-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Liam Proven wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Paul Sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> http://imagebin.org/89424 >> >> just got the above, come up, not sure what triggered it, but I can't >> click on desktop, i can click menus and load programs >> >> i can't change the background using preferences >> can't even click, its just a white space. >> >> just wondered if anyone has come across this sort of thing. >> >> Paul >> >> - -- >> Paul Sutton >> www.zleap.net > > I've seen something a bit like that on a couple of systems. It was due > to problems with Compiz. > > One 1 machine, it was due to me disabling DRI in the X server while > leaving Compiz enabled. It requires DRI & couldn't display a usable > desktop without it. > > On the other, it was due to relying on an only-partially-supported > graphics chipset & enabling all the visual "chrome" in Appearance. The > graphics couldn't support all the features and I got a blank desktop. > > In both cases, I had to flip to an alternate V-console (Ctrl+Alt+F1 - > thru' - F6) and fix it from the command line. > > hmm, thats interesting as I seeem to be triggering it when killing the desktop with xkill (did this on purpose for a test). so
alt -f2 type xkill click on desktop so the two could potentially be inter related, according to #ubuntu-uk, this isn't a but and meant to happen, i understand the reasons, i can now fix it by re-running nautilus, i am more concerned regarding newish users doing this, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkujcNAACgkQaggq1k2FJq2hrgCcDqBfuGQuw6OZQo+cy8bwbdwB zfMAoIneMeDroxe7vKE8I2yQiRb/bknw =dkUX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
