Everything looks fine on boot, but as soon as I start using unity it crashes. Doing just about anything will crash it, including launching a keyboard shortcut
I'm not too bothered really. I just want to have an Ubuntu VM to be able to answer GUI Qs here every now and then and to check for Ubuntu-specific issues in any answers I might post.
aI got a suggested edit that seemed really weird:
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/232686
I couldn't quite figure out what the edit was trying to achieve, and toggling between "markdown" and "rendered output" didn't make it more clear so I looked at the original question which was k...
if I can follow the logic of some code - I'll mess around with it, and nathans programming was easy to follow. so I did things like documenting bugs, adding some of the stuff the mac does like right click on launcher menus.
@Seth Ah, no I don't think that will be a problem. I don't know the details but I doubt my nvidia card is passed as an nvidia to the VM. Probably some kind of funky emulation going on.
virtualbox is a tricky beast when it comes to 3D acceleration - it does a pass-through of sorts directly to your graphics card on the host - so yeah, this could also explain the crash.
the next step is to untick the 3D graphics acceleration to stop the pass-through
@Seth yes, I had checked the tickbox from the beginning when I first created the VM
@fossfreedom OK, could you expand on that one please?
@fossfreedom ah, never mind, gotcha. OK. I used to use compiz a lot back before gnome3 and unity so I'm relatively knowledgeable about it which means I could handle some Qs on it but I'd need it to be running to be able to test them.
12.04 ubuntu had a fallback called unity-2d - basically a different version of Unity. In 12.10 they dumped Unity 2D - there was only one version of Unity. To enable non-accelerated graphic cards to run unity, it used a llvmpipe x driver - this was effectively a software-emulated version of the 3D acceleration normal graphics cards supply to Unity. Its slower - but enables Unity & other desktop's such as gnome-shell to work correctly
I wanted to modify my mount options for my NTFS external HDD so that I can execute programs on it. I added the following line to my fstab accordingly:
UUID=CE665A3F665A290B /media/Josh ntfs-3g defaults,users,nofail 0 0
But when I plug in my external and I get this error:
Error mounting: mo...