Re: [Dorset] mouse pointer?

2018-01-01 Thread John Palmer
Sorry : I meant Tim not Terry. -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Tim
On 01/01/18 17:24, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, So no; I don't think many of us have thought about building our own distro for very long :-) All true. For those that want to dabble and see how a system is put together, there's http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Cheers, Ralph. There is

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > So no; I don't think many of us have thought about building our own > distro for very long :-) All true. For those that want to dabble and see how a system is put together, there's http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 1 January 2018 15:19:58 GMT Zed Beevor wrote: > Have you guys ever thought about building you own distribution ?. > Combined effort project and not loan wolf. Zed, It's a lot of hard work and when it's finished, there's a lot more hard work keeping it up to date with the latest

[Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Zed Beevor
Have you guys ever thought about building you own distribution ?. Combined effort project and not loan wolf. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE

Re: [Dorset] mouse pointer?

2018-01-01 Thread Tim
On 01/01/18 13:03, John Palmer wrote: Happy New Year to all. Can anyone point me towards any way of making the ordinary X pointer bigger or more prominent, for the benefit of a user with impaired sight? Xubuntu used here... Thanks in advance John Using current xubuntu here try the following:

[Dorset] No Meeting Tomorrow.

2018-01-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Happy New Year! A reminder there's no meeting tomorrow night, the first Tuesday of the month. The meeting is a week tomorrow, Tuesday 2018-01-09 20:00. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] mouse pointer?

2018-01-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > Can anyone point me towards any way of making the ordinary X pointer > bigger or more prominent, for the benefit of a user with impaired > sight? Xubuntu used here... I'm using the XFCE desktop, but not Xubuntu. The `Settings' → `Mouse and Touchpad' menu item runs