Jordan's questions

I am in a Java class in my college right now, and we have to be able to compile java programs via the terminal. I would like to keep using my Ubuntu installation for it though. whenever I try to compile something on Ubuntu, nobody can read the program. Says something about it not being able to read the program. I have installed the "openjdk-7-jdk" program, which might be the issue. Any help is appreciated, thanks! On a side note, I would like to mention that I need to compile my programs on OS X Lion or Windows 7 in order to run them correctly...

On one of my laptops, I installed all of the popular DEs because I like to experiment with them. I have Unity, GNOME Shell, KDE, and xfce all installed. It seems that KDE and GNOME don't "get along", and makes things messed up such as words and characters on the screen. Also, it appears that some applications get mixed up with each other. Is there any way to make the DEs less "messy"? - Ubuntu 11.10

Also, is there a way to install KDE in a way that DOESN'T install a bunch of other stuff that isn't needed. Such as the KDE sentences... They aren't needed since I already have the GNOME applications. Also, when you install KDE it also changes the shutdown and startup screen to Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu.

In response to a comment on my question, I tried to install KDE-core but I could not find it. And will installing KDE mess up the fonts in my other DEs?

I followed the steps letter by letter in this post... Gnome 3.2 problems in the shell

However I have come to a problem that I don't know how to solve... It is saying that package build has failed and it could not process the .deb file. I would like to install this as it increases performance of Unity. I have an ATi Mobility HD4250 Graphics Card. I also have been using the drivers that came out of the box with Unity, didn't install the ones from the Additional Drivers list..

Now after all of that, it says it can't open the driver installer.

Ok now with this new driver installed, everything appears to be choppy... It didn't do that with the drivers that came in Unity. I thought these were supposed to be an improvement?

On GNOME Shell, I want to use the Calendar and have it synced with my Google Calendar account, but I have Thunderbird on my computer. I have seen a couple of posts making Thunderbird default through the means of the terminal, but those changes did not effect the calendar on the desktop panel. I have used Evolution in the past, and i never really liked it, but will conform to it if necessary for the ease of having Google Calendar sync.

I was using GNOME Shell but switched back to Unity due to the amount of screen space I lost using shell. One thing I miss from Shell is the workspace switcher it uses compared to Unity's and IMO, it is better done in Shell. Is there a way to implement that in Unity at all?

I have noticed that on Windows, Minecraft runs a lot smoother than on Ubuntu 11.10. What can I do to make it run smoother on here?

I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics card. I don't know which driver I am using, but I'm not using the Proprietary Drivers that it asks you to download and install. And I believe I'm using the newest Java. I always keep my system updated.

I have tried many times to make the switch to Ubuntu One but I never could because of it being significantly slower at uploading files than DropBox. I want the extra space and the integration with the desktop that it brings. Does anyone know why U1 may be acting like this?

On Linux Mint 12, there's a extension for "important" notifications to be put in the panel. ie. DropBox would be put up in the panel.

Is there an extension for Ubuntu that does that? I have searched the GNOME repos and other third party ppas and I haven't been able to find it.

I tend to switch back and forth from different environments within the *buntu ecosystem but I was wondering if I could just install all of the Desktop Environments onto Ubuntu 11.10 and be able to switch to them if I wanted to.

I just made the switch to Kubuntu 11.10 and I'm loving it! But I have the annoyances of the software being on here.

For starters, it comes with Rekonq and KMail by default, so I installed Firefox and Thunderbird. Can I uninstall Rekonq and KMail and not mess up my KDE desktop? I saw something how it is all integrated into the system and I didn't want to mess up my new installation already.

Linux Mint 12 is using MGSE which makes the GNOME Shell more like Gnome 2.x interface. I would like to know if that was possible on Ubuntu and how I would go about doing that.

In Gnome Shell, I am charging my battery but it won't go past 91% at the most. It sometimes gets stuck at 90 as well. Its very annoying and I want to know if there is a fix for this...

Will Gwibber be getting Google+ support? I would like to post statuses from my desktop at anytime like Facebook and Twitter.