Gnome 3 does not work on my computer

Iamsacdaddy · 1 day

After you press Ctrl+Alt+F1 you should see a login prompt. Type in your username, then your password. Use less .xsession-errors to look at the file.

Actually if I have to explain this, it's doubtful anything in that file would be helpful...

P. S. Ctrl+Alt+F7 brings you back to the GUI.

Iamsacdaddy · 2 days

Not sure how helpful this would be, but I'd try to log in, and then, when nothing happens, switch to a different virtual console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in into text mode, then read the ~/.xsession-errors file looking for error messages to maybe provide some clue.

uvtc · 2 days

Ah! I didn't know about the dependency. Thanks, that makes it clear!

righteous_white_woma · 2 days

NO YOU HAVEN'T THE THIRD BOOK ISN'T EVEN OUT YET AAAUGH WHEN WILL IT BE OUT????

Um. Sorry, got a bit carried away.

How about the Vlad Taltos series by Stephen Brust?

practisevoodoo · 2 days

The "sucking" action of vacuum is just atmospheric pressure pushing from the other side.

When the gravitational pressure of the column of water equalizes with the total pressure (gravitational + atmospheric) on the Earth side, water stops flowing.

MyParentsArentHome · 2 days

Whoa. Wow. I've never seen this feature before. Interesting!

uvtc · 2 days

But why install openresolv if you're just going to disable it? Why not remove resolvconf and be done with it?

Or just replace the /etc/resolv.conf symlink with an actual file.

MyParentsArentHome · 4 days

Sounds like a browser feature, actually (form auto-completion).

dgblackout · 4 days

LVM lets you combine all the random disks (called "physical volumes" in LVM-speak) you have into one large area (called "volume group") that you can divide into partitions (called "logical volumes") as you like. Google it.

One thing I'm not sure about is what you're going to do when one of the disks inevitably dies, as they tend to do.

uvtc · 4 days

"No open ports by default" is a reasonable policy. Imagine 20 million Ubuntu boxes with easily guessable usernames and passwords out there in the open Internet.

uvtc · 4 days

Um, can you explain steps 2 and 3? Don't they contradict each other?

uvtc · 4 days

It comes with vim-tiny, IIRC.

KaosKing · 11 days

disown is a bash builtin -- try help disown or man bash to see the description.

Usually when you close a terminal, all the background jobs are terminated. But if you tell bash to disown a background job, that particular job won't be killed when bash quits.

KaosKing · 13 days

This is when you're logged in into an X session on machine A, but currently are sitting at machine B, and want to launch an app to show up on machine A's display:

user@hostb $ ssh hosta
user@hosta $ export DISPLAY=:0
user@hosta $ some-gui-app &
user@hosta $ disown
user@hosta $ exit
user@hostb $

If you want to launch an app on machine A and have it show up on machine B's display, use this instead

user@hostb $ ssh -X hosta
user@hosta $ some-gui-app &

(in this case there's no need to even have X running -- or installed -- on machine app, although you need some of X packages -- specifically, xauth -- there, or the app will complain about 'no display')

pseudolobster · 13 days

My 486 DX2/66 had the LEDs preconfigured to say LO/HI.

I don't remember if LO was 33 or 25 MHz. HI was 66 MHz.

nothinbuttherain · 17 days

I was asking about maximize-by-dragging-towards-the-top. Does it work in Unity?

Starks · 27 days

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's just a matter of mounting the filesystem as ext3. If there are feature flags in the superblock that aren't supported by ext3, the mount should fail (and I'd expect a message in dmesg).

Rhymnocerus · 27 days

The educational effects of all those Hollywood movies?

Rhymnocerus · 27 days

I do not think they let you smoke in hospitals. That was a bit of a WSOD-breaking moment for me.

nothinbuttherain · 27 days

This will be a list of things why I was happier with GNOME Shell than with Unity on 11.10. I haven't had the chance to properly evaluate both on 12.04 (it would have to be at least a week of usage, to weed out knee-jerk reactions):

<Super> in Unity is rather slow. If I accidentally hit it, I'd thenhave to wait maybe 500ms before I could dismiss it by pressing <Super> again.
<Super> program <Enter>, when typed very quickly, often launches the wrong program, because the search results are updated asynchronously. (I remember seeing a bug for this in Launchpad, and I think I've read somewhere that this ought to be fixed in 12.04.)
GNOME Shell's <Super> shows me all the open windows, like Unity's <Super> + W. This is so incredibly convenient that I find myself pressing <Super> when I want to switch applications in Unity, which then irritates me due to point 1 above.
GNOME Shell's chat notifications with the embedded input box are actually very nice.
It's nice that I can use GNOME Shell's overview to find contacts and initiate chats with them. Unity should have a lens for this, if it doesn't already (it didn't in 11.10). (This actually seems broken in 12.04: I can find contacts, but I can't initiate chats -- the button to do that is disabled. I haven't figured out why yet -- surely it can't be because the contact was offline!)
I like that when I use an external screen and switch workspaces, the external screen stays the same.

To balance things out somehow, I miss Unity's <Super>+number keyboard shortcuts for launching/switching to apps, and sometimes I get the urge to search for files in the Overview, which, obviously, doesn't work.

nothinbuttherain · 27 days

Mousewise, I'm used to double-click on the title bar (larger area than the maximize button, easier to find).

You can also drag a window towards the top edge of the screen to maximize it. Now I wonder -- is this a GNOME Shell-only feature, or does it also work in Unity?

nothinbuttherain · 27 days

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that something's very wrong with my theme settings!

I'd take a screenshot of how the icons look for me, but then I'd have to log out from GNOME Shell first....

hotelninja · 27 days

alot!

nothinbuttherain · 28 days

Well, it sounded like you asked for a list of possible disadvantages, and I attempted to comply. ;)

It did sound a bit discouraging at the end, which is why I added the note that I, personally, am happier with GNOME Shell. I could give a list of reasons, if you're interested.

nothinbuttherain · 28 days

I guess I qualify: I upgraded my HMPC to 11.04 just because I wanted Unity on it. And then switched to GNOME Shell on my laptop, for a lark, then stayed.

It's only been two days, and I never had 12.04 with Unity but without GNOME Shell installed, but given that:

GNOME Shell's top panel looks nicer to me: monochromatic icons, all in the same style, unlike Unity's mish-mash of colourful but mismatched indicator icons. (Now I'm actually wondering if it isn't caused by my preferences -- I changed my theme to Adwaita when I switched to GNOME Shell in 11.10, and it probably persisted after the upgrade. Hm...)
The "Screenshot" and "Window Screenshot" options in keyboard shortcut configuration window are duplicated. One set is used by GNOME Shell, the other set is used by Unity. You can't assign the same key to two options in that dialog, even though there's no real conflict between them.
Unity in 12.04 changes all sorts of default shortcut keys (e.g. Alt + F10 is no longer used to maximize windows -- you're supposed to use Super+Up instead). These settings get overridden for GNOME Shell as well.
Some 3rd party Unity indicators (indicator-multiload, indicator-weather) autostart even in Unity sessions where they sit, uselessly, in the GNOME Shell notification bar. Can be fixed by adding 'OnlyShowIn=Unity' to the right .desktop file. I haven't noticed anything from GNOME Shell sessions intruding into Unity sessions.
When PulseAudio crashes and dies, Unity sessions restart it almost-seamlessly (the sound becomes muted). GNOME Shell sessions can't cope, you have to log out and log back in to get sound back. This is rather annoying. (It's possible to restore sound without logging out -- but it's painful: start pulseaudio -D, then to make volume hot keys work again you have to killall gnome-settings- (watch windows reverting to ugly stock Gtk theme) and restart gnome-settings-daemon (windows change back), restart GNOME Shell with Alt+F2, r, Enter to get the sound icon back.)
The hot key to launch a terminal doesn't work in GNOME Shell since version 3.4. You're supposed to create a custom launcher shortcut for it, which would be kinda fine, except that due to a bug Super+key combinations do not work for custom launchers.

Maybe I should give Unity a try again -- I used it for maybe 30 minutes in 12.04 before switching back to GNOME Shell, mostly because of that aesthetical issue with panel icons (why didn't I think to change the theme back to Ambiance/Radiance???).

In 11.10 I found GNOME Shell to be more pleasant to use, and most of the issues I had with it could be fixed by installing extensions (weather applet, system monitor applet, old-style Alt-tab because my fingers won't learn and I need to switch between pairs of xterm windows sufficiently often).

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