[Novalug] Ubuntu 8.04 - wallpaper and desktop items have disappeared
greg pryzby
greg@pryzby.org
Wed Jul 2 18:05:44 EDT 2008
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Ok, I never know when you are kidding.
I will assume you are NOT kidding.
It is a resource hog
It doesn't play nice in my experience w/ IMAP
It crashes randomly
It fires up lots of processes that seem to take cycles and I dont' know
what they are doing.
Again, my experience and in this case I have a choice, thunderbird.
KDE is missing some nice tools for wireless network management that are
as brain-dead simple as the gnome tools.
Jay Hart wrote:
> Greg,
>
> What is wrong with Evolution???
>
> Jay
>> and that GNOME REQUIRES Evolution, don't get me started. Don't even get
>> me started.
>>
>> Maybe gentoo is the distro I need to look into.
>>
>> Joseph Brinkley wrote:
>>> "Geez Jay :P"
>>>
>>> Ubuntu is known for being unstable it grabs the latest and sometimes not
>>> so greatest. It is definitely an experimental distro a since Ubuntu has
>>> been out i have seen more and more start grabbing at these New package
>>> and setting them in to prime time with out giving it a test runs.
>>>
>>> Meh someday they will slow down again right now we can expect things to
>>> keep up this way for awhile.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org
>>> <mailto:jhart@kevla.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> /rant mode on
>>>
>>> So, you changed one little thing, now you have broken system. I'm
>>> sick of
>>> "new features" in Linux when basic functionality is still an issue. I am
>>> wondering when distros will stop adding new feature after new
>>> feature when the
>>> underlying infrastructure is not as stable as it could be. Make the
>>> distros
>>> core features stable, then go back to adding new features... Cool
>>> stuff ain't
>>> cool if it doesn't work 100% of the time.
>>>
>>> /rant mode off
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>> Jim, this is not aimed at you for anything you did.
>>>
>>> > I am using Ubuntu 8.04.
>>> >
>>> > I was fiddling around with changing wallpaper, and I have broken
>>> > the desktop somehow. When I log in, none of the items on my desktop
>>> > are visible, and no wallpaper is displayed. The files and directories
>>> > are still present, but they are not being displayed on the desktop.
>>> >
>>> > If I select System | Preferences | Appearance from the menu, the
>>> > Appearance Preference window opens for a half-second and then
>>> > closes before I can see or change anything.
>>> >
>>> > Any ideas about how to fix this?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> --
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>>>
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