I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr on my laptop.   Its default Desktop Environment was Unity. I installed gnome-desktop-environment then I could use both unity DE and gnome DE on my laptop.   This made my bootup screen change to the Ubuntu GNOME logo, instead of the vanilla Ubuntu logo.   That's OK, but after some time I thought I will only use Unity, so I removed gnome-shell package and all of its configurations.   Now gnome-shell is removed but still I can see Ubuntu GNOME logo during boot. I can't see the cool Ubuntu logo which I saw at previous when Ubuntu 14.04 was freshly installed.  Is there any way to get back that look on starting up the system?  previous screen image:     I want it back.   my login screen is OK, login screen image:
I wanted to try out different desktop environments so I installed XFCE, KDE, GNOME, etc on top of Unity in Ubuntu 12.04  After a while I decided that I didn't like those other DEs and would stick to Unity. So I changed my default DE to Unity by configuring gdm.  sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm   Now I am able to choose my DE at login time and all of DEs are working properly.   But the strange thing is that my boot up screen says 'lubuntu', my login screen is KDE, and my desktop is Unity.   How and why is this happening? Why didn't my gdm configuration have any effect? Does login and boot up screen need to be configured separately from the DE?  There are other similar questions here but they are not the same as this one. I do not want to remove the other enviroments I'm quite happy with having a list of DEs to select from. I want to know how to set proper defaults.
Crossroads / Second Chance / Choices I am trying to find a short story involving an alien race of 'Intellectuals.' They possess no opposable thumbs or other limbs to control their world.  I think the basis of the story is their discovery of a way to influence another unintelligent species that can manipulate objects.  This leads to a new start for them.  They may have been at risk of breeding beyond available resources.  The story ends with explorers returning from sea. They may have discovered a new land into which they can expand. The last few scenes have a darker flavor where one character has been presented with a rock that glows in the dark. He considers it for a period before being called away to greet the explorers. The author then takes over and makes some comments about most species passing one crossroads only to meet another.  The story could have been written at any time from the Golden Age though to the 1970's. Minecraft Test If A Chest Contains An Item I've seen a lot of questions for finding specific items in chests using commands using testforblock but how would you test if any block/item has been placed in a chest?  Thanks From Drupal 8 beta 6 (released today), I have this error :     Error message UnexpectedValueException: Untrusted Host "localhost" in   Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request->getHost() (line 1221 of   core/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php).   I use this local url to call my site:   Inside my setting file, I have:       $settings['trusted_host_patterns'] = array(         'theming\.dev$',      );   Note, this error is displayed only when I uncomment this lines:   if (file_exists(__DIR__ . '/settings.local.php')) {    include __DIR__ . '/settings.local.php';  }   What is the problem please ? Thanks. Why couldn't Ellie's experience be corroborated by simply re-using the machine? What is the probability that a man likes pink? Showing that $A\cap B = A\setminus (A\setminus B)$ How does one show that $A\cap B = A\setminus (A\setminus B)$?  My thinking is that if $x\in A\setminus (A\setminus B)$ then this means that $x\in A$ and $x\notin A\setminus B$, which means that $x\in A$ and ($x\notin A$ and $x\in B$), but I don't see why the expression in parentheses should simplify to just $x\in B$. Any insight would be helpful.  Maybe $(x\in A^c$ and $x\in B)$, i.e, $x\in A^c\cap B$ is a possible simplification of the expression in parentheses, but still don't see why this simplifies to just $x\in B$. I have secured a visa for the US, be it an ESTA or another visa requiring me to go for an interview. My understanding is that obtaining a visa for the US does not guarantee me entry into the country. Rather, :  Entering the United States A visa allows a foreign citizen to travel to a U.S. port-of-entry (generally an airport) and request permission to enter the United States. A visa does not guarantee entry into the United States. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials at the port-of-entry have authority to permit or deny admission to the United States. If you are allowed to enter the United States, the CBP official will provide an admission stamp or a paper Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Record.  What happens once I arrive in one such port-of-entry? Will I have to go through customs checks? Will I have to talk to an immigration officer explaining my reasons for visiting the US? What documentation, if any, should I bring? Is the documentation I brought for the interview enough? What if I did not attend an interview since it was not required (for example if I obtained an ESTA online)? how to read huge csv file into R by row condition? wrong positioning of figure with tabular in xelatex I recently updated MikTex and it seems Xelatex is not able to place figures correctly anymore. Before updating all figures were shown correctly. I work with Texworks and Miktex 2.9  Here it is the code that I run:  \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report} \usepackage{graphicx} \graphicspath{{method1/}{method2/}{dpfig/}}  \begin{document}  \begin{figure}[!htbp] \centering \begin{tabular}{cc} \includegraphics[trim=6cm 2.5cm 6cm 2.5cm,clip=true,width=0.33\textwidth]{figure1.eps}&amp; \includegraphics[trim=6cm 2.5cm 6cm 2.5cm,clip=true,width=0.33\textwidth]{figure2.eps}\\ \end{tabular} \caption{Two figures} \end{figure} \end{document} \end{figure}   With this code, figures are correctly trimmed and the relative position between figure 1 and figure 2 is maintained. However, the position in the document is wrong: figure are placed upper and more right than expected (as the bottom-left corner of the table was placed in the middle of the page). The unusual thing is that this does not happen in draft mode and picture are shown centered as it would be.  I usually compile with Xelatex, Makeindex and Bibtex.  I hope to have been clear.. bye!  EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to add the images I prepared from the file that run that script: Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen How can I adapt Ubuntu to a high resolution display?  I have a display with 3200x1600px on only 11'' and everything looks really tiny. Find conditional expectation from a 3-dimensional random vector? Can you eradicate a disease without finding a Cure first? If you eradicate a disease in Pandemic without finding a cure first (ie remove all of one colour from the board) does it remain eradicated or can it still come back unless it has also been cured?  The rules are a bit unclear on this point ... Or I missed the rule that explicitly states this. Is "National Socialism" always capitalized? So, I'm writing a paper on the rise of communism in China. At one point I write the following:     "Today, it is well known that communism is responsible for more deaths than even national socialism."   Then, Word corrects it by capitalizing "National Socialism."   Is it always meant to be capitalized? I am simply referencing the ideology, not necessarily the Third Reich. Word didn't bother to correct "communism." I suppose since there was only one instance of Nazism (on a national scale at least) it could be considered a proper noun. Is there any online resource that can tell me what visa rules are for passport holders of a specific country? When thinking about travelling, I often have to think about a place to visit, and then look up visa rules for that particular country. This can be a fairly painful process because official government sites can often be hard to find, and advice on (say) guidebooks or Wikitravel tends to be generic.  Is there any resource where I can enter my nationality/residency, and then look up a list of visa rules for various countries? What are the consequences of using a low-wattage USB-C power supply with a MacBook Pro? Dynamically Create a generic type for template I'm programming WCF using the ChannelFactory which expects a type in order to call the CreateChannel method. For example:   IProxy proxy = ChannelFactory&lt;IProxy&gt;.CreateChannel(...);   In my case I'm doing routing so I don't know what type my channel factory will be using. I can parse a message header to determine the type but I hit a brick wall there because even if I have an instance of Type I can't pass that where ChannelFactory expects a generic type.   Another way of restating this problem in very simple terms would be that I'm attempting to do something like this:  string listtype = Console.ReadLine(); // say "System.Int32" Type t = Type.GetType( listtype); List&lt;t&gt; myIntegers = new List&lt;&gt;(); // does not compile, expects a "type" List&lt;typeof(t)&gt; myIntegers = new List&lt;typeof(t)&gt;(); // interesting - type must resolve at compile time?   Is there an approach to this I can leverage within C#? What is the best way to filter a Java Collection? How to retrieve multiple rows from database in PHP Why did skilled wizards use He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Pursuant to , it's plausible that the typical witch or wizard would use 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named' (if they assume Taboo Spell is intact after death of Voldemort). But, why would the Aurors and those in the Ministry of Magic (who had first rate protection) also use it? Even Snape (the Half-Blood Prince) hesitated to say 'Voldemort', and he was under the protection of Dumbledore, Dumbledore being the only wizard Voldemort ever feared.  What was the point of the Death Eaters being scared to say 'Voldemort' when, ostensibly, Voldemort wasn't even alive? Yes, it's true that some believed Voldemort would return, but, at the time, it was just that -- a belief. Were people scared that the Death Eaters might give a list of all those who used Voldemort's name to Voldemort upon his return? Prove: The pre-image of an ideal is an ideal. Let $\phi : R \to S$ be a homomorphism. If $N$ is an ideal of $S$, then $\phi ^{-1} (N)$ is an ideal of $R$.