<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Rich Shepard <<a href="mailto:rshepard@appl-ecosys.com">rshepard@appl-ecosys.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I bought a Toshiba Satellite L455-S6975 laptop to replace my wife's old Toshiba Tecra 8000. Installed 9.04 on the new one (which is what's on the old box, too). Have the installation and configuration almost done, but am stuck on three issues for which your help is needed. Listed below in order of importance. 1) After copying over her /home directory and some configuration files in /etc I rebooted the host and it recognized the wireless network, but could not connect to it. When I run the 'route' command there are no defined routes. I tried to find a network manager (rather than adding the routes manually, which I can always do), but it's not on the Application->System menu. I thought there was a GUI network manager on the menu tree but I cannot find it. A pointer will be very helpful. </blockquote><div> Not sure what caused the problem (I would recommend David's suggestion of selectively copying over data), but Xubuntu's network manager is found in the system tray in the top right-hand corner (an icon of two monitors, probably). Right-click it and select Edit Connections to get David's nm-connection-editor. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2) I tried to shut down the system from the application menu (there currently is no 'halt' icon on the panel), but the attempts fail. A message box pops up telling me that 'the session manager must be in an idle state' before the system can quit. In my dozen years using Xfce I've not before seen such a message. How do I fix this? Running 'sudo halt' from a virtual console works, but it will be easier for her to put the shut down icon on the panel and use that. </blockquote><div> The Actions Button is what should be on the panel. I suppose it will have the same problem, and unfortunately I don't know how to solve that (though perhaps Googling the exact error message will turn something up). As a temporary workaround, however, you could add a launcher for the command "gksudo halt" to the panel ;-) (Oh, and also, if you still don't have an answer in a few days, perhaps you can try the Xfce mailinglist.) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 3) Trying to test the sound capability, I copied some .mp3 files from my server/workstation to the new box via a USB flash drive. On the Applications->Multimedia menu I find only 'Listen' for songs; no xmms2 or audacity present. Despite spending a bunch of time trying to get 'Listen' to see the .mp3 files and play one, I could not load any of them into the GUI for that application. Looked on the 'Listen' Web site, but there are no instructions there, either. </blockquote><div> Double-clicking the file should turn up Totem (Movie Player) to play it. In Listen you probably need to add files through the Music menu. I don't have it installed here (it was removed in Xubuntu 9.10) so I can't check exactly which item you need. Of course, you can just install xmms through Applications->Add/Remove..., if you prefer that. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> TIA, Rich </blockquote><div> </div></div>Best, -- Vincent