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Live Window Resizing is very slow - ubuntu 12.10
live window resizing is very very slow, if i activate it through compiz config manager.
I searched the web for a while, but found no reason why.
It's obviously an unity/compiz problem.
The question ...
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12.10 installation problem
I have been trying to install 12.10 version of Ubuntu on my 1GB powered 160 GB AMD sempron 64 bit processor, without a graphic card.
The entire procedure seems to occur with ease till the end except ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity launcher and status bar dissappeared after installing additional drivers [duplicate]
I have tried to use additional graphics drivers on Lenovo T530 ubuntu 12.10 laptop. Actually those drivers have not installed correctly. After restarting my machine, ubuntu launcher and status bar has ...
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Scrollbars arrows disappeared
I'm using 12.10 Unity with old fashioned scrollbars which now have no more arrows up/down or left/right on Nautilus, Terminal, Gedit (it's not the case on Firefox, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, Opera...).
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Cannot get web-apps working in Ubuntu 12.10
I have been using vanilla Ubuntu 12.10 since it came out, and I will be upgrading to 13.04 in a month or two. However, I recently decided to try to install a couple of web-apps. I was unable to do so, ...
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How to connect a SONY PSP system to ubuntu?
I tried to connect my SONY PSP e1004 on to my UBUNTU 12.10 desktop,But no result.Nothing happens.What will I do? I must connect my PSP to computer for file and games sharing.Tell me what to do!
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Why won't Gnome Classic open correctly?
Okay, so I recently installed the "Ultimate Gnome Experience" package from http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-get-complete-gnome-3-desktop-in.html on my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop. I was exploring the new ...
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Everything freezes except mouse. Ubuntu 12.10
I use ubuntu 12.10 32bit
Gnome 3.6.0 with Unity
GPU: Intel 3000 HD
In about this computer:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4
GPU : Intel® Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
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cannot sellect desktop environments at login session in ubuntu12.10
i cliked the weel at right top it showed number of DE when icliked with mouse nothing is happining as a result i cannot use lxde pla.. help me
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How do I resolve slow and choppy performance in virtualbox?
Both, Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 perform very slow when running in VirtualBox 4.2.12.
How do I run Ubuntu with unity or enabled transparency smoothly with VirtualBox?
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How to List all available apps on my machine
I am using Ubuntu 12.10, with the unity dash. I would like to List all available apps on my machine. Start menu style in other words.
Dash is hard for me to use unless I know the name of what I am ...
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How do I open the dash when a fullscreen application has the focus? (12.10 13.04)
When I press the "windows" key the dash normally opens. When I press it when a fullscreen window has the focus, it doesn't seem to do anything. How do I open the dash when a fullscreen window has the ...
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Unity Crashed, Ctrl + Alt + T not working, Logonscreen bland
Initially I realize this isn't going to have all the information needed so one of the first things that would be good is getting advice on how to obtain the relevant debug logs or... how to actually ...
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Weather Indicator Unity/12.10 [closed]
As the title suggests, I am looking for a weather indicator for Unity on 12.10. I tried indicator-weather and I can't click apply after adding a city (apparently I am not the only one with this ...
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No title bar, window bored or unity launcher in 12.10 after xrandr
-hey guys, need some serious help.
Yesterday I was playing around with xrandr to try to get an HDMI TV to work properly without having over scan/ under scan as I have an Intel graphic chip and could ...
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Unity not starting in 3d anymore
I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
It was all working fine.
But all of sudden Unity is now using 2d emulation mode.
In the logfile (.xsession-errors) this line is found:
Info: Unity is not supported by your ...
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Unity Mail. How can I open a new message by clicking on it?
How to make unity-mail to open new massages by clicking on it?
I mean not opening the GMail page, but open the message.
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Unity/GNOME/GTK3 & Other Desktop Issues
Well, it's been about a week, and i'm quite frustrated. I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my desktop, and i've run into more than a few problems along the way.
First, it began with having ...
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How to creat a Laucher item for terminal command in Unity?
Currently the only way I know how to launch processing in Ubuntu 12.10 is to open a terminal and cd into the folder location and then execute ./processing. How would I add a shortcut for this terminal ...
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Why is Unity so slow?
I recently installed this 12.10 version. I am facing problem with the user interface. like opening browsers and opening dash home and typing in dash home bar and also it is very slow if I try to ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity not starting after 11/04 update
After this Thursday updates when I login to my account Unity wont start anymore.
I have a pic of the how the system starts:
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/2822/screenshotfrom201304131.png
And ...
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NVIDIA GT430M LE on Sony SVS13 not working on Ubuntu 12.10
I'm having some trouble getting the Nvidia drivers to work properly on Ubuntu 12.10. My pc is a sony svs13 that comes with an integrated intel HD graphics and a dedicated Nvidia GT 430M LE. I have ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 taskbar menu not showing
When I hover the mouse other the top left corner of the taskbar in ubuntu 12.10, I don't get any menu anymore. Before I used to get File,... Can you please tell me how to get it back?
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Unity won't start after login
I'm having some troubles getting unity working again.. this problem came after I installed ubuntu updates and removing some repositories (gwibber-daily and some google chrome repos), then I restarted ...
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Installed kernel, and printer driver - No Unity?
I ran installation of printer drives for Epson Stylus S22 (From original website)
The most recent installs are:
2013-04-10 12:06:53 install linux-image-3.5.0-27-generic:amd64 <none> ...
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no launcher after update to 3.5.0-27
New user to ubuntu here:
Just installed the new updates for 3.5.0-27, after reboot, my screen changes to 1024x768 and I don't see any launcher at all.
can't access any settings besides the command ...
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NEW INSTALL 12.10 I get Buffer I/O error, dev fd0 … and No Icons (Unity)
I am super new to all (Ubuntu, Linux/Unix, VIM,VI, etc) so bare with me.
I formatted my whopping ~50GB HD and re-installed Windows XP so that I could get the files needed for the Ubuntu Install. I ...
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No login screen after boot
A strange problem happening after update. After I updated Ubuntu 12.10, I restarted. After boot, i realized that there isn't any login screen AT ALL!!! I mean no login screen, just an Ubuntu ...
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How to remove the Unity launcher icon by setting its size to zero? [duplicate]
Is there a way (on Ubuntu 12.10) to manually set the launcher icon size to 0 to permanently hide it? I hate the launcher after they removed dodge windows and I'm using Cairo now for my dock.
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Unity Launcher Missing not in ccsm
i am in 12.10 and when i was tweaking the unity bar suddenly went away!!
restart does nothing
I had ccsm installed so through the terminal i launched ccsm in there i went to the desktop option and ...
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Unity does not load, alt-f2 does not work
I have installed 12.10 on a new hdd.
After rebooting, I log in but only see the background and mouse cursor. I can ctrl-alt-t to get terminal, and ctrl-alt-f1 also to run commands. however no ...
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how can I display mounted partitions in unity (ubuntu 12.10)
I have a couple of mounted volumes ( under /media and ~/ ), but neither of which will ever display on my unity bar. I do however see both volumes listed in nautilus. What's interesting is that no ...
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Wallpaper settings via nitrogren are lost after rebooting?
I use nitrogen to set a different wallpaper for each monitor. It requires disabling of the Nautilus desktop, but works great. Until I reboot...at which point the settings are lost and I go back to ...
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Applications in Unity launcher oscillating between maximized and minimized [closed]
I'm having a strange problem here. When I click the minimize button of some applications, it disappears from the screen, as normal, but Unity becomes very slow and the little arrow at the right side ...
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Widgets Look ugly after installing AMD/ATI drivers
I installed video drivers for my ATI card and now (some of) my windows have ugly widgets. Mainly, Firefox looks ugly but natuilus looks find.
Also, my media keyboard buttons stopped working. I can no ...
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How do I prevent Unity from displaying my photos from Facebook and Google+?
The title pretty much says it all. I don't want to see my "friends'" pictures, if i don't want to.
I tried to install unity-next following a tutorial from omgubuntu.co.uk, I removed all of its ...
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How do I disable the keyboard shortcut overlay in Ubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
I'd like to be able to disable the keyboard shortcut overlay that appears when you hold the Super/Meta/Windows key or at least make it hidden. It is annoying, I find no use for it, and it interferes ...
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Gnome 3 uninstall failed?
Oke now i really messed up my system. I have tried to uninstall gnome 3.
I have followed this guide.
But now my system do not anything at all. When I boot it stops when it needs to load the GUI. I ...
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how to rename partitions?
I'm new at Ubuntu; I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and the partitions appear like 30 GB volume and like 78EF-2C5E in task bar. I tried to rename it but rename and remove buttons are deactivated so I tried by ...
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Unity simple doesn't work: Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04 [closed]
My notebook is an Asus N43SN (i7-2630QM), GT550M CUDA 1GB.
It doesn't matter which Ubuntu I tried to install, inevitably when I login for the first time, there is no icons, no Unity, no nothing.
I ...
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How do you make a program that doesn't need to be installed searchable in the unity dash. (ubuntu 12.10)
I've come across this a few times, but I will use a specific example. When I downloaded the ADT bundle from Google it came with programs that just ran without needing to be installed, i.e. I can run ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Macbook Pro 7.1 freezing after install [duplicate]
I've just gut a MacBook Pro 7.1 and wanted to install Ubuntu 12.10 on it. The installation itself works flawlessly, although the menu bar is missing during installation?! Nevertheless, the install ...
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Restrict file search to ONE folder and it's subs
When I go to Settings > Privacy > Files (tab)
It provides me with the option to provide a list of folders:
"Don't record activity in the following folders"
However, I'd like to be able to do ...
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How to activate my lens on Quantal?
How to enable/activate any unity lens on Quantal?
I installed many unity lens on Quantal, using the following command, but none is active on dash.
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-wikipedia
sudo ...
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Ubuntu starts. I see nothing but the desktop. It also said it was unable to mount. [duplicate]
When starting up it said something about not being able to mount something. I don't know it went away so fast and it never came back up again. When it logs on it shows my desktop but nothing else. ...
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Unity stuck on autohide?
I've had the auto-hide behavior turned on on my Ubuntu 12.10 machine for some time now, but whenever I try to turn auto-hide off, it resets itself to on. (i.e. if I turn it off, it will switch right ...
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Wallpaper goes to black after resuming from sleep
I searched for something similar but I can't seem to find someone else having this issue. Whenever I close the lid on my laptop and open it my ubuntu install loads up fine but my wallpaper just ...
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Dash has become slow and unresponsive
I installed Quantal on my old box (Intel Pentium E2180, 1 GB RAM). Dash was working fine and was very responsive. I then installed unity-scope-audacious package from the repositories.
Dash became ...
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How can I order desktop icons to fit in the grid?
I'm often throwing files or directories to the desktop to sort them later. And every time I look at the desktop I am wondering why their icons doesn't fit in rows and columns. Even if I sort by name ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 starts without Unity or top menu
Just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Desktop (i5 3570k, Radeon HD 7950 & 8 GB RAM) and after installing some programs, updating, and restarting; the logon screen loads with the menu bar on top and ...
