On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:52 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Ralph, thanks for getting in touch. > > I 'safely eject' USB devices each time. > > When a USB device is inserted, a row of USB icons replicates itself > automatically along the top menu bar going from the original icon to > the right, and stops short of covering the Shut-Down circle. I have > since discovered that I can right-click on each one and get rid of > them one at a time, but it doesn't stop it occurring again on the next > USB insertion. > > Here is the result of the interrogate:- > > cam@PAMPRU-D2:~$ ls -ld ~ ~/Desktop > drwxr-xr-x 69 cam cam 4096 2011-11-27 16:50 /home/cam > drwxr-xr-x 7 cam cam 4096 2011-11-24 15:41 /home/cam/Desktop > cam@PAMPRU-D2:~$ > > Thanks again, > > Best regards, > > Charles > > Quoting Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]>: > > > Hi Charles, > > > >> Stability of UNITY 11.04 has also been disappointing, with spurious > >> defects occurring such as self-replicating of USB icons all along the > >> top menu each time a USB device is inserted > > > > Do you mean you insert one USB device, e.g. a flash memory stick, and > > lots of icons appear. Or that old ones never disappear so each time you > > insert the stick you gain one more? Are you doing an "eject" or "safely > > remove drive" for the USB device before removing it? > > > >> and frequent refusal to allow a cut folder from desktop to be pasted > >> into my Home folder. > > > > Can you give us the output of > > > > ls -ld ~ ~/Desktop > > > > As an example, for me it's > > > > $ ls -ld ~ ~/Desktop > > drwxr-xr-x 131 ralph ralph 12288 2011-11-27 18:20 /home/ralph > > drwxr-xr-x 15 ralph ralph 4096 2011-11-27 16:18 /home/ralph/Desktop > > $ > > > > Cheers, Ralph. > >
Charles, There's a lot of us 'old Dossers' here. After all my complaining about the Kubuntu 11.10 upgrade on my desktop, I note that my old Thinkpad laptop had upgraded successfully to Ubuntu 11.10 with the Unity desktop. When I plugged in a USB memory stick it became another icon on the unity panel, no extra USB icons around. I thank Tim for that note about the MS core fonts. That will make the newsletter that I edit a lot easier as I start from a previous edition that was in Word. I tend to move things from one place to another in Kubuntu using the Dolphin File manager, because it has the split feature that allows me to see both source and destination. In Unity the only way I found to do this was to open up the Home folder, and then 'open up a new window' and make that the destination. Not so easy. Does it have the equivalent of Nautilus (Gnome) or Dolphin (KDE)? Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
