<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000099"> Hello, I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I love it.  I started with Feisty and upgraded to Gutsy when it became available.  When I've had problems I'm usually able to solve them myself by searching the internet and putting all the pieces together.  But this time I'm stumped and two weeks is long enough in the wilderness! Firstly, the notification area is not working properly, and most of the time the icons there do not respond.  Sometimes the first one will work with a right click but any additions don't work, although yesterday they were all working again and I have no idea why.  Today none of them are working.  Next on the list is aMSN, which I have uninstall and reinstalled more times than I care to remember, using every method I've come across. Then todiscgui, which is part of the tovid suite, and I have used this many times in the past with no problems (tovidgui works ok).  Both of these were working fine but now I cannot use the mouse within either of these programs.  I can click on the menu bar and the menus drop down but clicking within the drop down menu just closes it, and nothing within the window reacts to the mouse at all.  It is possible to navigate with the keyboard though, and the mouse functions properly in everything else I use. >From everything that I have been reading, I believe that it may be to do with the 'window' that the programs run in.  I have discovered that aMSN uses 'wish' but I have no idea whether this is where the problem lies.  In the course of my research I've also been introduced to tcl and tk but all that sort of scripting stuff is beyond my comprehension at the moment.  I also believe that python gets thrown into the mix somewhere as well. The only other problem that has happened recently is having to reinstall the nvidia drivers a couple of weeks ago when there was an update for xorg that seemed to cause problems for many others as well.  But I can't say for certain if this is when the other problems started. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.  It's so hard to explain a problem when you haven't got a clue what you're talking about, and it's even harder to search for! Many thanks, Jen </body> </html>