[Bug 1292041] Re: Lockscreen doesn't turn off the screen

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Wanamaker
I'm running both Unity and Cinnamon in 14.04 with lightdm. That way unity-greeter takes over on logout from both. To get display power off to work on my desktop I added (username) and root to lightwm in the /etc/group file. lightdm:x:111:(username),root Then I added the executable script /usr/b

[Bug 108928] Re: Scrambled Keys in feisty ubuntu desktop

2009-01-20 Thread Bob Wanamaker
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 112955 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112955 Another hack for this problem in feisty that works for me. Append the following lines to the Default file in /etc/gdm/PostSession : KB_BACKUP="$HOME/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd.sysbackup" i

[Bug 276272] Re: warning during installation: WARNING: Failed to parse default value

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Wanamaker
I was running into the same WARNING message and was able to eliminate it by replacing two files in the directory /usr/share/gconf/schemas. The files, control-center.schemas and gnome-control-center.schemas, were moved to .orig files. The source of the replacement files was this URL: http://search.