I am using Ubuntu 11.04. Last time I just installed Compiz and ccsm from the Software Centre. After I opened it, I made some common changes and then reset to defaults. But then my complete panel (as well as my dock) had disappeared, and after rebooting it was still gone. I also tried deleting the...

I have had exactly the same issue. If you have Compiz Config Settings Manager installed it may be that the Unity Desktop Plugin is disabled. Log in to a Unity 2D desktop and check that it is enabled in CCSM like this, Unity Shell will not load in the default desktop if the tickbox is not che...

I have clean installed 11.10 on my PC. When I am configuring compiz with CConfig (from ubuntu software center), GTK and all panels disappears. Don't you know solving or just compiz alternative to create pretty interface on my linux?

reinstall light-themes is no help. only color on left button become ugly, seems hover color is right. i search gtk*.css and nautilus.css in theme directory, also no found which color can change this. with 12.04 precise screenshot here: http://imagebin.org/196171

I have installed 11.10 on 3 Toshiba computers. LibreOffice Calc loses Maximize, Minimize, Close, and file name at the top left corner when I open an existing file on all three computers. Sometimes it shows File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks and Help with no buttons above the drop down menus for C...

How can I determine (and disable) the services that are hardly ever used? I want to speed up my system a bit. I'm sure there are some programs that are running by default I can disable. Are there any stats for applications usage?

reinstall light-themes is no help. only color on left button become ugly, seems hover color is right. i search gtk*.css and nautilus.css in theme directory, also no found which color can change this. with 12.04 precise screenshot here: http://imagebin.org/196171

I have a hard drive that should have close to 40GB free. However, when I just restarted the computer, Ubuntu popped up with the notification stating that the drive has 0 bytes of space remaining. When I run df -h I get the following output: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted o...

Formatted a new 2 TB disk with gparted, and noticed that right after the format(ext3 on whole disk), and noticed that I lose close to 30gb right off? ie. Size=1.82 TiB, Used = 29.42 GiB, Unused = 1.79 TiB That seems quite high. I thought maybe it was somewhat related to the 5% normally reserved...

This is more of a generic question, call it a pool of issues vs stability in Ubuntu world. I am currently using an ATI HD video card. Although I got quite proficient in installing and dealing with ATI driver issues, I don't know anything about NVidia's problems or issues. Looking through askUbu...

Ok so I am using Wubi with my windows installation. Unfortunately at this time Wubi doesn't support Lubuntu. So I am stuck with removing packages from the version that Wubi chooses to download, here its Precise 12.04, similar to what is illustrated in this tutorial. What packages should I remov...

I'm using a transparent theme and I can see the menu bar underneath:

I was using Gnome Shell, and I suspended it. However, I was unable to wake (stuck on black screen) so I did a hard shut down. When I booted back up, I'm stuck on a purple screen.

I have a second, internal hard drive for the purpose of backup. I use Back in Time to backup every hour onto this second drive. The problem is that, unlike Windows, Ubuntu fails to see the second drive on boot up. I have to manually mount it which is a pain for me and a real pain for my non techn...

I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 recently and discovered the following problem: the default video driver works better than the proprietary Nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com. To be more specific: the Nvidia driver fails to show the correct resolution on the bootscreen, and there are some short delays w...

What are the chances of installing HUD without Unity? I have seen demos of HUD-Cli running, so doesn't that mean HUD will be possible without Unity for older machines which cannot handle Unity or Unity 2D? i.e. installing HUD on LXDE for example?

Hey I install today and completely new I was wondering how do i install programs. I used too use windows and I'm used to going on web and it installing. but it doesn't seem to work on here Can i get some help please.

I was wondering if it was possible to map windows network drives on Ubuntu. If there is any way, please let me know how! Thanks for your help!

As I use Zinio a lot, I need to install Adobe Air on my Ubuntu 12.04. Unfortunately the installation failed with message: Sorry, an error has occured. Adobe AIR could not be installed. Install either Gnome Keyring or KDE KWallet before installing Adobe AIR. On Ubuntu 11.10 it was still possible ...

I find it strange, that every non-root user can shut the computer down using the menu in the desktop environment of his choice, but whenever a non-root user types in a terminal shutdown now, the terminal says that the user has to be root to execute that command. Why is this?

What is the difference between the shutdown menu item and shutdown -h now? The former sometimes hangs up my laptop on Ubuntu 11.10.

This question is posted as a follow on the the missing GPG keys Q I posted here: Many of my signatures/public keys for my repos dissappeared! Here is the output when trying to apt-get update: Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net...

I've got an old average point-and-click digital camera that I don't use anymore, but I wonder if I could reuse it as a webcam by plugging it as a USB device into an Ubuntu computer? Where can I find out about this? What shall I look for to know if the camera can act as a webcam?

I own an Acer5755G laptop computer. I've successfully installed Ubuntu 11.10 but the WiFi hardware is not detected by the system. Please help me as this is a big problem for me and Being a CSE student I need working internet connection while in the University. Thank You.

I've been upgrading my Ubuntu on the same machine since 8.04. Never did a clean install - always been upgrading. After upgrading to 11.04 I got the message that I don't have the needed hardware for unity and should run in classic mode. been doing that and today, after upgrading to 11.10 somethin...

Hi I have two NTFS drive partitions that I want to be able to access from either Windows or Ubuntu 10.04, and it works fine...from MY account. When any of the other Ubuntu accounts are logged in, they can't see the drives. They are invisible to other users both before and after I mount them in ...

Oke from one moment to another my sound button and keyboard function to edit the sound went missing. I tried installing pulsesound and that did not work, and the right klick on the panel also not. But when i go to sound, and when i look at the hardware it did not detect one, so i don't have any...

My 64bit ubuntu 11.10 usually crash at startup. I cannot see any debug on my monitor only a last part of a dump of the function stack call. If i press ALT+F1 the system startup correctly. It's a fresh install from CD-ROM

Where can I get a display driver for Acer Aspire One?

I installed Gnome-shell, but I have display bug. Is it just my ATI graphics card?

I need to know what's wrong and why my system will not connect to the wireless network? Any help will be appreciated, I can see the signal but the internet is simply not available.

I've been running Ubuntu 11.10 for a few days now. When using the internet (wifi connection), it stops working after a while though it says it's still connected. Disconnecting and reconnecting seems to 'solve' the problem, however I seem to have to do this every 10-15 mins. Help, anyone? Techni...

How do you have the grub appear on a key combination, but have windows boot default. I'm running ubuntu 11.10 and grub 2.0. Here is my current /etc/default/grub # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in t...

After the upgrade my system spikes,lags ,delayed performance than ever. But previous Ubuntu 10.04 works great without any problems. My configuration : Intel p4 3 Ghz ,1 Gb RAM , On-board ATI Express 200 Graphics. What is the reason for this kind of performance issues? Now i am using Linuxmint ...

I just installed 11.10 but now my wirelss network isn't functioning anymore. I said it needs to install 3rd party software for my ACER Aspire 5100. The driver has been installed but it can't see any network in reach. With 10.x no problem. Why do I need this new driver?

When I open Sound Preferences under Ubuntu 11.04, the Terminal window pops up and I can't close it (Google says nothing about this), is there a bug in this Ubuntu distro?

I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 alongside Windows and I don't have wireless network access. In the additional drivers program it says that the Broadcom STA Wireless Driver is active and in use. Using the Ubuntu help for wireless troubleshooting, one of the first steps is to make sure that in t...

I had a major failure upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 via update manager, leaving my system 90% unusable. I cannot get past login(lightdm),and neither unity nor ubuntu-desktop is installed. I cannot get to the desktop or grab a wireless signal without the live image. I can get to the console (alt+c...

I have sync a folder, lets say "Documents". Inside the folder Documents there are many other folders, but i have to sync every folder, one by one in order to have the whole tree. Is there any way of sync all folders inside the parent folder?

I have a lenovo b-575 laptop. Please help fast.

Everytime I install proprietary drivers, my unity breaks, it can't display the taskbar and all I get is a bar with file,edit,view,go, bookmark and help. Anyone an idea how to fix this ?