I have been sitting on my ass about upgrading but I finally decided to bite the bullet and update – largely because firefox was crashing more than usual in the last couple of days. The process was “smooth” though it took an annoyingly long time. However, I continued to have problems in firefox. Something (still haven’t quite figured out what) would go wrong and I would be stuck with a blank screen. Other than this problem, I also “solved” a few others:
1. “Cannot update ./ICEauthority” error after login was fixed using this fix.
2. Installed Google Chrome so I could browse the web for solutions to the firefox blank screen problem.
3. Realised that the blank screen problem could also be due to changes in the settings after the upgrade so changed my screensaver settings.
4. Moved my ‘minimise’, ‘maximise’ and ‘close’ buttons to the left hand side using this:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
5. Found that Compiz Grid wasn’t responding to the hot keys anymore so followed a quick fix posted on the Ubuntu forum. When I logged back in, I went to /System/Preferences/CompizConfig Settings Manager and clicked on ‘Grid’ to enable it. Note that Compiz Grid breaks when you change the ‘Visual Effects’ from ‘Normal’ to ‘None’. Changing it back from ‘None’ to ‘Normal’ doesn’t help. One needs to get rid of the Compiz configuration, log out and set up a new configuration by choosing the necessary options.
