Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2007, 11:54 +0200 schrieb Pascal De Vuyst: Currently Ubuntu provides no out of the box support for the extra multimedia or internet keys on desktop keyboards. all five different multimedia keyboards i own are supported out of the box, volume and brightness control keys

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 27.09.2007, 10:49 +0200 schrieb Waldemar Kornewald: What about my alternative suggestion? It would still run fsck, but at the same time be less annoying or not disturbing at all. not wsure if you ever ran fsck manually, but you have to unmount the partition you check or at

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 27.09.2007, 12:04 +0200 schrieb Dominik Wagenfuehr: My point was that if you give people lots of choice they don't know what to choose. I know. :) But currently you have no choice at all with Ubuntu installation (concerning software installation). Or am I wrong?

Re: apt-cacher in main

2007-11-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 11:38 -0500 schrieb Fabian Rodriguez: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 (not sure if this made it so re-sending) it did :) Hi, I'd like to propose moving apt-cacher to main. I haven't done main inclusion reports before so bear with me

Re: apt-cacher in main

2007-11-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 22:59 + schrieb Matt Zimmerman: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:05:01PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: in edubuntu we face the fact that governments and schools start rolling out really huge deployments in the near future (see macedonia with a total of 185000

Re: Main inclusion for transmission, vinagre and cheese

2008-01-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-01-15 at 14:13 +0100, Wouter Stomp wrote: Hello, After it was decided that ubuntu would ship transmission and vinagre in hardy, these were directly moved from universe to main. Cheese is also new in main. I couldn't find main inclusion reports for these packages. Even though

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

2008-02-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 17:53 -0500 schrieb Daniel Hollocher: I have a different but related question: why is a wine package included in the Ubuntu repositories at all? would your mother (want to) know how to add a sourcees.list entry etc ? I understand that much of ubuntu software

Re: Got Hardy? With Sound?

2008-03-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 01:00 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: Op vrijdag 28-03-2008 om 09:07 uur [tijdzone +1100], schreef Luke Yelavich: and flash has libflashsupport, which provides pulseaudio output for flash. Does that work on 64-bit systems now? (It didn't work (easily) in gutsy.)

Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display broken twice

2008-03-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 31.03.2008, 16:33 +0200 schrieb André Pirard: Hello, Please could something be done to prevent breaking that display adapter twice in a row? i cant see that breakage on any of my thin clients that are CLE266 based here with hardy (and i didnt with any of the former

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 22:42 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit : hi, Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High frequency

Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 03.06.2008, 07:21 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: Power Management Preferences has been needlessly crippled. The sliders to control when the computer sleeps and when the display sleeps all have a lower limit of 21 minutes. do you have gnome-screensaver installed ? thats no

Re: absurd: network connection required to obtain a network driver

2008-07-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 03.07.2008, 20:39 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:58 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Also the same problem is for ndiswrapper - it's not on the cd even though it's open source. I'm pretty sure ndiswrapper has been able to be installed

Re: absurd: network connection required to obtain a network driver

2008-07-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 03.07.2008, 16:47 -0400 schrieb Bud Roth: You've identified an issue regarding copies of Ubuntu CDs that, while a valid concern, can be addressed. (I'm a lawyer, not a developer, so that's where my strengths and weaknesses fall.) Broadcom wouldn't agree to let

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 19:42 +0200 schrieb Przemysław Kulczycki: Oliver Grawert pisze: hi, Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 12:42 +0100 schrieb (``-_-´´) -- Fernando: * the manual way, rename the source.list hardy mentions to intrepid and do an apt-get dist-update; you know

Re: pm-utils vs acpi-support

2008-07-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 14.07.2008, 01:26 +0200 schrieb Przemysław Kulczycki: What's the status of pm-utils in Ubuntu? As far as I can see in Ubuntu Hardy, pm-utils is installed but it's not used by default because acpi-support is still present. When will we drop acpi-support in favour of

Re: usplash and alternate resolutions

2008-07-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.07.2008, 13:27 -0400 schrieb Bill Filler: Hello, Does anyone know if there is work underway in usplash to support resolutions such as 1024x600 and 1280x800 (without stretching the image), which are proving to be quite common in the netbook space? If not, any hints

Re: usplash and alternate resolutions

2008-07-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.07.2008, 19:27 +0100 schrieb Alexander Jones: WHY are we using a giant image? The only image we need is the small Ubuntu logo. We should center it on a black background and be done with it. If that needs changes to Usplash, let's do it! you miss the point a bit here,

Re: usplash and alternate resolutions

2008-07-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.07.2008, 15:04 -0400 schrieb Joe Terranova: you miss the point a bit here, even in that case the logo would be oval instead of being a cycle, it's about the stretching that happens Why would it be an oval? it wouldnt if usplash would act like you describe below

Re: usplash and alternate resolutions

2008-07-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.07.2008, 21:00 +0100 schrieb Alexander Jones: I'll dig into the code this evening and see what I can find. (Also, Reply to All is better because the people who I am replying to have their names directly in the header.) but it breaks reply to list for everyone using a

Re: usplash and alternate resolutions

2008-07-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Dienstag, den 22.07.2008, 22:20 +0100 schrieb Alexander Jones: 2008/7/22 Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-July/thread.html Threading is intact, and the mailing list manager knows when I have Cc'd someone who is already on its

Re: kernel module python numpy

2008-08-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2008-08-07 at 00:00 +0200, Sebastian Krause wrote: Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've asked this question before and not had an answer. The kernel module for this onboard NIC is broken and has been since kernel version 2.6.22 does adding pci=nomsi to your grub

Re: kernel module python numpy

2008-08-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2008-08-07 at 20:17 +0100, richard wrote: Hi Oli I tried as you suggested, unfortunately it didn't help. thanks for the test though, at least we now know they are not the same issue :) ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs

2008-09-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-08-18 at 19:31 +0100, Sam Tygier wrote: Hi The current intrepid test releases will not boot on machines with Via C3 CPUs. At boot the message: This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: cmov Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-09-09 at 20:31 +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: Hi Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if the system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made to boot faster, it should be made to appear so. there are a lot of

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2008-09-11 at 22:44 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: Here's my 1:28 bootchart: http://mg.pov.lt/hardy-20080822-1.png There are at most 4 seconds of idle waiting. Hey, I see zope2.9 taking quite a bit of the time (20 seconds). I no longer need that. sudo apt-get remove to the

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2008-09-12 at 09:23 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: You have 25-35 seconds from GRUB till desktop appearing (using autologin)? i have managed 22 already with a not to drastic set of modifications (19 after grub [1] plus the three second grub timeout) with the ten seconds my BIOS takes

Re: Full boot in 45s, 3 possible improvements (for Jaunty Jackalope 9.04?)

2008-09-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-09-15 at 15:57 +0200, Andre Mussche wrote: But I do not know how to optimize udev/modprobe and gnome? i plan to work on some improved scripts for the modprobe issue in jaunty, what you can do today is to provide a fixed list of modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, that

Re: Ubuntu Kernel Conribuitions

2008-09-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Mo, 2008-09-22 at 16:12 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: First, I'm sorry for the cross posting, but this subject concerns both areas. I've been attending several distros users meeting this last year, and had my last one at OpenSuse ENOS08 [1]. In every meeting I go, I keep hearing

Re: Tablet PC under ubuntu

2008-09-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-09-29 at 14:16 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Hi, as an user of a tablet pc under ubuntu, I have to say that this distribution can work very well with tablet pcs. Cellwriter and xournal are already there and they are very good. The only problem is that currently in both

Re: Tablet PC under ubuntu

2008-09-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-09-29 at 15:20 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Sorry if I misunderstand but does this mean that my tablet will not work in intrepid but only in intrepit+1? If so what should I do in the meantime? Many bugs related to the tablet have ***finally*** been solved in intrepid after

Re: Tablet PC under ubuntu

2008-09-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-09-29 at 16:10 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote: May I know where the call was sent (and where future calls/informations might be sent), since I've been monitoring it was sent to ubuntu-devel on august 19th [1], though it was focused on evtouch specifically, i also mentioned it on my

Re: [Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

2008-10-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 07.10.2008, 10:25 -0700 schrieb George Farris: Shouldn't we have this type of thing in the touchpad settings and I would think it should be enabled by default. thats pretty irrelevant now that hal manages all input devices and you dont need to muck about with xorg.conf at

Re: FTBFS for xf86-input-evtouch in Jaunty

2009-01-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.01.2009, 10:22 +0530 schrieb Vishal Rao: Hello, I'd filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312098 a while back about this build failure. So far there's just an automated comment to post output of lspci and Xorg.0.log etc but I'm not sure it's relevant and if a

Re: FTBFS for xf86-input-evtouch in Jaunty

2009-01-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.01.2009, 20:42 +0530 schrieb Vishal Rao: Thanks a lot for fixing the package! The package itself worked but I've filed another bug 317127 about the calibrate tool not detecting mouse position. right, more important was to have the package in at all, toffee and flowers

Re: improving compiled modules of kernel - per-user (was Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29)

2009-02-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2009-02-12 at 14:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: I'd do something like: - iterate /sys, looking for the devices - track to their drivers (either by looking at what's loaded, or comparing modalias to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE) isnt that what MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs.conf

Re: how to test restricted nvidia drivers on live cd without CAB?

2009-02-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2009-02-16 at 11:51 +, Odysseus Flappington wrote: One trick I've used quite a few times, was to test to see if the nvidia restricted drivers would work on a machine before installing by doing the following: 1) booting a live cd 2) installing the restricted drivers 3)

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 16:02 -0500 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: Ubuntu by default includes a Palm Pilot sync tool and an HP printer configuration tool.I'm wondering why we need vendor-specific tools like these in the default install. even though they are vendor specific, they

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 17.03.2009, 18:55 + schrieb Mat Tomaszewski: (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: Olá Mat e a todos. On Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:31:59 Mat Tomaszewski wrote: - why not show separate icons for all connection types in the panel? because gnome, kde,

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 20.03.2009, 09:49 +0200 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: to, 2009-03-19 kello 16:20 +0100, Martin Soto kirjoitti: Seconded, you start your session once with the new version installed, and there's often no way back. Applications will surely update their configuration data as soon

Re: background collection is horrible

2009-05-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 16:58 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert: hi, Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 09:48 -0500 schrieb solaris manzur: /usr/share/backgrounds/space-01.jpg to space-05.jpg collection is horrible, old and low resolution wallpapers, no one uses them, so please replace or remove

Re: background collection is horrible

2009-05-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 09:48 -0500 schrieb solaris manzur: /usr/share/backgrounds/space-01.jpg to space-05.jpg collection is horrible, old and low resolution wallpapers, no one uses them, so please replace or remove them, in http://www.deviantart.com we could find some high resolution

Re: background collection is horrible

2009-05-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 11:37 -0400 schrieb Andrew: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: hi, Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 16:58 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert: hi, Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 09:48 -0500 schrieb solaris manzur: /usr/share/backgrounds

Re: Touch Screen Issues

2010-03-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 23.03.2010, 10:57 -0700 schrieb Brian Murray: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:21:26PM +, Caroline Ford wrote: Do programs generally work okay or does it depend on libraries etc? The touchscreen and stylus control the pointer just the way a mouse would. if you talk about

Re: Rant about 10.04's installer on ubuntu-users

2010-04-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2010, 16:41 -0400 schrieb Tom H: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-April/216013.html Since the person who posted does not want to file a bug report, I thought that i should point this out. someone apparently did file it now ...

RE: Windows controls: new button layout

2010-05-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 08.05.2010, 08:50 +0200 schrieb Davyd McColl: I'm just annoyed that this setting (and locking my workstation when it goes to screensaver -- probably others too) was applied on a dist-upgrade without any prompt. I don't want a macified interface -- it doesn't feel natural to

Re: why is there no mention of the word Linux on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 11:11 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: There is, actually, a block of text that mentions it: “Ubuntu is, and always will be, absolutely free. Created by the best open-source experts from all over the world, Ubuntu is available in 24 languages and ready for

Re: Default setting for system suspend in Ubuntu install CD

2012-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:54:50 +0100 Roberto NM robe.na...@gmail.com wrote: I think the behaviour to do nothing instead of suspending is expected and user friendly since other major operating systems (Windows, OS X) behave the same way. there are many people using the live media as a work

Re: Default setting for system suspend in Ubuntu install CD

2012-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:49:47 +0100 Roberto NM robe.na...@gmail.com wrote: If you choose install right after booting the installation CD the dash and launcher don't load, yet the behaviour is suspend upon closing the lid. right, this is why i asked you to file the bug against the installer

Re: Recent OpenSSL update that breaks cloudfront and rubygems.org?

2012-04-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:06:12 -0500 Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: The recent update to OpenSSL in Precise has rendered cloudfront.com unusable (as well as several other hosts which people have noted throughout other various bugs -- the one I discovered was have a look at

Re: [RFC] zswap for Precise, with script

2012-05-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:55:52 -0400 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Any thoughts on this? I wrote it on a whim after installing an SSD and completely disabling all swap. Haven't checked to see if Ubuntu supports hibernate to file yet (creating a hibernation file on demand

Re: Problem with flash-kernel script on PandaBoard with Ubuntu image and Linaro kernel

2012-07-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2012, 15:32 + schrieb David Cullen: Hello, Robie, On 7/11/2012 5:59 PM, Robie Basak wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:32:51PM +, David Cullen wrote: My questions are 1. Is it appropriate to suggest a patch to the Ubuntu flash-kernel to support

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal 12.10 beta 2

2012-09-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 03.09.2012, 20:16 +0200 schrieb Johan Scheepers: Good day, Have trouble locating download link for above OS. i bet anyone would, you are a bit ahead of time, ubuntu 12.10 beta *1* will be released this thursday, beta 2 is still a bit away ;) ciao oli

Re: Possible inclusion of 'net-tools' into Ubuntu Core

2012-12-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2012, 22:17 +1000 schrieb Kieran Grant: Based on the problems that Saqlain had (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2012-December/014092.html) and I initially had with Ubuntu core and using apt-get, I am wondering if Ubuntu Core should include

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 08.12.2012, 00:03 + schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: On 7 December 2012 22:32, Fabio Pedretti fabio@libero.it wrote: It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This package set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for

Re: auto generated menu.lst file contents

2013-01-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 07.01.2013, 11:19 + schrieb Colin Watson: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:54:10PM +0500, Saqlain Abbas wrote: Alexander, once again thank you! You guided me to a new world :-), i download grub source code and update-grub command script tells whole story ;) # Title

Re: man types.h

2013-01-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2013, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Lanoxx: Hi, it seems that for solaris there exists a man page for types.h [1] but I could not find such a man page on ubuntu. Could someone give me a hint, why it does not exist or is the man page name just different on ubuntu?

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-09 at 13:21 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: We have aptitude seeded where console is the default interface. On ubuntu-desktop the default interface is unity with preferred package management using: - dash application scope - software updater - software center on a

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Di, 2013-04-09 at 11:29 -0400, Brett Cornwall wrote: On 04/09/2013 08:21 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: snip Maybe I was not very explicit - all console applications are niche on the Ubuntu (gui) Desktop. And vice versa, gui-desktop applications are nice on the Ubuntu (console) Server.

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-09 at 12:24 -0400, Brett Cornwall wrote: On 04/09/2013 12:17 PM, Alexandre Strube wrote: Why? Because aptitude is the successor to apt-get, endorsed by the community that does all the packaging for this OS, is more stable, and has better dependency handling (indeed,

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-09 at 12:53 -0400, Brett Cornwall wrote: On 04/09/2013 12:45 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: snip Forget it - forget it. One could have said that all of Ubuntu's software depended on apt-get from the get-go. But instead I get a barrage of messages of people just telling

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-09 at 11:22 -0700, Dale Amon wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Waclaw Kusnierczyk wrote: Where does this conmviction come from? On 04/09/2013 02:21 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On Ubuntu Desktop we want to discourage usage of command line =) as there is

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-09 at 12:20 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:45:25PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: snip... just shipping it alongside would go against ubuntus policy of avoiding duplication in default installs. Thereby removing one more

Re: High priority bug (IMHO) that needs to be fixed before Raring Release?

2013-04-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2013-04-19 at 11:27 +0200, Thomas Novin wrote: I upgraded to Raring the other day (from 12.04.2 LTS). Used Skype and noticed that all notification sounds sounds very distorted. Like a blown-out speaker. Googled it and found a solution in a askubuntu.com-question.

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 13:28:32 -0400 Daniel Hollocher danielholloc...@gmail.com wrote: Officially called Ubuntu MATE Remix, this will integrate the MATE Desktop Environment to the power and stability of Ubuntu. In fact, I already had a working prototype based on Saucy Salamander. You

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 04.11.2013, 13:19 +0200 schrieb Nik Th: 02.11.2013, 20:00, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com: It might for exmaple allow security updates (which are explicitly hacked out of Linux Mint for Xorg, the kernel, Firefox, the bootloader and various other packages) so that you

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.11.2013, 07:32 +0200 schrieb Nik Th: I'm don't watch the conversation from the beginning , but I assume (in your distro) you will keep the original repositories and official packages , correct ? I'm not a developer, thus I cannot help you with coding, but if you

Re: Qubes-OS

2014-01-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 09.01.2014, 01:21 + schrieb Robie Basak: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:53:06PM -0500, John Moser wrote: Well, they have a large amount of stuff showing how they've demonstrated VM isolation under a paravirtualizing hypervisor to separate out security zones on a

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 01.06.2014, 23:49 -0700 schrieb Dale Amon: I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. you have not told us from where to where and how you upgraded ... also what desktop you are running ...

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

2015-01-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.01.2015, 16:17 + schrieb Colin Law: On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson christopher.knut...@gmail.com wrote: Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the kernel version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out

Re: other users visibility

2015-02-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2015, 14:39 + schrieb Ηλίας Ηλιάδης Exposing what programs I used (through my conf files being exposed to other users) is at least unwanted and not in the spirit of sharing files but... in the spirit of sharing preferences. if your conf dirs/files are

Re: other users visibility

2015-02-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 09.02.2015, 10:02 + schrieb Ηλίας Ηλιάδης: Hello and sorry for any inconvenience since this is my first attempt to post. When ubuntu is installed a default user with admin rights is created. After that any user created has the ability to view the folders of any other

Re: super , keep LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2015-04-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2015, 01:41 + schrieb sanyechon...@live.com: Thanks a lot. After checking the super document carefully, it seems like there's no easy way to slove this problem with super. what is the benefit of using super (and exposing suid root bits to all apps you run) over

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 20:43 +0200 schrieb Martin Pitt: Oliver Grawert [2015-08-17 15:24 +0200]: if you need to prevent an upstart service from starting on boot you need to create a .override files containing the word manual, as described in your askubuntu links. i dont think

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 12:38 +0100 schrieb João M. S. Silva: does it mean I'm not using systemd? I don't seem to have systemd installed (Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS). update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d are tools for package maintainers only (to be used from pre/postinst scripts) and only applies to

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 14:56 +0100 schrieb João M. S. Silva: The specific problem here is that modemmanager depends on network-manager: $ cat /etc/init/modemmanager.conf (...) start on starting network-manager stop on stopped network-manager (...) But I don't need network-manager

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 15:36 +0100 schrieb João M. S. Silva: Yes, it is: $ dpkg -l|grep network-manager $ dpkg -l|grep modemmanager ii modemmanager1.0.0-2ubuntu1 amd64D-Bus service for managing modems Thanks Oli, that sounds reasonable. I

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Btw. I'm still not used to systemd after using it for around 3 years, but for my workflow a clean systemd at least is easier to handle, than the Wily hybrid. You might get used to the Wily hybrid systemd within 30 seconds, you

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2015, 13:00 +0200 schrieb Martin Pitt: Tom H [2015-08-18 4:49 -0400]: update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d are tools for package maintainers only (to be used from pre/postinst scripts) and only applies to sysv-init scripts ... Yes and no. They are meant for

Re: Errors when building a kernel

2015-08-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 21.08.2015, 11:05 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Hi, I try to build a kernel for Wily, that is as close as possible to a kernel I use for Arch Linux. ... The Internet wasn't helpful :(. try https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile ... ciao oli

Re: Errors when building a kernel

2015-08-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Freitag, den 21.08.2015, 12:39 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:26:35 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: try https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile ... I can't see were this link provides information regarding my questions. I know how to build a kernel. then i'm

Re: Errors when building a kernel

2015-08-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 11:44 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 05:26:24 -0400, Tom H wrote: You seemed to imply in your first email that the above was failing (IIRC!). If the above's working, where's the problem? This does work to build kernel packages, so I don't need

Re: Errors when building a kernel

2015-08-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 13:21 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Perhaps you understand an analogy. Doing it that way would be like measuring with a meter, that is powered by the same current source as the circuit you'll measure. IOW I quasi try to archive galvanic isolation from Ubuntu

Re: Errors when building a kernel

2015-08-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 08:52 -0400 schrieb Tom H: On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: also note that an ubuntu kernel package is more than vmlinuz and modules ... there are configs and postinst scripts run at install time of the deb. given

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 18:13 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:32:42 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: unfounded FUD What next? Actually everything I pointed out is correct, it's not unfounded FUD. Even you mentioned that not all services are ported over. neither

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 12:05 -0400 schrieb Luis Mondesi: A chkconfig like tool is needed, even if it's overkill. what is wrong with using upstreams systemctl to manage services ? this is what systemd upstream proposes and what is used in ubuntu and debian (and hopefully everywhere

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 17:20 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:03:02 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: ubuntus upstream is debian in this case ... ... but systemd's upstream is _not_ Debian. no, but you blame ubuntu for technical debian decisions here ... martin pitt

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

2015-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 16:46 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:56:34 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Btw. I'm still not used to systemd after using it for around 3 years, but for my workflow a clean

Re: Errors when building a kernel

2015-08-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Removing modules from the config that anyway don't get loaded doesn't matter, so your analogy doesn't fit, i'm not talking about modules ... does your kernel have the sane apparmor patchlevel and configs set (or does it

Re: Feature request: "Restart to ..." option

2015-11-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 02.11.2015, 17:05 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > If you need it right now, you could write a script, however, that's > not > the reason for my reply. The reason is, that I want to mention, that > sometimes a reboot isn't required, chroot or systemd-nspawn makes it > unnecessary

Re: On fresh installation of beta 2, DSL/PPPoE doesn't work

2015-10-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2015, 14:44 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:33:10 +0300, Mustafa Muhammad wrote: > >I've reported this days before 15.04 release, there were no time to fix > >before that release. >

Re: On fresh installation of beta 2, DSL/PPPoE doesn't work

2015-10-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2015, 10:33 +0300 schrieb Mustafa Muhammad: > Hi, > I've reported this days before 15.04 release, there were no time to > fix before that release. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1446689 > Now, we are approaching 15.10, the fix should be

Re: Bug when trying to empty trash?

2015-08-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2015, 16:00 +0200 schrieb Amr Ibrahim: I was going to file this as a bug, but I didn't know if it was the desired reaction. When you go to empty the trash by right clicking on the launcher it will open nautilus. Shouldn't it just empty the trash without having to

Re: Please implement Click-lock

2015-09-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2015, 02:18 +0200 schrieb Markus M.: > There are quite a lot of similar solutions, but none does exactly what > Windows Click-lock does and there's no other good way, nobody on QA > sites seemed to be satisfied with these, including myself. As this is > to simplify input,

Re: tascam us-16x08 settings panel

2015-09-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2015, 09:10 +0200 schrieb Mr. Kraus: > I tried to run it in wine (1.4 and later 1.6), and it has a problem > loading qwindows.dll (from QT5), although as far as I can tell, the > library is where it should be in the installation folder. did you install the i386 version

Re: about break upstart

2015-12-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 31.12.2015, 14:39 +0800 schrieb yan...@iscas.ac.cn: > breaks upstart(<<1.12.1-0ubuntu8) this looks like you are doing a release to release upgrade without using update-manager/do-release-upgrade (who would both take care for handling replacing upstart with systemd proper)

Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

2015-12-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 21.12.2015, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Alberto Salvia Novella: > Julian Andres Klode: > > It just happens that some of the newly installed dependencies are > also > > Suggested by other installed packages, and thus are not removed, > > because you might have installed the package in

Re: Re: about upstart

2016-01-11 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 11.01.2016, 16:06 +0800 schrieb yan...@iscas.ac.cn: > Can you tell me where did ubuntu15.04 define the environment > variables "UPSTART_SESSION" ? upstart generates it when it starts the upstart user session. ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: optional dark theme

2016-02-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2016, 15:07 + schrieb Colin Law: > On 16 February 2016 at 14:45, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Vitaly Zdanevich [2016-02-16 17:15 +0300]: > >> So my dear developers of Ubuntu - how about include (maybe in the > >> next release) some dark ui (for

Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

2016-03-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 26.03.2016, 14:23 -0400 schrieb Peter Belmont: > When I use Nautilus, or look at Desktop, I see representations of many > files and folders. I want a very quick right-click method to copy the > fullpathname of such items. > > Am I missing this? Does it exist already? >

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2016 12:22:44 PDT schrieb Dale Amon : On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:14:05PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: However, the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info show armhf packages as you suggest. Ah, a bit more research. It looks like armhf is armv7 and that is the

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