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Gnome/Unity not working
I wanted to try the gnome 3.9 UI on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So I installed the following ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I added the ...
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Ubuntu consistenly restarts at gui interaction
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Gnome. I recently swapped out my AMD gfx card for an Nvidia card and then back again. In the process i have ended up here - a rebooting system.
I have thus far used ...
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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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xrandr is detecting the wrong minimum / maximum resolutions?
xrandr output
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1200
default connected 1920x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
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Under “System Settings -> Details” “Graphics” shown as “Unknown” [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop. System details shown by Ubuntu are as:
Memory: 3.8 GB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz × 4
Graphics: Unknown
OS: type 32-bit
Now I ...
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Gnome 3.4 work at fallback mode with two monitors
I have:
Ubunte 12.04
NVidia 8400 GS
installed nvidia-common
And xorg.conf like that:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 295.33 ...
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How can I keep Terminal always on top of other windows?
I want to keep gnome-terminal application on top of all the applications, even when it is unfocused. How can I do so?
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Gnome Themes not showing up in the panels after X11 reinstall
After uninstalling my video driver and reinstalled and reconfigured X11 gnome-panel doesn't appear to be following the chosen them, same is true for the window colors. This acually looks identical to ...
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Taking screenshots of all (or specific) virtual desktops/workspaces (or: windows beyond/larger than current desktop)?
I often need to take screenshots of windows that are larger than the currently shown desktop. I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, gnome-about says Version: 2.32.1; compiz --version says Compiz 0.9.4.0 -- and I have ...
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How to bind a character device in /dev directory as the keyboard?
I have written an character device, I want to declare it as the keyboard and use it to generate events from the virtual keyboard?
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3 Monitors, Ubuntu 12.04, Gnome 3, 2 nvidia cards, WITH xrandr or xinerama?
Ok. I have been banging my head against the wall for over a week now trying to get 3 monitors to work.
I have:
Nvidia 8600 GT 512MB PCIEx16
Nvidia GT 240 1GB PCIEx16
They are not running in SLI ...
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Display has problems after xorg edgers
Some time ago trying to improve graphics I installed the xorg edgers ppa. This leaved me without graphic mode, finally I fixed it. But there are some problems, sometimes the text or the folders fade ...
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How to remove permanently those error prompts while using openbox gnome?
How to remove permanently those error prompts while using openbox gnome? Such as: update ubuntu latest release, this kind of errors etc, how to permanently disable them so that it does not show in ...
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Dual Monitor with two different window managers
I have dual monitors. I have had different window managers on each monitor before. Like Gnome in one and KDE in the other. It was a nice way to show off Linux. I would like to do this again but I ...
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why does Gnome/KDE require /usr/bin/X to run?
Is there any good resource about these low level graphic configuration? It is all fuzzy to me.
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Ubuntu session crashes: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11
This happens on an Acer 7535 notebook with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu and ATI radeon HD3200 graphics, Ubuntu 12.40 64-bit.
Every now and then, the unity 2D session crashes and the user is sent to the ...
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Error loading gnome ubuntu session
After restart ubuntu i get this after login :
: unable to launch "gnome-session --session=ubuntu" X session ---
"gnome-session --session=ubuntu" not found; falling back to default session.
Same ...
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Custom Ubuntu 12.04 distro not booting
After following the instructions at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch; I installed xorg, gdm, and gnome. For some reason when I try to run it on both of my computers ...
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marble mouse middle click fail in 12.04
On recently upgrading to 12.04, I find that the middle click with my logictec marble mouse doesn't work any more (formally achieved by clicking both buttons). Anoying since I can't do a middle-click ...
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How to prevent window list “confusion” when detaching eclipse views? [closed]
I'm detaching eclipse views to float on my other screen in order to get more coding space on the first screen. When doing that, the detached windows appear in ubuntu's window list applet with the ...
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Cannot log in to the desktop on ubuntu 11.10? [closed]
The problem is, I could log in under the terminal, i could ifup eth0, i could do anything I want in the terminal, but if I use ctrl+alt+f7 goto the gnome login screen, after I input the correct ...
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If I want to control the mouse cursor using Python, should I look into docs for GNOME or X?
I want to write a program in Python runs on Ubuntu and moves the mouse cursor, just like a hardware mouse would. What should I try to connect to: X or GNOME? I am pretty sure that X would work, but ...
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Installing basic Gnome GUI on server
I'm trying to install a very minimal Gnome environment on an Ubuntu server running on minimal server hardware (i.e. no graphics card) behind a KVM switch. Yes, I know that's generally frowned upon. I ...
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Black blocks and lines on screen
I often get lines and blocks on screen. Some of them disappear after scrolling application window back and forth, but some of them don't.
Seems like something is wrong with screen refresh or compiz ...
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Sensitive middle-button (mouse)
Whenever I click on the middle-button on my mouse-wheel, it seems that multiple click events are being sent in succession.
Case in point: when I middle-click a bookmark folder in Chrome (to open up ...
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Graphical bugs with Gnome-Shell/Libreoffice and Intel X3150 [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 on my Asus 1215N with a Intel X3150 and this is what happens when I use gnome-shell or libreoffice (just some examples) :
Gnome-Shell Glitch 1
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Where do I have to paste an “xinput” command so that it executes it when GNOME is started?
On my Thinkpad I need to execute something like this in the terminal:
xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 8 1
so that my the 2 buttons on my touchpad emulate ...
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Can I pass a dpi flag to lightdm to set the proper DPI for X?
What is the proper way to set DPI value now? gnome-tweak allows to set only scaling factor, which is unsatisfactory and also not all applications take that into account (Chrome for example).
I would ...
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I cannot set up dual monitors to work with 11.10 using amdcccle 11.9
I've installed the ati catalyst drivers 11.9 manually because the default ones don't work with gnome-shell. But when that I try to change the settings in amdcccle(adminstrative) to use multi-display, ...
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How do I restore triple tap to emulate the middle click?
I've upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 but the ability to tap with three fingers on the touchpad to achieve a middle mouse click has disappeared. When a mouse is plugged in the middle button click works ...
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Login window missing at startup
After having some problems with my DE after upgrading from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3, and then downgrading, and then installing and uninstalling xmonad, one day at start-up my login window was missing. It's ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 update error
I just updated my Ubuntu 11.04, but now when starting it a black screen is shown and prints:
Checking battery state
Stopping system v runlevel compatibility
I tried to install the latest ...
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Multiple keyboards with different layouts
I have ubuntu (11.04) running on a recent macbook pro. I use both the built in keyboard and an external keyboard. I want to remap capslock on both keyboards to super, and I want to swap left-alt (mac ...
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Dual Monitor results in 'greyed' windows
This occurs in Maverick and Natty. Single screen is fine, mirror of single screen is fine. If the mirror box is unchecked and the second monitor is turned on to extend the desktop then all windows ...
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Upgrade to 11.04 broke GUI entirely [closed]
Yesterday I ran the upgrade to 11.04 from 10.10. While it was configuring the packages, the display froze (as it was configuring libatm1, not that that necessarily matters). Apache and SSL weren't ...
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How to fix gray screen in Gnome/X windows? [closed]
Gnome/X, the screen goes gray (nearly black). The mouse is still there and still works.
Everything else still works but can not be seen.
I know someone that has this problem a lot, the screen will ...
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I'd like to prevent maximize from covering one third of the screen
Using Ubuntu 10.10, gnome, and dual nvidia monitors.
Gnome panels and docky are able to "reserve" part of the screen for themselves in such a way as to prevent maximized windows from covering them ...
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Twinview on Gnome when monitor is unplugged
i have a macbook pro which is often connected to a monitor, twin view on gnome works pretty well, but a problem arises when i disconnect the monitor, any window that resided on that workspace is no ...
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Exporting bash function in .profile or .xprofile kills X during login
I'm trying to export a bash function during Gnome login using one of the login shell start-up scripts. I've tried doing it in ~/.profile and ~/.xprofile but it results in X dying and restarting at the ...
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Launch a GNOME session in a Ubuntu machine I'm SSH'd into?
I'm sshing into my friends machine and I'm wondering how would i launch a GNOME session over SSH? I need to open a web browser on his machine to view something which can only be done from his ...
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Configuration tools for multiple monitors for X / Linux
I have Ubuntu 10.04 running gnome and two monitors.
I am wondering if a can get a better multi-monitor configuration tool. The one I have, gnome-display-properties, has too many problems, including:
...
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Installing gdm on headless Server Edition
I have Ubuntu Server running on a headless box, which is right now, almost entirely doing only software RAID and feels a little underused. I'd like to get into using Ubuntu as a desktop a little more. ...
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GNOME session not starting after filesystem corruption
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition. Suddenly today /home became corrupted and I was prompted to run fsck manually. I ran fsck -y /home and rebooted the system. The system booted but I got no GUI ...
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How can I set a second screen (DISPLAY=:0.1) as the default gnome display?
Due to various reasons, I have my main monitor set as the secondary display in xorg.conf. I would like to have gnome initialize metacity, gnome-panel as running primarily on :0.1, instead of :0.0. Is ...
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Booting to gnome by default
I'm currently playing with virtualbox and just installed ubuntu-minimal.
I then proceeded to install gnome-core. After reinstalling, I rebooted but I'm taken back to the CLI. How do I load gnome when ...
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How to force GNOME panels et. al. to display on a different monitor without mirroring?
So, I recently purchased a new 23" monitor for my PC. However, I can't use it with the PC currently as I am waiting on a replacement heatsink. In the mean time, I wanted to use it with my Dell laptop. ...
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the font of gnome suddenly became weird
I'm using ubuntu 10.04. The font of gnome became very weird when I surfed the Internet.
I have used it for several months since the 10.04 is released. And I always install all the updates. It's the ...
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How to set up Ubuntu to automatically turn NumLock on when an external keyboard is attached and off when it is not?
Having NumLock on is convenient when using a full-sized external keyboard (having a keypad) and very inconvenient when using laptop's built-in keyboard (which places digits instead of letters on the ...
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Can I accelerate mouse sensetivity over the standard maximum?
I've used "Mouse Preferences" window to set mouse pointer acceleration and sensitivity sliders to their maximums, but I am still not satisfied with how fast does mouse pointer move (I've got a very ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome/X hang [closed]
I have Ubuntu 10.04 running on a Dell laptop/Nvidia video. Everything works fantastic, except for one "nit" that is VERY annoying.. Every so often the graphical interface stops responding, such that ...
