by: Brooks Swinnerton on April 30, 2010
| Posted in: Blog > Technology
Just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop on a parallels 5 VM today. Of course one of the first things that I jumped for was the visual effects, but kept running into a pesky error message saying "Desktop effects could not be enabled."
So how do you fix it? Easy.
Open up the terminal: Applications > Utilities > Terminal
and edit the following file with the command: nano /etc/ld.so.conf
And we'll want to add /usr/lib to the top of the file.
After that run ldconfig in the terminal to rebuild the loader cache and you should be good!
Keywords: Ubuntu, LTS, 10.04, Parallels, Virtual Machine, Visual Effects, Desktop effects could not be enabled, Mac, Apple, Macintosh
Posted by bswinnerton on October 18, 2010
Yeah, no problem dezco88. Sorry I wasn't more concise.
All of the steps in this article are done in the application Terminal, which can be opened from navigating to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
Once there type in the following: nano /etc/ld.so.conf. Nano is an in-terminal text editor that allows you to edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf (a configuration file).
What you'll want to do once you're in nano is add the text /usr/lib to the top of the file.
To exit out of nano press ctrl x. It will then ask if you want to save, type y. You should now see the same sort of lines as you did when you first opened terminal now.
Type ldconfig which is a command to rebuild the loader cache.
Once all of that is done you can close out of terminal, you're all set.
Posted by dezco88 on August 4, 2010
Could you explain in better detail. Im a newbie