Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....

2011-10-19 Thread Juan J.
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:22 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 19.10.11 12:22, scoundrel50a wrote: > [...] > Setting up a new user account probably wouldn't have fixed that - it's a > system setting rather than a user setting as I understand it. You're wrong. That's why Pope's workaround worked: h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 19.10.11 12:22, scoundrel50a wrote: > On 19/10/2011 12:02, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 19 October 2011 12:00, scoundrel50a wrote: >>> I was fiddling with compiz and decided to have a look at what the >>> desktop >>> cube looks like. One of the options said something about turning off the >>> desktop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 October 2011 12:08, Andy Braben wrote: > > >> After other comments here: does gksudo nautilus work? > > YES >> >> Also - is nautilus still used in Ubuntu 11.10? > > YES >> >> In a live session - iirc, then in a terminal, just >> su >> will raise you to superuser level I think, then , to star

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....

2011-10-19 Thread scoundrel50a
On 19/10/2011 12:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 19 October 2011 12:00, scoundrel50a wrote: I was fiddling with compiz and decided to have a look at what the desktop cube looks like. One of the options said something about turning off the desktop. I stupidly pressed it, and now I have no desktop.Pl

[ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread **
No worries. I've fixed it by mounting the hard drive in a new root directory and then sudo allows me to move the files. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread **
No worries. I've fixed it by mounting the hard drive in a new root directory and then sudo allows me to move the files. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread Andy Braben
After other comments here: does gksudo nautilus work? > YES > Also - is nautilus still used in Ubuntu 11.10? > YES > > In a live session - iirc, then in a terminal, just > su > will raise you to superuser level I think, then , to start (nautilus) just > nautilus > (??) > YES, but that is the sam

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread Steve Fisher
On 19 October 2011 12:02, alan c wrote: > On 19/10/11 09:29, ** wrote: > > I admit it I was stupid. I was doing an unattended upgrade of my > > laptop to 11.10 and then stupidly turned off the mains power. > > Needless to say the upgrade failed about an hour later and I can no > > longer boot to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....

2011-10-19 Thread Alan Pope
On 19 October 2011 12:00, scoundrel50a wrote: > I was fiddling with compiz and decided to have a look at what the desktop > cube looks like. One of the options said something about turning off the > desktop. I stupidly pressed it, and now I have no desktop.Please can > somebody helpI am ru

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread alan c
On 19/10/11 09:29, ** wrote: > I admit it I was stupid. I was doing an unattended upgrade of my > laptop to 11.10 and then stupidly turned off the mains power. > Needless to say the upgrade failed about an hour later and I can no > longer boot to the hard disk. > > I can boot with a live cd (it ha

[ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....

2011-10-19 Thread scoundrel50a
I was fiddling with compiz and decided to have a look at what the desktop cube looks like. One of the options said something about turning off the desktop. I stupidly pressed it, and now I have no desktop.Please can somebody helpI am running 11.10 Thanks John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread Barry Drake
On 19/10/11 10:28, David Jones wrote: Barry, the rational behind using gksudo and not sudo is explained here http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudoHope that reminds you of the reasoning behind it. Ah - thanks for that - I'd only remembered that 'sudo nautilus' was a 'must not'. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/10/11 09:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 19/10/11 09:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: >> >> >> On 19 October 2011 08:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker >> mailto:gbpli...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote: >>> If it's things

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyring password error

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 13.10.11 16:58, dianne reuby wrote: > I have 10.10 Ubuntu. Used my machine with no problems this morning. Just > switched back on and logged on to my account OK. But I get a message > that my login password and my keyring password don't match, and to enter > the password. > > Are the admin pass

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread David Jones
On 10/19/2011 10:20 AM, Barry Drake wrote: On 19/10/11 09:29, ** wrote: I can boot with a live cd (it happens to be Mint because it's all I have immediately available) on a USB stick and of course I am having trouble with file permissions trying to save my /home directory. Unfortunately when I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread Barry Drake
On 19/10/11 09:29, ** wrote: I can boot with a live cd (it happens to be Mint because it's all I have immediately available) on a USB stick and of course I am having trouble with file permissions trying to save my /home directory. Unfortunately when I try "sudo nautilus" however my hard disk is

[ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

2011-10-19 Thread **
I admit it I was stupid. I was doing an unattended upgrade of my laptop to 11.10 and then stupidly turned off the mains power. Needless to say the upgrade failed about an hour later and I can no longer boot to the hard disk. I can boot with a live cd (it happens to be Mint because it's all I hav

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 19 October 2011 09:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > OK so why don't Canonical just provide the version of LO that comes direct > from the LO website? > My guess would be that it might not play nice with the OpenJDK (by default), and since you're not allowed to distribute Oracles Java stu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/10/11 09:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 19 October 2011 08:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker > wrote: On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote: If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a package away, what you'll find is java can't be shipp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] From 10.04 to 11.10?

2011-10-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/10/11 16:02, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 18/10/2011 13:42, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I presume I can't do an in-place upgrade? I'm currently saving the contents of my Home directory as I write this so as to be able to install 11.10 and the copy the Home directory back. Is that th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 19 October 2011 08:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote: > > If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a package > away, what you'll find is java can't be shipped by default and a lot > of the packages can't ship without full java in place

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote: If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a package away, what you'll find is java can't be shipped by default and a lot of the packages can't ship without full java in place. The online version comes with java builtin as LO and OO can shi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 18 October 2011 17:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Unfortunately I am not a programmer Maybe this is an opportunity to do something about that? :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/