To make linux perfect....

This thread is for people who need help solving a problem but can't get help anywhere else, just post your problem and wait for a fix.

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• Jittery USB Mouse
• Scrolling issue

Jittery USB Mouse - I have the Logitech LX3 Optical Mouse and it is so JITTERY, i have a hard time editing stuff in GIMP because it's so jittery. I'm sure this is a driver issue and my fault (i bought this before i started using linux) but please tell me it's salvageable.

Scrolling Issue - In Firefox, when i put my mouse to the very edge of the screen so i can scroll like a lazy man, it doesn't scroll. Apparently, my mouse has gone further than the Firefox scrollbar. I use the same distro on another computer with totally different hardware and it works just fine so i think it may be my hardware. Although while i was trying the Kubuntu LiveCD it worked just fine? It's probably my monitor which is an HP w2007.</del> FIXED

 

I don't know that I can help with your problems, Calvin, but I have a couple:

- Random Window Decoration in Hardy Heron (the drop shadow changes colors and opacity every time I log in)

- I only have three brightness levels; it's like it just jumps a few levels with every keystroke

Please help.

 

I would like to see more penguin wallpapers myself. Maybe one with Jessica Alba on it also.

 

i would like darker themes or more glass themes.

 

Perhaps a separate "wish it had it" thread is warranted. I got the impression this thread was dedicated to getting help with specific problems.

 

This thread might be of interest for the mouse issue, pay particular attention to the parts which talk about keeping the old mouse config and appending the new one to it.

I don't understand your firefox problem, perhaps this add-on may help

Try deleting .gtkrc and .gtkrc-2 (or something like that). They are in your home folder and are hidden so in nautilus view options, select to show hidden files. Then restart X

For the brightness issue, do you have installed all the essential laptop software?. Also have you tried holding ctrl whilst you increase brightness?

http://kde-look.org/content/search.php , does show up a couple of hits for Jessica Alba.

www.kde-look.org , www.gnome-look.org

Search for black and there are tons of results. Kore for kde is quite nice, as is Elegant mine for gnome

 

I was thinking Penguin AND Jessica. Like in the movie Good Luck Chuck. I'll just have to bust out Photoshop.

 

Fonts are... off in many webpages in FF3. Like NBR, for instance.

 

The Firefox problem sugested solution 1.
It sounds as if your monitors settings are off. you have to use the buttons on the panel, not the OS and re size the display so that you can see all of the scroll bar. Hope this helps.

solution 2
This is even more lazy. Just put Firefox into windowed mode and then expand until the browser is almost full screen, which would allow your mouse to scroll to the edge of the browser easily.

However, by the looks of it, both of your problems are caused by your mouse; the click feature and cursor is probably screwed so that the mouse icon is not where your actually clicking ect. Try a diffent mouse and see if Firefox still doesn't work.

Sorry if was patronizing, but every suggestion helps.

Hope I was of some use .

 

Open up Preferences, go to Content, click "Advanced" in fonts and colors, and where it says "Proportional" set Sans Serif, there are other fonts that will accomplish the same effect but this one is the only one i can remember now. Uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts instead of my selections above", set the serif to serif (if it already isn't). Click ok and then set the default font for Fonts and colors to sans-serif.

 

Urgh, that did not look good. And some of the weirdness is still there.

 

Don't try to hijack this thread.

 

Try replacing every place i said sans serif with Bitstream Vera Sans.

I, as thread maker don't see anything wrong with his posts at all. He's talking about how the fonts in Linux Firefox 3 look crappy, tell me where that goes out of what i assigned the thread to be for.

 

- Pressing backspace in Firefox does not go the the previous page.
- kinit: resume UUID bug has been around since 6.06

- on the whole, I wish Linux resumed from hibernation or suspend without artefacts, flashing screens, etc. Hibernation in particular is takes ages.

PS; broadcom compatibility should be improved. Although Broadcom refuses to release hardware specs, at least make NDISwrapper and bcm43xx fw-cutter automated by Hardware Drivers utility included in Ubuntu.

 

Umm, yeah. I'm not. Calvin told me to post here.

And Calvin, still urgh. When setting one, standard look, it looks awful. And breaks the look of those webpages that do look like they should. From what I've seen, it's only vBulletine pages that look off. Though Now everything looks off, as I can't get it back to default looks.

 

I press backspace and it goes back a page in Firefox 3 RC 1 in LinuxMint Main edition.

I think i know what your problem is, your screen res may not be what it should be. Have you enabled restricted drivers/downloaded them though Envy yet? I know my fonts look crappy no matter what i do until i get my gfx card to work, in fact my entire screen gets screwy.

 

Actually, yes I ahve. Linux fonts look good. I've got compiz fusion up and running. But fonts were screwy from the start. And it only was vBulletin. Now that I've played around, all sites are funky. I'm trying to delete the user profile for a factory reset.

 

This may be Xubuntu specific problem, have you looked into other xfce distro's?

 

Nope. Too much hassle.

 

I strongly suggest you look into other xfce distro's because that's kind of the whole point of Linux, to give the user choice. You should be able to find something better that you like a lot more, if you're thinking installing tons of different distro's may be a pain then just use VirtualBox to try them virtually.

 

Where'd you get yours? Is that Compiz? Are you using Emerald?

Thanks, I'll try those. I don't know if I have all the essential software installed. No, I haven't tried holding Ctrl. I will.

 

Nope, didn't help me. At least as far as i could understand, i only did the instructions on the first page, gonna check if those LX3 ones work.

 

agreed!

just installed ubuntu 8.04 and I feel the same way about fonts... actually it's the same way i've felt about all linux distro's since originally playing with RH4. make it more like Windows by default! lol

i've never been able to last more than 1 week w/o windows, but i'm determined to make a switch this time so i'll force myself to check out xfce... i hope i won't be disappointed...

 

I agree. Maybe I'm just more accustomed to Windows fonts, but I've always felt the fonts in Linux were not as well-done.

 

I agree, but that can always be customized.

 

Customized beyond just selecting different fonts? I'm talking about the fact that Times New Roman, for example, just didn't seem to look as nice on Linux as it did in Windows. It looked....cheap or something.

 

Actually, it's just because you are just too damn lazy to try out a different distro, which accounts for your unhappiness. I wasn't satisfied with Ubuntu, did i whine and say it should be more like Windows? No, i went looking for something better. I found LinuxMint and i've never looked back at Windows or Ubuntu. Linux requires you to choose what you want instead of giving you crap, if you don't like the freedom then you're better off with Windows. Read this, LINUX IS NOT WINDOWS.[/rant]

 

Actually, I'm satisfied with Xubuntu. The only page that I have trouble with is NBR.

 

Then that is a very big problem.

 

Not really.

 

Well, he could be using KDE 4.
Remember that, fara?
I told you so .
j/k

 

Urgh, KDE4. That, I did not like.

 

KDE4 was actually pretty nice when i tried it out, i just REALLY like gnome and gnome apps a lot more.

 

It was unstable when I tried it. Had a definite unfinished feel to it. And it was somewhat unintuitive. It required a few too many steps for many tasks.

I've tried gnome before. I just like xfce better.

 

Actually, I was going to try Mint first because I wanted codecs installed etc, but I didn't want to deal with a RC despite it probably being stable enough (yes I'm a Windows user). If it was 1 month from now, I would have installed Mint first.

Personally, in terms of that article, I think the idea that Linux (at least Ubuntu) "expects you to know what to do" is a little outdated- the version I installed is pretty mature.

 

Type about:config in Firefox --> browser.backspace_action --> change value from '1' to '0'

 

Elyssa final is out now, check it out.

Also, i'd like to know how i can get scans from my printer/scanner to my computer. In (uhg) Windows it used to pop up with this stupid program by HP that allowed me to save it on my computer, but with Linux i am only allowed to print my scan, how can i copy my scan to my computer?

 

What program do you use in Linux to scan? Have you tried Xsane?

 

I just press the scan button on my printer/scanner. I'll check out Xsane.

 

I just wish sleep and hibernation would work for me. Clicking suspend or hibernate in Hardy just takes me to this black screen that still leaves my computer on. I tried following some online guides telling me to edit some system files to get them to work, but those didn't fix my issue at all.... I even tried installing the s2disk and s2ram packages (from source), but those had problems.

Well, actually, I did have some success with s2disk, but that's more of a hibernation feature, and I really don't care much for hibernation. I just want sleep to work on my system. If anyone can help me with getting sleep to work on my sys., I'll rep your eyes out

 

It's a NVidia video card that you have?

 

Yeah, I'm using the 8600M GT...
Also running 64-bit arch. btw...

 

Have you installed/enabled the drivers from Nvidia?

 

Yeah, my nvidia drivers are running just fine. I've been using the nvidia-glx-new package ever since Feisty and haven't encountered any problems w/ it yet....

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208396

edit: Also make sure you have your graphics driver installed. That improves things ALOT.

 

O_O! I've just been thinking guys, do you guys know if there is anything that can be done about the rippling of videos in flash and Mplayer? I know flash has crappy support from Adobe but i like to be able to watch my flash videos and not worry about my processor being maxed out for no reason and not have the video ripple every other second. I heard Flash 10 will have official Ubuntu support but that might take a while, and also with Mplayer my anime has ripples here and there, it's not huge but it's enough for me to get annoyed. These two things are basically what i do on the computer all day so if they can't be fixed i'm sorry to say but I'll have to seriously consider going back to Vista no matter how much i hate it. I love Ubuntu but i need my computer to work you know? I was thinking i might use Mac or something instead of Windows, just as long as i can do what i need to do. Does anyone have any insight for me?

 

What Flash video is rippling for you? I've never had that problem before...

In MPlayer, I had an issue with Ghost in the Shell stuttering. I used

Code:

mplayer -vo x11 -zoom -sid 0 "[AHQ] Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 1st GIG - 01 - Section 9.mkv"

To get the subtitles positioned properly on my 1280x1024 monitor, I used

Code:

mplayer -vo x11 -zoom -sid 0 -vf expand=0:-150 "[AHQ] Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 1st GIG - 01 - Section 9.mkv"

 

Any flash video i play will ripple. When i say ripple i mean like when the tv is having trouble receiving the feed and you get "ripples" on your tv briefly. With flash it happens a lot, so much it makes the video semi-unwatchable, but with Mplayer it's much better, just occasionally. It's not what i would call stuttering, just "ripples".

 

I find I have the same issue with Ubuntu 8.04. It looks like the horizontal scan lines you see when a video recording is made of a real TV playing something.

 

How did you fix it?