I booted up my laptop this morning to find my name no longer appears beside the power off button in the top right hand corner of the top gnome panel:
I tried deleting and re-adding the indicator applet session to the panel but it still doesn't display my name.
Any suggestions?
Recently my Gnome interface theme has occasionally changed itself on every few logins. On the times it does change as soon as I login I get a completely different theme set on my menu bar, icons, font, everything. It sets the grey accessibility one (I think) but then after a few moments it changes itself back to the correct theme set in the Appearance menu.
However one after effect of this issue is that Nautilus become messed up. (Screenshot attached below:) This is the theme that gets randomly applied before changing back to my normal theme, but it sticks with Nautilus, unless I kill it and restart it.
I don't know what I could of done to make this happen and it only started happening a few days ago.
Any help on this issue would be great! It's got me baffled!
Useful Info about my theme setup:
Sometimes when I start my computer my gnome panel where my notification icons are is sometimes screwed with icons overlapping or not appearing at all. Sometimes my taskbar is also affected where by their is a white gap between the show desktop button and taskbar where open programs appear.
Any ideas on how to stop this?
I was wondering since Ubuntu 11.04 will include Unity as the default interface, if (when the time comes) I upgrade to 11.04 from 10.10 will my current desktop setup be preserved somewhere, so in case I do not like Unity I can simply switch back to my Gnome desktop
Recently my Alt + F2 keyboard shortcut switches my Linux machine to a virtual terminal rather than displaying the run window. I haven't made any specific keyboard changes that could of caused this strange issue.
Rather than having to press Ctrl + Alt, suddenly all of the virtual terminal commands have suddenly binded to the just the Alt key.
What can I do to get them back to their default values?
I'm using Gnome with Compiz enabled
Thanks.
On occasion, my laptop has become stuck so I've used the magic key combination of Alt + SysRq + REISUB to perform a safe reboot. However, it doesn't seem to work for me as when I press the B key to complete the magic key command it simply says, "resetting..." and doesn't do anything.
All of the other keys seem to work fine as it resets the keyboard layout, kills all tasks etc., but it doesn't seem to complete with a reboot.
I was under the impression that my laptop should reboot after the magic keys have all been pressed in the order of REISUB.
I was wondering if it's possible to get Evolution Mail in Ubuntu to be able to import a Windows Live Mail email account export, I have multiple email accounts and lots of email messages attached to each account and and being able to import them all into Evolution would be nice. Is there a way to do this?
The exports from Windows Live Mail are in a .iaf format which seems Microsoft specific.
I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 with Compiz and have suddenly lost the gradient shadow on my gnome menu bar (Top), I was wondering how can I get it back?
I already have the value of "any" set in Window decorations and the shadow is applied to windows, but just not the gnome bar.
I'm running the theme Ambiance with the faneza icon set
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with the 2.6.35-22.34-generic kernel and have the latest Vmware player installed, but each time I run Vmware Player it says it needs to load some modules into the running kernel. It does this every time I run Vmware player. It seems to install the modules OK as Vmware player runs after it's apparently installed the modules, but the modules aren't saved as it constantly keeps saying it needs to load modules.
Is there anyway to fix this, other than trying to go for a reinstall?
I have BURG installed with GRUB2 to provide nice GRUB themes on my GRUB loader. I have it all setup right but I want to know if it's possible to change the order of my menu icons. As of now, I currently have the Ubuntu Icon first and then Windows. I would like to switch them around, so Windows is first and then the Ubuntu icon. I know I can change te BURG config to make Windows be selected as the one to boot if no keyboard input is committed during the timeout, but I'd like to be able to control the order of the icons.
If it helps the BURG theme I'm using is refit
Thanks.
I have a Compaq Presario CQ60-307EA Laptop which has the Synaptics touchpad. It works fine, but one thing that's never worked is the disable button above it, which should completely turn off the touchpad. But when the disable button is pressed nothing happens, the light changes to orange like it should, but it isn't disabled and is still active.
I was wondering if anyone had got their Synaptics touchpad disable button to work. I find it strange as my friend has a Compaq Presario CQ61 which is a slightly different model, but still has the Synaptics Touchpad and his disable button worked fine, yet mine doesn't.
Any help on getting it to work would be great!
Thanks!
Like many Ubuntu users I'm using Compiz Desktop Effects with Gnome. However since Ubuntu 10.10 I've noticed that the zoom effect on my drop down menus i.e. The gnome menu bar have a flicking thin white border when they are opened. It appears very briefly and flickers each time a drop down menu is opened.
I can't remember this happening on Ubuntu 10.04 and it doesn't seem to be theme specific, as I tried it on Ambiance and Radiance and still see the flicking white border.
I'm using the nvidia-current proprietary driver enabled through Additional Drivers menu.
Thanks for any help on the matter!
I've recently switched from Empathy to Pidgin as my IM client, but I've noticed the notification sounds Pidgin plays on events like a contact signing in crackle. I've never had such problems with any other sound on Ubuntu, but Pidgin seems to have a problem with my audio setup.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10.
Thanks for your help.