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Same problem here. According to the changelog for the Ubuntu Trusty release (14.04), libcruft was removed from the package because it no longer exists upstream: > octave (3.8.0~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=medium...

Just want to chime in that I have the same problem on E17. What's the point of putting Linux on a Macbook Air if you can't also run the most...

Understandable. It looks like E17 allows you to disable its xsettings daemon -- specifically in order to run the GNOME or KDE one for situations like this. I'll give that...

Just wanted to follow up that E17 allows you to run GNOME settings (and lightum) at startup, which solves the problem nicely. XFCE might have a similar option (e.g. disable...