Probably a suggestion to who cannot make Ubuntu 14.04 work in Parallels

Discussion in 'Linux Virtual Machine' started by Jacob Fung, Apr 28, 2014.

  1. Jacob Fung

    Jacob Fung Bit poster

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    Hi All,
    after trying many times, I would like share some my "thought" to tackle the missing menu bar
    but first of all, please forgive my english

    1. after installing the Parallels Tools,
    2. use Ctr + Alt + Fn + F1 and then log in as USER account
    3. cd /etc/X11
    4. sudo mv xorg.conf.<date> xorg.conf
    5. cd
    6. sudo rm -rf ~/.config
    7. sudo restart

    if still cannot work properly,
    try Ctr + Alt + Fn + F1 again with USER account, and try to
    cd ~/.config
    to see the folder still exist or not, if yes, repeat 6. to remove it
    after that
    check Ctr + Alt + Fn + F2
    to make sure the ~/.config are removed
    and so on till to F6
    then
    Ctr + Alt + Fn + F7 to return to GUI

    it should work...hopefully
     
  2. BryanCar

    BryanCar Bit poster

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    Thank you - that cured my problem on installing 14.04 using Parallels on iMac


     
  3. dcortesi

    dcortesi Junior Member

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    Wish I had found this earlier -- yes, exactly this: after install of Parallels Tools, there is no file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. As a result, the problem I found was that the display settings did not offer any choice of screen resolutions. Doing the above to create an xorg.conf (even without editing it) and after restart I had a choice of screen sizes.
     

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