Mike Walsh
Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:58:53 pm
Evening all.
Now then; something very, VERY strange has just happened to my system.
I'm running Zorin Core OS 9, in dual-boot with Ubuntu 14.04, on which this is based. Both OSs have been installed, and happily running alongside each other, since the start of June...without ANY problems.
I logged in about half an hour ago, to discover that the greater part of my GUI has reset itself to the Unity colour scheme/theme as used in Ubuntu!
Curiouser and curiouser, the Theme Changer now has NO effect. I logged out last time with it running on the Zorin 'Blue' theme (which I like!); since logging on this evening, it was on the light theme (except it looks like Unity), and trying both 'Blue' and 'Dark' doesn't seem to do anything at all.
Has anybody ever come across this one?
I tweaked Ubuntu 4 or 5 days ago with the Unity Tweak Tool, to give it Win 7 effect icons, but I can't see how that could affect Zorin. I have NEVER heard of cross-contamination between Oss before. I appear to have suddenly acquired Win 7 icons in both browsers, and Unity theme icons in the taskbar, and elsewhere in the system.....and a strange mixture of the two in Docky..!
The only other thing I've done, which has been in the last 24 hours, is to install the 'Grub Customizer' in Ubuntu in order to personalise the Grub menu.....but that should only affect the Grub menu, surely?
Anybody got any ideas on this one ?? I'm stumped. I've re-booted 2 or 3 times, in case it was just one of those one-off flukes, but the problem persists. The system is about ten years old, although it's had very little use during that time.....but in recent weeks, the hard drive does seem to be running a LOT more than it ever used to; at times, almost constantly, chattering away to itself like one of those old-fashioned Telex machines!
I wonder if it's on its way out? Either that, or I've acquired, somehow, a Linux 'virus'.....but that can't happen in Linux, can it? Apart from that, the OS still works exactly as it should (!) Thoughts, anybody?
UPDATE:-
Upon further investigation, I appear to have Unity-style drop-down menus on the desktop and taskbar, although the right-click menu for the Zorin menu logo looks so much like Win 95 it's untrue... Both browsers (Firefox AND Chrome) now appear almost identical to my mate's Vista versions, and context menus elsewhere in the system look like an eclectic mix of Win 95, Win2000 & Win XP. It's almost as though the Unity Tweak Tool has somehow migrated across the partition from one OS to the other.....but I can't see how that's even possible, much less actually happen.
Regards,
Mike.
Now then; something very, VERY strange has just happened to my system.
I'm running Zorin Core OS 9, in dual-boot with Ubuntu 14.04, on which this is based. Both OSs have been installed, and happily running alongside each other, since the start of June...without ANY problems.
I logged in about half an hour ago, to discover that the greater part of my GUI has reset itself to the Unity colour scheme/theme as used in Ubuntu!
Curiouser and curiouser, the Theme Changer now has NO effect. I logged out last time with it running on the Zorin 'Blue' theme (which I like!); since logging on this evening, it was on the light theme (except it looks like Unity), and trying both 'Blue' and 'Dark' doesn't seem to do anything at all.
Has anybody ever come across this one?
I tweaked Ubuntu 4 or 5 days ago with the Unity Tweak Tool, to give it Win 7 effect icons, but I can't see how that could affect Zorin. I have NEVER heard of cross-contamination between Oss before. I appear to have suddenly acquired Win 7 icons in both browsers, and Unity theme icons in the taskbar, and elsewhere in the system.....and a strange mixture of the two in Docky..!
The only other thing I've done, which has been in the last 24 hours, is to install the 'Grub Customizer' in Ubuntu in order to personalise the Grub menu.....but that should only affect the Grub menu, surely?
Anybody got any ideas on this one ?? I'm stumped. I've re-booted 2 or 3 times, in case it was just one of those one-off flukes, but the problem persists. The system is about ten years old, although it's had very little use during that time.....but in recent weeks, the hard drive does seem to be running a LOT more than it ever used to; at times, almost constantly, chattering away to itself like one of those old-fashioned Telex machines!
I wonder if it's on its way out? Either that, or I've acquired, somehow, a Linux 'virus'.....but that can't happen in Linux, can it? Apart from that, the OS still works exactly as it should (!) Thoughts, anybody?
UPDATE:-
Upon further investigation, I appear to have Unity-style drop-down menus on the desktop and taskbar, although the right-click menu for the Zorin menu logo looks so much like Win 95 it's untrue... Both browsers (Firefox AND Chrome) now appear almost identical to my mate's Vista versions, and context menus elsewhere in the system look like an eclectic mix of Win 95, Win2000 & Win XP. It's almost as though the Unity Tweak Tool has somehow migrated across the partition from one OS to the other.....but I can't see how that's even possible, much less actually happen.
Regards,
Mike.
