I just did a software update in 12.04 and it seems that gThumb was included in those updates. Suddenly, huge amounts of thumbnails, in the gThumb browser, are not displaying. They're there because the scrollbar indicates as much, but they're completely invisible.
Some show, here and there.
Any idea what this is related to? Anyone getting the same thing?
I remember reading about a Unity progress bar for Chromium. In 12.04, I have the latest Chromium installed from the Software Centre, but it doesn't have a progress bar.
Is there one that can be installed / added?
A few weeks ago, I was unable to set a custom wallpaper on my desktop. When I did, I was unable to log in because the login screen hung.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or deliberate, but I'd like to use a custom wallpaper on my desktop.
Is it possible?
Using Ubuntu One, I can sync my Home folders with Ubuntu One, which is great. But what is the purpose of the Ubuntu One folder that is in my Home folder?
Does it have special privileges that my other folders don't have? Why would I use it?
And can it safely be removed?
This error message pops up when opening a document in LibreOffice:
LibreOffice 3.5
Read-Error.
An unknown error has occurred.
I can, however, open a fresh new document. This is obviously not desirable behaviour.
EDIT: I tried opening a Calc doc which I used in my 11.04 installation (which is now 12.04). The documents are as they always were, in my Documents folder. Impress files seem to open fine. I've not yet tried a Writer file yet, as I don't use them too often.
What is the problem?
Ubuntu (12.04) comes with pre-installed themes. If I were to install extra themes, then does running them slow down performance in any way, even slightly?
In other words, are the default themes technically the quickest (in terms of rendering, animation, etc)?
For what reason, do you think, 12.04 performs worse than 11.10? I recently fresh-installed 12.04 and have found that the general screen animations (like swiping between desktops, window fading, etc) are noticeably stickier than 11.10, under the same conditions.
Overall, 12.10 is superior to 11.10, so I'm not complaining. But the generally worse Compiz smoothness is somewhat irritating. It's not unbearable, but it's certainly not smooth at times.
At times. Not always. For example, if I move between desktops, then the first one or two animations are bumpy. After that, it's fine. It's as if the animations need "warming up". Of course, if I don't move between desktops for a while, then it becomes bumpy again.
Could it be because my Nvidia graphics cards (I have two) are running as "adaptive"?
Let's say I have Gthumb open, and then launch Nautilus from the Unity launcher (in 12.04). Why does it sometimes not focus the mouse on Nautilus, which I just launched? Instead, the focus remains on Gthumb while Nautilus opens in front of Gthumb (and not being focused on).
Is this correct behaviour?
In the Software Centre, Gimp 2.6 is still the available stable release. I've heard talk about Gimp 2.8 being almost ready (and Gimp 2.7 being unstable).
Will Ubuntu 12.04 ship with Gimp 2.8?
Let's say that I click on the screenshot app that comes bundled with Ubuntu 11.10, and then select "select area to grab" followed by drawing the desired area, the resulting screenshot that is captured is, too often, coated with an Ubuntu-coloured glaze.
For example, if I screencap this Ask Ubuntu website, the white areas (all area, in fact) will come out with an orange hue. I'll cancel and repeat the process until the result is correct.
Does my description help? If so, then any idea why it happens and how to fix it?
I've been experiencing multiple Openshot crashes in every instance. More than 10, on average per hour of usage. I've googled it and I've seen something about updating "MLT". What is that? And how can I update MLT?
I have just turned on my PC and have two applications running; Thunderbird and Firefox. Whatever else is running is part of Ubuntu's feature set (as well as a few indicators).
This has been ongoing for weeks, so I'm not sure if it's normal behaviour or not.
Right now, my memory usage indicator says that Ubuntu is using 41% of my 6GB of RAM. I haven't even opened Gimp or my other day-to-day things. I'll be buying another 6GB of RAM, this week, so that I don't run out when using Gimp or Openshot, for example.
An overview of my running applications shows that Nautilus is using the most, yet it isn't even open. This seems a little excessive, or am I missing something?
Like UnityFox (and the Nautilus launcher), is there a way to have Transmission's launcher show the progress of a download?
For some reason, Thunderbird's new mail notifications are no longer appearing at the top right of my screen. I hear the pop sound of new messages, and Unity's Thunderbird icon receives a red number indicating the number of new messages.
But no Ubuntu notifications at all.
This seems to have happened after my latest series of updates.
Other notifications are working, however.
If I walk away from my PC, then there is a good chance I might miss certain notifications. I've seen in KDE that notifications get stored and stacked until you click them (or whatever).
Unless I'm missing something, Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a history of clickable notifications.
Is there a way to do this?
Let's say that I have a folder, within my Documents folder, that has files I want no one to access without a password.
Is there a way to lock down that folder so that it's password protected / encrypted?
In fact, is it possible to password-protect any individual folder?
To keep things quick, does Ubuntu index thumbnails so that, next time I enter that folder, it doesn't have to reload the thumbnails? (This would be especially important in large picture folders.)
Playing around with Evolution Mail - it has some features that I like. I then downloaded the RSS plugin from the Software Center. Well, it didn't download because it gave me an error.
Simply, how do I install the RSS plugin in 11.10?
Often, when I boot up my PC, the Ubuntu 11.10 login screen prompts me to enter my login details (as per normal), but after I've done that, it asks me a second time.
To be clear, I log in the first time. The screen goes black. The login screen appears a second time. I log in a second time, and it works.
This happens often enough for me to question it.
The question (here) answers the question about whether or not Empathy can be replaced with Pidgin.
What it doesn't answer is whether or not removing Empathy (via Software Centre) will break Ubuntu 11.10 because of the obvious integration (like statuses in messaging menu).
I prefer Pidgin's (more accurate) notifications to Empathy's, hence the desire to change.
Can I safely remove Empathy?