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Problem with volume icon; also close, minimize icon they are on left on UBUNTU 10.04

Asked by Ferenc Onodi

I had 9.10 and it was fine. The update manager offered to download 10.04, so I did. I fetched it too.) Now it's terribly slow and
I don't see the volume icon on the top and the minimize and close icons (X) are on the upper left corner instead
of the upper right corner. A can't work with it. can i go back to 9.10 or what can I do?

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druisan (druisan) said : 		#1

Ubuntu 4.10 was the first version released. You shouldn't update to old releases.
Anyways, maybe you have got old repositories, so it can be the problem. Check them in software sources.

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David Mawdsley (dm-madmod) said : 		#2

Are you referring to Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.10? The reference to 4.10 doesn't seem right.

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Ferenc Onodi (fonodi) said : 		#3

Yes, I'm sorry I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 and I have the problems I mentioned in my first message.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

To have close icon on the right hand please open a terminal form Application→Accessories→Terminale
and copy from here and paste into terminal the row below then press enter:

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

Hth

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Ferenc Onodi (fonodi) said : 		#5

Thank you for the answer, but I still don't understand why is so slow (the 9.10 wasn't), that I can't work with it. Can some way go back to 9.10 and try to upgrade again?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

Please open a terminal and type:

top

please inspect for top row process and cpu usage please report the name here...

Than please tell us how many ram do you have installed on your pc...

Thank you

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#7

Hi :)

If you could get to a comand-line and give us the output of

sudo fdisk -l

where "-l" is a lower-case "-L" then we might be able to help you reinstall a 9.10. It would be best to put the /home on it's own partition and then set up a dual boot if you have 5Gb spare empty space you could use?
Please let us know how it is going
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Ferenc Onodi (fonodi) said : 		#8

Thanks for all your help, but I'm give it up. This is to technical for me. Maybe I'll find some body
to came over and help me out.
Thanks again

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#9

Hi :)

Sorry to hear that. Please keep asking us what we mean until it is easy enough to do. We get all levels of ability in here and you will soon find yourself doing and understanding things you thought were tricky but soon find easy.

To get to a command-line go up to the top taskbar/panel and click on

Applications - Accessories - Terminal

that should give you a nice command-line and you can use the mouse to copy&paste (right click menus with the mouse) these 3 commands and then paste the results back into here

free -m

top

sudo fdisk -l

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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