System compositor progress

2012-07-11 Thread Robert Ancell
Hi, We're now at the point where the system compositor [1] is starting to work. Any brave souls who want to start playing with this can have a look at the instructions in the blueprint. Obviously THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, so play at your own risk! In saying that, early feedback is most welcome

Re: System compositor progress

2012-07-11 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 18:04 +1200, Robert Ancell wrote: Hi, We're now at the point where the system compositor [1] is starting to work. Any brave souls who want to start playing with this can have a look at the instructions in the blueprint. Obviously THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, so play at

Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

2012-07-11 Thread Thomas Bechtold
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:41 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: I'd like to enable connectivity checking in NetworkManager. We'd use http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html, running the check every 5 minutes starting from the connection being established. start.ubuntu.com has already

Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

2012-07-11 Thread Thomas Bechtold
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 06:08 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre [2012-07-10 14:41 -0400]: I'd like to enable connectivity checking in NetworkManager. We'd use http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html, running the check every 5 minutes starting from the connection being

Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

2012-07-11 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/11/2012 12:17 PM, Thomas Bechtold wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 06:08 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre [2012-07-10 14:41 -0400]: It could stop polling until the connection state changes then. if you don't poll, you never know if the connection state changed. My devious

Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

2012-07-11 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
Hi, My devious self is wondering if each computer can have an active TCP connection to a specific address, like connected.ubuntu.com, with TCP keepalives at a high interval (maybe 10 seconds). You don't have the overhead of constantly opening and closing connections, but you do have the

Re: System compositor progress

2012-07-11 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 18:04 +1200, Robert Ancell wrote: Hi, We're now at the point where the system compositor [1] is starting to work. Any brave souls who want to start playing with this can have a look at the instructions in the blueprint. Obviously THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, so play at