Gents: Since the discussion has turned to the nm-applet issue, I've found some issues with my iMac G4 version of Xu/Lu 12.04 that seemed to have "happened" w/o my participation . . . . I started to notice these items in the comparison to the 14.04 PPC testing that I tried on my iMac and iBook . . . which I found the "window dragging" to be sluggish and scrolling also in 14.04 . . . but then going back to the installed 12.04 system also showed issues with dragging windows . . . but a little bit less . . . .
However, the one item that is strange is that the Network Manger applet suddenly started showing an "x" next to it instead of some kind of "connection" . . . I have a wifi card installed and I was formerly able to connect by wifi with it, but then, perhaps after some "apt-get upgrade" . . . this problem of clicking on the applet and seeing a "Network Manager is not working" error started happening. Ethernet works fine, so it's not a show stopper, it's just the point that I didn't "adjust" any settings in NM . . . I mostly am a GUI user, and then sometimes I use the Terminal to run apt upgrades, and I usually do all the listed items . . . that apt chooses. And something in that process seems to have "broken" NM???? Concurrent with this is a change in FF . . . I used to, perhaps in Feb, be able to watch You Tube videos in FF . . . no Add-ons, I remember posting a thread on the TFFox blog telling the guy that compared to linux browser TFF was "slow" and I couldn't watch videos with it, but in 12.04 "I could watch videos in the browser" . . . and he wrote back and said, "Well, then you should use linux" . . . . But recently videos are no longer working in 12.04 . . . so what happened? All FF plug ins have been removed? I tried to add some "YT anti-blocker" add-on, but that did nothing . . . didn't seem to be any obvious choices showing for add-ons to watch videos . . . . Ah, the other thing that is more concerning is that "sound" went away, it was there and working, as I mentioned I could watch videos, and I remember opening "alsamixer" in the iMac . . . but now it is "gone"??? Nothing shows up or it says, "File not found"??? when I type "alsamixer" in the Terminal. I never "removed" alsamixer in synaptic, or anything on purpose . . . I **may** have run "autoremove" at some point when apt gave that as a suggestion to remove older kernels that were left after several upgrades . . . . Question is, what happened to "alsamixer" and sound, it was there, but now apparently gone??? Why would that happen? System figured out I wasn't using sound or watching that many videos, or using wifi that much, so it removed them . . . for my own safety??? This is the Lu 12.04 DE that this is happening . . . . Any thoughts or insights appreciated, F/e.e.p.
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