In Hardy Ubuntu 8.04 screen glitch after installing and removing wine

Also, when I am using a program, especially the internet, after a few minutes, my program window blocks the top and bottom toolbars on the desktop, as well as the top portion of the program window (the part that has the name and the min, max, and close buttons). When I go into full screen mode using F11 and then out again, it fixes it, but a few minutes later it reverts.

Hello Julia,

Are you using Compiz Fusion (3D effects) ? What is your window manager (ie. are you under Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu) ? What is your GPU card (ATI, Nvidia, Intel, SiS ) and what drivers are you using (check the window "Drivers of peripherals" in System > Administration) ?

These few infos may help us to find what's actually wrong.

Are the 3D effects when the window rotates before popping up? and when you click on a toolbar icon it expands before opening? becuase I do have those activated, although they have been on since I installed Ubuntu on my computer. I believe I have an Intel card, but I'm not sure. How would I find that out? I couldn't find "Drivers of peripherals" under System > Administration, but under my "Hardware Drivers" it says "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system", and then it lists the Device driver - "Broadcom B43 wireless driver".

I should say that I did notice one change in my system and it happened after I reinstalled Hardy Ubuntu 8.04 on my computer. The first time I installed it, I was using Gnome Ubuntu and my wireless driver wasn't working (I had to use an external wireless driver in my USB port). It still didn't work the second time when I first installed Hardy, but when I installed wine I decided to reinstall it because I had accidentally deleted openoffice.org from my computer (I had originally wanted to just use openoffice.org 3.0 because of it's compatablility with Windows, but because I am new to this I accidentally deleted the core file on the old program, so it wouldn't upgrade). Once I had reinstalled Hardy on my computer, the wireless driver started working. Do you think it might have something to do with that? I will try disabling my wireless driver and using my external one if you think that would help. Thank you for your time and patience.

Hello Julia,

It definately doesn't have to do with your wireless driver, don't worry about it.

Just a piece of advice for the next time you lose OpenOffice : reinstall it instead of the whole system :) (you can install it via Add/Remove, or via the package manager Synaptics) For OpenOffice.org 3, see here : http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-0-in-Ubuntu-8-10-96449.shtml but if you're under Hardy Heron and not Intrepid Ibex, replace the line "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main" by "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main".

About your graphics card (GPU), if it's an Intel one, it would be nice if you could tell us which exactly, some old Intel GPUs are really weak. It would be cool if you could try to launch some 3D games on your computer to see how your GPU reacts , if you get a black screen, etc (try OpenArena for instance). What you described is a part of the 3D effects provided by compiz. If you want to have more 3D effects, you can install the compiz config setting manager (just type "compiz" in the search filter of the Add/Remove window and you'll find it).

In order to know which GPU you're using, type "lspci | grep VGA" (displays PCI plugged hardware, and "grep" filters and only keeps the lines containing VGA) in a console. If you get nothing, try to paste here the result of "sudo lshw" (displays all hardware, the output may be big but we should find your GPU amongst it).

I don't know why, but I used my computer almost all weekend, and the screen didn't glitch once. I didn't do anything to try and fix it though, it just stopped. I did download some updates, so maybe one of them fixed my problem. Thanks for all your help