I thought I had posted the picture, but apparently not, so here:Hard to get good photo with light behind me reflected. This screen comes up, then a text cursor right in the middle. If I use the mouse, it turns to arrow and moves around. Apparently the best thing for me to do is wait a bit and hit Enter. The screen will turn black and a log-in thing will appear.caseycullen wrote: 1) I haven't experienced this or heard it from anyone else yet. If you can include the picture it might help. What video card are you using?
Aha! I didn't realize what I was doing that brought them up.2) The icons will slide out when you place your mouse on the center-left side of your desktop. This lets you launch common apps without having to open any menus or go to the desktop.
Not really sure I need it. By "important," I just meant that it was one of the things that should have appeared in the left side of Menu."Many important things were missing, including Office"
LibreOffice is not installed by default to keep the image size down as not everyone needs a full office installation. Use Synaptic to install.
Alternatively, you can right-click on the folder that contains the log and click "Open as Administrator".
My attempt at the non-ESR was stymied by this:I suppose anyone else would know how to get around that, but I'm stumped.caseycullen wrote:Hi kilaueabart,
3) This appears to be a bug with Firefox-ESR. Try installing the non ESR version of Firefox until it's fixed. You can have both Firefox and Firefox-ESR installed at the same time if you want.
kilaueabart wrote:My attempt at the non-ESR was stymied by this:I suppose anyone else would know how to get around that, but I'm stumped.caseycullen wrote:Hi kilaueabart,
3) This appears to be a bug with Firefox-ESR. Try installing the non ESR version of Firefox until it's fixed. You can have both Firefox and Firefox-ESR installed at the same time if you want.
[/quote]kilaueabart wrote:I really appreciate your kind and detailed help, Casey.I thought I had posted the picture, but apparently not, so here:Hard to get good photo with light behind me reflected. This screen comes up, then a text cursor right in the middle. If I use the mouse, it turns to arrow and moves around. Apparently the best thing for me to do is wait a bit and hit Enter. The screen will turn black and a log-in thing will appear.caseycullen wrote: 1) I haven't experienced this or heard it from anyone else yet. If you can include the picture it might help. What video card are you using?
No effect. When I opened Windows, it was indeed set to "Marco (Compton GPU compositor)." I changed it to "No compositor" and rebooted, but again got the funny screen. The Window manager was still "No compositor." "Software compositor" is not one of the four options. The other Marco is "Adaptive compositor." Then there is "Compiz (Advanced GPU accelerated desktop effects)." Just for the experiment, I have set it to "Adaptive," but not rebooted yet. I trust I will still be able to.caseycullen wrote:... Select "Marco (No compositor)" or "Marco (Software compositor)". It may say "Marco (Software compositor)" already, but select it again to prevent Marco from trying GPU compositor again when you restart.
Let me know if this helps.
I'm not sure what that means, but I was hoping it meant I would be able to install Firefox. No, I still get the need for a couple of things that are uninstallable. I went ahead and tried Synaptic on SMPlayer and MPlayer with similar results.caseycullen wrote:The following dependency issues should be fixed in Fienix:
Darkplaces engine (also Darkplaces engine based games like RetroBlazer, Xonotic, Quake-HD-Redux)
SMPlayer and MPlayer (for cards with hardware acceleration I suggest setting Output Driver to gl (fast - ATI cards), enable direct rendering, 3 threads for decoding, and vaapi hardware decoding)
Firefox
Please test them and let me know the results.
Now working on Gimp and Blender.
-Casey
I thought setting it to "Adaptive" was responsible for it coming up like this today:So I set it back to "No compositor." But I still comes up this new way. And I had to go to MATE 16.04 to download the picture out of my email. (I wish I had thought to try Bluetooth from my phone! Bluetooth is one thing that works in Fienix but not Ubuntu.)kilaueabart wrote:... The other Marco is "Adaptive compositor." Then there is "Compiz (Advanced GPU accelerated desktop effects)." Just for the experiment, I have set it to "Adaptive," but not rebooted yet. I trust I will still be able to.
kilaueabart wrote:I'm not sure what that means, but I was hoping it meant I would be able to install Firefox. No, I still get the need for a couple of things that are uninstallable. I went ahead and tried Synaptic on SMPlayer and MPlayer with similar results.caseycullen wrote:The following dependency issues should be fixed in Fienix:
Darkplaces engine (also Darkplaces engine based games like RetroBlazer, Xonotic, Quake-HD-Redux)
SMPlayer and MPlayer (for cards with hardware acceleration I suggest setting Output Driver to gl (fast - ATI cards), enable direct rendering, 3 threads for decoding, and vaapi hardware decoding)
Firefox
Please test them and let me know the results.
Now working on Gimp and Blender.
-Casey
