<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jay Ridgley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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On 16 October 2013 04:45, Jay Ridgley <<a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Folks,<br>
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I do not know what I did but on one of my systems I have a green box shaped<br>
icon that displays "show desktop" when I hover my mouse over it. However I<br>
can not seem to activate it.<br>
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Where are you seeing this icon? Is it on the launcher (the column of<br>
shortcuts on the left hand side of the screen) or somewhere else<br>
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It appears next to Menu on th top left portion of the screen, it has been an icon that looked like the Ubuntu wallpaper.<div class="im"><br>
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All my settings have gone away... I want themm back...<br>
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What do you mean your settings have gone away? What settings?<br>
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The window decorations on each of the windows, there are several incons missing or displayed incorrectly (such as the one for terminal).<br>
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What has happened as far as I can tell various portions of the theme have changed from Ambiance, even though that is what is set as the theme. The buttons for minimize, maximize and close are a different shape and color. I have discovered others as well but am certain that they are all related to the proble I have outlined.<br>
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</blockquote></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This sounds similar to something I see occasionally on this Ubuntu 12.04 system -- the window decorations will all disappear or distort, and the launcher and top bar will disappear, though if I mouse around, sometimes tooltips will pop up, but few of the controls are functional.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The only "cure" I have found is to log out and log in or reboot. I mouse around to find the log out menu. When I cannot find a functional log out menu, I press ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console terminal VT1. I might issue some ps commands to look at the processes, but I have never been able to kill applications to make VT7 functional. Since I don't know any better I usually just issue a sudo reboot and all will be well after the reboot. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It seems completely sporadic, and doesn't happen very often -- maybe once a month or less. I have not yet found a pattern, but it usually seems to be after a long session (several hours) after I have been away from the system for awhile, so I would have just unlocked a blank screensaver screen with my login credentials. This is a (mostly) stock Ubuntu 12.04 system with all updates. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(I just looked and the only non-standard repository I'm connected to is a LibreOffice PPA so I can be running LibreOffice 4.1.1.2. I don't believe I have seen the issue since the most recent LibreOffice update, so on MY system it could always be a conflict or bug with something in that non-standard PPA.)</div>
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