Hello,
This is my first post, only my second time running Pinguy OS, and I'm a Linux newbie. I'm fluent in Windows XP and Windows 7, but in the Linux world I've used only Mint before (and even that, only half a dozen times). I have a great deal to learn, and I'm currently very frustrated.
I'm running Pinguy OS live from a YUMI-created multiboot flash drive. I was trying to explore a bit while also reading the introductory posts here and looking at the tutorials, but suddenly problems are happening faster than I can find and follow the solutions.
In no particular order (because I don't recall what came first) I was trying to learn how to find and launch terminal, how to kill a frozen process, how my Firefox window (of about six tabs) became two windows, with one showing just one tab and the other showing the rest.... and more that I've forgotten. Each time, before I could find and implement a solution, I gained a new problem!
The last thing I was doing was following instructions for doing something with the terminal. But unlike in Mint I couldn't find the terminal. So I was clicking around and clicked on Docky. All of a sudden all the icons in that row were frozen, as were all those in the column on the left. The Docky icon was raised up and enlarged in response to my click, but that's as far as it got.
Since I no longer had a working Firefox shortcut to come back here and ask for help, I figured out how to launch Firefox using the menu in the upper left. But I can't figure out how to restore the two Firefox windows I already had open! So now I may have several running Firefox processes, but only this latest one is visible. And I had learned just enough to be dangerous, from reading a post about killing processes. I used Ctrl-Alt-Delete to kill the unresponsive Docky, and now I can't see anything that restores my previous Firefox window, which had open tabs I was working in!![Angry]( "Angry")
Honestly, though this may understandably sound disjointed I was trying to do/learn just one thing at a time, methodically. But before I knew it I was mired in Linux quicksand. Now I'm up way too late and feeling sleepy, and there's too much to explain or even recall, all at once. So my current and most urgent issue is:
Why did the Docky icon freeze, what was I supposed to see when I clicked it, and is there any way to get it -- and my previous Firefox windows -- back without restarting Pinguy OS?
Incidentally, I'm on a computer with a 2 TB hard drive, the majority of which is filled, 12 GB of RAM, and an Intel Core i7 processor.
Thanks. I'm off to bed, and hope to see some responses in the morning.
This is my first post, only my second time running Pinguy OS, and I'm a Linux newbie. I'm fluent in Windows XP and Windows 7, but in the Linux world I've used only Mint before (and even that, only half a dozen times). I have a great deal to learn, and I'm currently very frustrated.
I'm running Pinguy OS live from a YUMI-created multiboot flash drive. I was trying to explore a bit while also reading the introductory posts here and looking at the tutorials, but suddenly problems are happening faster than I can find and follow the solutions.
In no particular order (because I don't recall what came first) I was trying to learn how to find and launch terminal, how to kill a frozen process, how my Firefox window (of about six tabs) became two windows, with one showing just one tab and the other showing the rest.... and more that I've forgotten. Each time, before I could find and implement a solution, I gained a new problem!
The last thing I was doing was following instructions for doing something with the terminal. But unlike in Mint I couldn't find the terminal. So I was clicking around and clicked on Docky. All of a sudden all the icons in that row were frozen, as were all those in the column on the left. The Docky icon was raised up and enlarged in response to my click, but that's as far as it got.
Since I no longer had a working Firefox shortcut to come back here and ask for help, I figured out how to launch Firefox using the menu in the upper left. But I can't figure out how to restore the two Firefox windows I already had open! So now I may have several running Firefox processes, but only this latest one is visible. And I had learned just enough to be dangerous, from reading a post about killing processes. I used Ctrl-Alt-Delete to kill the unresponsive Docky, and now I can't see anything that restores my previous Firefox window, which had open tabs I was working in!
Honestly, though this may understandably sound disjointed I was trying to do/learn just one thing at a time, methodically. But before I knew it I was mired in Linux quicksand. Now I'm up way too late and feeling sleepy, and there's too much to explain or even recall, all at once. So my current and most urgent issue is:
Why did the Docky icon freeze, what was I supposed to see when I clicked it, and is there any way to get it -- and my previous Firefox windows -- back without restarting Pinguy OS?
Incidentally, I'm on a computer with a 2 TB hard drive, the majority of which is filled, 12 GB of RAM, and an Intel Core i7 processor.
Thanks. I'm off to bed, and hope to see some responses in the morning.