Ubuntu 11.04 introduced overlay scrollbars with a minimal look and scrolling controls that only appear when the mouse is nearby. Some applications, particularly those not from the Ubuntu repositories, may be incompatible. I ran into problems with some of the Android SDK‘s Java-based GUI applications like DDMS. The overlay scrollbars appeared but refused to allow [...]

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If you’re dual booting Ubuntu with other Linux distributions or Windows, you may wish to change the which operating system starts by default. Ubuntu uses the GRUB boot loader to display a menu of installed operating systems and boot them. If you don’t see the menu before Ubuntu starts, hold down the shift key while [...]

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Ubuntu can’t include software to decrypt commercial DVD movies, even in the software repositories. If you don’t have the necessary software, Movie Player will give you the error: An error occurred: Could not read from resource. If you reinstall Ubuntu for every new release like I do, this is problem you may repeatedly come across. [...]

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Ubuntu 11.10 will not include the classic GNOME desktop which is available alongside Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. Instead, Unity 2D will be installed to provide the Unity desktop even on systems without 3D graphics capabilities. Fortunately for fans of the old desktop, it will still be available to install from the repositories. Install the classic [...]

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Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment requires 3D acceleration to run. If you don’t have a compatible graphics card or don’t have the drivers installed, Unity will fall back to the classic interface. Fortunately the free VirtualBox virtual machine software is capable of providing the necessary 3D acceleration to a virtual Ubuntu desktop, provided of course that [...]

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