Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major "must fix before Beta" issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > >> Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory footprint > >> of the installer for 11.04. > > The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a > graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu? > Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list "What d

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] ozone theme

2011-02-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Rafael: For the round corners of the logout box, what if i change the gtk theme?? It will stick with that color and won't match with my color scheme :S I think that those corners should be as always just for those who like to change colors from time to time... :) -- jpxsat ___

[Lubuntu-desktop] [Lubuntu-Desktop] Postler?

2011-02-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi everybody: Has anybody tried Postler on Lubuntu?? I've read somewhere that it consumes only 7mb Ram! (don't know about CPU) I would test it myself but the packages on the PPA are only for Maverick and Natty :( Someone can try it to tell if its suitable to run with Lubuntu? I'm excited with the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] ozone theme

2011-02-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Rafael: Yes, i have Murrine installed :) The theme as you see in the screenshot occurs to me in my two-old lubuntu machines. Maybe it's an outdated package in 10.04?? (Strange since i use to have Ozone running on my laptop...) The theme is correctly installed (copied) to /home/#user#/.themes too I

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Pidgin Suggestion

2011-02-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > Wich process should i check to see if it's heavier than before?? > - Only pidgin I think, and all RAM consumption, just to be sure. > There's no difference in with or wihtout it!! The system runs as perfect as before ;) Even better: those packages fix a little problem i did have with libnotify

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Audio players - some thoughts & RFC

2011-02-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/27 Yorvyk > Basically this would involve everybody using the same music to carry out > the measurements and also reporting the hardware used. Couldn't be more agree with you: a standard test to make the decision would be perfect to take a decision (and for everything should be this way)

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Audio players

2011-02-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/27 Jared Norris > On 27 February 2011 13:10, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > wrote: > > Mike: > > > > 2011/2/26 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > >> > >> 2011/2/26 Mike Nokel > >>> > >>> Hi! > >>> I have just

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Audio players

2011-02-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Mike: 2011/2/26 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > 2011/2/26 Mike Nokel > > Hi! >> >> I have just tested some audio players in my Lubuntu Maverick and I want to >> share my experience with you. First of all, my testing machine was Asus EEE >> PC 1015 pn. It has At

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Pidgin Suggestion

2011-02-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Finally understood what you mean: Those packages affect every libnotify action! And i must say they get way nicer... wich process should i check to see if it's heavier than before?? 2011/2/25 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > 2011/2/25 Julien Lavergne > >> Le jeudi 24 février 2

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Default launchers on panel

2011-02-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/26 Yorvyk > I've installed Lubuntu for a couple of novice users recently and. among > numerous other questions, one that was asked, and has been asked by windows > users as well, is what use is 'minimise all windows '. I have no idea as I > always remove it. This brought me to the questi

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Menu

2011-02-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/25 Phil Lockhart > sorry, I mean the Ozone menu icon. I've fallen back to the default as > it's easier to see > On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 23:25 +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote: > > Le vendredi 25 février 2011 à 20:59 +, Yorvyk a écrit : > > > Could System Tools and Preferences be placed in a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Well, at least 10.04 runs well on it... don't know if there's any project to compile kernels for old cpus... 2011/2/25 PYROcomp > - You don't have to throw away your old machine, since it will > revamp a machine starting from a P2* and above giving you a full and ready > to use desktop in your o

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Add gucharmap to the default installed apps

2011-02-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/25 Yorvyk > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:53:20 - > Chris Druif wrote: > > > Hai everyone, > > > > Seeing we are trying to bring the Ubuntu feeling to LXDE, we should try > > to give the "full" experience, but lightweight. Seeing Ubuntu comes with > > a character map installed, I would like

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > For me the MOST important function would be support for older machines. We have to start from one fact: if Lubuntu can run in an acceptable way in an old machine, it will run incredibly on a newer machine. > Let me use it with external monitors/TV as a basic media player (HDMI out) For me, i

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Pidgin Suggestion

2011-02-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/25 Julien Lavergne > Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 23:32 -0300, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a > écrit : > > Can't really tell any difference... so i ran pidgin with and without > > it and there's no difference seeing it with xfce4-taskmanager > > It

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Idea/Suggestion to say goodbye to xcreensaver

2011-02-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > I have never seen a justifiable reason for there existence apart from > locking the machine if required. Personally, i never lock the screen but i'm asuming that's a feature needed. > Also, I hate screen locks on my machines. I would NOT want my screen to > lock every time it went blank. H

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Pidgin Suggestion

2011-02-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > And it probably means that those library will be loaded. That's correct :) (that's why i've posted the kb from each package) > Do you have the difference between the 2 notifications, with and without > pidgin-libnotify ? Can't really tell any difference... so i ran pidgin with and without it

[Lubuntu-desktop] Idea/Suggestion to say goodbye to xcreensaver

2011-02-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Lubuntu team: Since Lubuntu is targeted for low-spec computers, xcreensaver is not a good choice to use since it causes problems such as: - In my three (old) machines I must kill the xcreensaver daemon in order to be able to install the system. - The idea is to make a good-looking effect but with

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Pidgin Suggestion

2011-02-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > > Since Lubuntu uses libnotify for NM, transmission, power-management & > > Gnome-Mplayer I would like to make a very humble suggestion package to > > be included on lubuntu: pidgin-libnotify. It would be nice to have an > > unified looking desktop. I'm testing it since a few days and it works

[Lubuntu-desktop] Pidgin Suggestion

2011-02-23 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Team: Since Lubuntu uses libnotify for NM, transmission, power-management & Gnome-Mplayer I would like to make a very humble suggestion package to be included on lubuntu: pidgin-libnotify. It would be nice to have an unified looking desktop. I'm testing it since a few days and it works great so fa

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] text files bug

2011-02-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/22 Andrew Woodhead > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset < > jpx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> People: >> >> I don't know how to exactly fill this bug about text files (and too for >> .rtf!?), so if anyone can

[Lubuntu-desktop] text files bug

2011-02-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
People: I don't know how to exactly fill this bug about text files (and too for .rtf!?), so if anyone can help me it would be great: A text file copied and then pasted from a device to another (i did it with my usb key to my hdd and viceversa) is marked as an executable file (and so, it doesn't op

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] debconf bug?

2011-02-19 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Jonathan: 2011/2/18 Jonathan Marsden > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/18/2011 12:02 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote: > > > So, according to you it doesn't affect that each time a package is > > installed or uninstalled the sy

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] debconf bug?

2011-02-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/18 Jonathan Marsden > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/18/2011 10:59 AM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote: > > > Installing Lubuntu 10.04 to a friend, i watched something strange > > while upgrading the system: > > > debconf:

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: "get lubuntu" on Lubuntu website

2011-02-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
People: Also it would be great if it could be 10.04.2 :) -- >> jpxsat >> Ubuntu user #29.157 (Lubuntu 10.04) >> Linux user #522.597 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] "get lubuntu" on Lubuntu website

2011-02-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/2/17 Duy Hung Tran > Hi, > > I notice that on Lubuntu website, in "get lubuntu" section the "release > notes" link takes us to Lucid release notes instead of Maverick. > > I remember that someone suggested before that we should have a specific > download page, we could put links to current a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu, energy efficiency and sustainable computing

2011-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi John: 1) Other Lubuntu users like me. Did the environment factor into your > decision to start using Lubuntu? Did you use it to bring an old machine > back to life? The reason i had to use this OS is that my machine was not working at all with XP and since with a P3 & 256 ram there's not a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Suggestion: Move these apps from "Preferences" to "System Tools" (submenus or not)

2011-02-12 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Guys: 2011/2/11 Jonathan Marsden > On 02/11/2011 04:43 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > > Thanks Jonathan. I can't see the benefit of the 2 sub-menu > > "Administration" and "System tools". Why not merged them into 1 ? 1 > > thing I like in the LXDE/Lubuntu menu is that everything is quickly > > av

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How many OSs do you use?

2011-02-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Various OS actually, for my business and my family i have only Ubuntu installed on those machines, and i have an old machine with win98 to get to work a very old dancing game :P My main machine uses only Lubuntu, after been trying many "faster" distros i finally installed it and loved Lubuntu so mu

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Little Problem with Ozone

2011-01-31 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
My mistake, i'm confirming the bug that we can't change the foreground color in lxpanel. 2011/1/30 神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) > >> I can't change LXPanel 0.5.6 foreground color in taskbar. And this is >> Clearlooks [image: :(] >> Any idea from mailing list? PCMan is adviced of this. I'm on blackout. >>

[Lubuntu-desktop] scsi adaptec card not detected

2011-01-20 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi list: I'm having a little problem with an old but cool scanner: an Agfa SnapScan 310 wich connects with an scsi adaptec card. Well, the problem is that when i type lsscsi the adaptec card is not shown (even as a root user), but in windows 98 it works... i tried every combination at the bios so

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] artwork

2011-01-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > I'm not sure, but it could have an impact on the resource needed for > running the theme Time ago, i tried several themes and I can confirm you that those engines have a considerably negative impact on system resources. -- jpxsat Lubuntu 10.04 _

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/1/14 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > Julien: > > The mentioned package is broken at synaptic, but the OS is working > perfectly so far after a few restarts... > Everything goes a little faster too :) > Now i'm waiting for orders chief! > > 2011/1/14 Jean-Pie

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Julien: The mentioned package is broken at synaptic, but the OS is working perfectly so far after a few restarts... Everything goes a little faster too :) Now i'm waiting for orders chief! 2011/1/14 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > Julien: > > I just uploaded a pcmanfm2 0.9.8 th

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Julien: I just uploaded a pcmanfm2 0.9.8 that should work better for lucid > users. > I've tested the PPA on my freshly installed Lubuntu 10.04 (correctly updated). Now the problem is that "pcmanfm 0.9.8 can't replace /usr/share/pcmanfm/uidesktop-pref.ui wich belongs too to package pcmanfm2" Hop

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-12 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/1/11 Julien Lavergne > You need to downgrade libfm, or to remove pcmanfm2 and install pcmanfm > from this repo. The pcmanfm2 update for 10.04 is not available yet. > Julien: I've uninstalled pcmanfm2 and then installed pcmanfm from the lxde repo. After reboot the computer was totally unusab

[Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-11 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi Team: Today i finally upgraded my 10.04 packages with the LXDE PPA released a time ago. So far so good (and faster) but when i tried to right click a file pcmanfm crashed... "maybe it's because i open files with one single click" i thought, so i go to preferences and pcmanfm crashed again! Simi

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 3G Modems + Happy New Year

2010-12-31 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
8&t=92 ? They work for some, alas > not for me :( > > Regards, > > Phill. > > On 31 December 2010 12:59, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote: > >> Hi people! >> >> Tomorrow will be another year, so i wanted to say to all of you "Happy >> New Year

[Lubuntu-desktop] 3G Modems + Happy New Year

2010-12-31 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi people! Tomorrow will be another year, so i wanted to say to all of you "Happy New Year" :) and take the opportunity to say a BIG thank you to the Lubuntu team... you're making a big distro... the best from where i'm standing ;) Also, wanted to ask if someone has any information about the progr

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Removing abiword in Synaptic removes "lubuntu-desktop"

2010-12-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
It would be nice if no message came at all, a few weeks ago i wanted to remove something and that message came and i scared a lot. For newbies and for a lot of people it's just something that they won't understand and they'll leave it like that. Plus, if it's not necessary it shouldn't even be ther

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default : control-center

2010-11-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Just tried this: >pcmanfm menu://applications/DesktopSettings >If the layout is not good, we can have a specialized menu file for it. Personally, i find it perfect, fast & clean, with no aditional programs, no aditional anything. It reminds me the no-fancy control center of wxp. The shortcut shoul

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default : control-center

2010-11-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
>You can launch it in a terminal : >Faster mode: tuquito-control-center fast >Could you test on your machine if it's faster ? Way faster for me, TCC starts in seconds and the python routine is about 40mb but it's correct since it's not something we use always. And Yorvik is right about the unpleas

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default: Replace xarchiver by file-roller

2010-11-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
File Roller +1 Works way better than xarchiver for me. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hiyas everybody: I picked another PC to see how is the resource consumption changing depending on the hardware, and the result is this: On a new machine (AMD Turion Dual Core M520, 3GB RAM ~ Lubuntu 10.10) Aqualung 4%CPU 32RAM Deadbeef 4%CPU 25RAM Audacious 4%CPU 17RAM On my old laptop (P3 700MH

[Lubuntu-desktop] Power Mangers

2010-11-23 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: I was wondering if someone tried xfce-power-manager on Lubuntu and how it behaves? i don't do it myself since i don't feel like i have the skills for it... And could someone tell me why is gnome-power-manager default on Lubuntu? Thought Gnome in general was the heavy option... Thanks a lot!

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default: Replace xarchiver by file-roller

2010-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
I would like to know if people tested it on a small configuration, to see if the behavior is also good enough. Running Lubuntu 10.04 at 760mhz & 256Ram File-Roller runs perfect. -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 (Lubuntu 10.04) Linux user #522.597 ___ Maili

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default : control-center

2010-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
I've tested tuquito-control-center on Lubuntu 10.04 and is not lighweight at all: over 40mb (dont remember cpu usage) and launching something takes 3 times longer than going directly to the same icon in "preferences" menu. Besides, it doesn't obey to the gtk theme and is extremly slow on my P3 mach

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default : remove Cheese

2010-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
The rest of my friends to who i've installed Lubuntu never have used Cheese, neither do i. It's something fancy, but not required. It should be something like a document or an app somewhere that says something like "Preferred Applications to..." make somethings extra, and there enumerate apps that

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
In my machine: Aqualung:28%CPU / 28 Mb Ram Deadbeef:15-17%CPU / 24 Mb Ram Audacious: 9%CPU / 19 Mb Ram (my favourite) For others: Less RAM consumption scenario: Deadbeef 80% CPU usage 23 MB RAM Aqualung50% CPU usage 26 MB RAM Less CPU consumption scenari

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Sorry, last line was: System without Audacious running: 86MB System with Audacious running: 93MB -- jpxsat ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lub

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi guys: Here is my apretiation from Audacious: RAM: 19MB (freshly started but decreasing in time) CPU: 9% Data from Xfcetaskmanager BUT my system before using Audacious was in 86MB and after in 93MB -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 (Lubuntu 10.04) Linux user #522.597 _

[Lubuntu-desktop] Xscreensaver & Power Manager

2010-11-11 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi People: Few days ago, i came to realize that i can't shut down xscreensaver. Actually, i don't use it at all since i only want mi screen to go black when a time has past... Well, the thing is that in the options in xscreensaver, i can kill the daemon BUT when i restart mi pc, xcreensaver is sti

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu 10.10 RMX

2010-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
*Good idea. But we don't have the ability to manage the theme globally in* *LXDE. The concept of "Theme" (like in GNOME) doesn't exist. But, that* *should not stop us to add some good extra artworks in an -extra* *packages.* I remembered the program that used to control the theme in win98... how

[Lubuntu-desktop] Strange (and good) behaviour on Lubuntu 10.04

2010-10-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi people: I just want to ask you all: am i the only one that since the last kernel actualization for 10.04 is expriencing an increase of battery time of about a 30%?? Is it normal that my battery now stand for almost 2 hours and never before it passed 1:20??? Also very weird, my ram consumption

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] cmov

2010-10-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > >> Is there any chance that we keep supporting these old machines? > > Taking the kernel package and add support for i586 and put > > it in the ppa would be much more appropiate. > > > Or perhaps Canonical agrees to build special i586 enabled kernels that > > lubuntu can use. > If you ask me,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Lubuntu GRUB and PLOP

2010-10-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > > PLOP is a boot manager that requires the presence of a bootloader > > (GRUB) to load the OS. > > What’s the point of PLOP? It appears to have no use to me, just another > layer to go wrong. > Am I missing something? > I agree with: Steve Cook (Yorvyk) -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 (Lubu

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu 10.10 and PCmanFM on default install

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
> > So what I'm mailing about is that what if gvfs-backends is a default part > of the .iso -image of Lubuntu 10.10? Maybe we could see it in next stable > release? I've seen lots of users who can't google as much as I can (and I'm > not even that good in it ;) and there fore they're a little lost

[Lubuntu-desktop] Update apps for 10.04

2010-10-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi list: I'm using 10.04 and like it a lot just the way it is right now, so i don't really want to upgrade to 10.10 I managed to install lubuntu-control-center, update-manager, evince and xpad, updated all apps and even installed ace of penguins to have a look on how Lubuntu is changing... Still,

[Lubuntu-desktop] Performance in 10.10?

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi list: I'm just wondering if 10.10 will be faster and less ram consuming than 10.04. I readed a bit around and someones tell it'll be better and others the opposite, so i don't really know who to believe. I have limited internet conection and an old piece of hardware, so downloading an ISO and

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-10-06 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Yeah, i know it's old... but only now i've get it to work I did what Julien told me to: *You can try to use the last development iso of Ubuntu, and see if the situation is better.* *You can also try using the last code from upstream using the xorg-edgers PPA (https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers) a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] plymouth

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
First: Isn't there a way to get a text based splashcreen without plymouth?? it would result a faster boot! (and less complicated?) Second: a text based installer seems to me an excellent idea to make the installation fast, since many of us and the rest of the possible users of lubuntu would possibl

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] plymouth

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Since Lubuntu is intended for low specs machines, 'splashscreen' could be just a text saying 'Lubuntu' and in the line under that one, 5 'o' appearing in a set of time, so it makes consistence with the idea of the distro (and trully think that this would me a lot easier to do and time saving to sta

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Strange Behaviour in lxmenu

2010-09-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
So, here's the deal: First, this strange behavior is not about lxmenu, but lxpanel (sorry). Second, the 'no apparent reason' i mentioned before would be touching Alt+F4 when i'm in no particular window... it only happen sometimes, i can't recreate it always! Hope someone has an idea about this an

[Lubuntu-desktop] Strange Behaviour in lxmenu

2010-09-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi people: Since a couple of weeks, when i do (win logo)+d , lxmenu disapears from screen. Normal behaviour earlier was that it stays in screen and every window were minimized... even in some ocasions (it has happened to me 3 times yet) lxmenu disapears with no apparent reason! A problem that come

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Evince?

2010-09-10 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi Andrew & Lubuntu team: It's the same for the others pdf viewers such as adobe, foxit, etc... in computers with a more powerful video card as mine (8mb) scrolling seems just fine (i have another pc with 128mb and it works perfect), but since Lubuntu it's made for low pcs we must think that peopl

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Evince?

2010-09-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Leszek: I'm not talking about the type of view, i'm talking about the scrolling effect to the eyes: very slow and laggy. I'm trying to file a suggestion but i can't log in to the evince page... -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 ___ Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Evince?

2010-09-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Ok, that seems to me a lot of good reasons. I'm giving Evince a try now and surprise! start of the program was very fast! but it consumes about 10mb more of ram than epdf (regardless of the zooming problem). And scrolling is slow and 'hard' (don't know how to describe it); in epdf scrolling was so

[Lubuntu-desktop] Evince?

2010-09-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: Reading the lubuntu news, i've found that the new pdf reader is evince... i thought we wanted to get a fast and independent OS, how is it working adding a gnome based application? It's faster than epdf and/or uses less ram than epdf? Just asking :) -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 __

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Idea for lxde menu

2010-09-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
To solve it that way... maybe we could suggest an enhancement to openbox? -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubunt

[Lubuntu-desktop] Idea for lxde menu

2010-09-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi guys: I've always wondered way in all the distros i've tried the button 'windows' (i think it's 'super') isn't used. I think that maybe there's a way to get it to work, but i think it would be a good idea to use this touch by * default* to show the lxde menu when pressed. What do you think? -

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-08-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: Thanks for helping me. Andrew, the output of: sudo lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Radeon Mobility M6 LY vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: p...@:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 32

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-08-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
t; > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset < > jpx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everybody: >> >> Since ubuntu 9.10 i have problems with the driver for my video card. It's >> an old Ati radeon mobility m6 and the way it works is w

[Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-08-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi everybody: Since ubuntu 9.10 i have problems with the driver for my video card. It's an old Ati radeon mobility m6 and the way it works is with the open driver provided by ubuntu for those cards 'cause the pivative driver doesn't work for me at all. Well, back in 9.10 the problem was that somet

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Boot problem on Lubuntu 10.04

2010-08-19 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi again: I've downloaded linux mint lxde (i didnt do it with lubuntu just to try another os) to do as you said and with the live cd the partition mounted perfectly... i found it weird so i rebooted my computer and voila! the splash-screen of lubuntu was there, doing something to my hdd. Weird th

[Lubuntu-desktop] Boot problem on Lubuntu 10.04

2010-08-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: Today when i turned on my pc, this screen appeared http://picasaweb.google.com/jpxsat/PublicStuff#5506840995428130354 I've done nothing weird lately (or ever). When i type 'help', 40 commands appear, but don't know what to use... Hope somebody can help me! Ps: i tried to report this on htt

[Lubuntu-desktop] modem 3g

2010-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi I've looked to several pages (the most complete is http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1472896) and there's no way to get my 3g modem to work... is there something that i'm missing? As i've said in the forum (that shows as Solved) i tried the solution and nothing happens. My modem is a H

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 independen

[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 m

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