icons are missing too (but the Filesystem icon has the correct hard drive icon). The labels of the removable media are visible in both places, just not their icons. It seems to be a problem with the GNOME icon theme, as this problem is present in GNOME, Mist, and Fedora themes. In the Rodent theme however all icons are working as they should. The GTK+ problem seems to affect Clearlooks and Glossy (which uses Clearlooks). ClearlooksClassic and the other themes seem to be fine. See screenshots: [URL]
In the first note the appearance of the depressed button in the path bar and the icons in the shortcuts on the left, and in the second note the difference between mounted and unmounted removable media icons.
In Lucid I was in the Change deskop Background window When i noticed that the cosmos option was a slide show. is there a way I can make my image slide shows for use as the background?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to put a photo slide show in a web page I am creating. What is my best option? Want open source. I know CSS and HTML but am not a programmer. Need something fairly easy to install.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn my only hard drive, I have it partitioned for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11, Earlier today I performed "Shrink Volume" on the Windows partition, successful, opened 22.74GiB I would like to increase my 10GiB Ubuntu 11 Partition to 16GiB, then create a partition for trying out chromium. I know the following discussion I am going to sound like a noob but for simplicity bear with me. When I say "left" I actually mean tracks closest to the center of the cylinder and right, those further away.
sda1 and sda2 are my Windows 7 Partitions, Then I have 22.75GiB of unallocated space from the shrink volume, then sda3 extended, sda5 swap, and sda6 ext4 /. How do I "slide" the swap and Ubuntu 11 ext partitions to the left while maintaining their contents? Am I just as well backing up, then formatting the Ubuntu 11 partition? My first thought was to ghost the Ubuntu partition to the unallocated space then updating grub, but grub did not see it. The following is a screenshot of gparted's view of my HD.
I bought a multifunction stylus sx218 Espon model and I can not run the scanner function. I did some research and found a few solutions and very functional. I hope someone solves the problem. My version of openSUSE 11.2.
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I am doing some Linux kernel programming for my research project. I need to record the timestamp (by using cpuid and rdtsc) when an interrupt handler (top half) is first invoked. Due to the time critical nature of the problem itself, I have to do the timestamping inside the interrupt handler itself (the first operation when the handler is called). However, I understand that tasks that are not so time critical should be deferred to a tasklet function (bottom half) for processing because other interrupts are disabled in a (top-half) interrupt handler. I am currently out of idea on how I can pass the timestamp information that I have obtained in the interrupt handler to the corresponding tasklet function.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAfter the completely new installation of Fedora 15 the letters are ugly in comparison with FC 14, no matter which font. It doesn't help to set anti-aliasing manually. The edges of the letters leave blurring.
View 13 Replies View RelatedAny tools to assemble a set of images into a Gnome desktop wallpaper slide show -- like the Cosmos one in the default selection?I can see its a folder with the images and an xml file that controls the "playback". Presumably there is a reasonably easy tool to use to create my own short of reverse engineering the xml files.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi remember back a few years ago you could partition the drive by simply sliding a slider, and now trying to install ubuntu next to xp my dad was unable to set it up. This is a big step back for the design of the partitioner. He was able to set up ubuntu 7.04 on his old computer many years ago when i was not there. He tried to set up 10.04 today and got so frustrated with ubuntu wanting to take most of his drive, that he gave up. why was the "simple slide to set space you where going to give ubuntu" taken away. he just wants to set up the space he didn't want to deal with root, swap space, and so on. he just wanted to set up a block of space that ubuntu can use however it wants. but the partitioner will not let him. this needs to be fixed. the install process must be simple to use by everyone. i do not want my friends and family getting frustrated with installing it. he was excited to try the new ubuntu till he got to dealing with the partitioner and after that he wanted nothing to do with ubuntu. the installer is the first thing they see make that the primary focus of "easy of use".
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen there has been no activity on my computer for a few minutes a slideshow of desktop backgrounds begins. Last week a new image was added: a red circle with a red diagonal line. It's like the "Don't go there" traffic sign. I have no idea where it came from.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to to create a slide show of background images, is there an easy way to do this? I would like the image to change roughly every 12hrs to 1 day
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