Well, since KDE Plasma somehow causes Firefox to freeze when trying to
upload videos and images to Facebook and other websites, I went back to Wayland for the time being, but also tried to install Unity (which is
what I'm most used to) using these instructions:
https://www.makeuseof.com/install-unity-desktop-ubuntu-22-04/
However, this seemed to break my system! Maybe not totally, but at the
log in screen, even after selecting Unity and inputting password, it
would come back to the log in screen. Never did gain Unity access.
Booting into Wayland, I was getting the system problem detected message
and shutting down lagged for at least a min. So, not knowing what's
going on here, I don't think I'll try installing Unity again. Luckily,
I had a back up made early this AM of just KDE and Wayland.
Since Wayland allows the image/ video uploads without Firefox freezing,
I guess I'll have to go with Wayland for the time being.
Any thoughts on why Unity wouldn't install/ run properly welcome. My
guess is that it was interfering with the other sessions somehow, but
why would Wayland / KDE interfere?
I don't have much use for KDE if I can't upload with Firefox without freezing. If a solution can't be found and I have to keep using only Wayland, how would I uninstall KDE?
tried to install Unity
There is an Ub Unity 22.04 spin;
On 9/10/22 19:45, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 9/10/22 15:53, wAYNE wrote:
Well, since KDE Plasma somehow causes Firefox to freeze when trying
to upload videos and images to Facebook and other websites, I went
back to Wayland for the time being, but also tried to install Unity
(which is what I'm most used to) using these instructions:
https://www.makeuseof.com/install-unity-desktop-ubuntu-22-04/
However, this seemed to break my system! Maybe not totally, but at
the log in screen, even after selecting Unity and inputting password,
it would come back to the log in screen. Never did gain Unity
access. Booting into Wayland, I was getting the system problem
detected message and shutting down lagged for at least a min. So,
not knowing what's going on here, I don't think I'll try installing
Unity again. Luckily, I had a back up made early this AM of just KDE
and Wayland.
Since Wayland allows the image/ video uploads without Firefox
freezing, I guess I'll have to go with Wayland for the time being.
Any thoughts on why Unity wouldn't install/ run properly welcome. My
guess is that it was interfering with the other sessions somehow, but
why would Wayland / KDE interfere?
I don't have much use for KDE if I can't upload with Firefox without
freezing. If a solution can't be found and I have to keep using only
Wayland, how would I uninstall KDE?
I don't know but do you have your system set to resume previous
session?
bliss
I used this to hopefully completely uninstall Plasma KDE after I
reinstalled my backup (before the Unity tryout and failure):
https://trendoceans.com/how-to-remove-the-kde-plasma-environment-in-ubuntu/
However, this created a problem just like described in the comments
(after enabling and starting gdm3, it wouldn't remain after boot up).
The solution was found elsewhere and that was to reconfigure gdm3.
So, I'm back to Wayland and to stay I guess. I sort of liked Plasma
KDE, but I preferred the simpler Unity and since I can't install that
without system breakage: Wayland.
Well, since KDE Plasma somehow causes Firefox to freeze when trying to
upload videos and images to Facebook and other websites, I went back to Wayland for the time being,
Any thoughts on why Unity wouldn't install/ run properly welcome. My
guess is that it was interfering with the other sessions somehow, but
why would Wayland / KDE interfere?
Any thoughts on why Unity wouldn't install/ run properly welcome. My
guess is that it was interfering with the other sessions somehow, but
why would Wayland / KDE interfere?
wAYNE wrote:
tried to install Unity
I prefer to try distro/s as live boots rather than installs.
There is an Ub Unity 22.04 spin; also a 20.04.5 one.
Why don't you try that and see if it will do what you want. https://ubuntuunity.org/download/
On 9/10/22 15:53, wAYNE wrote:
Well, since KDE Plasma somehow causes Firefox to freeze when trying to
upload videos and images to Facebook and other websites, I went back to
Wayland for the time being,
You don't really understand the terms or the technology you're using.
Wayland / X11 (Xorg) are Display Servers.
KDE Plasma / Gnome / Unity / XFCE / LXQT / MATE / Cinnamon /
Enlightenment etc., are Desktop Environments. You can install and use
any one of them or all of them on your Display Server.
I've tried live in the past, but horrendously slow on my sub par
systems. I've tried both DVD and USB thumb drives and neither are very fast. I will use live if I have to, such as when I need gparted to reconfigure partitions, etc but beyond that it's far too slow to be that workable.
It sounds to me like you're saying that KDE, Gnome, etc are used under
one of the display servers (Wayland, etc)?
If so, then the "desktop
environment" would have to be compatible with the "display server"?
If
so, that's probably why I couldn't get Unity to run correctly with
Wayland.
In any case, all fixed now. I'm sticking with the basics, Wayland, and whatever natively comes with it.
I don't know if Unity supports Wayland.
Wayland supports ubuntu-unity?
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