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Category: 14.04 (Page 1 of 3)
اليوم، نودع عامًا ميلاديًا جديدًا. ونستقبل عامًا آخر. نسأل الله خيره، وخير ما فيه، ونعوذ بالله من شره، وشر ما فيه.
في هذه التدوينة أستعرض بعضًا من حوادث هذا العام، وكيف مر علي، وبعض الأحداث التي وثقتها، والبعض مما لم يتم توثيقه، وأشاركه لأول مرة على هذه المدونة.
I fresh installed Ubuntu 14.04.4 lately and things has been smooth, most of the issues I encountered were because of the interface change, looking back maybe the interface was buggy, and I should have read the bug list before installing it!
After installing I noticed that every time I reboot the system shows prompt to send error messages, I sent the error to the developers thinking that was it, I send the error report and I’m done, but another one came, and another one.. And it just keeps happening every time I reboot (to install updates for example) so it became a minor nuisance!
I remember facing this issue back in April 2014 when I first installed Ubuntu, and the fix was so easy!
Apparently Ubuntu tends to look for records of errors and send them, even the old ones that have been reported, so the easy way to stop it is to disable Apport.
Disabling Apport
It’s actually very easy to do, just go to the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T
Then type in gksudo gedit /etc/default/apport and press Enter. You will be prompted to enter your password, please do that.
Be careful because this command is running Gedit in root privileges and we will use it to change a vital part of the system, so follow the steps carefully!
Change Enabled=1 to Enabled=0 and save.
Close Gedit and the terminal.
The next time you reboot, you won’t see such error messages!
It’s as easy as that!
You can research the issue further by visiting this link.
I just moved to Gnome and noticed several bugs! First of all I didn’t know how to go to sleep mode!
That was very easy, click on the right corner and hold ALT and the power off button will change to sleep. That’s great! But now that I can go to sleep mode, the computer won’t wake up!
It doesn’t show up anything! Just a laminated dark screen and I have to power it off to be able to use the computer!
I looked up dozens of pages without finding a single clue, many people assumed it was a video driver issue or something. It wasn’t the video driver!
The answer was right under my nose!
Coming to gnome I noticed that it still used the “ugly” login manager LightDM-GTK-Greeter. So I used the command to change the login manager to GDM, Gnome’s default login manager, that’s where the problem started!
As soon as I chose LightDM-GTK-Greeter and rebooted, I’ve been able to sleep and wake at will! No problem at all!
So that’s the fix! Install LightDM-GTK-Greeter.
First of all add it to the repositories via this command:
Then install it via this command:
Finally: Use this command to make it the default login manager.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
My problem wasn’t “fixed” 100%. I was feeling bitter-sweet!
I fixed the sleep issue, and now the extensions remain after reboot too! But the login manager is hideous! Isn’t there a way to make it pretty?
Why is it hideous you ask? It was a part of the XCFE interface and when I removed it, it lost the visual elements it had and went back to defaults. And that’s not pretty at all!
Ubutu Tweak couldn’t customize it, and the Tweak utility provided by Gnome had no options for it.
The question remained: How to customize LightDM-GTK-Greeter?
It’s very simple actually! There is a package called: LightDM-GTK-Greeter-Settings. All you have to do is to install it. And use it to customize LightDM-GTK-Greeter to look better!
I began by adding it to the repositories via this command:
Then install it via this command:
sudo apt-get install lightdm-webkit-greeter
From the menu I ran it and it needs administrator rights so I had to enter my password to start it.
I had several options to choose from like theme and position and what tabs to be displayed. It looks so much better now and it gets the job done.
Not as pretty as GDM of course, but at least it works!
In addition to the sleep and wake bug fix, and the extensions staying enabled after reboot, the Gnome classic mode loads an interface rather than just a background with a mouse cursor, but it looks the same as Gnome. I’m yet to figure that out!
My fix to that was very simple, Installing Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.4 a fresh install.
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