Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 9.04 + gnome screen error
Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Proven wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://imagebin.org/89424 just got the above, come up, not sure what triggered it, but I can't click on desktop, i can click menus and load programs i can't change the background using preferences can't even click, its just a white space. just wondered if anyone has come across this sort of thing. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net I've seen something a bit like that on a couple of systems. It was due to problems with Compiz. One 1 machine, it was due to me disabling DRI in the X server while leaving Compiz enabled. It requires DRI couldn't display a usable desktop without it. On the other, it was due to relying on an only-partially-supported graphics chipset enabling all the visual chrome in Appearance. The graphics couldn't support all the features and I got a blank desktop. In both cases, I had to flip to an alternate V-console (Ctrl+Alt+F1 - thru' - F6) and fix it from the command line. hmm, thats interesting as I seeem to be triggering it when killing the desktop with xkill (did this on purpose for a test). so alt -f2 type xkill click on desktop so the two could potentially be inter related, according to #ubuntu-uk, this isn't a but and meant to happen, i understand the reasons, i can now fix it by re-running nautilus, i am more concerned regarding newish users doing this, Paul Um... I'm afraid to say, I very much doubt a newish user will know what xkill is let alone type it. I mean as a more experienced user (not saying I'm uber experienced, just more experienced than a newbie), I still open a terminal and type killall process name or maybe kill -HUP pid rather than running xkill. I'd say there is more chance a user accidentally blatting their Windows installation than doing this. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 9.04 + gnome screen error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://imagebin.org/89424 just got the above, come up, not sure what triggered it, but I can't click on desktop, i can click menus and load programs i can't change the background using preferences can't even click, its just a white space. just wondered if anyone has come across this sort of thing. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuioMoACgkQaggq1k2FJq1zhgCfaLw3Gl1Bvdd3TMqWPZTco0nv H50An32oDB7Tah5c/mGoih0RWyZ5auhk =8a4X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 9.04 + gnome screen error
Maybe nautilus has died? Or isn't connecting to the desktop properly - I've had that happen, and nothing works on the desktop at all, not even right click...try killing nautilus or something. Can't say the background has ever vanished though :/ Sorry if that's no help :) ~~~ Farran On 18 March 2010 21:53, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://imagebin.org/89424 just got the above, come up, not sure what triggered it, but I can't click on desktop, i can click menus and load programs i can't change the background using preferences can't even click, its just a white space. just wondered if anyone has come across this sort of thing. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuioMoACgkQaggq1k2FJq1zhgCfaLw3Gl1Bvdd3TMqWPZTco0nv H50An32oDB7Tah5c/mGoih0RWyZ5auhk =8a4X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
