try telling my father that he has to do CTRL+ALT+DELETE in order to shut
down his computer. I'm sure he's going to take out the power line and wait
until the battery drop all his charge, if it happens to him.

seriously Rex, a non-techie user can't know the CTRL-ALT-DEL combination.
not all ubuntu users come from Windows, my father doesn't.

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:39 AM, ralemi <email address hidden> wrote:

> @rupert and Christian: Sorry guys, but what do you mean "it can
> effectively lock an inexperienced user in to their system with no way of
> exiting"? All one has to do is press CTRL-ALT-DEL and the shutdown
> window will pop up. if "Ubuntu is also aimed at the average non-techie
> user coming from Windows" then that user knows of the key combination
> and will instinctively try it right away.
>
> Cheers,
> Rex
>
> --
> visual corruption affecting several panel applets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in Compiz: Invalid
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: Unknown
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
> I'm using karmic x86_64, updated as of 2009-09-30.
>
> It's very hard to describe the bug, so a screen shot is attached.
>
> As seen on the screen shot, after start up the notification area gets
> scrambled, it shows, in case of this screen shot, two volume control icons,
> one of them is the actual volume control icon, and the other one is just a
> copy of it, it just sits there, clicking on it doesn't do anything, and
> right clicking on it will bring the standard notification area sub-menu.
> Also missing here is a network manager icon.
>
> However:
> The phantom icon can be a clone of any other icon in the notification area.
> I've seen already phantoms of bluez icons, network manager icons and so on.
> And the missing icon,can also be any of the other icons, there is no rule or
> consistency :)
>
> Also, killing the application with a missing icon will remove the phantom
> icon, starting the application afterwards will show a correct functioning
> icon.
> In the case of this screen shot, the missing icon was of a nm-applet, so
> after I killed the nm-applet, one of the volume icons (the phantom one)
> disappeared,  I then started the nm-applet again, and the correct icon for
> it appeared and worked as intended.
>
> I haven't seen any related messages in the logs for this.
> If you need more information and/or some additional testing,I will be glad
> to do it.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Sep 30 17:31:38 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> EDIT (RodGer):
>  I'm adding the description from the report I've done for a similar problem
> on my system which is not a 64 bit system. I also marked my report as
> duplicate (bug #484547)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Nov 18 01:04:57 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
>
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>
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