Re: [lubuntu-users] Fujitsu Lifebook 761 issues

2016-07-17 Thread Israel
This is just an initial message to get your message on the list (instead of gmail spam folder) Thanks for the output I will look later on when I have time, and hopefully others will get a chance to look before I do :D In regards to your previous e-mail, gedit is actually supposed to look tha

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-17 Thread Israel
On 07/16/2016 01:02 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi Aere & Jorn, On 16 July 2016 at 18:55, Aere Greenway > wrote: There is a package in the Ubuntu repository called flashplugin-instcaller, which (after you install it) will install the flash-plugin vers

Re: [lubuntu-users] [lubuntu-devel] Abiword in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS - how to get rid of flickering

2016-07-09 Thread Israel
I just tried with Numix, and the bug is there. Could this be an issue in Abiword? I do not notice a cursor flicker in other GTK programs. A quick look at their bugzilla page shows similar issues going back a number of years. So this might be a relic of a bug, that doesn't show up in certain

Re: [lubuntu-users] [lubuntu-devel] Abiword in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS - how to get rid of flickering

2016-07-09 Thread Israel
On 07/09/2016 09:01 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Den 2016-07-06 kl. 20:18, skrev Nio Wiklund: ... Hi again, vasa1 wrote the following in my thread at the Ubuntu forums, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321942&page=2&p=13515303#post13515303 --- Hi Nio, I just saw your post in the mail

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Startup

2016-07-02 Thread Israel
Hi, I have noticed systemd slowing down my computer as well. There are some tweaks you can do to make it boot quicker. AFAIK this is mostly due to journctl logging excessively. This coupled with network manager eventually makes the system crawl. I could be wrong about this, but I think it mi

Re: [lubuntu-users] new trusty and xenial daily iso files are generated and need testing (Nio W.)

2016-06-27 Thread Israel
@Fritz, I made a mistake in what I said. this WILL BE the first point release, Nio was announcing testing for this UPCOMING release. Please forgive my oversight here. On 06/26/2016 07:46 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: @Nio: A little pressed for time as far as doing a zsync and qa testing, so since

Re: [lubuntu-users] new trusty and xenial daily iso files are generated and need testing (Nio W.)

2016-06-27 Thread Israel
@Fritz, If you have updated any since it was released you will not have much of an update. Xenial has just released the first point release. So combine all the updates of everything from the time you installed it. That would be the proper full amount of updates. On 06/26/2016 07:46 PM, Fritz Hu

Re: [lubuntu-users] PCManFM hidden files/dirs

2016-06-26 Thread Israel
ng of files so you require a file manager that does that to keep your workflow the same. Maybe you could e-mail us your results of testing, or even contribute a wiki page to the Ubuntu wiki about file managers? On 06/25/2016 11:26 AM, J. Van Brimmer wrote: Hi Israel, Thanks for your inp

Re: [lubuntu-users] PCManFM hidden files/dirs

2016-06-25 Thread Israel
Hi Jerry, Caja is the 'old' nautilus so if you like it better by all means use it! There are lots and lots to choose from. Some people would rather have a 2-paned file manager than one that uses abstractions and bookmarks. I, like Aere, preferr pcmanfm for numerous reasons (fast, light, does eve

Re: [lubuntu-users] PCManFM hidden files/dirs

2016-06-23 Thread Israel
On 06/23/2016 10:40 AM, J. Van Brimmer wrote: Hello folks, I am trying, really I am, to like Lubuntu and to stick with it. But one thing really bugs me, the way PCManFM sorts files. Can somebody please explain to me the logic of sorting hidden files and directories *before* normal files/dirs?

Re: [lubuntu-users] Xfburn & External USB Burner

2016-06-05 Thread Israel
On 06/04/2016 11:35 PM, Jerry wrote: Israel wrote: On 06/04/2016 05:34 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote: ... Honestly I use brasero personally. So, now to the real question you asked :D Is the ISO you are using complete? (Did you run md5sum on it) Have you tried other programs (Brasero, K3B any

Re: [lubuntu-users] Xfburn & External USB Burner

2016-06-04 Thread Israel
On 06/04/2016 05:34 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote: Hi folks! I am running Lubuntu 16.04 64bit on a Lenovo X140e with the "AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics" CPU, and a 500GB hard drive. I am having a problem with Xfburn seeing my ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U external USB 2.0 CD/DVD burner. When I co

Re: [lubuntu-users] Fwd: Asus A52JR - Keep the set through turn on/turn off

2016-06-04 Thread Israel
Hi (Inline Reply) On 06/03/2016 05:02 AM, Edgar Oliveira wrote: Hello everyone! I am a newbie on Linux. Yesterday I installed the Lubuntu LTS on this pc (https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/A52Jr/specifications/). Everything seems fine until the firefox was slowly, the writer be with delay (e.g. w

Re: [lubuntu-users] Let us discuss: Lubuntu alternate iso files are oversized for CD disks

2016-06-01 Thread Israel
Aere: (inlines) On 06/01/2016 09:13 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 06/01/2016 05:57 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: .. Nio: Though I wish there were a Lubuntu version that would boot from CD, from what I have seen over the years, if a big effort were made to make this possible, it would most likely be

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Israel
Hey Jack, if you are booting to a black screen then it is your graphics card (most likely). This is a problem that will require you to research some things but should likely be able to overcome. That said, it might be better to wait for a while before trying this distro... Often in the weeks be

Re: [lubuntu-users] wifi

2016-05-25 Thread Israel
Hi I found this link, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Ralink_RT5370 I suggest not using vim (unless you are familiar with it) Use nano instead (also known as pico) On 05/25/2016 10:30 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 05/25/2016 07:51 AM, Wilbert Heeringa wrote: >> |Ralink RT5370|

Re: [lubuntu-users] Acer with Intel Celeron N2840

2016-05-13 Thread Israel
On 05/13/2016 04:46 PM, pistacho wrote: r8169-dkms not found, but if I run apt-get install r8169-dkms the result is not found either. How is it called? But ethernet works... Boh. Acer continue to not shutdown. :-( What distribution are you running? 16.04 or 14.04? I am on 16.04 and I have it.

Re: [lubuntu-users] Acer with Intel Celeron N2840

2016-05-13 Thread Israel
On 05/13/2016 02:35 PM, pistacho wrote: pci=noacpi didn't do the trick too, sigh. :-( Any other suggestions? Maybe somethimg to do with r8169 driver which seem to stop shutdown process? Thank you in advance I suppose you could run apt-cache policy r8169-dkms just to double check you have it i

Re: [lubuntu-users] Acer with Intel Celeron N2840

2016-05-12 Thread Israel
On 05/12/2016 06:11 AM, 0iras0r wrote: I edit the grub2 as you suggest.. Then change: quiet splash TO nomodeset after doing this, when I tried to shut down stuff closed ok .. ... r8169 :03:00.0 System wake up enabled by ACPI <-Maybe the is

Re: [lubuntu-users] lxterminal cannot be shown on lubuntu 16.04 x64

2016-05-11 Thread Israel
On 05/10/2016 01:01 AM, ching lu wrote: Hi all, i debootstrap ubuntu 16.04 x64, and install lubuntu-core and the lxterminal package. I login "LXDE" session and click the launcher or shortcut of "lxterminal", the windows is not displayed and nothing happens Other programs like firefox, pcmanfm

Re: [lubuntu-users] Acer with Intel Celeron N2840

2016-05-11 Thread Israel
Hi you might initially try adding nomodeset to the boot parameters It seems your particular computer does have certain issues with this shutdown/suspend thing This should answer 'how to' https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Troubleshooting#Editing_the_GRUB_2_Menu_During_Boot basically: # I

Re: [lubuntu-users] Does the computer support "suspend"?

2016-05-07 Thread Israel
On 05/07/2016 04:44 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Israel <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote: if it returns nothing after the command run echo $? if you get a 0, this means YES In the Lu session, using those commands did not put the

Re: [lubuntu-users] Does the computer support "suspend"?

2016-05-06 Thread Israel
riodical throughout the day, etc and sleep/suspend is "necessary" to do that. @Israel: appreciate the, "This might suspend yr computer, but no guarantee it will wake" . . . indeed that is more or less what is happening--need the power button to get out of it, etc. F On

Re: [lubuntu-users] Does the computer support "suspend"?

2016-05-06 Thread Israel
pm-is-supported --hibernate @Israel: So, I just checked these commands in my PwrMac 3,1 using both a live Lubuntu 16.04 session, and in the installed U-Mate 16.04 system . . . and it just returns to the prompt, without comment. Is that the "definitive" indication that neither "su

Re: [lubuntu-users] lxpanel, resource monitor applet, altering the on-click function

2016-05-05 Thread Israel
Hi, Your garbage did NOT get sent As for lxpanel cpu applet I found this, it is a fork with more features, and YES it IS hard coded in: https://github.com/danamlund/cpu-monitor-extension-lxpanel-plugin/blob/master/cpuda.c#L379 It *might* be different in the regular version but you could do

Re: [lubuntu-users] Acer with Intel Celeron N2840

2016-05-04 Thread Israel
On 05/04/2016 07:05 PM, 0iras0r wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2016 18:47:43 -0500 Simon Quigley wrote: Hello 0iras0r, What didn't work? What happened? What image are you using? Hi! Thanks for reply so quickly... I tried Lubuntu 16.04 amd64, after other OS linux, such as arch linux, debian and ubuntu

Re: [lubuntu-users] Installing Lubuntu 16.04 - state of the various bootable USB flash drive utilities?

2016-04-30 Thread Israel
On 04/30/2016 08:56 AM, John Hupp wrote: Thanks, Nio, for a very thorough review! Thanks also to Aere and Israel for helpful replies. @ Israel, when you said "He also has an alternative installer with a prebuilt tarball for Lubuntu for a different method!", I suppose you meant OBI

Re: [lubuntu-users] Installing Lubuntu 16.04 - state of the various bootable USB flash drive utilities?

2016-04-29 Thread Israel
Hi John, The tool I use to make a bootable use is mkusb developed by Nio Wiklund here is a thread about it on the forums, and how to do it via PPA http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073 He also has an alternative installer with a prebuilt tarball for Lubuntu for a different method! O

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 52, Issue 29

2016-04-29 Thread Israel
ampos Rodovalho) 2. Re: Resize Desktop Icons on Lubuntu (Israel) 3. Re: Resize Desktop Icons on Lubuntu (0iras0r) 4. Re: Resize Desktop Icons on Lubuntu (Israel) -- Message: 1 Date: Th

Re: [lubuntu-users] Resize Desktop Icons on Lubuntu

2016-04-28 Thread Israel
On 04/28/2016 06:52 PM, 0iras0r wrote: On 04/28/2016 01:36 PM, 0iras0r wrote: I have a Lubuntu 14.04 with openbox and lightdm How can I solve the problem to decrease icon size of my desktop? I searched every graphical option but I didn't find anything. Thanks in advance. 0iras0r Hi 0ir

Re: [lubuntu-users] Resize Desktop Icons on Lubuntu

2016-04-28 Thread Israel
On 04/28/2016 01:36 PM, 0iras0r wrote: I have a Lubuntu 14.04 with openbox and lightdm How can I solve the problem to decrease icon size of my desktop? I searched every graphical option but I didn't find anything. Thanks in advance. 0iras0r Hi 0iras0r, What graphical items did you try? T

Re: [lubuntu-users] Problem with Lubuntu 16.04

2016-04-24 Thread Israel
On 04/24/2016 04:03 AM, Jordi Segués wrote: Hi!! I used Lubuntu without problems for a very long time, but now, with the last update, I had a black screen and is impossible to go in system normally. I tried with "nomodeset" and runs normally, but I don't like this "strage" options to work wi

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Installation Problem

2016-04-18 Thread Israel
On 04/18/2016 06:49 PM, Fran Acuña Parra wrote: Hello everyone, I'm new at Linux. I'm trying to install Lubuntu in a Intel Core 2 Duo PC from 2007. I have downloaded the ISO file and made a booteable USB with YUMI or Universal USB Installer. The thing is that once I restart the PC from USB an

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 15.10 Wont Boot

2016-04-05 Thread Israel
Hi, I fully agree with Phill! I personally like to use zsync, as it does the checksum match automatically for you. Verify the ISO is correctly downloaded, and then once you have verified it... You will need to set the root partition to your specific device grub supports TAB completion, so use

Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread Israel
On 04/04/2016 01:59 AM, bill . wrote: Hi all, New member and brand new Lubuntu and LXDE user here. I'm accustomed to Manjaro xfce but wanted to try something just a tad "lighter." So far I'm very impressed with the look and snappy feel. Trust me as a fan of arch-based distros it pains me to s

Re: [lubuntu-users] broken packages

2016-03-04 Thread Israel
Hi, what version are you on? If you are using Xenial, then sometimes things don't always work right away. You can try to manually install the gnome menus, and gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 ( possibly doing apt-cache search for those) I don't use alacarte, but if you are trying to reconfigure the menus, you *co

Re: [lubuntu-users] Broken lubuntu

2016-02-12 Thread Israel
Hi, there are ways you can turn off the computer and most likely use Wifi even if it is 'broken' For example, in a terminal you can sudo shutdown -h now This will turn your computer off For wifi you can systemctl restart NetworkManager || sudo service network-manager restart that should work with a

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 3

2015-12-04 Thread Israel
On 12/04/2015 07:11 AM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > On 04/12/15 12:00, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: >> > As stated - the "Software Updater" shows me Firefox and any other updates. I > have tried 98 > per cent of Ubuntu's servers. I have also tried with ethernet and wifi. I >

Re: an ongoing problem

2015-12-03 Thread Israel
Hi (inline replies) On 12/03/2015 04:14 AM, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote: > I'm sorry, I did not understand. What is this "security fix for > Firefox". Is it a regular update on Ubuntu repositories? > > If is something related to repository updates, what Lubuntu version > are you using? > If you

Re: Touchpad trouble.

2015-11-20 Thread Israel
On 11/19/2015 07:39 PM, Walter Orsi wrote: > Dear lubuntu fellows: > > I'm bothering you all because of a problem I've not been able to solve > by myself, yet. > > I installed lubuntu on my 10" notebook last year and everything works > great except from the touchpad that never worked (I use a USB m

Re: Kernel upgrade to trusty . . . but while remaining in precise???

2015-11-10 Thread Israel
Hi Jörn, Fritz is trying to upgrade on PowerPC. This is not as simple as running those 'normal' commands. Is there something similar for PowerPC, I personally am not aware of the simple kernel upgrade package but I could be missing something obvious. On 11/10/2015 01:11 AM, Jörn Schönyan wrot

Re: No network manager lock icon (for the VPN) in Lubuntu 15.10

2015-11-08 Thread Israel
On 10/29/2015 02:57 AM, gus wrote: > Hi! > I've upgraded 3 days ago to Lubuntu 15.10 (I was on Lubuntu 15.04 since then). > > The network manager icon when I connect to my VPN doesn't appear anymore > (it's like a lock on the normal network manager icon). > > I've found a bug report on previous rel

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 8

2015-10-18 Thread Israel
On 10/18/2015 03:27 AM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > Am Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:00:13 + > schrieb Israel > >> I run 12.04 (because of sound issues) with some specially built >> packages, to make ToriOS on my iBook >> I use JWM, so it is more like Lubuntu than CrunchBan

Re: Spotify linux preview

2015-10-17 Thread Israel
Hi, it might also be useful to run spotify from the terminal to see what errors come from it. If you don't know the command, you can always look inside the spotify desktop file (probably in /usr/share/applications but might be in ~/.local I suppose depending on how you installed it) You can also

Re: Lubuntu 15.10 64bit Beta 2 iso

2015-10-16 Thread Israel
Hi, You need to first check the md5sum of the ISO to make sure you have the entire image file. Having a partial ISO can cause many strange issues https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM I also highly suggest installing zsync sudo apt-get install zsync Then re zsync the ISO. This will save

Re: W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-3.19.0-31-generic_3.19.0-31.36_i386.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]

2015-10-12 Thread Israel
Hi, to 'refresh' from a terminal sudo apt-get update to 'refresh' from a GUI System->Software Updater On 10/12/2015 04:20 PM, rafaellag...@ubuntu.com wrote: > That problem is usually a network failure. It happens when some PPAs > are not properly mirrored, not this case. But the solution is the >

Re: Help lubuntu ppc on pbg4 (Israel)

2015-10-12 Thread Israel
Hi :) (inlines) On 10/12/2015 04:45 AM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > Hi all & especially Israel! > > It's a long time i've not been here (since i'm a little bit away from > Ubuntu/Debian recently) but now i've to install a linux on a Powerbook > G4 17".

Re: help

2015-10-05 Thread Israel
Hi, This was a fairly known issue surrounding 14.04 IIRC. You can temporarily fix it by running: sudo nm-applet But the true fix is to fully update the system as Lesek says. So for this, you will need to plug into an Ethernet connection temporarily to update everything (or use the temporary fix ab

Re: Serious Problem Encountered

2015-10-02 Thread Israel
Hi On 10/02/2015 05:21 AM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > Hi, > > Am 02.10.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Steven Duckworth: >> Please help! >> >> An exclamation mark suddenly appeared on my taskbar next to the >> network indicator, and on clicking it I received the following: >> >> 'An error occurred, please run Pa

Re: Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council

2015-10-01 Thread Israel
This is great! I had hoped LXQt would end up using some of the Ubuntu core apps, as that will provide more incentive for us Lubuntu fans to perhaps make Ubuntu apps (for Lubuntu)! This gives me more incentive to learn Qt. P.S. for all you Education people, homeschoolers, and parents GCompris is al

Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt 64 bit

2015-09-22 Thread Israel
Hi, you may have to contact the Lubuntu developers directly, I know they hang out here, but with Wily coming out soon, they may be far too busy to hang out on the users list. That said, Rafael works directly with them, so maybe he can find out or give you the answer. It may be that the work on Wily

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Israel
On 09/17/2015 04:40 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 09/17/2015 01:19 PM, Phill. Whiteside wrote: >> for that to be considered, it would have to be in the debian >> repository[1], which would require a sponsor and it being packaged up >> as a .deb etc. >> > And beyond that, the main Ubuntu distributio

Re: replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Israel
On 09/17/2015 10:36 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 09/17/2015 08:33 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> Please consider replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS > +1 > +1 mkusb is the best replacement to consider, in my opinion :) Fast, small cross platform, can make persistent images. Unfortun

Fwd: Re: Handy tip to free up some memory...

2015-09-10 Thread Israel
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Handy tip to free up some memory... Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:42:19 -0300 From: Vinícius Sass To: Israel Cool, thank you! 2015-09-09 19:34 GMT-03:00 Israel mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>>: +1 :D On 09/09/2

Re: Handy tip to free up some memory...

2015-09-09 Thread Israel
+1 :D On 09/09/2015 06:39 AM, Steven Duckworth wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If you are looking to free up your harddrive of some precious memory, > besides using tools like bleachbit and "autoclean" commands, you can > do so by accessing Synaptic Package Manager, clicking the "Status" > section, and a

Re: proper way to install icewm in 15.04

2015-09-08 Thread Israel
Hi, I use JWM so I would suggest doing something similar to what I have. The best way to do it would be to make an xsession: first create: /usr/share/xsession//mysession/.desktop Put something like: [Desktop Entry] Name=Ice WM Comment=log into Ice WM Type=Application Terminal=False Exec=/usr/bin

Re: Unwanted installations: removing more recent Lubuntu kernels.

2015-08-14 Thread Israel
On 08/14/2015 01:29 AM, Basil Fernie wrote: > Hi all, a little light change of topic. > > I have three different Lubu releases available on different partitions > for comparison and other reasons and want to keep it that way, I just > want to get rid of some of the kernel point releases that are >

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-10 Thread Israel
nt from my iPhone > >> On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Israel wrote: >> >> Herminio, >> You are right, this is probably the easiest way on PPC, but you also >> need to install all the build depends manually, right. So you also need to: >> cd package_dir/debian

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-10 Thread Israel
Herminio, You are right, this is probably the easiest way on PPC, but you also need to install all the build depends manually, right. So you also need to: cd package_dir/debian leafpad control (or geany/gedit/mousepad etc...) then sudo apt-get install ALL the Build-Depends On 08/09/2015 07:24

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-09 Thread Israel
Hi Hermino, To be honest, compiling a kernel on 450 MHZ machine is kind of daunting :) I built a kernel package on an old Compaq that took over a day to complete, that was 900MHZ with a 256MB RAM. But building a deb for a kernel on Debian is incredibly easy, but does require a very long compile p

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-09 Thread Israel
to have an up-to-date WM/DE > (possibly > even LXDE). > > So yes, you CAN stay on 12.04. > > > > > > @Israel: > > Just a little humor to help brighten my day . . . . : - ) But, > appreciate the re-post on instal

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on old desktop?

2015-08-09 Thread Israel
ving no > need for boot params, it was a bit "snappier" as far as running > commands in the Terminal went; but then the window title bar text > is illegible . . . whereas everywhere else the display resolution > was fine . . . . Very odd, not a total showstoppe

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on old desktop?

2015-08-08 Thread Israel
stuff that 12.04 is doing just fine??? Didn't get any comments > from the list on that one . . . in terms of suggestions on how to > render titlebar text so it would be read-able, or ideas on why it > would be un-readable, when the rest is fine. > > Israel has mentioned "ToriOS

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on old desktop?

2015-08-07 Thread Israel
Hi, In short: Yes you can, and should. Do not use 12.04 as the version of LXDE (what Lubuntu is built on) is not supported. In Long: You can still use 12.04 if you want to use a PPA to install a different interface. But even still 14.04 is a very snappy system. I'd suggest upgrading to 12.04 for

Re: the current version of Lubuntu trusty-desktop-i386.iso

2015-08-06 Thread Israel
On 08/05/2015 04:01 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2015-08-05 12:46, Nio Wiklund skrev: >> ... >> > Dear Lubuntu testers and users, > > Added information about Lubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: The alternate installer > does not work and will not be supplied for this point version. The > desktop installer is over

Re: Add BlueGriffon icon to Menu->Internet

2015-08-01 Thread Israel
Hi, if the desktop file has *Network* in it it should show up in the Internet menu. Desktop files are in: /usr/share/applications there is probably one called something like bluegriffon.desktop open the file as super user i.e. sudo pico /usr/share/applications/bluegriffon.desktop OR for a graphical

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-14 Thread Israel
On 07/14/2015 09:16 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Israel <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > In other words the OGs from compton stay in their hood while the > OGs from XFCE stay in theirs... and things can get messed up i

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-13 Thread Israel
On 07/12/2015 05:45 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > .. > > @Israel, et al: > > Another technical question came to mind on this "compton &disown" . . > . besides wondering if there is a "sudo" in front of any of these > commands. And tha

Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-11 Thread Israel
d I'd highly suggest using compton over xcompmgr, since it is in active development and has fixed some of the bugs in xcompmgr. On 07/11/2015 09:48 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > @Israel: > > Straight back atcha from ten or so miles outside Compton . . . thanks > for the pointers. > T

Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-10 Thread Israel
Straight out of Compton... the official wiki is here: https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki But to test it, just open the terminal and type compton &disown (or compton -b ) This gives you the nice default setup As usual, Arch has a brilliant resource for configuring things.. https://wiki.archlin

Re: One pendrive for all PC (Intel/AMD) computers

2015-06-25 Thread Israel
Hi, I agree with Nio, in theory (or at least from what I can understand about it) I also think a casper read-write partition would work. You might look at the usb-creator source code: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~usb-creator-hackers/usb-creator/trunk/files it is written in Python, so it may take s

Re: Lu for student accounts & wifi--B. T.

2015-06-18 Thread Israel
Hi Marc, I suggest you use IRC to contact the NetworkManager people. I would hope someone there knows the software well enough to do what you describe. It seems like it should be something fairly easy and straight-forward to do. irc://irc.freenode.net/#nm On 06/18/2015 09:46 AM, Marc Tremblay

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Israel
On 06/04/2015 09:11 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > Hello, Isreal > > What video card do you have on your iBook? If it is a radeon card did > you try this "live radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off video=1024x768-32 > video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1"? You are going to have Xorg > issues on 15.04

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Israel
Hi Peter On 06/04/2015 08:14 AM, Peter Golis wrote: > > Hello Israel, > > Could you please summarize your problems? > > > > You had written about issue with accessing console using Ubuntu mini. > Are you talking about Mac Mini, or Ubuntu Minimal installation? Did &g

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Israel
done. > > > > Have a nice day, > > Peter. > > > > ______ > > Od: Israel > > Komu: Fritz Hudnut > > Dátum: 04.06.2015 04:03 > > Predmet: Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues > > &

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-03 Thread Israel
On 06/03/2015 07:45 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Israel: > > Right now 14.04 is fine for PPC . . . there is a "Fixing sound in > 14.04" thread on the Apple Hardware sub-forum . . . some are "easier" > to do than others . . . . I have some posts on that thread, a

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-03 Thread Israel
On 06/03/2015 10:28 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:00 AM, > <mailto:lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com>> wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:52:18 -0500 > From: Israel mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> >

Re: Lubuntu 15.04 64 bit Problem with Desktop Shortcuts

2015-06-02 Thread Israel
Hi Fritz, I recently tried the 15.04 mini iso for PPC and it seems like systemd is a huge problem for PPC. I tried installing xserver/xorg/etc... and my computer crashed. I tried apt-get -f install and it crashed. pretty lame experience. Maybe LFS would be a good way to go with PPC :P Probably a

Fwd: Re: Re: Lubuntu 15.04 64 bit Problem with Desktop Shortcuts

2015-06-02 Thread Israel
bug, or something else I can't quite think of :) Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Re: Lubuntu 15.04 64 bit Problem with Desktop Shortcuts Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 07:31:32 +0100 From: Michael Hirons To: Israel Israel..No the icon{s} are all from the new clean ins

Fwd: Re: Lubuntu 15.04 64 bit Problem with Desktop Shortcuts

2015-06-01 Thread Israel
your previous install? Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Lubuntu 15.04 64 bit Problem with Desktop Shortcuts Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 18:13:05 +0100 From: Michael Hirons To: Israel Hi Israel ..Yes its a short cut on the desktop..ie from the programme menu I right clicked o

Re: Lubuntu 15.04 64 bit Problem with Desktop Shortcuts

2015-06-01 Thread Israel
On 06/01/2015 01:30 AM, Michael Hirons wrote: > Not sure who I should be sending this to?but hope that it can be > forwarded to the correct person? > I have been running Lubuntu 14.10 for some time,but recently decided > to Install 15.04. having done this I have a problem with shortcuts not > openi

Fwd: Re: (Was UI Idea - Which mailing list)

2015-06-01 Thread Israel
) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 13:46:48 +0100 From: Denny To: Israel I ran into a similar problem where I was fed up with searching through menus. In the end I went to i3 and created a keyboard layout to launch the programs I use the most. As a side benefit, I really like tiling WMs so much

Re: (Was UI Idea - Which mailing list)

2015-06-01 Thread Israel
Hi, Alacarte might work... It didn't work in precise, but it may be working again. You can edit categories there. You could make a custom menu in ~/.config/menus/custom.menu You could use the debian-menu which has lots of categories. Navigate in pcmanfm (or terminal) to: /etc/xdg/menus lxde-appl

Re: UI idea - Which mailing list?

2015-05-31 Thread Israel
On 05/31/2015 08:18 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an idea for a UI tweak that I think could prove very useful. > > However, I am unsure which mailing list(s) to send it to because it is > relevant to both Ubuntu and lubuntu. And possibly other xbuntus as well. > > I've looked at ubunt

Re: Check my upstart script code?

2015-05-13 Thread Israel
On 05/13/2015 08:52 AM, John Hupp wrote: > On 5/13/2015 8:30 AM, Israel wrote: >> ... > > Hi, Israel. Interesting thoughts. Someone on the Ubuntu list thought > that the upstart approach probably wouldn't work because 1) $HOME is > not part of the upstart environmen

Re: Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC]

2015-05-13 Thread Israel
Hi, I'd also like to point out that some iBooks can boot from USB. This most recent Lubuntu PPC image worked well for me from USB. I haven't had enough time to really test some of my previous issues (sound!!!). In order to use a USB you need a tool like mkusb

Re: Check my upstart script code?

2015-05-13 Thread Israel
Hi John (inline) On 05/09/2015 03:47 PM, John Hupp wrote: > .. > Here is an improved upstart job (/etc/init/pcmanfm-ltsp.conf). The > script code is tested as working when run manually as a script, but it > was not effective as an upstart job. Perhaps environment variables > like $HOME are not av

Re: Other in Menu

2015-05-12 Thread Israel
On 05/11/2015 10:58 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > > What does XDG mean and what dies it do? > > ... X Desktop Group Basically this is a freedesktop project which aims to standardize things across the diverse GNU operating systems and desktop environments. There are XDG directories for the user

Re: Other in Menu

2015-05-11 Thread Israel
Hi Eric, (you may have found a bug) You could edit the menu file, though I am not sure what this would do... (we already know the prefix, but just for posterity) find what menu prefix is being used. i.e. echo $XDG_MENU_PREFIX lxde- You can find the menus in /etc/xdg/menus such as lxde-applicatio

Re: Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

2015-05-05 Thread Israel
On 05/05/2015 08:28 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2015-05-03 01:35, Nio Wiklund skrev: >> ... > Hi again, > > One step further with the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator: > > I finally found that bug 1325801 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1325801 > > is fixed now with some

Re: One pendrive for all PC (Intel/AMD) computers

2015-05-03 Thread Israel
On 05/02/2015 09:15 PM, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote: > Hello Guys, the tutorial, please check if I miss something! > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2276498&p=13277465#post13277465 > > > > 2015-04-28 23:29 GMT-03:00 Andre Campos Rodovalho > mailto:andre.rodova...@gmail.com>>:... > > Hi,

Re: Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

2015-04-29 Thread Israel
On 04/29/2015 06:30 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > ... > The fourth attempt failed: > > I tried with Unetbootin from my production system (Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS), > but it failed with the same symptom. > > -o- > > The fifth attempt succeeded: > > First I cleaned to pendrive to decrease the risk of 'gridlock

Re: One pendrive for all PC (Intel/AMD) computers

2015-04-28 Thread Israel
On 04/28/2015 02:19 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2015-04-28 21:09, Andre Campos Rodovalho skrev: >> Hello! I'm here to report that I just created a usb drive using GRUB2 >> and EFI using information on this >> page: >> https://github.com/lopaka/instructions/blob/master/ubuntu-14.10-install-asus-x2

Re: Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

2015-04-26 Thread Israel
Hi, I think there is some sort of issue with isolinux. In 14.10 isolinux changed A LOT So I think there is something that doesn't always go right making startup disks for: versions > 14.10 when using <=14.04 and using >=14.10 to make disks for <14.10 This has effected startup disk creator,

Re: Bug #1389904 (Intel 816 graphics machine boots to blank screen) FIXED IN 15.04

2015-04-25 Thread Israel
Hi Aere, this is great news! congratulations!!! On 04/24/2015 11:43 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > All: > > In testing Lubuntu 15.04, to my great delight, I discovered that the > problem I reported (Bug #1389904), where a machine having Intel 82815 > graphics boots to a blank screen, has been fixed i

Re: Keeping track of isos.

2015-04-19 Thread Israel
Hi, You can also mount the ISO and read the README.diskdefines file This will give you: DISKNAME ARCH Then just rename the file to make it easy to remember. On 04/19/2015 12:01 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Hi Aere. > > On 19 April 2015 at 17:32, Aere Greenway > wr

Re: Sloppy workaround for unreported bug: floppy mounts with root owner

2015-04-18 Thread Israel
On 04/18/2015 06:10 PM, John Hupp wrote: > I installed Lubuntu 14.04 for someone who had an XP-era PC. He also > has a really, really old offline PC that he uses for a few familiar > programs, and wants to ferry some files back and forth between the two > PC's using floppies. > > This should be no

Re: can't connect to any wifi Dell Laitude D820

2015-04-07 Thread Israel
On 04/07/2015 03:21 PM, GothSpark Imvu wrote: > hi, > I installed lubuntu on a dell latitude D820 but, the wifi does not work > I installed the B43 frimware using : > sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer > > but still can't connect to any wifi. I can see that my wifi network >

Re: Games - downloading but not appearing

2015-04-07 Thread Israel
On 04/07/2015 02:54 AM, Steven Duckworth wrote: > Having looked through some of the old arcade games available from > Lubuntu Software Centre, I have successfully downloaded 'Open > Invaders' (a good remake of the classic Space Invaders), plus a couple > of chess games, etc However, on download

Re: SimpleScan bug: transition from progress wheel to scan result?

2015-04-05 Thread Israel
On 04/05/2015 07:17 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote: > On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 19:55:36 -0400 > John Hupp wrote: > >> 4300. When the scanner IS powered on during boot, there is an early > Can you report the version of hplip if it is installed with `apt-cache policy > hplip` > Also how was the printer an

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