I was having this problem on Quantal, which led me to this issue. But it
turned out that there was an open dialog from an earlier backup, hidden
behind other windows, complaining about being unable to read some
directories. I dismissed the dialog and restarted the restore; it works.
I suspect this
Hardware: Dell Inspiron 530, dual Pentium, 4 Gb, dual monitor. Running
32-bit Ubuntu. Global menu bar is not working, although I did not
disable it - menus are at the tops of windows where they belong, even
when windows are maximized.
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Recently upgraded from 10.04 LTS, mainly to get the new Libre Office -- 2
steps, to 12.04 LTS, then to 12.10. 10.04 had been very stable - I would
suspend/revive at least once/day for months without needing a reboot. I have
come to strongly dislike the Dash, partly because
Freeze-ups mostly went away when I installed the NVidia driver. Now down
to < 1/week
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Title:
Unity Dash stability problems
To manage notificatio
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Hi I'm running Ubuntu 20.4 with the Apr 20 updates applied.
gnome-session:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
Version table:
3.36.0-2ubuntu1 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://gb.archive.ub
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(Apologies if this is a duplication but I posted previously to wrong
package)
Hi I'm running Ubuntu 20.4 with the Apr 20 updates applied.
gnome-session:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
Version table:
3.36.0-2ubuntu1 500
500 http://gb.archive.u
I just tried disabling the desktop icons and nothing happened (and the
icons didn't get disabled either).
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Title:
[nvidia] Desktop icons desktop
Here they are
** Attachment added: "Requested files"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng/+bug/1970141/+attachment/5584253/+files/journal.txt
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Sorry that only seems to be the journal here are the shell settings
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And here are the packages
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I noticed the journal had lots of references to
/home/jmc/Pictures/2020/03/p16/20200316_064312.jpg which had permissions
turned off it was downloaded from my phone as you can see it was over 2
years ago, don't know why it was referenced at all or why the
permissions were set to rw-r- it isn't t
Looking at your second answer first, I tried the "gsettings list-
recursively ..." but it didn't give any output. That might be because
I'd previously fixed the file to be world-readable after I'd noticed the
messages in the journal.
I've tried turning off world-readability but the messages haven'
Well I tried doing all that with disabling the icons.
It does remove the icons, but the background is still overlaid with
opaque black.
It didn't do anything immediately but it did after I logged in - just
removed the icons. The directory ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
wasn't there. Mind y
If pictures are worth 1000 words here is what happens if I press the
wondows button on the screen I had until I first started typing this.
You can see the background image and the destop menus and FB in my other
screen.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot showing display - and wallpaper - on pressin
I've created another user with no applications running at all and still
have the desktop covered in black.
I have tried running xwininfo and get the display I attach.
** Attachment added: "xwininfo display"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1970141/+attachment/5584749
xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.
xwininfo: Window id: 0x203 (has no name)
Absolute upper-left X: -10
Absolute upper-left Y: -10
Relative upper-left X: -10
Relative upper-left Y: -10
The second command says
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 2554
The xrestop command is still running, having built up to 1.5MB at the
time of writing. I'll gzip it and attach it when it's done.
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Oh gosh it's still going strong having reached 8.5MB can I send you
selected highlights as I should imagine 99% of it is going to be
irrelevant.
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Process 2554 is "desktopfolder" which I suppose isn't a surprise.
The original xrestop command was still running, having built up to 11MB.
I aborted it and ran it again as you said.
I attach the output from the second xrestop command.
** Attachment added: "xrestop output"
https://bugs.launc
Thanks that has completely cured it.
I don't really understand what the command ever did for anyone.
Everything I ever do is working fine without it.
Mind you my desktop icons are all over the place now and some had to
have launcher re-enabled.
But everything is OK now thanks again.
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Weird I didn't ever ask for "desktopfolder" to be installed. I must have
loaded something else which saw fit to call for it.
But I didn't get any warning messages about XYZ being broken when I
removed it.
Thanks again anyhow.
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