Now up to 11.04

Smooth upgrade to 11.04

Issues:

• Ongoing conflict between broadcom drivers for wireless and ethernet card mean neither is working



• Can't have more than 3 windows maximised at any one time - next window appears blank.

Fix for getting notifications of thunderbird messages in the top right messages area.

After some more research figured it out what I needed to do.

Edit or add a file in usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/

I choose to edit a current file since I wanted evolution to not be there.

Opened file usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/evolution

Changed the line usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop to usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop (paths may vary depending on what you're trying to launch)

Save file and renamed it to thunderbird (remember I only renamed because I choose to edit the evolution file).

Logout or restart. ( I restarted, but I imagine logging out would give the same result)

The indicator dropdown should now only have what you want in it.

Cheers.

From - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1750374

Stuttering DVD

Laptop now upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick meerkat)

DVD playback stuttering.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1605401&highlight=dvd+stuttering&page=2
post 20 -

To change the settings, run "gstreamer-properties", click the Video tab
and change the appropriate settings.

You may have set "ximagesink" ("X Window System (No Xv)") as video-output.
This means, that your cpu is doing all the work. Change it to "xvimagesink"
("X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)") in order to let your graphics card do the work.

This didn't really do anything. My setting was 'default'

Next Post...

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9961868&postcount=29

Re: Choppy video in Maverick
Found a solution on this thread and it seams to have fixed the problem for me.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1588889

In the terminal open the /etc/pulse/default.pa file

Code:

Sudo gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa

In the text file search for the line below:

Code:

load-module module-udev-detect

edit the line to add 'tsched=0' to the end of the line like below:

Code:

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

Save and reboot

What actually worked

System>Preferences>Appearance - No desktop effects

Skype

Skype was having video problems.
Video was transmitting with no problem, but I could only see a white rectangle.

Problem was a conflict with Cairo-dock. This needs to be run in non-GL mode.
System/Preferences/Start-up programmes.
Edit the command for Cairo dock from cairo-dock -o to cairo-dock -c.

Now it works fine.

Upgrade from Karmic to Lucid

Fairly painless upgrade. Basically it all just worked, including wireless settings. Very impressive.

First problem - Mozilla Sunbird was classed as obsolete and removed. This meant I had no access to my todo list. On the other hand, when I installed Lightning into Thunderbird, it found the todo list I had lost access to last month on the last upgrade when Lightning was made incompatible with the version of Thunderbird I had. I store calendars online using Google, but there doesn't seem to be a todo list option there so the list has to be stored locally.

Solution - download Sunbird from the Mozilla website.
- this picked up my previous profile
- export the calendar with the todo list embedded
- open lightning and import the .ics file, into the offline calendar.

Future proof - export Lightning profile when backing up.

Email scanning

Having installed ClamAV and ClamTK, I was disappointed they don't provide email scanning for Thunderbird.

Installing the clamdrib extension for Thunderbird and following the instructions here mean that every email that is previewed or opened gets scanned. Note - incoming emails don't get checked until you try and open them.

Not perfect, but better than nothing.

Rhythmbox

So it turns out that Rhythmbox stores its files here:

~\.local\share\rhythmbox

I have my playlists back again!

Rebuild to install Ubuntu 9.10

This all went very smoothly.
First - completed a backup of the entire home directory (including all hidden files/folders) onto our new external hard drive.

Repartitioned to separate \ and \home. Given \ 50GB and \home about 100GB I think. This will make future upgrades/rebuilds easier I hope.

Fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10. using the dvd from Linux Format 127
Used cable to connect to network to get updates, including the Broadcom wireless driver. This didn't work 6 months ago, but does now. Other hardware driver used is the recommended NVidia one.

Copied home directory back - omitting most hidden files to start with. Need to copy .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird to get back firefox and thunderbird settings. Also in .gnome2 the folder for fspot was copied (no need to retag photos!) and a couple of others.

Used solutions from previous posts to sort out correct sound output to headphone jack, installation of flock browser.

Installed Cairo/glx dock and the compiz settings manager. Tweaked desktop settings to make it look pretty.