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Post by Ratae on May 6, 2009 23:25:52 GMT
A couple of days ago,I was experimenting with the desktop appearance,and I removed the bar (whatever it's called) at the bottom of the screen and shortened the bar at the top of the screen! I'm damned if I can remember how I did it (should have took notes!).Can someone point me in the right direction please!!
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Post by kabith on May 7, 2009 7:16:51 GMT
Open terminal and copy this in:
gconftool-2 --shutdown rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel pkill gnome-panel
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Post by laolitan on May 7, 2009 9:23:56 GMT
A couple of days ago,I was experimenting with the desktop appearance,and I removed the bar (whatever it's called) at the bottom of the screen and shortened the bar at the top of the screen! I'm damned if I can remember how I did it (should have took notes!).Can someone point me in the right direction please!! If you want the bottom panel to return....... Right click on the top one and select New PanelRight click on the new one and select Properties for position, size, autohide etc Select Add to panel for widgets You can also drag icons from the Applications menu to one of the panels. All this right click stuff is very Windows like when you get the hang of it
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Post by Ratae on May 7, 2009 15:53:22 GMT
Cheers fellas.
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Post by Ratae on May 7, 2009 18:40:59 GMT
Next question fellas....do I need a firewall for this linux lappy.It is behind a hardware firewall in the w/less modem/router, but is that enough?
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Post by laolitan on May 7, 2009 23:02:16 GMT
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Post by Ratae on May 12, 2009 17:19:07 GMT
When I open a web page,where does the icon appear for the page.Using FF in XP,the icon for the site obviously appears in the taskbar and if I open another web page in a new window,the icon for that site appears alongside the first icon! With ubuntu,I can't see any icons!
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Post by laolitan on May 12, 2009 18:30:34 GMT
Right click on the taskbar Select Add to panel Find Window list and drag it to where you want.....
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Post by Ratae on May 12, 2009 22:56:15 GMT
Thanks Ade. I'm getting to seriously like this Linux thingy!!!
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Post by Ratae on May 15, 2009 11:47:30 GMT
Update...I've managed to install ubuntu on to a separate partition of the h/d of my spare machine.I've partitioned the drive 40gb windows and 20gb ubuntu! Dual booting I think it's called (summat I'd like to do to Gordon Browne, one to the nuts and one to the teeth!) Seems to be ok so far!! update...can't get the sound to work. I think that I've loaded the same stuff as I did on t'other lappy, but summat's gone wrong! update....summat's been put right!
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Post by Ratae on May 16, 2009 19:52:42 GMT
Question...how do I get the bbc iplayer to work with ubuntu?
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Post by Ratae on May 17, 2009 0:05:57 GMT
Slowly getting there! My ubuntu desktop.
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Post by kabith on May 17, 2009 9:33:01 GMT
Yup What are those three globes?
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Post by Ratae on May 17, 2009 11:05:32 GMT
Yup What are those three globes? They are links to websites. Squatters/Email/homepage. I'm still experimenting with the layout.It could easily be different tomorrow!
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Post by Ratae on Jun 26, 2009 12:56:36 GMT
I've tried to connect my Walkman via usb to the Ubuntu lappy. Won't have it though.On the windows lappy it shows up just like another drive, on the ubuntu lappy it just shows a connection, but doesn't see any folders or files.Can't drag 'n' drop anything now! Apparently it's a bug on this (jaunty) upgrade, but worked ok on 8.04!
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