It's not a laptop or netbook thing only. I'm running Precise on an older
32 bit Intel x86 machine and I'm not switching desktops. I use the
UBUNTU login for the Unity desktop and have since I installed Precise.
I find these errors:
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
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Jaunty has reached end-of-life, so I'll close this report. The bug is
marked as being fixed in later versions of Ubuntu
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Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix
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Assignee: Steve Kowalik (stevenk) =
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Em (emilie-gaub)
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Hi, Bug 390001 could be a duplicate of this bug. Also Bugs:
#269292
#413385
which are duplicates of 390001.
Maybe bug 390001 should be marked a duplicate of this bug?
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Hello,
I fall in BUG #453933 that i later marked duplicate of this because I
solved with the same command suggested above.
The bad news is that there's a regression because I experienced it in
0.5.8 when i understand reading the comments above that 0.4.6 did soved
it.
x...@dellino:~$ apt-cache
Hey! I just tried a few commands in terminal and My netbook got fixed.
Thanks!
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Paste this command in the terminal press enter, then restart, to fix the
Ubuntu Netbook Remix Desktop Switcher bug.
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list --type
list --list-type=string [windowmanager,panel]
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This thread has a lot of different commands suggested? I'm confused. I
have a brand new laptop Benq U101P, with a brand new install of NBR. All
I did was use the desktop switcher, whilst in the gnome desktop I added
a workspace switcher to the top bar/menu and 3 workspaces. Then came
back into the
Since this is verification-failed, I removed the packge from -proposed:
2009-09-09 10:26:28 INFORemoving candidates:
2009-09-09 10:26:28 INFOdesktop-switcher 0.4.4-0ubuntu1.1 in jaunty
2009-09-09 10:26:28 INFORemoved-by: Martin Pitt
2009-09-09 10:26:28 INFOComment: failed SRU
I've got UNR on a Dell Mini 9. The desktop switcher problem was resolved
by just running 'gconftool-2 --set
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list --type list --list-
type=string [windowmanager,panel]'. Didn't even have to install the
posted desktop-switcher deb. Rebooted a bunch of times
I'm not sure why, but this fixed my problem immediately (at least for my
current session):
If possible, bring up a terminal and run
metacity --replace
I don't remember where I found this suggestion, but it worked for me.
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I want to confirm that 0.4.6 package seems to work for me.
My users are using Dell Inspiron Mini 10v with Ubuntu UNR (I reinstalled it
over the Dell-customized UNR), and had that desktop-switcher problem.
When they came to me with their desktop stalled after trying to switch desktop
mode, I
Add a Me too with a 900 and a fully updated 9.04.
Took installing desktop-switcher out of jaunty proposed, plus #142 info
to set things right again. Thanks guys.
Hopefully there'll be an upgrade in the standard fixes for Intrepid
before Karmic gets released. Will test in Alpha5 though.
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Hello. I am a newbie to Ubuntu Linux. I am having the same problem
as most in this forum. My problem is as follows: After a fresh install
UNR on my Asus Eee Pc 901a, when i switch to classic desktop mode and
reboot, I also lose all menu bars. When i switch back to Netbook
Desktop, I have my
I am not a Pro, but I will try to help. First make sure you have
installed GDebi Package Installer from the Add/Remove Applications menu.
Then down load to your desktop the patch.
Open the patch with GDebi Package installer. (right click on the file on
your desktop, it should default to open
More: also you might have to to the following:
Goto Preferences - startup programs
Add 2 new entries:
1. /usr/bin/gnome-panel
2. /usr/bin/gnome-wm
Reboot.
johnH
stevebroome wrote:
Hello. I am a newbie to Ubuntu Linux. I am having the same problem
as most in this forum. My problem
I have in installed the fix and tried to follow everything.
The Netbook remix view works perfectly...but when I switch to Classic,
the top BAR stays as Netbook remix (the home button is not clickable
though)
And there is no panel at the bottom and also no home button to access my
programs..
How
I have added a screen shot of my current desktop in classic view.
As you can see, there is no bottom panel, and at the top bar, the button
at the top left corner doesn't do anything. So I cant access my
applications. When I open a window/browser and minimize it, it goes on
top panel. (Like NBR
@Bart:
on other mailing lists, the directions to unsubscribe are generally or always
in the message FOOTER.
However, I notice that the method is different here.
Running the browser on a 10 netbook screen one might easily miss it:
Look to the right of the screen (*your* right) ---
just above the
@Tony:
I hit reply, not realizing that your 'reply to' defaulted to this forum. Now
that i manged to put my foot in my mouth. (hopefully) I might manage to take
all ten toes back out! *blush*
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I should know better to leave well enough alone: HOWEVER. old habits (as
a beta tester) are hard to break.
... as a test, I reverted to netbook and got the following error:
/begin quote
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
netbook-launcher. Some of your
I feel reasonably certain that i have not encountered this bug until
yesterday, when several installs resulted the same way: switching to
standard mode from netbook, and upon reboot, I lose both top and bottom
panels and can only right click on the desktop. As such, I cannot even
open a console,
solution worked out for me Eee PC 900 (sequentially what i did):
changed to normal desktop - restart - no panel desktop - right click create new
folder - go to folder - search in 'file system' for UNR launcher (sorry i dont
remind the path) - change to UNR desktop - go to synaptic 'unmark' UNR
@sachin:
Thank you.
What is the name of the UNR launcher executable? I re-installed the (defualt)
Xandros distro, and I was thinking of installing either EEEbuntu or Easy Peasy,
but since both of these are based on ubuntu, I suspect that the problem might
exist across these variations of the
@sachin:
This is very strange. I had printed up your suggestions, and was about to
follow the directions. Guess what?
I had NO NEED to do so.
NOTE: Machine: ASUS EEE 1000 PC
1) I had re-installed the [ASUS] Xandros distro, after reading your post, I
did a CLEAN install of Jaunty 9.40 NBR
There is a fix for this (as explaned above! -
desktop-switcher_0.4.6_i386.deb (38.2 KiB, application/x-debian-package)
I still have not gotten around to installing it
AFAIK, this problem only happens if you shutdown/restart whilst in
Classic mode.
I have a workaround as posted - it has
@ Tony:
/begin quote
There is a fix for this (as explaned above! -
desktop-switcher_0.4.6_i386.deb (38.2 KiB, application/x-debian-package)
I still have not gotten around to installing it
AFAIK, this problem only happens if you shutdown/restart whilst in
Classic mode.
/end quote
**I
Success at last! After Installing desktop-switcher_0.4.6_i386.deb, I
rebooted, but still no desktop icons. A cold boot showed no change: I
still had the top and bottom launchers, but no objects on the desktop:
mounted disks, or the image file that I had copied in the file manager.
I had a
Dear, dear Elton Woo-
it is late Friday night; I have consumed copious amounts of wine, and alas, am
all alone.
So I appear to be prisoner to your miserable bleatings.
Let's take this off-line.
AFAIK the fix (0.4.6) as posted by Neil J. Patel back in June seems to work,
after a fashion.
I
Sir, It is quite clear that I (may have) offended you. That was certainly
NOT my intention. As regards my miserable bleatings... I confess that i
tend to be verbose, but this comes from years of beta testing and assisting
newbies. I prefer to err on the side of excess detail.
The bottom line is
Grrr! I said-
Let's take this off-line.
For the moment, Please use Neil Patel's 0.4.6 fix. It appears to work.
And - stick to Classic mode !
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** Description changed:
When using the Switch Desktop Mode to swap from netbook to classic upon
reboot GNOME desktop setting are not retained, in that all you end up
with (classic) is just the desktop background image without the GNOME
panels on the top bottom of screen! essentially
Since my previous posts, i have learned that my home partition does
display correctly in the UNR mode and upon mousing over it, the system
automatically switches to desktop mode without windows panels. Any help
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After much confusion, I have everything back to normal, aside from one
small issue. After installing the desktop-switcher 0.4.6.deb, I have the
problem of UNR interface going down sporadically. I noticed that i am
running the i686 platform and the desktop switcher .deb is configured
for a i386
Additionally, I have noticed that as the UNR interface goes down, it is caused
by the desktop switcher permitting the system to switch back into desktop mode.
When I use the switcher to switch back to UNR, I am able to use everything, and
normality is restored until it switches back... However
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Hi there. _0.4.6 seems to work for me (eeePC 900, using 9.04), but I
had to switch back and forth once betweent the two modes to get it
right.
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The attached file desktop-switcher_0.4.4-1ubuntu2_i386.deb worked for
me on my Dell Latitude C640. Thanks! The Netbook Remix desktop did not
work to my liking at all. I searched for some time for a solution.
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I just ran into this bug also.
Fresh install of ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img on my Asus EEE
1000HA and applied all updates.
Then I switched over to Classic mode and rebooted. Panels were gone.
Alt+F2 doesn't work so I had to make a desktop shortcut to gnome-
terminal to do stuff (including
BUG IS STILL THERE.
At present (June 23/2009) On a ASUS 9 Netbook, I have my Ubu 9.04 completely
up-to-date- all upgrades have been applied.
Now-
If I open it in the netbook menu mode, and then switch to Classic, it is
OK.
But If I switch to classic and then restart in Classic mode,
I had had the same problem
And now i try to correct it
I installed desktop-switcher_0.4.6 besides ubuntu say it is old.
And now i ad gnome-panel and gnome-wm to correct my problem.
It correct not every all .
my panel at the bottom is here but i can't retrieve my application when i
reduce
where is that ~/.confg/desktop-switcher
and i make in terminal
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel in classic ubuntu
and now i have the top panel of unr in ubuntu classic
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Orbital_sFear's workaround solution of adding...
/usr/bin/gnome-panel
/usr/bin/gnome-wm
...to startup programs
worked for my problem
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I tried the proposed update of desktop-switcher from the proposed repositories
(Ubuntu Netbook Remix jaunty) and it didn't work, in fact it made it worse. My
problem before this was that on reboot the top panel would not be there and I
would have to use the desktop-switcher to go to the normal
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I have tried manyu of the fixes but I still have the problem of no
Gnome panel.
Again I am asking what is the fix?
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The fix that was mentioned before helped me.
1) Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 - that will bring up console
2) enter your login and password
3) enter this command (that's one big line, no line breaks): gconftool-2 --set
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list --type list --list-type=string
Followed your fix exactly. I still have no panel and my applications
(like Firefox) are smaller and can't be resized.
Any other suggestions short of reinstalling 9.04?
Vasily wrote:
The fix that was mentioned before helped me.
1) Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 - that will bring up console
2) enter
Simple fix works for me.
Goto Preferences - startup programs
Add 2 new entries:
1. /usr/bin/gnome-panel
2. /usr/bin/gnome-wm
Reboot.
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OK, I am back in business, I added Orbital_sFears suggestion and now I
have my panel back.
Question: If I switch desktop mode will the problem reoccur or is it
now repaired to work?
Vasily wrote:
Also, if you don't mind losing your config, you can delete .config and
.gconfd folders from
The version in jaunty-proposed solves the problem associated with this
bug. I also was able to use it to fix a desktop that was previously
corrupted by the old desktop-switcher (use d-s to corrupt desktop, login
to corrupted desktop, use gnome-terminal to install the new version, use
With my fix/workaround I can freely transition from classic to Netbook
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Can everyone who is suggesting fixes or workarounds please stop doing
so, so that people can test the version of desktop-switcher that is
available in jaunty-proposed and we can get it pushed into jaunty-
updates?
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on
how to do
I had previously posted receiving an error when trying to switch after
the update, but that everything appeared to be working correctly. After
the reboot, then switching back to netbook launcher mode, I lost the top
bar again. Fix did not appear to work for me.
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Switching between netbook mode and classic mode works on my Asus Eeepc
1000H works...
... but sometimes the folder ~/.gconfd/apps/panel/ disappears. After re-
loggin the panel is reseted to the system default configuration.
Everyone who don't have such a default config ends with a deleted
I just encountered the problem. I now have no panels in either the
netbook remix or the classic. Actually all I have is a plain screen
with one file on it. I cannot shutdown with out using the power key and
holding it forever.
I am using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty NR
So what is the fix?
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Additional: the computer is an Acer Aspire ONE with 1.5 GB RAM, 120 GB
HD, bilingual keyboard (yuk). The computer came with Limpus Lite, which
was not what I likes so I went to Ubuntu 8.10, and later upgraded to
9.04. Until this problem (bug), 9.04 has been the best version yet.
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to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
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I installed the patch and rebooted. I removed my working around of
running gnome-panel and gnome-wm on boot and sadly, in netbook mode, no
panels. This patch might fix in classic mode, however my netbook mode
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I tested this on my netbook and successfully switch from UNR mode to
classic mode. However, when I tried to switch back, I got the error
occurred while loading or saving configurating information... described
in comment #8 above. It did appear to work though, despite the error.
This was from a
I have uploaded desktop-switcher 0.4.4-0ubuntu1.1 to jaunty-proposed
that adds a patch that corrects this issue. Attaching the debdiff.
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Hi there - I'm a new user. I've got the desktop-switcher problem too! I
have a Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu's Netbook Remix. (I have tried
several lots of instructions from above but am a little confused at this
point as things are only half working for me.)
Are there step by step instructions
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I solved it. You can reproduce the behavior:
1. Create a new user.
2. Switch to Ubuntu Classic
3. Add nautilus to the startup programs.
4. Log out, log back in.
5. Everything works fine.
My suggestion to fix this bug is:
Add nautilus to the list of standard startup programs for all users.
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I had the same problem. I'm using an Acer Aspire One model AOA 110-ab,
and using the final version of Ubuntu netbook remix 9.04, installed from
an USB pen.
This is what I have done to fix the problem:
I installed desktop-switcher_0.4.6_i386.deb, (tried changing desktop modes a
few times, the
Newbie here. Just wanted to report that installing the deb pkg fixed
the menu problem on my eee 1000, too. I also had the problem afterwards
of the desktop not displaying icons, not allowing you to save on it,
etc, but the gconftool-2 --set
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list --type
bouligab,
I have the same problem but, I'm using UNR on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. My
libgtk2.0-0 is version 2.14, the dependency is for version 2.16.
Are you using Intrepid or Jaunty??
I hope that somebody can produce the new desktop-switcher so it can be
installed on legacy versions of Ubuntu.
I'm using Easy peasy on a eee 701, which is based on 8.10. But I got
libgtk2.0-0, not an earlier version.
Good luck!
2009/5/13 Andy Kenney ajkenney2...@yahoo.com
bouligab,
I have the same problem but, I'm using UNR on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. My
libgtk2.0-0 is version 2.14, the dependency is
I beg to differ with the Launchpad janitor above. There is still
one item in this bug that I can't seem to fix.
I'm using the Intrepid (8.10) version of UNR on my HP Mini 1000. The
same problem happened to me as others above. (BTW, thanks to Neil Patel
for your hard work in getting a fix
When I try to install desktop-switcher_0.4.6, I get this message:
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libgtk2.0-0
(with Gdebi 0.3.13)
Problem is, libgtk2.0-0 is installed, if Synaptic is to be trusted... I
know this is probably another bug, but can't determine of what type or
where it
** Also affects: desktop-switcher (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: desktop-switcher (Ubuntu Karmic)
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