Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] No power management GUI? How can I deactivate suspend to RAM?

2010-07-14 Thread John Zoidberg
Temporary radical solution I used: Added exit 0 at the beginning of /usr/lib/pm-utils/bin/pm-action ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] first impression about lubuntu from lubuntu.net iso and it's netbook mode

2010-07-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, glad you like it :-) The styles, wallpaper, button order etc. etc. Can be found at Preferences -- Openbox Configuration. Gtk2 themes can be found with any search engine, a couple of good places to head for free ones are http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2 http://www.deviantart.com/ (search for

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] No power management GUI? How can I deactivate suspend to RAM?

2010-07-14 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le mercredi 14 juillet 2010 à 02:34 +0100, John Zoidberg a écrit : Is there any power management GUI in Lubuntu? Right click on the icon of the battery in the notification area (bottom right), and click on Preferences to open the GUI. Regards, Julien Lavergne

[Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
The following text is in Spanish... Estimados: Primero los quiero felicitar por su excelente trabajo con Lubuntu, todo funciona bastante bien. Les quiero comentar que uso éste sistema operativo en un Compaq 1700 (1000mhz, 256...@100mhz) y me surgen los siguientes problemas: 1. Chromium es

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:40:19 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: I want to help with Lubuntu but i have no programming skills... how can i help? If you go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu there is some information there, such 'Help test Lubutu' and 'Getting involved'.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread John Zoidberg
Slightly off-topic:    3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is    heavier but is a real working tool. I do 95% of my 'office' work with Abiword, Gnumerics, Osmo and xpad.  Only rarely  do I require OOo, and usually that is to import some Excel spreadsheet.were

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Woodhead
If you tweak openoffice to use less ram, simple On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, John Zoidberg zohn.joidb...@gmail.comwrote: Slightly off-topic: 3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is heavier but is a real working tool. I do 95% of my 'office' work

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:23:58 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: I use OOo a lot, since it's the only that can import correctly ms files and here (Chile) everybody use windows and ms office, so for me it's the only way to do what i need. This said, gnome office don't have

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, If you need firefox, Open office etc., then maybe you should have a look at xubuntu? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu that is the lower resource version of Ubuntu (gnome) that includes the most part of it. Lubuntu is a departure from open office, etc. There is nothing to stop you installing

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: First of all, i'm not complaining, i'm just saying that a program is better than another, but the reasons to use abiword and gnumeric are quite solid so i wont say anything else about that. Second, i've found WICD, an app that could replace network manager in lubuntu 10.10 to be far

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, it's usually at this point I get shouted at. WICD is interesting, but we've had far more success with http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=92 You must however understand that such postings cannot be supported by the team. A lot of the things over there are either on the Wiki area, or