Having problems with Ubuntu (noob)

UKTopGun · 29 Jun 2008 at 17:59

Basically I ran a command in terminal to help me get cube working (I can't remember what now) and this allowed me to selected extra effects (before it wouldnt let me) and it was working fine. However I restarted and now my Ubuntu is running really slow... i.e. scrolling down then having to wait about 10 seconds for it to get there. A bit like when you have no graphics drivers on your XP or whatever, slow refresh rates maybe. Anyway I thought I should install ATI drivers to see if it would fix it, and it didn't still the same problem!

So any ideas what I can do? Cheers

Edit: Also... On the internet people say to go to System - > Preferences -> Something or other... and I don't seem to have that option there. I've checked in one of the options which listed all of the things and it didn't say any of the ones the people on the forums have said. Any ideas on that too?

Outcast · 30 Jun 2008 at 12:07

Sounds like you Xorg.conf file has been overwritten/new one created.
Have a look to see how many entries have been made. And compare them.
Places/computer ..select filesystem/etc/X11

You can double click on the Xorg entries but you wont be able to edit them this way.
Perhaps the easiest fix would be to reboot your computer... At the grub menu select Recovery option. Then when the gui pops up select the bottom option which is something like X server. It will rescan you computer and should sort out your Graphics glitch.

As for compiz.
Go into system/preferences/appearance and select the far right tab which is Visual Effects and select "Extra". That should give you animation icons/Jelly windows etc.

For advanced prefs..
Go into Add/remove which lives in Applications and make sure "All Available Applications" is selected then type compiz.

As you (others) can see I surprisingly haven't yet installed that myself on this machine... Thats because I did a fresh install not long ago and obviously haven't got round to installing it yet.

UKTopGun · 30 Jun 2008 at 18:30

Cheers, got it working now thanks! You've been a great help

Now, being a noob... another problem! While doing all that I've managed to accidently remove the title bar... (Where it says at the top your internet page, close button, minimize button etc. etc.). Doh! So any ideas how to get that back?

Also... my pidgin doesnt work properly anymore. It loads, and stays open, until I try to login to my MSN where my contacts appear for about 5 seconds and then the whole program closes. Don't know why (must be a crash) so any ideas on that too?

Cheers!

Cew27 · 30 Jun 2008 at 18:56

press at-f2 and type metacity --replace then again alt+f2 and compiz --replace

UKTopGun · 30 Jun 2008 at 19:17

Cew27 said:
press at-f2 and type metacity --replace then again alt+f2 and compiz --replace

Hmmm well that works but it's as if they work seperately... If I do metacity --replace it adds all the titles back, which is great... but then none of the compiz stuff works and I cant do stuff such as switching tabs... And if I do compiz --replace it makes all the compiz stuff work but removes the title bar etc.

Edit: Fixed Pidgin...!

Cew27 · 30 Jun 2008 at 19:40

i had that problem once i solved it by doing as stated above. until someone else can issue a fix just use metacity

Minto · 30 Jun 2008 at 20:06

make sure compiz is set to use the gtk windows decorator and not emerald, or alternatively, install emerald. This should put your title bars back.

(sudo apt-get install emerald)

Septh · 30 Jun 2008 at 20:28

Minto said:
make sure compiz is set to use the gtk windows decorator and not emerald, or alternatively, install emerald. This should put your title bars back.

(sudo apt-get install emerald)

What he said

Septh · 30 Jun 2008 at 20:29

Outcast said:
Sounds like you Xorg.conf file has been overwritten/new one created.
Have a look to see how many entries have been made. And compare them.
Places/computer ..select filesystem/etc/X11

You can double click on the Xorg entries but you wont be able to edit them this way.
Perhaps the easiest fix would be to reboot your computer... At the grub menu select Recovery option. Then when the gui pops up select the bottom option which is something like X server. It will rescan you computer and should sort out your Graphics glitch.

As for compiz.
Go into system/preferences/appearance and select the far right tab which is Visual Effects and select "Extra". That should give you animation icons/Jelly windows etc.

For advanced prefs..
Go into Add/remove which lives in Applications and make sure "All Available Applications" is selected then type compiz.

As you (others) can see I surprisingly haven't yet installed that myself on this machine... Thats because I did a fresh install not long ago and obviously haven't got round to installing it yet.

What theme do you use? it looks rather nice