Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Thanks, everyone -- I've successfully resolved both these questions!

-PT

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote:

 I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation
 is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have
 correct drivers for everything).  Most things are working fine, but I have a
 couple of minor questions.

 1.  In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make the navigation bar the
 default when looking at folders (ie, the window in which one can type a
 location).  I can make any particular window give me a nav bar by hitting
 Ctrl-L, but I would like that to be the default.

 2.  On Lenny, there was a menu app which, amongst other things, did CPU
 speed-testing.  I believe it also showed the properties of the various
 hardware (processor, memory, hard drive, etc).  Is that still available?  I
 can't find it on the menus (alas, I can't remember the name; I only had
 Lenny for a few days).

 Thanks in advance for any advice,
 -PT



A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is
all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have correct
drivers for everything).  Most things are working fine, but I have a couple
of minor questions.

1.  In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make the navigation bar the
default when looking at folders (ie, the window in which one can type a
location).  I can make any particular window give me a nav bar by hitting
Ctrl-L, but I would like that to be the default.

2.  On Lenny, there was a menu app which, amongst other things, did CPU
speed-testing.  I believe it also showed the properties of the various
hardware (processor, memory, hard drive, etc).  Is that still available?  I
can't find it on the menus (alas, I can't remember the name; I only had
Lenny for a few days).

Thanks in advance for any advice,
-PT


Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Klistvud

Dne, 05. 06. 2010 23:28:58 je Peter Tenenbaum napisal(a):


2.  On Lenny, there was a menu app which, amongst other things, did  
CPU

speed-testing.  I believe it also showed the properties of the various
hardware (processor, memory, hard drive, etc).  Is that still  
available?  I
can't find it on the menus (alas, I can't remember the name; I only  
had

Lenny for a few days).


It's called hardinfo and you can check whether it's still there by  
trying to run it from a terminal. If it's been discontinued, you can  
always use the CLI standards: lshw, lspci, lsusb, but there are other  
similar tools you can find in your repositories (just search for  
related keywords in synaptic).


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Regards,

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Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
 Dne, 05. 06. 2010 23:28:58 je Peter Tenenbaum napisal(a):
 
 2.  On Lenny, there was a menu app which, amongst other things,
 did CPU
 speed-testing.  I believe it also showed the properties of the various
 hardware (processor, memory, hard drive, etc).  Is that still
 available?  I
 can't find it on the menus (alas, I can't remember the name; I
 only had
 Lenny for a few days).
 
 It's called hardinfo and you can check whether it's still there by
 trying to run it from a terminal. If it's been discontinued, you can
 always use the CLI standards: lshw, lspci, lsusb, but there are
 other similar tools you can find in your repositories (just search
 for related keywords in synaptic).
 

It's there. 

But worth thinking about is the System Monitor app. It can put 6 customized
graphs in your panel.  Then some nice extended info and System Monitor
itself is a right click from there.

Then there is cpufrequtils, which has a nice panel app. I used it to extend
my battery life by around 10% without any drop in performance that I have
noticed.

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Kind Regards,
Freeman

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answer. --Somebody


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Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Johan Grönqvist

2010-06-05 23:28, Peter Tenenbaum skrev:

I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the
workstation is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too
old to have correct drivers for everything).  Most things are working
fine, but I have a couple of minor questions.

1.  In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make the navigation bar the
default when looking at folders (ie, the window in which one can type a
location).  I can make any particular window give me a nav bar by
hitting Ctrl-L, but I would like that to be the default.




If you open the gnome configuration manager (gconf-editor), go to apps 
- nautilus - preferences, and check the box next to 
always_use_location_entry, it might work. In my 90-seconds of testing, 
it seemed to work.


Hope it helps

/ johan


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