I am trying to get a mining rig going, but I first want to do a few things in the gui (e.g. making two accounts, etc).   I am trying to use my desktop for mining, as it has an Nvidia 9500 GT.

I am able to get the Bitcoin client gui working in Knoppix after some chmod work, but that is on my laptop.  My desktop is running Ubuntu 11.04, but the Bitcoin gui never comes up, and I get no output in the terminal.   I get plenty of network traffic and the debug.log file mentions downloading and connecting, therefore I can assume that bitcoin is downloading blocks.   Bitcoin is functioning but not showing much for its efforts.

Bitcoin 0.3.21 gui works in Knoppix (laptop, 32-bit).
Bitcoin 0.3.21 and 0.3.19 gui fails in Ubuntu 11.04 (desktop, amd 64-bit, near-new install).

I am thinking that Unity is the problem, but I have no proof.

What do ya'll think I can do to get the Bitcoin client gui working on my desktop?


Thanks in advance.