Whenever I try to switch users in Ubuntu 12.04 it goes to a black screen with a cursor and hangs. If I do the ctrl-alt-F6 (or any F1-6 button for that matter) it will switch to a command prompt and then if I switch back to ctrl-alt-F7 I'm presented with the login screen that you get when you return from a screenlock. Is this a bug in Ubuntu or does something need reconfigured?
I've been having a lot of problems getting any of my applications to work under wine. I get everything installed fine, the games run great but they all suffer from the same problem. REALLY REALLY distorted sound! I've tried going into winecfg and setting the audio settings to ALSA and then setting it to emulation but that doesn't solve anything. At one point I got half-life to work fine but then in trying to do something else I messed it up, unfortunately I don't remember what that was or what I did to get it working. There are sounds being made but they come extremely stuttered and unusable. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to give you more information but I'm pretty sure the problem is from buffer underrun errors. I don't really know what those are or how to deal with them but I've seen that in debug output most of the time I'm having issues.
I'd like to copy my exact setup from my computer at work to my computer at home. I'm trying to figure out how to go about doing that. So far I've figured this much out.
On the source computer run
dpkg --get-selections > installed-software
and backup the installed-software file
Backup /etc/apt/sources.list Backup /usr/share/applications/ to save all my custom Quicklists Backup /etc/fstab to save all my network mounts Backup /usr/share/themes/ to save the customization I've done to my themes I'm also going to backup my entire HOME directory.
Once I get to the destination computer I'm going to first do just a fresh install of 11.10 Then I'll copy over my HOME directory, /etc/apt/sources.list, /usr/share/appications, /etc/fstab and /usr/share/themes/
Then I'm going to run
dpkg --set-selections < installed-software
Followed by
dselect
That should install all of my apps for me.
I'm wondering if there's a way/need to backup dconf and gconf settings from the source computer? I guess that's my ultimate question. I'd also like any notes on anything else that might need backed up as well before I undertake this project. I hope this post is legit, I figured other people would be interested in knowing this process and I don't see any other questions that seem to really document this on here.
I'd also like to further this project and have each computer routinely backup all the necessary files so that both computer are basically identical at all times. That's stage 2 though...
I've been using the Deja Dupe to run automatic backups on my system. The problem I'm having is my server at work occasionally times out and essentially un-mounts my windows shares from Nautilus. I'd like to find a way to run nautilus smb://windowsmountpoint before it Deja Dupe runs the automatic backup. I can't imagine this feature not existing, I just don't know how to do it!
I would like to have the ability to have a button in Unity windows that causes the window to appear on all workspaces. I know you can accomplish this by accessing the window menu and clicking 'Always on Visible Workspace' but I'd like a button like close, minimize, maximize. I know when I first came to linux this feature existed on most window managers but it seems that it's been slowly disappearing.
Is there a way to bring this back?
P.S. The purpose of this is to have a button in the window titlebar that accomplishes this task. I know this is possible through keyboard shortcuts and the window menu.
I have been customizing the /usr/share/unity-2d/launcher/Launcher.qml file so that the Launcher will be completely transparent. However, every time I save it and do unity --replace nothing changes. I found that if I run unity-2d-launcher it loads a new launcher above the one that loads after unity --replace and the new launcher is transparent, however the old one is still there. This leads me to believe that the launcher is now part of a separate process or something because if I look at my running processes after startup unity-2d-launcher isn't there. I REALLY want to remove that background from my launcher. Can someone help?