Is it possible to make Unity 2D behave like proper linux?
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I am hating you Unity.
I think that's just Ubuntu or Gnome in general, not Unitys fault.
I seem to be one of the few who love the UI design on Unity, even before it's appearance I used a dock on the left side and tried using some gnome applets to remove the window title on maximised windows, but I had to use a lot of workarounds etc. to make it work even half as good as Unity.
It is buggy though, I think they should not market the non-LTS xx.04 versions as 'stable', since they seem to add a lot of new, buggy, and incomplete features.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
edited May 2011
Well then.
I am not too mad at Unity. Just GNOME. It should work like proper linux.
EDIT:
OK, next question, why when I alt+tab to things does the icon just waggle at me from the dock? Because that is nonsense.
You can still use the regular Gnome in Natty, just FYI. Just select "Ubuntu Classic" at the login screen instead of "Ubuntu". That's what I've done and everything's working nicely. Also removed those fucking overlayed scrollbars that I just can't find usable.
Oh - how do you get rid of those? I still have them in Ubuntu Classic and they can fuck right off.
Thanks to the magic of Apt Pinning I now have pretty much exactly the crunchbang system I was looking for.
You see the part at the top of the thread that says stuff? I'ma lime it.
Stop reading this now. You may break things. Seriously, stop reading.
This could really mess up your system stability and security. Testing, unstable, and experimental don't get security updates. They also contain packages that have had far less testing and may break things horribly. Don't say I didn't warn you.
This is not an, "oh, yeah, that could happen" type thing. This is an inevitable fact of using apt pinning. It might not happen today. It might not happen tomorrow. But one day. Your castle of straw and glass will come crashing down upon your head.
I speak from experience. Keep system-wide backups.
Thanks to the magic of Apt Pinning I now have pretty much exactly the crunchbang system I was looking for.
You see the part at the top of the thread that says stuff? I'ma lime it.
Stop reading this now. You may break things. Seriously, stop reading.
This could really mess up your system stability and security. Testing, unstable, and experimental don't get security updates. They also contain packages that have had far less testing and may break things horribly. Don't say I didn't warn you.
This is not an, "oh, yeah, that could happen" type thing. This is an inevitable fact of using apt pinning. It might not happen today. It might not happen tomorrow. But one day. Your castle of straw and glass will come crashing down upon your head.
I speak from experience. Keep system-wide backups.
I don't do anything important on this laptop. Or with computers in general, to be honest. All I "need" is access to my hotmail account.
TincheNo dog food for Victor tonight.Registered Userregular
edited May 2011
So, I wanted Vim to yank to the X Window clipboard (the "proper" one, not the visual selection one). In order to make that happen, I was supposed to add "set clipboard=unnamedplus" to my .vimrc. So far, so good.
Turns out none of the Vim packages in the Ubuntu repos can actually parse that setting; not an issue, I just compiled from source and checkinstall'd it. The situation was surprising though, either the Vim packages in Ubuntu are very obsolete, or the ability to set the destination clipboard to the "+" clipboard is a recent addition to Vim.
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We're marooned on a small island, in an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
Damn, my ubuntu box got jacked. When ubuntu boots, its just a plain black wallpaper, it has a plain gray toolbar, which I get no responses from, I can get SSH access to it. Is there anything I can do from the command line to repair my install?
I'd add that apt-cache search <pattern> is useful for that kind of thing.
Though I'd check what you've changed before that - it might be as simple as rolling back to the previous config.
I can't recall any recent changes. It was fine on Friday, and when I booted on Sunday it was a mess. Sorry, apt-cache search <pattern> is a little over my head? What should I put in place of <pattern>, "ubuntu-desktop"?
I tried apt-get reinstall ubuntu-desktop, was told reinstall didn't exist, so I just din install. No change. I now googled and found that it should be apt-get install --reinstall so I'll try that when I get home.
ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package that depends on the packages that make up the standard Ubuntu desktop (GNOME, the standard applications, etc.) They exist for the other Ubuntu flavors (kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, etc.), too. Re-installing it probably won't do anything.
I would try forcing an update to Ubuntu if you haven't already ("sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade"). Back when I still used Ubuntu I would sometimes catch the update servers when not everything was fully updated and would have a partially-upgraded system.
If you're using Unity try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a terminal and use "unity --reset" and see if that helps.
If that doesn't fix it when you log back in, try logging into a terminal-only session (should have the option for one at the login screen) and rename your GNOME configuration folders so you can see if GNOME will start from a "clean" install. In your home directory you'll probably have the folders .gnome, .gnome2, etc. Just rename them:
mv .gnome .gnome-old
mv .gnome2 .gnome2-old
If that doesn't help you can always log back into a terminal session, delete the new .gnome folders, then rename the .gnome*-old folders (same name without the -old at the end) to get things back to how they were.
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I have a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2, which comes with a "quick start" button to boot into Splashtop. Splashtop is permanently installed on a 512MB ROM chip on the motherboard, but there is also a 30GB partition reserved for its use. If I install Ubuntu onto the 30GB partition, will that mess up Splashtop? Would I still be able to use the quick start button? Also, is there any way to change the quick start button to make it boot into Ubuntu instead of Splashtop?
I'm not sure what Splashtop is, but I'm guessing the 512 meg ROM thing might just be a /boot directory, so changing around its other partition may indeed fuck things up if you want to use the quickstart. Take this with a grain of salt though, since this is literally the first time I've heard anything about this Splashtop business.
In other news, I've decided to give 11.04 an honest try. I wanted to give Gnome3 a shot, but sadly the bullshit with the notification area is a deal breaker for me, so it looks like Unity wins. I dunno, I might try it after I've given Unity a few weeks.
It's put on a special flash rom on the motherboard so it can load in 8 seconds or less. You can get instant access to photos, music, Skype, and the Internet; but it can't do much else, and it's impossible to expand its feature set. I usually just leave Windows 7 in sleep mode, as restoring from sleep mode is just as fast as loading Splashtop.
I think Unity works pretty well as an interface, and it's especially nice for devices with small screens. Apparently a lot of people dislike it, but I haven't been keeping up on Linux news lately, so I don't know why.
I decide I want to test a web app using both mysql and pgsql. Since the typical easy all-in-one stack doesn't support pgsql, I figure hey why not build it all from scratch using source files?
Get apache done, get pgsql done, get mysql done, get php done. Sweet. Go to put test data in mysql.. fuck it didn't come with the command line client. Surely I can just use apt-get to install the client and maybe have to tweak the client to use my existing installation.
WRONG. WRONG. Apt-get client shits all over my mysql install and now nothing knows where anything else is. Error messages everywhere. Fuck my life.
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edited June 2011
Current issues with netbook running Ubuntu:
Bluetooth is permanently disabled.
Hibernate issues are yet to be resolved.
fffuuu
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Bluetooth is permanently disabled.
Hibernate issues are yet to be resolved.
fffuuu
The Bluetooth option in the system menu doesn't work?
The bluetooth tray applet and the setting in the system menu both do the same thing - sit there saying "Turning on bluetooth" or something to this effect, and not actually turning on bluetooth.
I decide I want to test a web app using both mysql and pgsql. Since the typical easy all-in-one stack doesn't support pgsql, I figure hey why not build it all from scratch using source files?
Get apache done, get pgsql done, get mysql done, get php done. Sweet. Go to put test data in mysql.. fuck it didn't come with the command line client. Surely I can just use apt-get to install the client and maybe have to tweak the client to use my existing installation.
WRONG. WRONG. Apt-get client shits all over my mysql install and now nothing knows where anything else is. Error messages everywhere. Fuck my life.
Yeah, mixing packages and source can sometimes be a bit, uh, risky.
But the default stack shouldn't have made it tough to do what you want...
Bluetooth is permanently disabled.
Hibernate issues are yet to be resolved.
fffuuu
The Bluetooth option in the system menu doesn't work?
The bluetooth tray applet and the setting in the system menu both do the same thing - sit there saying "Turning on bluetooth" or something to this effect, and not actually turning on bluetooth.
TincheNo dog food for Victor tonight.Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
So, after switching my Natty installation to 2.6.35, my laptop runs noticeably cooler and I get significantly more life out of my battery (everything else seems the same). Just a heads up for anyone having similar issues.
If you don't think the warmth of a laptop is a good criterion for judging a kernel, try comparing cpufreq-info output. On 2.6.38 my CPU spends ~20% of its time at the max frequency, on 2.6.35 less than ~5%.
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We're marooned on a small island, in an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
Bluetooth is permanently disabled.
Hibernate issues are yet to be resolved.
fffuuu
On my netbook, if Bluetooth or WiFi has been disabled in Windows via a hotkey or physical switch, it can not be used in Ubuntu, even if you return the switch to the "on" position. Rebooting in Windows and turning it back on seems to fix the problem.
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In theory you could install Windows in QEmu and use dark magicks to watch what signals the driver sends the virtual hardware when you flip the magical switch. Maybe? Or I guess the host OS has to have some idea of what's going on with the switch before the VM can do anything interesting with it?
Maybe you could install Windows to a USB thumbdrive and boot into it just long enough to turn on the bluetooth.
This was my theory.
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edited June 2011
Or, hey, it might be set in the user-accessible part of the BIOS. I know that happens in HPs - and makes sense as the place to store a hardware switch value you might want kept across multiple OS's/power cycles.
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edited June 2011
I'd like to use moc to play streaming internet radio, but that function is busted. I seem to have found a fix of sorts but the implementation is way over my head. Can anyone help me out?
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Flash-Aid is an extension designed to remove conflicting flash plugins from Ubuntu Linux systems and install the appropriate version according to system architecture.
I'd like to use moc to play streaming internet radio, but that function is busted. I seem to have found a fix of sorts but the implementation is way over my head. Can anyone help me out?
Or, hey, it might be set in the user-accessible part of the BIOS. I know that happens in HPs - and makes sense as the place to store a hardware switch value you might want kept across multiple OS's/power cycles.
Unfortunately this is not the case.
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Bluetooth is permanently disabled.
Hibernate issues are yet to be resolved.
fffuuu
The Bluetooth option in the system menu doesn't work?
The bluetooth tray applet and the setting in the system menu both do the same thing - sit there saying "Turning on bluetooth" or something to this effect, and not actually turning on bluetooth.
I'd like to use moc to play streaming internet radio, but that function is busted. I seem to have found a fix of sorts but the implementation is way over my head. Can anyone help me out?
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Mouse copy is important! Paste should use that for everything, not just middle click.
I am hating you Unity.
I think that's just Ubuntu or Gnome in general, not Unitys fault.
I seem to be one of the few who love the UI design on Unity, even before it's appearance I used a dock on the left side and tried using some gnome applets to remove the window title on maximised windows, but I had to use a lot of workarounds etc. to make it work even half as good as Unity.
It is buggy though, I think they should not market the non-LTS xx.04 versions as 'stable', since they seem to add a lot of new, buggy, and incomplete features.
I am not too mad at Unity. Just GNOME. It should work like proper linux.
EDIT:
OK, next question, why when I alt+tab to things does the icon just waggle at me from the dock? Because that is nonsense.
I followed the second set of instructions on the page:
You see the part at the top of the thread that says stuff? I'ma lime it.
This is not an, "oh, yeah, that could happen" type thing. This is an inevitable fact of using apt pinning. It might not happen today. It might not happen tomorrow. But one day. Your castle of straw and glass will come crashing down upon your head.
I speak from experience. Keep system-wide backups.
I don't do anything important on this laptop. Or with computers in general, to be honest. All I "need" is access to my hotmail account.
Turns out none of the Vim packages in the Ubuntu repos can actually parse that setting; not an issue, I just compiled from source and checkinstall'd it. The situation was surprising though, either the Vim packages in Ubuntu are very obsolete, or the ability to set the destination clipboard to the "+" clipboard is a recent addition to Vim.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
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Though I'd check what you've changed before that - it might be as simple as rolling back to the previous config.
I can't recall any recent changes. It was fine on Friday, and when I booted on Sunday it was a mess. Sorry, apt-cache search <pattern> is a little over my head? What should I put in place of <pattern>, "ubuntu-desktop"?
I tried apt-get reinstall ubuntu-desktop, was told reinstall didn't exist, so I just din install. No change. I now googled and found that it should be apt-get install --reinstall so I'll try that when I get home.
Thanks for the help.
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I would try forcing an update to Ubuntu if you haven't already ("sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade"). Back when I still used Ubuntu I would sometimes catch the update servers when not everything was fully updated and would have a partially-upgraded system.
If you're using Unity try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a terminal and use "unity --reset" and see if that helps.
If that doesn't fix it when you log back in, try logging into a terminal-only session (should have the option for one at the login screen) and rename your GNOME configuration folders so you can see if GNOME will start from a "clean" install. In your home directory you'll probably have the folders .gnome, .gnome2, etc. Just rename them:
If that doesn't help you can always log back into a terminal session, delete the new .gnome folders, then rename the .gnome*-old folders (same name without the -old at the end) to get things back to how they were.
edit: nope just taking a little longer to lock up
edit2: which clued me in to a heat issue. Dead video card fan.
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I hear Xfce is looking pretty good
In other news, I've decided to give 11.04 an honest try. I wanted to give Gnome3 a shot, but sadly the bullshit with the notification area is a deal breaker for me, so it looks like Unity wins. I dunno, I might try it after I've given Unity a few weeks.
It's put on a special flash rom on the motherboard so it can load in 8 seconds or less. You can get instant access to photos, music, Skype, and the Internet; but it can't do much else, and it's impossible to expand its feature set. I usually just leave Windows 7 in sleep mode, as restoring from sleep mode is just as fast as loading Splashtop.
I think Unity works pretty well as an interface, and it's especially nice for devices with small screens. Apparently a lot of people dislike it, but I haven't been keeping up on Linux news lately, so I don't know why.
I decide I want to test a web app using both mysql and pgsql. Since the typical easy all-in-one stack doesn't support pgsql, I figure hey why not build it all from scratch using source files?
Get apache done, get pgsql done, get mysql done, get php done. Sweet. Go to put test data in mysql.. fuck it didn't come with the command line client. Surely I can just use apt-get to install the client and maybe have to tweak the client to use my existing installation.
WRONG. WRONG. Apt-get client shits all over my mysql install and now nothing knows where anything else is. Error messages everywhere. Fuck my life.
Bluetooth is permanently disabled.
Hibernate issues are yet to be resolved.
fffuuu
The Bluetooth option in the system menu doesn't work?
The bluetooth tray applet and the setting in the system menu both do the same thing - sit there saying "Turning on bluetooth" or something to this effect, and not actually turning on bluetooth.
But the default stack shouldn't have made it tough to do what you want...
You could even remove MySQL after that if you wanted.
sudo apt-get install bluez bluez-utils
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
does that help?
If you don't think the warmth of a laptop is a good criterion for judging a kernel, try comparing cpufreq-info output. On 2.6.38 my CPU spends ~20% of its time at the max frequency, on 2.6.35 less than ~5%.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
On my netbook, if Bluetooth or WiFi has been disabled in Windows via a hotkey or physical switch, it can not be used in Ubuntu, even if you return the switch to the "on" position. Rebooting in Windows and turning it back on seems to fix the problem.
That sounds reasonable Nibble.
I wiped windows out because fuck windows.
In theory you could install Windows in QEmu and use dark magicks to watch what signals the driver sends the virtual hardware when you flip the magical switch. Maybe? Or I guess the host OS has to have some idea of what's going on with the switch before the VM can do anything interesting with it?
This was my theory.
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Unfortunately this is not the case.
No, unfortunately.