@mitu thanks. I'll try this option and see if it helps. I'm using advmame because I'm trying to get a good looking vector setup. I've been cycling through all of the emulators to see which gives me the "best" results.

Hi @mitu ,

Yes, that worked! Thank you so much! I remember I renamed this file, I didn't realise those lines were needed.

Thanks a lot!

@DjDiabolik

You may also like this solution (autohiding the top-panel) :
https://fostips.com/auto-hide-top-panel-debian-ubuntu-fedora/
I used it for my VM.

Sadly, I run into a lot more issues with Ubuntu 22.04 :
my post about issues with Ubuntu 22.04

@directandrew said in Question on Ubuntu laptop with two user accounts:

If i just install on one account, does Retropie require Admin to run correctly on Ubuntu?

Yes, but that's needed just for installing packages by the RetroPie-Setup script, not for running the games.

If so, i would need to elevate my "son" account from standard to Admin on the laptop.
During use, Retropie may look to modify folders below:
...

Those folders are always owned by the non-admin user that was used for installation, you don't require any special/admin rights to access or write to them. They're used mainly by the emulators for saving configs / game progress, so there's no need for extra rights to work with them.

@Neo-Rio said in Retroarch build failure on PC:

currently trying to build retroarch fails with an error about "HEAD is now in branch 'retropie-v1.10.0' " and "Error running "git checkout retropie-v.1.12.0"
some patch branch on retropie isn't on github as expected to be or something's going on there.

More likely your local source copy is still present, because v1.10.0 fails to build with Ubuntu 22.04. Clean up the source folder before attempting another install.