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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and I have the same problem I've always had after an installation/upgrade: the terminal's transparent background shows the desktop (not the window that is behind it). I've seen this question.

Most of the time,

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true

will get it to work, but this is not the case anymore. I've also tried compiz --replace which does work, but then screws a lot of other stuff up and makes things pretty unusable.

Is there anything else I can do to

$ gnome-terminal --version
GNOME Terminal 3.6.2

I've run into this problem several times before. It seems to happen after an update.

I'm using rEFInd on a MacBook pro to start ubuntu.

If I boot Ubuntu, it seems to go through all of the normal boot procedures with no errors. However, after an update it will sometimes just boot to the terminal instead of the GUI. I can log in and do everything, but I'm not sure how to start the GUI at this point. Running startx does nothing.

I can get around this by using grub and booting from recovery mode. I don't actually have to do anything while I'm in recovery mode, I just have to start recovery mode and then immediately select resume (normal boot) and the GUI will load.

Is there anything I can do to diagnose this problem or make sure that the GUI always starts on a normal boot?

I'm running npm 1.2.18 and node v0.10.15. npm completion is broken. If I try to tab complete with npm or if I run npm completion, it displays:

npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-14-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "completion" "--color" "false" "--loglevel" "error" "--" "npm" "comple"
npm ERR! cwd /home/ajcrites
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.18
npm ERR! path /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/completion.sh
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34

Indeed, /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/completion.sh does not exist, and the current directory gets an npm-debug.log file with similar information.

A Google Search reveals a lot of complaints about this issue for varying versions of node/Debian/zsh. If I use bash, tab completion works, but npm completion yields the same error about the missing file. As far as I can tell, none of the threads that you can easiliy find from the search actually have a solution. They just seem to be bug reports.

Is there anything I can do to fix this error? Is there an example completion.sh I can use or something?

I can change the position of my dual monitors using arandr. However, I have to do this every time I log back in. I'd like to keep the configuration settings without having to do this every time.

I didn't have a .config/monitors.xml initially. I tried adding it with the correct settings, but it still doesn't work.

I've also tried looking at other answers like this one, but I don't have any of the files he's referring to including /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf which seems to be the functional one.

Is there anything I can do to keep these settings or have my machine respect .config/monitors.xml?

I've also tried updating .profile to include the xrandr calls, but these will only run when I open the terminal -- not that I could get them to work properly anyway.

I've also tried changing this via nvidia-settings and clicking "Save to X configuration settings," but the settings still do not persist after relog/reboot.

I have a Mac and am dual booting Ubuntu. I booted from a USB and used GParted to shrink the Ubuntu partition leaving me with about 100G of free space. I want to use this to increase the OS X partition space. GParted will not let me increase the OS X partition size (although it will let me decrease it). I've also tried using Disk Utility from OS X.

When I had the 100G of unallocated space, Disk Utility would report "MediaKit reports partition (map) too small." I also tried creating a new partition of both "unformatted" and "cleared." Now when I use Disk Utility, it says "Preparing to resize," but doesn't move on. It doesn't lock up, but even after half an hour it is still "preparing to resize."

GParted still can't increase the OS X partition size either (same as before). I also can't create an hfs+ partition with the unallocated space. The option is there, but it is grayed out.

I've seen this question, but the solutions all involve booting the OS X CD, which I do not have. Using df does not list the OS X partition either, but Ubuntu does not appear to have gpt anyway.

In general, I've read that I need to repair the partition table, but the only ways from OS X that I've found to do this require having a CD to boot from.

I've also read that since I used GParted to create the free space, I need to use GParted to resize the partition or at least put it in a resizable state, but nothing I've done will allow me to resize the OS X partition.

Once while I was using Ubuntu everything locked up. I was no longer able to boot vmlinuz-3.8.0-31-generic. When I would try, it would not get past the boot phase.

Fortunately, I am still able to boot vmlinuz-3.8.0-30-generic and work normally.

Is there any way I can restore vmlinuz-3.8.0-31-generic to work again? Any ideas on what caused the problem or how to recover from it in the future?

I'm booting Ubuntu from rEFInd on a 15" MacBook Pro. For a long time I haven't had a problem, but just now booting has been hanging on the error

Invalid ROM Contents

This seems to happen when it attempts to mount /dev/sda3 which is the Ubuntu partition. I've read that this may be related to graphics and I can boot an older version of the Kernel without graphics, however nothing else that I have read has helped and I am at a loss as to what to do. Any suggestions for fixing this error?

I use rEFInd to boot ubuntu from a Macbook Pro. Ubuntu asked me to update (not upgrade), and I did. When I restarted, rEFInd was showing two entries for ubuntu (Boot boot\vmlinuz-0.2.7 vs. 0.1.9 for example).

Is this problematic? Is there any way to remove the extra boot entry? Is there any way to prevent this from happening after future updates?

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How do I get “ruby” to do what “ruby1.9.1” does?

I installed ruby 1.9.3-p125 with rvm. rvm list yields

ruby-1.9.3-p125 [ x86_64 ]

rvm use 1.9.3-p125 yields

Using /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125
Running /usr/share/ruby-rvm/hooks/after_use

However, ruby --version is ruby 1.8.7, (which ruby is /usr/bin/ruby).

I also have two executables: ruby1.8 and ruby1.9.1, but nothing called ruby1.9.3 is on the path.

How do I actually get ruby to run ruby1.9.3 (or at the very least, how do I run it at all).

Once I can do that, I'd also like to uninstall the other ruby versions since they're just taking up space.

I'm developing in rails on my computer. I'm just going along with what tutorials say, and I simply cannot find anything about how to use launchy during development on the Internet .. period. There are two problems:

• I'd like launchy to open Chromium (it opens Firefox). Chromium is set as my default browser.
• I save files constantly, and launchy will run each time, which is terrible. Is there any way to only get it to run when you actually want? This also applies to guard, but it's not nearly as annoying with guard.

Ubuntu is complaining that it's running out of space, and indeed, df yields:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0             17G   15G  462M  98% /
/dev/sda2             385G   18G  368G   5% /host

So apparently I only have 17 gigs available on my ubuntu installation. When I run gparted, I see a /dev/sda2 and a /dev/sda1 both well over 100G. My computer should have something like 600G available.

Is there any way I can add more disk space to /dev/loop0, whatever that is? Please explain to me as if I were a child.

I also don't have an ubuntu CD .. I installed it with wubi. I'm hoping I can just do this straight from the OS, but I understand I may have to do it from the BIOS. I have read something like

Boot from the CD and use gparts

That doesn't mean anything to me, so if that's what I need to do, please explain how to do that specifically.

I realize that Webex does not support Ubuntu 11, however I have a website running on my machine that I need to demo for a client and he will use webex. I need to be able to use the "share desktop" feature to do this. Is there any dependable way (gksudo, java installation, browser, anything) that lets you share your desktop?

I don't care if the audio crashes since we talk on the phone, and it's okay if it cuts out from time to time -- I just need him to be able to see it.

Alternatively, is there an easy way for me to switch to an ubuntu version that will allow me to share my desktop?

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm having a couple of issues that I didn't have with #10. First of all, when the terminal is transparent, it shows the desktop rather than the window behind it. Being able to read the window behind the terminal at the same time was a really useful feature of the transparency, but now it's just showing the desktop instead.

Second of all, the Windows key seems to be ignored. I mostly use it for "Windows-D," which shows the desktop. Is there another such shortcut or a way to disable the windows key?

I also switched back to the Gnome Classic view. I like it a lot better than the new view, but the new view had a way to quickly search files and applications based on the name. Where is this in Gnome Classic?