[ubuntu-uk] New website

Hi all, The Ubuntu UK LoCo finally has a new website (subject to DNS propagation)! We forked the Ubuntu Korea LoCo site , and fiddled with the content a little. The site source is on GitHub , and

[ubuntu-uk] Happy New Year UK LoCo

Heya, Wakey, wakey, everyone! :D The Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical are rebooting the whole LoCo project. So, I wanted to help dust off the UK LoCo team. Alan Bell was previously the point of contact for the UK LoCo. Since he's moved to Ireland and has other exciting interests, I decided to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu Community

Hi Mark, On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mark Dorrington wrote: > I own a ubuntu touch smartphone an lg nexus 5 > > Ubuntu Touch is no longer supported or developed by Canonical. > Could anybody do some research for to find someone > that specializes in ubuntu touch smartphones > > I'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can someone remove this page on the ubuntu-uk web please?

Hi Alan, On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 08:32, Alan Lord wrote: > I tried logging into the ubuntu wiki but can't find an obvious way to > delete a page. > > Does anyone know how to delete this one please? > > http://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/ > Sorry about that. I'll take a look. I have nuked the site in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 19.10 release Get Together

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 15:36, Alan Pope wrote: > > *Hi all,Tomorrow is Ubuntu 19.10 release day, our 15th release so far. * > Duh, 15 years, 30 releases. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 19.10 release Get Together

*Hi all,Tomorrow is Ubuntu 19.10 release day, our 15th release so far. As is customary we’ve found a small London pub in which to celebrate. If you’re in the area of SE1 from 6pm, why not drop by and help us celebrate the Eoan Ermine :)The first few people will get a little ‘party bag’ of Ubuntu

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Artful Fit & Finish Sprint

Hey all, I posted a blog post on insights this morning:- https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/08/08/ubuntu-artful-desktop-fit-and-finish-sprint/ We're looking for people to join us in the London Canonical office on August 24th after work between 4pm and 9pm to help get Ubuntu Artful ready for

[ubuntu-uk] Petitioning Podcast Presenters

Hello! As you may know, we have an Ubuntu based podcast - "Ubuntu Podcast" http://ubuntupodcast.org/ which we're quite proud of, having reached our 9th season this year. Personal commitments have meant we are losing one presenter (Laura) this year, and so we're looking for new guest presenters

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's on the RAT this Saturday 10/09/2016?

Hiya, On 6 September 2016 at 15:40, Alan Lord wrote: > Anyone want to meet in a local hostelry before we head off? > Sounds like a plan! > Before we have met in Farnham either at The Mulberry or The Waverley Arms... > The get the train from Farnham to Alton before

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnu/Linux, BSD and FLOSS group

Hi Andres, Thanks for the mail. On 6 September 2016 at 15:17, Andres wrote: > I believe someone mentioned about having too many or too little LUG in > London. So we are thinking of starting a new one in our Hackerspace. > Location at the moment will be in Richmond

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nautilus icon position bug

On 17 August 2016 at 23:25, Barry Titterton wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone else experienced Bug #1584240 when upgrading from 14.04 to > 16.04? If so, please add to the bug report: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1584240 > Yup, left a comment on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meetup.com

On 1 August 2016 at 19:36, Gareth France wrote: > However it doesn't currently have a group owner and will be deleted in 7 > days if nobody claims it. I'd love to but for groups with more than 50 > members there is a $14.99+ fee per month to pay and I simply can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC News and Weather web apps

On 1 August 2016 at 16:54, Tony Pursell wrote: > So its OK if the BBC provide an app through the Google App Store, but not if > we create one for them. Did we invite them to create one for us? Will they > object to the BBC scope? > You'd have to ask the trademark

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC News and Weather web apps

Hi Tony, On 1 August 2016 at 14:26, Tony Pursell wrote: > Does anyone know why the BBC News and Weather web apps, and the Logviewer > app, disappeared off my Ubuntu phone when I updated to OTA 12? They are not > in the Ubuntu Store either. > They were removed by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bad iso 14.04

On 2 July 2016 at 11:20, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi ... I've no idea how else to report this. The 14.04 iso on the Ubuntu > website is broken. It's less than 50 GiB. I did take it twice, just in > case. I've managed to get it from another site. Hopefully, that one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 vs 32bit Applications

Hi Nige, On 1 June 2016 at 11:33, Nigel Verity wrote: > I've recently gone over to 64bit Ubuntu versions on all my boxes and this > raised a question. Does every binary object in the repositories have to be > compiled twice - once for 32 and again for 64bit architectures

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 4 December 2015 at 15:52, Barry Drake wrote: > I took a further look this morning. It is impossible (almost) to get > Android apps without going via Google Play. In order to use Google Play, > you have to give a Google login, and that means a Google account with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 2 December 2015 at 12:52, Barry Drake wrote: > They seem way ahead of Ubuntu in the phone market. I'm sad about that. > Inevitable. They had a massive head start and are/were backed by two massive companies - Intel & Samsung which have many hundreds of developers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

Hi Barry, On 1 December 2015 at 14:10, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there I've just had to get a new Android phone. I still feel very > 'locked in'. I'd love to have an Ubuntu phone, but am wondering if it will > ever have an Android compatibility layer. Who

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 1 December 2015 at 16:35, Colin Law wrote: > Without the Google Apps (Gmail, Hangouts, Maps, navigation, G+) a lot > of Android users will be very resistant to moving to Ubuntu, > unfortunately. > ..and many don't need any of those.. :) My brother - a very typical mobile

Re: [ubuntu-uk] $5 Computer

On 26 November 2015 at 13:49, Simon Greenwood wrote: > And we used to get excited about free CDs... > I remember my brother getting music magazines with promo plastic records on the front :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] MeetUp

Hello! Background:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams/MeetupProposal We (Canonical) have signed up (and pay for) for a MeetUp Organiser account. This makes it easy for people in the Ubuntu community around the world to create and manage events on MeetUp.com. I created one for the UK Team here:-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu update warning messages

On 22 October 2015 at 19:03, David Goldsbrough wrote: > I am using 14.04 LTS. > I use the "about Computer" facility to update on a regular basis or when > reminded to do so. > I always like to display what is going on if only to half understand what is > going on, > Today

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

On 22 September 2015 at 19:49, Steve Mynott wrote: > Anyone any recommendations for very cheap laptops (ideally netbook > like form factor) with good linux support? > http://www.ebuyer.com/ubuntu One of those perhaps. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Juju + Cassandra Meetup 10 September 2015

Hiya, https://insights.ubuntu.com/event/juju-cassandra-london-meetup/ There's a Juju & Cassandra meetup at 10 South Pl, London, EC2M 2RB tomorrow if anyone is interested.. Follow the link above for details. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30 Aug 2015 7:36 pm, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 30/08/15 18:45, Alan Pope wrote: Alt-F2, gnome-screenshot, set Grab after a delay of to some value, then click Take screenshot and make sure you have the dash or whatever you want to screenshot out when the countdown

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 29 August 2015 at 10:40, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there The dash on my 15.10 desktop 64 bit installation won't show any applications. I don't understand what you mean here. Do you mean the launcher on the left is gone, or it is there but empty, or it's there

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [GLLUG] OggCamp 2015

-- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Cannon pe...@cannon-linux.co.uk Date: 12 August 2015 at 12:10 Subject: [GLLUG] OggCamp 2015 To: GLLUG Mailing List gl...@mailman.lug.org.uk Its here again! OggCamp 2015 John Moores University Liverpool, UK 30th October to 1st November

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing app stalled

On 21 June 2015 at 21:12, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I submitted my application for desktop submission to the software centre three weeks ago and haven't heard a thing back since. Does anyone know how long the waiting list for approval is? At what point do you start to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 3 May 2015 at 11:36, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: There is no point in botching it to make it work as that's not really an instruction I can expect anyone downloading it to have to follow. Will the packaging moderators be happy with me installing to /usr/local? It

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 3 May 2015 at 12:44, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: So how do you set a program up to accessed from anywhere as you would expect to be able to use it? Well, typically applications that are submitted via that means are shipped with a graphical user interface, an icon and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 28 April 2015 at 09:17, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I must apologise that I have limited time to look at this, usually at the end of the day when I'm not at my best anyway. I've just performed debbuild on it and taken some time to scrutinise the output. It does seem to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 28 Apr 2015 08:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: If it were clear how to do this then I would most certainly have done so. In practice I may have or I may have not. I have followed as much of the process as makes sense. It's incredibly unprofessional to upload software

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 27 Apr 2015 20:35, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I have just submitted my program. What has been so frustrating for me is that I know it is a simple process once you have done it. I'm certain I've got it wrong but I should be able to deal with that thanks to feedback from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 27 April 2015 at 11:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: So how do you explain the likes of get-iplayer? That's not a commercial app in the store, it's a free software application packaged up in the standard ubuntu repository. I would love to develop a gui app but it is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 27 April 2015 at 12:57, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Alan, I have tried to work out the process of creating a GUI and it's so alien from what I know to be programming. The SDK will generate an empty package for me but then what??? I've followed the tutorials and ended

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 27 April 2015 at 13:37, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Ok, load the SDK, open a new project. Now I'm stuck. I just don't get any aspect of the concept of graphical programming. I really do think the only way I'm going to get it is to have some time face to face with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 27 April 2015 at 17:17, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Could anyone suggest what I am supposed to put for copyright and licensing if I'm doing a commercial project? By commercial I wonder if you mean proprietary? Either way, take a look at the copyright file you get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release drinks in central London?

Hi Will, On 8 April 2015 at 11:55, Will Cooke will.co...@canonical.com wrote: With release day fast approaching I'd like to get the ball rolling on a gathering in the evening of Thursday April 23rd in central London. Excellent plan. I'll be there. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Local IP Address Allocation

On 29 March 2015 at 23:29, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Is it normally possible to set a general purpose router to recognise a given device and always allocate the same local IP address to it? Depends on the router. Some have the ability to tie an IP address to a specific

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

On 25 March 2015 at 20:47, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2015 at 12:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that Alan, worked a treat! I'm very glad to see that all the issues I have experienced seem to already be listed. Roll on next update!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

On 25 March 2015 at 10:49, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Ok, now I've discovered the perils of a non-removable battery. The phone app crashed again so I rebooted. Now I have a blank screen with backlight on and can't turn the phone off! Hold down the power button for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

On 23 March 2015 at 18:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Buying this phone is a big leap of faith, the hardware is pretty immaterial and we trust that the software will be developed and taken seriously enough to become fully featured in time. I think it's an amazing start.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on Asus Nexus 7

On 6 March 2015 at 09:37, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonbp@owncube.email wrote: I have a 1st gen Nexus 7 - has anyone installed any flavour of Ubuntu on one of these, and if so how did you do it? I saw someone install 13.04 on a Nexus 7 2012 recently.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

On 6 March 2015 at 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonbp@owncube.email wrote: Hi all, Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and why... Ubuntu phone because dogfooding. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Convergence video

Hi all, I thought some might find this video interesting. It was made by the Ubuntu Desktop Engineering Manager Will Cooke, to demo some of the current convergence ideas we're working on. It might make some things make sense that we've been talking about for a few years now. Hope so.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convergence video

On 27 February 2015 at 13:25, Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com wrote: What about keyboard input? Is there an on-screen keyboard, or do you need to connect a bluetooth keyboard as well? Yes to both. There's an OSK and that will typically be suppressed if you attach an external real

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rhinosupport tickets [was 14.04.1 to 14.04.2?]

Spammer, removed and blocked from the list. On 20 February 2015 at 09:07, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody tell me why I have been getting these message (see below) when I reply to questions here? Colin -- Forwarded message -- From: Power Pro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Does anyone have any idea why this is not working correctly? Will I have to install a different viewer to do this? In this day and age we really should not have to re-jig our computers every time we do something

[ubuntu-uk] (UK) Ubuntu Global Jam Feb 6th-8th

Hiya, We have an Ubuntu Global Jam coming up from 6th to 8th Feb. I think we should do one (or more)! I'd personally look to do this on Feb 8th (Sunday) if possible because that's when I am available. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam I have a few ideas for things we could do at the jam:-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 20 January 2015 at 10:50, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: There is a problem. As it doesn't seem to be a wine problem, is there an Ubuntu/wine person that I could report this to? Do you have a reproducible set of steps that someone could try to confirm? Mind posting them?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17 January 2015 at 12:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I've been suffering from this since release day but it's driving me nuts so I have to speak out and see if anyone knows the solution. My machine keeps defaulting to the American keyboard layout. The icon in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

On 7 December 2014 at 23:35, TT Mooney ttmoo...@ttmooney.com wrote: I attended the 14.10 launch party at the Lion and Unicorn, and there was only one person there who didn't come with me (hey, Avi!). So I don't think that one goes in the win section. Surely, in Canonical's HQ city, we might do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to provide PC / laptops which are definitely compatible with Ubuntu. Canonical does. For example there are around 300 different lines of Dell machines

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

On 5 December 2014 at 22:41, Alan Bell alan.b...@libertus.co.uk wrote: well you are certainly not wrong, it has kind of drifted off, and my name is still on the door as point of contact, I am happy to step aside if that would help, or carry on (I am still sending out 14.04 CDs to anyone who

[ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

Hi all, I wanted to kick off a thread about rebooting the team. We have discussions on the list, an active IRC channel, regular beer-related celebrations and a podcast in its 7th year, but not a lot else (unless I'm mistaken?) done as team effort. So I wanted to start an open discussion here

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HUD memory leak?

On 20 November 2014 20:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/pic1.png http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/pic2.png I was rather surprised to see nearly the whole 8GB ram being used, over 5GB by the hud itself. So what's going on there I wonder? Probably

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

On 6 October 2014 21:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/10/14 20:40, alan c wrote: Barry pls tell link? thx Hi Alan . The link is closed now as I bought the item - but the seller has others and is at: http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/bnicomputers I recently bought a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

On 7 October 2014 13:35, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: JOOI I saw some very minor screen corruption issues under 13.10 -- one character would sometimes get random snow in it, occasionally repeated in a few places around the screen. However the machine upgraded to 14.04 with no problems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video Redirection

On 1 October 2014 14:21, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a Raspberry Pi with which I use my TV as a monitor, or at least I did until I trod on the HDMI cable and damaged the socket on the back of the TV. The only other inputs the TV has are a SCART and VGA. My laptop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 10:59, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: I've gone through an entire development cycle without having to re-install 14.10 - just amazing! I now have a very large number of unwanted kernels. There used to be a very simple gui tool that let me remove all the ones

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 11:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/08/14 11:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 15 August 2014 10:59, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: If I want to do it using apt-get, I'm going to have to use the command for every one which will take a while

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 11:31, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 11:12, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 11:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/08/14 11:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 15 August 2014 10:59, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 14:09, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 13:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 13:46, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: .. Here's a very neat bash command that I stick in ~/bin for this very purpose:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xiphos ....

On 9 August 2014 14:27, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: I see that Debian now has up-to-date Sword and BibleTime packages. That's great, but the Xiphos package that was submitted didn't make it because of Lintian errors. I'm not able to look at it until some time in October, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04.5 on server

On 8 August 2014 17:06, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Looking at the packages available it looks as though this is aimed at desktop installs as there doesn't appear to be any matching packages for the server kernels. Am I reading this wrong? What kernel are you currently running?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu at Oggcamp

On 5 August 2014 13:22, Mike Hingley computa_m...@hotmail.com wrote: I'll be attending OggCamp - perhaps we could meet up there and perhaps even take turns manning the table - Yeah, I'd be up for manning the table for a bit. Happy to bring along a laptop and/or phone/tablet to have a demo on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

On 1 August 2014 13:50, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try and get to the pub between 5 and 5:30pm. Sounds like a plan. Will see you there. Annoyingly my ticket has been lost so I need to buy another (hopefully someone there will have a spare). Cheers, Al. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

On 2 August 2014 12:47, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 1 August 2014 13:50, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try and get to the pub between 5 and 5:30pm. Sounds like a plan. Will see you there. Annoyingly my ticket has been lost so I need to buy another (hopefully someone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alphabetise != en_GB

On 30 July 2014 17:36, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: I just hapened to right click on my 14.04 desktop and saw the option to Alphabetise Desktop Icons... OED says yes :) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/alphabetize?q=alphabetise Cheers, Al. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Color. Labor. Aluminum.

On 11 July 2014 09:43, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: And now we're #8 :) Now number #1 :D http://projects.davidplanella.org/stats/utopic http://imgur.com/F7V23Bh Lets keep it that way. I've been running this script to spawn a bunch of browser windows showing me everything on the phone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Color. Labor. Aluminum.

On 10 July 2014 11:52, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 9 July 2014 18:23, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: It'd be a bit easier if Launchpad didn't crash on me once I'm logged in :-( Yeah, that bug should be fixed soon. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1340010 On the bright side, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Color. Labor. Aluminum.

On 9 July 2014 18:23, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: It'd be a bit easier if Launchpad didn't crash on me once I'm logged in :-( Yeah, that bug should be fixed soon. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1340010 On the bright side, I see that Breton is first: my Celtic fellow countrymen have

[ubuntu-uk] Color. Labor. Aluminum.

Hey y'all dudes! Hopefully the subject will have you in a fervor, taking offense at my detour. Don't bust a tire on your wagon, but center your truck on the Internet freeway lane and analyze my mail... Looking at the translation stats for the phone it seems we (en_GB) are lagging behind quite a

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu MATE Remix

Hi all, One of the MATE developers - Martin Wimpress - has (with a tiny bit of help) spun up an Ubuntu MATE Remix. It's Ubuntu, but with a hint of 2010 ;) You can get the details here, do feel free to test and fire feedback at us via the bug reporting link on the site.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu MATE Remix

On 3 July 2014 19:05, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 07/03/2014 05:59 PM, Alan Pope wrote: Hi all, One of the MATE developers - Martin Wimpress - has (with a tiny bit of help) spun up an Ubuntu MATE Remix. It's Ubuntu, but with a hint of 2010 ;) You can get the details here, do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Middle click stopped working in 14.04

On 22 June 2014 16:03, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: Has middle click stopped inserting current marked text from one window to another on 14.04 (Unity)? Or is it just me? I can't see a bug report. Works fine here. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One is dead, long live U1!

On 6 June 2014 08:06, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully someone can assist. As I'm sure some of you know, the Ubuntu One file storage service has been retired. However it is bugging me with messages attempting to upload files to the server every 30 seconds or so. I can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One is dead, long live U1!

On 6 June 2014 08:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, it was starting to drive me insane! The tray applet is still there, can I assume that will disappear after a reboot? Yup. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google fu - like kung-fu, but with search :)

Hi Mike, On 29 April 2014 01:21, Mike Hingley computa_m...@hotmail.com wrote: I was thinking about the U1 close down, and I got to thinking about Iain Farrell's post on design.canonical.com : http://design.canonical.com/2011/10/so-youve-decided-to-make-an-ubuntu-promotional-video/ in this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First impressions on Trusty

Hi Tony, On 23 April 2014 23:43, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Can someone tell me what package I should be reporting my screen brightness control problem against. I reported it against linux with the result that I am being asked to test it against the latest upstream

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Hi Gareth, On 24 April 2014 10:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: .Can nobody help me with this debuild command? It just seems to throw up endless error messages. Not endless, only a few. This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be an appropriate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24 April 2014 11:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I have already dealt with many, many errors. Trust me it feels endless right now! So I need to compress my source? There's the compressed tarball containing your pristine source. Then there's the directory you're working in,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED dpkg-buildpackage: source changed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Hi Gareth, On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as an executable but this doesn't seem to work. Can anyone advise me what format it needs to be in to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Hi Gareth, These two statements are somewhat in conflict.. On 23 April 2014 08:31, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: The goal is to create a program which can be installed from the software centre like any other. I don't want the code to be accessable by anybody. Not sure what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it , you use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 23 April 2014 08:56, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in the system and just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote: So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have information about how to package it for submission but I still need a way to run the program from the command line

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

On 22 April 2014 17:44, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know why the name for 14.10 doesn't seem to have been released yet? I've never known this to happen after the release date of the current version before. Nope. Only Mark knows that right now. Last time it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

On 22 April 2014 17:52, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiosity if someone were to want to upgrade at this time (pointless for most I know) they would have to change the name in sources.list. So have the 14.10 repositories been created? If yes then how are they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

On 2 April 2014 14:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Now typically, more recently not a huge number of people turn up. It was suggested by Michelle in the office that we could invite people to have a drink at the office rather than everyone all trek to a random rubbish pub somewhere

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

On 3 April 2014 12:39, Matthew Ames m...@supermatt.net wrote: I'm totally up for this. I'm aware that the blue fin building has tight security, so I assume that if you're name isn't on the event page, you're not coming in? We can deal with that closer to the time. Do we have an event page

[ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

I'd recommend any users who use Ubuntu One file services read this blog post from our CEO, Jane Silber:- http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/01/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

Hi all, Every release we have a party in London because it's where the office is and lots of users and community people are there too. Nothing is stopping people having a get together in another part of the country/world, this mail is specifically about London. The release party often draws some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

On 2 April 2014 14:19, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to be http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/ now Yeah, the blog date was massaged just after I sent the mail. Apparently people don't believe you if you post announcements with the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

On 2 April 2014 19:13, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.com wrote: Any chance of releasing the server source, now that the project is being discontinued? Additionally, we continue to believe in the Ubuntu One file services, the quality of the code, and the user experience, so will release the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Something wrong?

On 26 February 2014 21:34, Stuart Ward stuart.w...@bcs.org wrote: The podcast is quiet as well??? We take a break in Jan/Feb. Have done every year :) Everyone has been too busy to meet up to kick start the new season, but we're fixing that next week. Cheers, Al. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Sticker Outlet (UK)

Hi Peter, On 27 February 2014 11:26, Peter Maddison ponchorat1...@hotmail.com wrote: My name is Peter Maddison (pooky2483), I am the UK supplier of the 'Powered By Ubuntu' 'Ubuntu Key' stickers for System76. You can either contact me for my address or go to System76's website... Yay!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Something wrong?

On 26 February 2014 19:59, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote: Haven't received any emails since Monday 24th Feb...is there something amiss or has no-one posted? Nope, I think it's just quiet :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

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