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From: Simon Brooke on 2 Jul 2010 17:51
Today the update manager on my netbook (Dell Mini 9) offered to upgrade
me to 10.04 LTS - prior to that I was running a 10.04 beta which I'd
upgraded from Hardy Heron (which is what it shipped with) - and I
foolishly accepted its offer.

So it's installed. It looks extremely pretty. But every time I launch an
application, the 'netbook launcher' background immediately to-tops over
the application I've just launched, completely preventing access to it. I
can momentarily bring application windows back to the top either by alt-
tabbing to them or by selecting their icons in the panel, but immediately
the background comes back to the top of the stack. This (obviously) means
I can't even run gconf-editor to explore and try to sort things. I can't
even logout because when you try to log out you get that idiotic 'did you
really mean it' dialogue, and the 'netbook launcher' background to-tops
over that?

Has anyone else seem this behaviour? I'm assuming it's not common,
because otherwise they wouldn't have released it... does anyone have any
suggestions for how to fix it? I can <crtl>-<alt>-<F1> to get a console,
so could edit text files if I knew what I was looking for; however
although I've installed wm2 (my favourite ultra-lightweight window
manager) GDM is not offering me any way to select a different session.

(further fiddling)...

Right, if I kill GDM and run startx from the console, I get a Gnome
session without netbook launcher and without maximus. Everything seems to
work. So I can run gconf-editor. In /apps/netbook-editor I find the
following keys disable_single_instance (off), force_low_graphics (off),
migrated_favorites (on), monitor (0), volume_execute_list (empty).
There's one 'sub-folder', favorites, which contains one key,
favorites_list, which is empty.

Any suggestions? I would either like to get netbook launcher working
properly (first preference), or disable it and have GDM launch the
standard Gnome session I currently get by starting X from the console
(second preference).

Thanks in advance.

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;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundam variat

From: dragondave53 on 3 Jul 2010 04:55
On 2 July, 22:51, Simon Brooke <stillyet+n...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Today the update manager on my netbook (Dell Mini 9) offered to upgrade
> me to 10.04 LTS - prior to that I was running a 10.04 beta which I'd
> upgraded from Hardy Heron (which is what it shipped with) - and I
> foolishly accepted its offer.
>
> So it's installed. It looks extremely pretty. But every time I launch an
> application, the 'netbook launcher' background immediately to-tops over
> the application I've just launched, completely preventing access to it. I
> can momentarily bring application windows back to the top either by alt-
> tabbing to them or by selecting their icons in the panel, but immediately
> the background comes back to the top of the stack. This (obviously) means
> I can't even run gconf-editor to explore and try to sort things. I can't
> even logout because when you try to log out you get that idiotic 'did you
> really mean it' dialogue, and the 'netbook launcher' background to-tops
> over that?
>
> Has anyone else seem this behaviour? I'm assuming it's not common,
> because otherwise they wouldn't have released it... does anyone have any
> suggestions for how to fix it? I can <crtl>-<alt>-<F1> to get a console,
> so could edit text files if I knew what I was looking for; however
> although I've installed wm2 (my favourite ultra-lightweight window
> manager) GDM is not offering me any way to select a different session.
>
> (further fiddling)...
>
> Right, if I kill GDM and run startx from the console, I get a Gnome
> session without netbook launcher and without maximus. Everything seems to
> work. So I can run gconf-editor. In /apps/netbook-editor I find the
> following keys disable_single_instance (off), force_low_graphics (off),
> migrated_favorites (on), monitor (0), volume_execute_list (empty).
> There's one 'sub-folder', favorites, which contains one key,
> favorites_list, which is empty.
>
> Any suggestions? I would either like to get netbook launcher working
> properly (first preference), or disable it and have GDM launch the
> standard Gnome session I currently get by starting X from the console
> (second preference).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
>         ;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundam variat

You did not check the Ubuntu does & don'ts. They advised people
running a beta that they needed to do a clean install from a 10.04 LTS
CD / DVD NOT to go for the on-line update. I've heard a lot of
complaints from other people in Linux User Groups of problems with the
netbook updates.

I'm running Lucid alongside Linux Mint Isadora (more stable) as they
both use grub2. I've Mandriva 2010.0 running on a separate pc as it
is still running grub-legacy & I had enough fun getting Lucid to run
on an AMD 64 using the 32-bit install - Netgear wireless dongle only
has 32-bit support!

"You can't rush science Gibbs. You can yell at it, but you can never
rush it." Abby Sciuto
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