Upgrading to Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 _now_ :-)
I am Upgrading to the Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 _now_ See you on the other side :-) Alt+F2 key combination and typed in: update-manager -d Downloaded almost all of the file but then I received: Could not...
View ArticleUpgrading to Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 – propritary Nvidia drivers
nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black (Bug #813343 ) This was a little tricky. I have a Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS; 1 x Samsung SM226BW (left 1680x 1050); 1 x SMB2430H (right 1920x 1080.). I was...
View ArticleUpgrading to Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 – Snagging List
Any other issues I am adding here: My Nautilus Launcher from the dock doesn’t work. Starting it from from the desktop or terminal does work though. Needs to be added back in to the launcher each...
View ArticleUbuntu 11.10 will Provide Post Release Updates for ATI and Nvidia Proprietory...
Interesting – searched for this after seeing as an option in Alternative drivers via Ubuntu control centre. Tried it and it works for me ;-) Updates to the proprietary AMD Catalyst and NVIDIA drivers...
View ArticleOneiric 11.10 – No detail view on the file manager Nautilus? Use Thunar.
Use Alt + F2 and type in: gksu nautilus Then you get to use the adult version and use can select a view “compact” and add extra columns etc.. But… it does not look as if these setting are saved, which...
View ArticleUpgrading to Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 – zeitgeist-daemon 100 cpu on 1 core fix
Download: zeitgeist-extension-fts 0.0.7-0ubuntu2 (amd64 binary) in ubuntu oneiric Then cd to the dl folder and do this: sudo dpkg -i zeitgeist-extension-fts_0.0.7-0ubuntu2_all.deb See here....
View ArticleUpgrading to Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 – Zeitgeist logs the user’s activities and...
Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user’s activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes the relevant information available to other...
View ArticleUpgrading to Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 – Dealing with Zeitgeist (zeitgeist kills...
Uninstalling Zeitgeist can cause issues as it is used by Unity and expected to be available. Removal could be a problem in the future as other programs may look for it being installed. There are also...
View Article11.04 Oneiric – Firefox Beta 8.0~b4 – Sound problem with Movie Player caused...
I was experiencing issues when playing video with Movie Player and mplayer. I initially thought it was caused by pulseaudio but traced it down to Firefox and npviewer.bin usage. If I kill npviewer.bin...
View ArticleBliss Unity Lens – Menu Style
The Bliss Lens takes things old-skool: organising applications into category folders reminicisnt of the old GNOME 2 menus. This is for those who prefer the more traditional approach to application-menu...
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