I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04 and ran into a problem. If I right click on my Desktop, select Change background it takes me to the Appearance Preferences and then I go to the Visual Effects tab to change my effects from None to Normal, now this all works fine, as soon as I restart my computer it changes back to None again, does anyone know how come this is and how I can solve this?
Whenever I try to download mail using POP3 in Evolution I get the following message
Error while Fetching Mail.
Cannot append message to mbox file: /home/roland/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File too large
If anyone could give me an idea of how to fix this I would be greatful
I have an issue with mounting my Flash drive on Ubuntu 10.04 with write privileges. It's currently partitioned as Fat32 with Label KINGSTON but when I insert it into the Laptop it reads it as usb0, read-only privileges.
What I've had to do so that it is writable is to unmount it using Disk Utility and mount it again, and then it picks it up as KINGSTON with root privileges.
What I want is to automatically mount the flash drive with root privileges without going to Disk Utility to set this. Any help would be appreciated.
What is the ~/.local folder good for and is it safe to remove the content within this folder?
I have the following problem, I've installed a bunch of Ubuntu packages ever since I used Ubuntu, now I've removed these packages using the Synaptic Package Manager but somehow it still left hidden folders in my home directory for the specific applications I uninstalled, taking up unnessesary diskspace. eg. .Netbeans and .amarok etc
Is there a way to detect these folders that are no longer in use automatically and delete them?