Michael Holloway wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:39 +0000, reyasuk wrote:
Hello,
I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I love it. I started
with Feisty and upgraded to Gutsy when it became available. When I've
had problems I'm usually able to solve them myself by searching the
internet and putting all the pieces together. But this time I'm
stumped and two weeks is long enough in the wilderness!
Firstly, the notification area is not working properly, and most of
the time the icons there do not respond. Sometimes the first one will
work with a right click but any additions don't work, although
yesterday they were all working again and I have no idea why. Today
none of them are working. Next on the list is aMSN, which I have
uninstall and reinstalled more times than I care to remember, using
every method I've come across. Then todiscgui, which is part of the
tovid suite, and I have used this many times in the past with no
problems (tovidgui works ok). Both of these were working fine but now
I cannot use the mouse within either of these programs. I can click
on the menu bar and the menus drop down but clicking within the drop
down menu just closes it, and nothing within the window reacts to the
mouse at all. It is possible to navigate with the keyboard though,
and the mouse functions properly in everything else I use.
>From everything that I have been reading, I believe that it may be to
do with the 'window' that the programs run in. I have discovered that
aMSN uses 'wish' but I have no idea whether this is where the problem
lies. In the course of my research I've also been introduced to tcl
and tk but all that sort of scripting stuff is beyond my comprehension
at the moment. I also believe that python gets thrown into the mix
somewhere as well.
The only other problem that has happened recently is having to
reinstall the nvidia drivers a couple of weeks ago when there was an
update for xorg that seemed to cause problems for many others as well.
But I can't say for certain if this is when the other problems
started.
Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. It's
so hard to explain a problem when you haven't got a clue what you're
talking about, and it's even harder to search for!
Many thanks, Jen
Hi Jen
Sounds like your having a fun time time there... :)
My first suggestion is to try disable the Advanced Desktop Effects
(compiz) is System->Preferences->Appearance, in the Visual Effects Tab.
If that fixes it then at least we have an idea where the problem is
coming from...
My second suggestion is to try reconfigure xorg by typing sudo
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in a terminal. There is also a command
something like "nvidia-xgl-config" or something that configures for
nvidia cards, but i cant remember exactly what is is...
Hope something here helps!
Cheers,
Michael
Hi Michael
Thanks for your response, and I think you got it. I turned off compiz
and lo and behold the light shone down on me! The notification area
started working, todiscgui worked and so did amsn. So then I turned
compiz back on with all the plugins disabled, and then gradually turned
them on one at a time while starting and stopping the two programs. I
discovered that enabling Freely Transformable Windows was the cause of
the problem with todiscgui. amsn is proving a little more difficult as
sometimes it works properly and then it will sulk, so I'll have to keep
working on that one. Is this something I should report to someone
somewhere?
Many thanks,
Jen
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