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Martin Hope
Wilf
Asked: 2015-04-23 12:42:41 +0800 CST
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Is it possible to add a fade out/in effect to VLC when it pauses/plays, and a crossfade effect when it changes track?

I found this as a some sort solution but not a great one. This mentions a github page, which doesn't really mention what it does.

Using VLC 2.2.0 from ppa:videolan/stable-daily on 14.04, and 2.2.* on other machines. Could use different version if necessary.

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Martin Hope
Wilf
Asked: 2015-04-04 05:32:01 +0800 CST
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This browser window showing http://elementary.io/ appears after I installed then uninstalled the Pantheon environment: enter image description here Originally this occurred after (and possibly before) ppa-purging the PPA only when not connected to the internet - a window without a title that the window manager would ignore would appear, then dissapear. The grep process in the background was me searching the root of the system for clues to the problem - I found that some settings in gconf had been left which were causing a additional issue with the elementary theme set as default, which I then apt-get auotremoved)

enter image description here After apt-get autoremoving the elementary packages it opens properly in a web browser

It seems to appear randomly (in a random web browser - I have Firefox, Chromium and Chrome installed - this started happening before installing Chrome), and after unlocking the screen, connecting to the internet etc. I think the URL it is pointing to is http://start.elementaryos.org which then redirects to http://elementary.io/

I installed it as shown here, and then removed the PPAs using ppa-purge, and then used apt-get autoremove on any remaining bits.

I know this a third-party PPA, but I don't think these issues should occur after removing it. It also causes issues with the Unity desktop as shown here. This feels uncomfortably like the things you get with adware/freeware/malware on windows..

Using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

EDIT: By looking at htop I have found that the process is started as root the run as the active user (gamer) using su:

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here

I have not a clue what point this has apart to encourage the rapid removal of everything relevant to elementaryOS...

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Martin Hope
Wilf
Asked: 2014-02-19 07:02:40 +0800 CST
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On my laptop, I only have one keyboard layout:
Menu in top panel showing keyboard layout

Now, if I login in to Ubuntu 13.10, and press the # key, I get \.
Similar things occur for other keys - \ become <. UK layout features don't work, as £ becomes #.

But if I open the settings, or select the layout in the top bar of Unity, despite it being the only layout, it does not cause the above problems.

Here is also the window of Keyboard Settings: Keyboard Settings

The layout seems to show correctly (but this is after opening Keyboard Settings, after which it seems alright....): Keyboard layout

I hope to find an answer myself, but I'll see if anyone else has any ideas about this? I haven't had this problem elsewhere... and is a tad irritating when programming.

The laptop in question is Lenovo G570 with Ubuntu 13.10 + Fedora 20 dual boot (I haven't had any problems in Fedora) - Model 4334

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Martin Hope
Wilf
Asked: 2014-01-28 09:29:29 +0800 CST
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But just LightDM. It worked this morning, just does not seem to be working this evening. This seems to occurred after a shutdown after a wakeup from hibernation. I always get a password denied sort of thing:

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I can login into Gnome by running this in the tty (which I can access):

sudo service lightdm stop
sudo service gdm start

and KDE as well (when installed), and using sudo service kdm start instead of the latter command.

Xfce also works.

To resolve this I have tried:

  • Removed ~/.Xauthority - to no effect
  • Rebooting
  • Changed password 5/6 times - may eventually get very annoyed and purge /etc/passwd and restore from backups
  • Reinstalled Unity and LightDM - no effect
  • Purged and Reinstalled ALL Desktops and Desktop Managers
  • reconfigured LigthDM with dpkg-reconfigure - useless as it was done by the above and only sets the default desktop manager.
  • Created a different user, that does not work - the same for the 'Guest Session'
  • purged all recent installs

Here is `/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=unity
greeter-session=unity-greeter

And here is /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log. This is from the recent login, where I tried to login with the user test, and then my default login, wmobbs.

If anything more relevant to user/lightdm settings is available, ask and I'll post it.

Nothing appears to be a problem in .xsession-errors. Yes, there are previous questions like this and this, but those did not help in anyway.

All to no effect :-(

Using Ubuntu 13.10, Intel i5 Lenovo G570 (integrated graphics, with Radeon HD 6370M discrete graphics - but I don't think this is the problem) laptop.

I can still use the machine, I only really use it for work and stuff. I hope to solve this myself, but this will be useful if anyone can think of any ideas.

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Martin Hope
Wilf
Asked: 2014-01-10 13:13:40 +0800 CST
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You can use this to reverse scroll direction (natural scroll):

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 8 9 10 11 12"

You can also set it back again with xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 8 9 10 11 12"

and this to switch the left and right buttons:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

And change it back with xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3"

But how do you enable tap to click from command line? Preferably with one command, and not permanently.

By the way, yes I do know this exists:

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