Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] adding the ppa updating

2010-04-08 Thread Phillip Whiteside
It may look very 'pretty' on the wiki page (I am new to editing wiki pages and did not want to be over verbose and clutter it up). I currently advise people of the wiki link and also http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4t=54#p73 if they want a bit more information. Either way, it is only

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] adding the ppa updating

2010-04-08 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Regarding the 3 comments, the link I provide to people actually does give a lot of information as to the 'whys and wherefores' of using the cli (And how to access it) it does actually explain what the commands are doing. Any 'how to' that needs the elevation to sudo powers regardless of CLI or

[Lubuntu-desktop] what to do

2010-04-08 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, you will have seen the emails going backwards and forwards regarding keeping a Lubuntu installation up to date. There is only one word to describe the act of providing console-only help to new users who are lost in the terminal: *LAZINESS* I have tried to my very limited knowledge to help

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] what to do

2010-04-08 Thread Phillip Whiteside
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: However, for the wiki page, I'll re-organize it a bit, adding too much information in the Install section make it less clear IMO. Thanks, I apologise for not knowing how to add a new section, as it was only to be there

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] When will we have Lubuntu 10.04 beta 2?

2010-04-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, I've always advised people that lubuntu has to run a little later than 'main'. I'd back this with the fact the devs for 'main' did hold a beta back by 24 hours because of issues; in fact going back to 6.06 was help back precisely because of that. I totally support and am in 100% favour of

[Lubuntu-desktop] Documentation and the 'dreaded' day

2010-04-13 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, long email, basically would like help with documentation that is to doc standards of Canonical for when Lubuntu is accepted. I've done a little bit of documentation for Lubuntu, I know leszek has done some screen casts and others have 'how they did it' scribbled down on bits of paper /

[Lubuntu-desktop] memory leak

2010-04-13 Thread Phillip Whiteside
hi Steve, you will have read 'war and peace' which is why I missed you on IRC. Addons... Hmmm, 1) Full LAMP Server aka 'main' Ubuntu - Updated as per updates by them; be very surprised if it were that, else all hell would break out but I'm sure the leak was here before that. 2) Chromium daily

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubunto - bug report - USB 3g mobile broadband detection

2010-04-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Dear Sir / Miss It appears that 3G got broke on the 10.04 cycle some time ago, I saw the 'chatter' on the internet and checked mine http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9035596#post9035596 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9035596#post9035596Is the result. As you can see, it no

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] memory leak

2010-04-15 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Chromium and pidgin only, on a 'clean' Beta2 install (I have LAMP on my other one and wanted to remove that from the possible cause). I'm rather stuck :-( Regards, Phill. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:22:42 +0100, Phillip

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] memory leak

2010-04-16 Thread Phillip Whiteside
install (I have LAMP on my other one and wanted to remove that from the possible cause). I'm rather stuck :-( Regards, Phill. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:22:42 +0100, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: hi

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] FW: memory leak

2010-04-16 Thread Phillip Whiteside
2010 19:41:27 +0100, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: This is just LXTerminal open, no activity on my computer except it keeps the WiFi connection open. top - 12:07:59 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.08, 0.03 Tasks: 118 total, 1 running, 117 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0

[Lubuntu-desktop] translations

2010-04-16 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Steve, as Mr As the en_GB translation team I have no problem with an exception. I'd like to ask / point out a little 'funny' with the language packs. Long story, cut short, was trying to help with language packs last night and as the only other language I know more than 2 words of is French

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Documentation and the 'dreaded' day

2010-04-20 Thread Phillip Whiteside
selection is some what wrong), but not without permission !!! On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le mercredi 14 avril 2010 à 01:04 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : So, I am getting there :-) He saved me the blushes on the other two, they being http

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Documentation and the 'dreaded' day

2010-04-20 Thread Phillip Whiteside
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le mardi 20 avril 2010 à 17:12 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : Hi, There is not a section for How To's in the wiki and I am not sure where they would best fit in, I'm not sure if they should

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Modifying files in Lubuntu

2010-04-21 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Can i recommend that you have a read of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 if you want to learn about modifying grub Phill. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Glen Bizeau gbiz...@gmail.com wrote: or the graphical way alt-f2 gksudo leafpad Glen On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Glen

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] minimal install

2010-04-28 Thread Phillip Whiteside
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 à 15:47 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : Included link is my notes for using the minimal install disk (network install using Command Line) for those with less RAM than the GUI installer

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] main ubuntu forum

2010-04-28 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, I just happened to ask a rather nice man did you ask about a tag on the main forum? phillw: did you look recently ? you might try it =) look under prefixes ... about mid way down :-D I think I speak for every one with my reply to him oooh, thanks - and not just from me, 10 others

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Final testing

2010-04-30 Thread Phillip Whiteside
hi gilir, are the modifications in the ppa? Regards, Phill. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, I just generated a final iso for testing, available on the usual location : http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-lucid-20100430.iso (md5sum :

[Lubuntu-desktop] Forum Support

2010-04-30 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, you will be aware that we now have a lubuntu prefix on http://ubuntuforums.org/ whilst I know everyone is busy, and it is a real small team could I ask that you do pop on every now and again to check for lubuntu questions. The way the system works so that you can pick up on people who have

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Final testing

2010-05-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, sorry I'm a day late (It was a long night on IRC, I got to bed at 07:00), anyways I'm emailing you from my new install from the iso via cd install. Painless install :-) I see we now have Update Mananger (I'll get the wiki page updated). So, from me - it's good to go :-D Congratulations you

[Lubuntu-desktop] Update mangler

2010-05-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Ok, so it is called Update Mananger ;-) I've updated the wiki page, but I do not know if update manager is running as per 'main' in that it checks itself notifies, or I should advise people check it each day. Regards, Phill. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Final testing

2010-05-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
tools, which has caused 'dis agreements' on the mailing list before. Regards, Phill. On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le samedi 01 mai 2010 à 22:25 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : I see we now have Update Mananger (I'll get the wiki page updated

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Congratulations

2010-05-03 Thread Phillip Whiteside
May I also thank everyone who has made lubuntu possible. I know that I am frequently more a hinderance than a help, just think of me as the voice of a 'n00b' :-) My first try with lubuntu was at the start of February, whilst I know a lot of work had been done prior to that, the work you have all

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu games

2010-05-03 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, whilst not wishing to offend anyones personal beliefs, I have never considered card solitaire (also called patience) or free-cell to be something that could be bet upon, unless you wish to bet you win. Both games are single player. Regards, Phill. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Luther Goh

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some bugs are found in Lubuntu 10.04.

2010-05-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thanks PCMan for the feedback. Please open bugs on launchpad so we can keep an eye on those issues. snip.. 2. Poor performance of lxdm. LXDM takes many seconds to load and the screen becomes blank for a while. This

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Roadmap for Lubuntu 10.10 and UDS

2010-05-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, Permission to speak freely? Backups... yeah, well, I'm sure that we instinctively carry them out, but (17:55:05) Vigo: Backupninja is usually on the light side, I am also testing or playing with GUI only packages that could only help others that are transitioning to *nix and learning as

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] marketing

2010-05-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, within my baby forum I have a lubuntu area. The main banner for ubutnu (which is not installed at the moment as I've just installed a new theme, but can be seen here http://www.phillw.net/ (I have clearance from Canonical for that) I request permission to add the 468x60 banner from

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] gnome keyring

2010-05-07 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Whiteside phi...@phillw.net* wrote: From: Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net Subject: [Lubuntu-desktop] gnome keyring To: lubuntu-desktop lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Date: Friday, May 7, 2010, 6:29 PM Hi, whilst chatting to iane about a problem an OP on the forum is having, I mentioned

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About slow lxdm loading - here is my boot chart

2010-05-07 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hmm, just wondering if ureadahead is being picked up correctly? if you pop over to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502And follow the section entitled *ureadahead slows down my boot!* * * *See if you can pick up the differences, no

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, with regards to the degradation, if you are using persistance, then you will be re-writing to the usb (albeit not as frequently). My advice to people installing to usb is always to get a usb stick that is certified for Vista or Win 7 as 'Readyboost', these devices are both faster than

[Lubuntu-desktop] nVidia and lubuntu

2010-05-09 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, A question that has popped up both on IRC and the ubuntu forum, the HardWare Drivers part of lubuntu is not picking up nVidia cards. Eugene was helping me put together a How To for the wiki area, but it seems ibuclaw may well have a more elegant solution at

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu compressed ISO file?

2010-05-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
i was thinking possibly down-loading the minmal.iso, and then doing the desktop install form that. It *should* be smaller in terms of data downloaded ? Regards, Phill On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:00:43 +0100 Phillip Whiteside

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu compressed ISO file?

2010-05-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
wrote: Yes as you will only download what you need instead of the full OS which may contain files and apps you do not need On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM, T.Beemster c...@tbeemster.nl wrote: On 05/11/2010 04:18 PM, Phillip Whiteside wrote: i was thinking possibly down-loading

[Lubuntu-desktop] minimal install

2010-05-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Julien, I know that you do not have time to make a minimal iso, however having chatted to some 'nice people' it appears that I (or anyone) should actually be able to do it. It's called remastersys and how it works is at http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/remastersys I've no need to bore you with how

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-13 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, *Video* well I still have not gotten MPlayer to play copyrighted dvd's (I think I downloaded every codec, mythbuntu and everything else) I popped vlc on and it worked out of the box. I know that playing dvd's is not high on the list of things for lubuntu to do ;-) *Music* Aqualung I'm

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Replacing Aqualung with Exaile [DISCUSSION]

2010-05-16 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, Downloaded and playing. VERY impressed :-) It has the logical Open File / Folder / Place / CD that is 'hidden' in Aqualung and also quite visible playlist saving. It's a +1 from me !! Regards, Phill. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Glenn glenn_de_gr...@hotmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Update tool Lubuntu 10.10?

2010-05-17 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Glen, Update Mananger can be added to Lubuntu, it is one of two options for updating given at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp#Keep Lubuntu up-to-date Regards, Phill. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Glenn glenn_de_gr...@hotmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Update tool Lubuntu 10.10?

2010-05-17 Thread Phillip Whiteside
it would be nice if we integrate the Ubuntu Software Center too. And make ther a light version of. Regards, Dooitze 2010/5/17 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net Hi Glen, Update Mananger can be added to Lubuntu, it is one of two options for updating given at https

[Lubuntu-desktop] Inclusion in 10.10 [Disk Mounting]

2010-05-17 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, It has been asked on IRC if it is possible to automount devices on startup. I could only advise manually editing the fstab. Having had a further dig, pysadm does not bring any dependencies onto my system (I'm guessing they're already there because of Pyneighborhood). As it is only going to

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Inclusion in 10.10 [Disk Mounting]

2010-05-17 Thread Phillip Whiteside
=unstablesection=all) It is working very good and can configure /etc/fstab interactively. Am 17.05.2010 21:35, schrieb Mike Nokel: 2010/5/17 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net Hi, It has been asked on IRC if it is possible to automount devices on startup. I could only advise manually editing

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Inclusion in 10.10 [Disk Mounting]

2010-05-18 Thread Phillip Whiteside
, unless your policykit is not working correctly, which happens frequently. However, which device to mount is a big problem since the rules are defined by gvfs and it doesn't seem to be configurable. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi, It has been

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Inclusion in 10.10 [Disk Mounting]

2010-05-18 Thread Phillip Whiteside
andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com wrote: I appreciate that, I'm just showing that automount is possible with Lubuntu, just need the right packages and whatnot Peace -Andy On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.netwrote: Hi Andrew, When you install a desktop on top

[Lubuntu-desktop] IRC and Help

2010-05-18 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, 1. Could whoever has the correct privileges please alter the topic on the IRC to also point people over to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp for when none of the 'gang' is in there (I missed some one asking for language support, which is on the documentation). 2. There are

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] IRC and Help

2010-05-18 Thread Phillip Whiteside
to test it. If someone can donate a monitor, or donate some money to buy a second monitor, I can try it. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi, 1. Could whoever has the correct privileges please alter the topic on the IRC to also point people over

[Lubuntu-desktop] samba and windows

2010-05-18 Thread Phillip Whiteside
hi, I was just chatting to a couple of those 'nice people' about pysdm, it's limitations and if a user of it could get support on the main forum area (which is yes) and I mentioned about the on going saga with samba. Here's one to try in fstab # Samba //server/share /media/samba cifs

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Proposal for schedule of Lubuntu 10.10

2010-05-19 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, Looks good to me :-) I'd just like to add a note that 10.04.1 comes out on W/E July 29th so we can expect the currently held back 'proposed' updates to be hitting the 10.04 version of Lubuntu at that time. (I'm already running with them, as I don't want any nasty surprises). I.D.K. about how

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 64-bit install?

2010-05-22 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Bob, if you could try using the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp#Minimal%20Install Just go get the 64 bit instead of 32 bit mini-iso from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ I'd be grateful if you could

[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: [aqualung-friends] BUG: playback suddenly stops

2010-05-24 Thread Phillip Whiteside
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Szilagyi tomszila...@gmail.com Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [aqualung-friends] BUG: playback suddenly stops To: Aqualung-friends aqualung-frie...@lists.sourceforge.net Hi guys, Thanks for the thorough investigation. We're

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu 10.04 Torrent broken ?

2010-05-26 Thread Phillip Whiteside
On a slightly similar note, I've possibly got to put a little Mysql server in tomorrow, it's only 512MB RAM beast running lubuntu + LAMP, with about 10 active queries for the LAMP part of it, on a business b/band link would it have the capacity to be a seeder without slowing down the MySQL server

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] PCManFM 0.9.7 + libfm 0.1.12 RC1

2010-05-29 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi pcman, as promised in the #lubuntu IRC last night I have put WinXP back onto the other laptop. Can you tell me where to get the latest release of the pcman and libfm from? If I need to compile them up, I *should* be able to that without too many problems (You got me through the last time I did

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Removing - pyNeighborhood

2010-05-31 Thread Phillip Whiteside
::sigh:: I take it you got no joy with the latest one either then Steve? Shame, it seemed so 'nearly' there :-( Regards, Phill. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: Despite it’s best intentions pyNeighborhood hasn’t proved quite as useful as it appears,

[Lubuntu-desktop] [Lubuntu Desktop] Replace Aqualung with deadbeef.

2010-05-31 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Is there any chance of deadbeef getting into the ubuntu repos? imho, it does seem at a more advanced stage of development than aqualung. Regards, Phill. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to :

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] PCManFM 0.9.7 + libfm 0.1.12 RC1

2010-06-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
could change /usr/bin/pcmanfm (which is a soft-link to pcmanfm2 at the same folder) so that it points to your newly compiled version. It shouldn't cause much problem as long as you remember to change it back after you are done testing. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Lubuntu Desktop] Replace Aqualung with deadbeef.

2010-06-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Le mardi 01 juin 2010 à 00:18 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : Is there any chance of deadbeef getting into the ubuntu repos? imho, it does seem at a more advanced stage of development than aqualung. Regards, Phill. ___ Mailing list

[Lubuntu-desktop] [Ubuntu Desktop] Required

2010-06-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, I guess this is more a question for Juliene, but one of things that has been raised a few times on IRC is why lubuntu *insists *on having all the packages that it does, for example you cannot remove Mplayer to free room up and put an alternative on, nor xfburn if you wish brasserro. Whilst

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Ubuntu Desktop] Required

2010-06-02 Thread Phillip Whiteside
and empty and o not remove the packages they install so are fine to remove, this is the same with any metapackage On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.netwrote: Hi, I guess this is more a question for Juliene, but one of things that has been raised a few times

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 64-bit install?

2010-06-02 Thread Phillip Whiteside
to install. Perhaps that step could be removed, or perhaps it's needed only sometimes. Anyway, looking good so far for 64-bit. Let me know if there's anything special you'd like me to try. Regards, Bob On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 64-bit install?

2010-06-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, we seem to have lost where lubuntu 10.04 actually got up to. Stable == Not crashing every 5 minutes. Beta == Not a finished product. As it was not even launched as 'RC' (Release Candidate) The reason you say it behaves as a 'beta' is because that is exactly what it is. IMHO, considering

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] marketing

2010-06-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
=tryhtml_image_floatI would have to get a domain to test it out, I use to write that stuff line by line in Vim. I also like Bluefish, I prefer Arachnophelia , but it is pure java. Cheers, Vigo 2010/5/4 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net Hi, within my baby forum I have a lubuntu area. The main banner

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Bug 522031] Re: installer crashed lubuntu

2010-06-06 Thread Phillip Whiteside
The check cd for defects has a reported error where it says that one file has failed the test, you can run the md5checksum from the command line to verify the cd dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum For the current 10.04 Lubuntu image, you should get

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Bug 522031] Re: installer crashed lubuntu

2010-06-06 Thread Phillip Whiteside
at 9:19 PM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:55:13 +0100 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: The check cd for defects has a reported error where it says that one file has failed the test, you can run the md5checksum from the command line to verify the cd

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] marketing

2010-06-06 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, thanks for replying, one of things that was discussed was that the banner should say 'Click here to Download Current Release' and 'Click here to Download Development Release'. I mentioned 100 px for height as I think the text would wrap to three lines. Or if you send me that banner with no

[Lubuntu-desktop] Notifier Bug

2010-06-07 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, I can't find this bug, but am sure the team are aware of it. When reporting connect / disconnect with Wifi or Ethernet the notification area repeats the error horizontally Adding an new entry each time a new notification. Regards, Phill. ___

[Lubuntu-desktop] lubuntu.net Download link

2010-06-07 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, it's been reported that the link on lubuntu.net is not working, the one I use is https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/msg01319.html If someone with authority could amend the non-functioning link. Regards, Phill. ___ Mailing list:

[Lubuntu-desktop] links in Wiki

2010-06-07 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, is it okay to update the help area of the wiki to use underscores as spaces? At present https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp#Removing a Program and lubuntu-desktop gets posted via copy paste as https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp#Removing a Program and

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Change the goals of PCManFM 1.0

2010-06-10 Thread Phillip Whiteside
+1 Regards, Phill. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:32 +0800, PCMan wrote: Another option might be release 1.0 with current feature set, but create a branch for 1.5 and do the development in parallel, just like what

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Alpha 1?

2010-06-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Julien, I'm eagerly awaiting it, hoping you have sorted out the 'show-stopper' bug. It has an area already reserved for it on my hard drive :-) Regards, Phill. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 10:41 -0400, Bob Trevithick a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] marketing

2010-06-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, yeah, the 10.04 is okay, the previous banner was 10.04 ish? sorry to be hogging the mailing list over this. A banner 600 x 100 px with the logo either to left or right would be excellent, I can add the TWO lines of text (sorry that it mentioned three in an earlier posting) I'd be looking at

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Alpha 1?

2010-06-12 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Bob, yeah, as I'm still server hopping I've not fully re-configured things. I have manually authorised your log-in and removed you from the New-Users group which _should_ mean you can post without it ending up in the moderation queue (Although this can take a couple of attempts). If you have

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Compiz activation

2010-06-12 Thread Phillip Whiteside
not supported stuff. Just as long as it does not take time from the development team, they have much more important things to be getting on with. Regards, Phill. On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:17:36 +0100, Phillip Whiteside phi

[Lubuntu-desktop] Moving home

2010-06-13 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Julien , I know you're busy but I am just getting together the logo for my little area on http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=18 is it okay to point over to http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.04.iso ? Or would you prefer it point somewhere else? Thanks, Phill. P.S. yeah, we're

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Alpha 1 PAE Kernel

2010-06-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
hi Steve, as of 10.04 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Both the CD and DVD installer of Ubuntu 10.04 automatically installs the PAE enabled kernel if it detects more than 3 Gb of available memory. In the case of the liveCD, a working network connection is required, since the PAE enabled kernel

[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Alpha 1 PAE Kernel

2010-06-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
-- Forwarded message -- From: Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Alpha 1 PAE Kernel To: Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com lol, I've not got the link still up, but it does seem to have been a request from OEM's

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 1

2010-06-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, as Julien says, Meerkat *will* get broken, can people please make a point of keeping http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=385 on their bookmarks? The X issue was, and is, flagged up on the 'stickies' area http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1503555 It is not as if it was a

[Lubuntu-desktop] Download Mirrors

2010-06-16 Thread Phillip Whiteside
HI, I got an email from Linux Questions this morning telling me that they host a lot of iso's. Lubuntu 10.04 is one of them, is it worth adding to the wiki? The link is http://iso.linuxquestions.org/lubuntu/lubuntu-10.04/ Regards, Phill. ___ Mailing

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ubuntu standard Theme

2010-06-18 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, Then how would I know which distro I was running? As I multi-boot between the various flavours (ubuntu lubuntu) and releases (stable testing), easily knowing which one I'm on by them having different desk-tops is a real plus for me :-) Regards, Phill. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Max

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Changing PDF viewer by default

2010-06-20 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Bob, there are certainly people out there with 256K RAM machines, OPanyone here? ;d Me hoyas Me catching up with emails. Can I help ? OP nah, I just want to tell how happy I am that someone is doing a ubuntu for old computers Me thanks for popping on and saying so. The small team has really

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] lubuntu cpu scaling....

2010-06-22 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Bob, I don't have a dual core, can you have a look through the instructions, feel free to post it up as Dual Core work in progress on the baby area and leave a note on it to say you're still working on it. As I do not have dual core, I can not give any input at all. I'm sure Adam will be happy

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] lubuntu cpu scaling....

2010-06-22 Thread Phillip Whiteside
not need such things for alterations of the system, Gee, they are strict ;-) Thanks, Phill. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:12:41 +0100 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi good people, those with such machines

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] FW: Another interesting music player

2010-06-23 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, My only enquiry for that would be what resources gnome-mplayer needs to play background music / streamed radio stations versus what DeadBeef uses? (I love music while I work :-) ) Regards, Phill. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le jeudi 24 juin

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] FW: Another interesting music player

2010-06-23 Thread Phillip Whiteside
As ever, pcman, a good point. Yeah, we *need *to keep a music player. I like DeadBeef, it's low resource usage means that my laptop hardly knows it is running :-) Regards, Phill. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:19 PM, PCMan pcman...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Given you have proper codecs and audio libs

[Lubuntu-desktop] key error

2010-06-23 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi gang, I have an OP on with a problem, the pastebin is due to expire, so I include it at the bottom. Any ideas? (23:26:47) xsaiddx: hello guys (23:26:55) *gilir left the room (quit: Quit: Ex-Chat).* (23:27:31) xsaiddx: how can i keep lubuntu updated cus i keep gettin those updates of ubuntu

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Grub Install Bug @Lubuntu-10.04 (Distribution Release)

2010-06-26 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Mario, there have been issues with grub and multiple hard drives, this affects all ubuntu's (and also debian). There is a bug fix out, but that had not been fully signed off (see Colin Watsons own comments). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435

[Lubuntu-desktop] put back task bar(Window List) lxde

2010-06-26 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, well, it had to happen :-) Remove Task Bar (Windows List) From Panel Once someone has done that, how do they get it back? (I'm too big a coward to try that on my system, so it's possibly one for the devs) Thanks, Phill. it reminds me of the Do NOT remove network manager warning I see on

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] put back task bar(Window List) lxde

2010-06-26 Thread Phillip Whiteside
/screenshots/lxpanel_pref.png You can then readd the task bar (window list) item all done On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.netwrote: Hi, well, it had to happen :-) Remove Task Bar (Windows List) From Panel Once someone has done that, how do they get

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Grub Install Bug @Lubuntu-10.04 (Distribution Release)

2010-06-26 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Goh, I'm not quite sure how to explain this to you? Rule #1 You install *buntu it works, if it does not work it does not break anything. At present it can totally break things. There is no point arguing over it, just go see the forum area for people for whom it has broken there is no point

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Grub Install Bug @Lubuntu-10.04 (Distribution Release)

2010-06-27 Thread Phillip Whiteside
at 7:27 AM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:12:35 +0100 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Goh, I'm not quite sure how to explain this to you? Rule #1 You install *buntu it works, if it does not work it does not break anything. At present it can totally

[Lubuntu-desktop] Chromium Flash

2010-06-27 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi gang, I know the chromium team are working on in-built flash support, until that happens and lubuntu ships it, can I pop on the instructions from http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-enable-flash-support-for-google-chromium-browser.html over onto the wiki help area, i'm guessing 'Advanced Users'

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] FW: Another interesting music player

2010-06-27 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, I'm not quite sure how I got involved in this thread but http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1503749 does tell me something more that deadbeef can do, heck I'm really impressed :-) I do recall one of the provisos for using a programme is that it be in the ubuntu repo's - How does one

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Chromium Flash

2010-06-27 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, Okay, I can leave that bit out, it is just I know that set of instructions work so am not to blame if it does not work for the next peron ;-) Regards, Phill. On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:04:08 +0100 Phillip Whiteside

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Grub Install Bug @Lubuntu-10.04 (Distribution Release)

2010-06-29 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Ahh, I was not aware of that, in gmail I just use Reply to All, but I do understand some of you dislike Gmail ;-) (No Flaming me, I'm just getting the education version set up !!! - lol) Regards, Phill. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] put back task bar(Window List) lxde

2010-06-30 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi andy, not only does it not work, but it does not work quite badly... As I did have to test it. Any one got any ideas as to how to rescue this? thanks, Phill. On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.netwrote: Thanks Andy, I just have to wait for the OP to come

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Using Mallard for Ubuntu docs

2010-07-01 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, as one who does not use gnome, my little two cents worth is that instructions should not be tied 100% to gnome. Whilst the vast majority use 'vanilla' ubuntu, there are other flavours. As ubuntu is ubuntu, should we be as aware of that as we are translations? Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc. Each of the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues

2010-07-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Bob, the 95% stall on install is a known 'bug'. I do not know how much RAM you have on the Dell, but a couple of pointers that may help from this problem... Then a perused through the bios setting and found the setting APIC Mode was set to Disabled. I changed it to Enabled and that seemed to

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 2

2010-07-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Julien, are you happy for the alpha2 to be added to the testing lubuntu section at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Test Lubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Test LubuntuRegards, Phill. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, I just generated the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues

2010-07-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Re: md5checksum on CD There is a bug on testing the CD, again it has been noted and when Julien and Ian get some time it can be looked into. - If the person who gave me the quicker instructions rather than the one I have I will pop it onto the wiki. * * *Next, you can burn the cd (**

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues

2010-07-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues

2010-07-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues

2010-07-04 Thread Phillip Whiteside
useful to you folks at this stage. Night, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob, If the CD is not burned at 4X speed, it can cause horrors. In 9.10 I could burn at that rate, in 10.04 I cannot. As a part of these 'funnies' that happen, one

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 2

2010-07-05 Thread Phillip Whiteside
, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le dimanche 04 juillet 2010 à 23:46 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : are you happy for the alpha2 to be added to the testing lubuntu section at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Test Lubuntu This one should be fine, you can add

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