[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 12.04 behaviour

[Hilton Gibson]

I would suggest login as the "Guest" user.

On 30 May 2012 15:20, Marius Kruger <amanic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 May 2012 14:55, Peter Nel <fourdots at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > I don't know exactly what you did with the new install, so I cannot be
> sure.
> > Perhaps you copied your old home folder over the new one? This could
> cause
> > problems (and would in many senses negate some of the "clean" install
> > benefits, since old program settings and program folders would overwrite
> the
> > fresh ones... which is what you may want, but the new installs may have
> > changed formats of settings files, etc.) - unless you took care to only
> copy
> > selected files & folders to your new home folder.
>
> This is a good point unity upgrades were messy when it comes to the
> home folder, from memory the folders I had to delete (back it up
> first!) was something like:
> ~/.config/compiz-1/
> ~/.gconf/
> One way to test if this is an issue is to long in as a different user
> and see if you have the same problems.
>
>
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