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sudo apt-get --fix-broken --purge autoremove gnome ...did not work. . . . or you might have to add the names of all the packages that were successfully installed from your action to the end of this command (each separated by a whitespace). Yikes, that's like 100 packages. Time for some power tools....

One of my ideas is to tell my system that mdm satisfies the dependency for gdm, and then complete the installation. But I don't know how to do that.

I wanted to try out Ubuntu's GNOME packages, so I typed this: sudo apt-get install gnome It didn't complete the installation because gdm conflicts with mdm. But now I can't figure out how to back it out. Any suggestions? I've already tried every variation of sudo apt-get [auto]remove [--purge] gnome...

BTW... apt-get remove --purge gnome-core? kevin@freyja ~ $ sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnom...

Hmm. Would it be reasonable to suggest that MDM should satisfy a requirement for GDM? Can I alter my own package database so that it does, at least temporarily? (This is taking a new direction, maybe I should start a new thread...)

It seems silly to have them conflict over an image resource. Or are there more files that conflict, but it only reports the first one?

What if I use --force-yes to complete the installation of gdm? I just want to try gnome3.

Bump. Did you ever find a solution to this? I tried to install the gnome package and ran into this packaging bug. Now I can't install or uninstall anything, and I don't know how to resolve it.

input { color: black !important; background: white !important; -moz-appearance: none !important; } textarea { color: black !important; background: white !important; -moz-appearance: none !important; } button { color: inherit !important; background: inherit !important; -moz-appearance: none !importa...

Actually, that code does nothing. It seems that the tooltip background color is inherited from the system no matter what, and the tooltip text color is light gray no matter what. Another userContent.css quirk is that buttons use the colors specified for input fields, never the colors specified for b...

These are my woes: Eclipse inherits the background color of its tooltip-like "hovers" from the system. The color of links in those hovers is dark blue, and I can't figure out how to change it. I know the config file option to change the hover background color to something other than the sy...

Well, that's another issue. I clicked Menu > Control Center > Appearance, then clicked the Customize button and the Colors tab. The selection buttons for tooltip color are grayed out. (Actually kind of a speckly pattern. Inactive and inaccessible, anyway.) I installed gnome-color-chooser to customiz...

I'm unable to change the text color of content tooltips in FF5. The background color is inherited correctly, and all the colors of Chrome tooltips are inherited correctly. It's only the text color of content tooltips that's stuck as light gray. Is this a FF bug? Anyone know a better workaround than ...

Audiohacks for great justice! Thanks, wyrdoak.

Good info, thanks! I'm using Mint 11, and turning off my Synaptics trackpad with gpointing-device-settings seems to have worked. It's stayed off for a few hours now. I'll try touchpad-indicator later.

Installed gnome-alsamixer as an interim fix. Still missing the volume control in the system tray...

PulseAudio is still complete garbage after... how many years? So I apt-get autoremoved it. Sound works perfectly now, no crackling when I change the volume, apps share the sound card nicely, etc. Hooray! The problem is that gnome-volume-control and gnome-volume-control-applet still try to use Pulse....

I understand they need money, but annoying the hell out of users is not the way to do it. Precisely. It would be acceptable if the full functionality of Google were preserved, but this crippleware is simply hideous. And it's all the more awful because Mint 11 is otherwise so perfect, and because th...