Hi everybody, after some searching on the web I read a few times that xdmx on ubuntu is broken, but that the version of Debian ETCH is still OK ?
Any experience with this ? I have not been able so far to find a download for that package as all Etch mirrors seem to have gone. All hints more than welcome ! Brgds, Yvo Brasseur. 2018-10-09 14:00 GMT+02:00 <xubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com>: > Send xubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > xubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > xubuntu-users-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of xubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Touchpad timeout (Mike Simms) > 2. Re: Touchpad timeout (Victor Forberger) > 3. Re: Alt+Fn switches to tty console?! (Ulli Horlacher) > 4. Re: Touchpad timeout (MR ZenWiz) > 5. Re: Alt+Fn switches to tty console?! (lukshun...@gmail.com) > 6. Re: Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Beta Testing (Piotr Kacprzak) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:20:14 +0200 > From: Mike Simms <m...@mikesimms.eu> > To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: [xubuntu-users] Touchpad timeout > Message-ID: <44c97e6c-dc02-90fe-7012-30dc7da52...@mikesimms.eu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On my laptop, the touchpad is 'flush' with the body of the computer - > it's not recessed liek older laptops used to be. This means that as I > type I often touch it accidentally with say the wrist and the focus > jumps to where the cursor is, a few words get typed into the wrong place > on the screen! > > I know about the "disable touchpad while typing", I have set to 0.5 > seconds, but it still keeps happening. Is there anywhere a smarter > method if controlling the touchpad behaviour? > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:59:39 -0500 > From: Victor Forberger <vforber...@fastmail.fm> > To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions > <xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>, Mike Simms <m...@mikesimms.eu> > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Touchpad timeout > Message-ID: <031d172c-b8b9-7048-ec65-b3e306864...@fastmail.fm> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 10/08/2018 08:20 AM, Mike Simms wrote: > > On my laptop, the touchpad is 'flush' with the body of the computer - > > it's not recessed liek older laptops used to be. This means that as I > > type I often touch it accidentally with say the wrist and the focus > > jumps to where the cursor is, a few words get typed into the wrong place > > on the screen! > > > > I know about the "disable touchpad while typing", I have set to 0.5 > > seconds, but it still keeps happening. Is there anywhere a smarter > > method if controlling the touchpad behaviour? > > > > > Mike, > > You want to use the terminal command synclient to make adjustments. Use > > synclient -l > > to see current settings. Do some internet searching for various options. > > See my review of my laptop for how I used synclient to adjust the > middle-click timing of my track-pad. > > https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/review-galago- > pro-from-system-76-and-xubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver/ > > And, FWIW, I don't like to disable my track-pad when typing. I find that > the main problem are the settings for double and triple clicking on the > track-pad rather than its sensitivity when typing. So, I have all of > those features turned off. > > - Victor > > > -- > Victor Forberger > vforber...@fastmail.fm > blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 488 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/ > attachments/20181008/cdb39dba/attachment-0001.sig> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 18:17:16 +0200 > From: Ulli Horlacher <frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> > To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Alt+Fn switches to tty console?! > Message-ID: <20181008161716.ga29...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > I still have this problem/bug: > > On Fri 2018-06-15 (08:19), Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > On Fri 2018-06-15 (08:11), Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > > > > > Alt+F1 switches to the tty console 1 > > > > > > > > In the past I have had to press Control+Alt+Fn to switch the console. > > > > > > Another PC now has the same bug, AFTER an "apt-get upgrade"! > > > > After reboot (because of new kernel) the old standard behaviour with > > Control+Alt+Fn is back again. > > A reboot is not necessary, restarting the X server is sufficient to bring > back the default [Alt] [Fn] behaviour. > > But some time (minutes... hours...) later my keyboard layout is again > redefined. > > Still, the question is: who/what is reconfiguring my X11 keyboard?! > > Plan B: how can I store the current keyboard layout to restore it at a > later time? > > "xmodmap -pke" only shows normal keys and not the modifier keys. > > > -- > Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung > Rechenzentrum TIK > Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de > Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 > 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ > REF:<20180615061924.gb32...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 12:29:55 -0700 > From: MR ZenWiz <mrzen...@gmail.com> > To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions > <xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Touchpad timeout > Message-ID: > <CAMiffnj--VHwAAZOwPdxS9+8JE-uCvRY1+Xonbpfbk+5-FPo1Q@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:00 AM Victor Forberger <vforber...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > > > > On 10/08/2018 08:20 AM, Mike Simms wrote: > > > On my laptop, the touchpad is 'flush' with the body of the computer - > > > it's not recessed liek older laptops used to be. This means that as I > > > type I often touch it accidentally with say the wrist and the focus > > > jumps to where the cursor is, a few words get typed into the wrong > place > > > on the screen! > > > > > > I know about the "disable touchpad while typing", I have set to 0.5 > > > seconds, but it still keeps happening. Is there anywhere a smarter > > > method if controlling the touchpad behaviour? > > > > > > > > Mike, > > > > You want to use the terminal command synclient to make adjustments. Use > > > > synclient -l > > > > to see current settings. Do some internet searching for various options. > > > > See my review of my laptop for how I used synclient to adjust the > > middle-click timing of my track-pad. > > > > https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/review-galago- > pro-from-system-76-and-xubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver/ > > > > And, FWIW, I don't like to disable my track-pad when typing. I find that > > the main problem are the settings for double and triple clicking on the > > track-pad rather than its sensitivity when typing. So, I have all of > > those features turned off. > > > > - Victor > > > I have one of those older laptops with a recessed touchpad. I > disabled the touchpad altogether. > > When I'm typing, the last thing I need is for the mouse cursor > suddenly to leap out of my window, or worse, to somewhere else in my > window (i.e. document), because one of my fingers inadvertently > touched the pad. It destroys the continuity of my typing and > interrupts whatever thought I might be trying to express, just to find > the cursor and where it reappeared and undo the damage. > > I don't miss the touchpad at all, and my mouse is far more convenient > to use, even if I don't have a desk to put the laptop on, or a lot of > space for the mouse. I prefer using the keyboard anyway, and a real > mouse beats a touchpad any day hands down to the max. > > That's just me. YMMD. > > Mark Richter > Senior Staff Engineer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1 > FSF Member #12694 http://www.fsf.org > Registered Linux User #472807 http://counter.li.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 15:03:32 +0800 > From: lukshun...@gmail.com > To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Alt+Fn switches to tty console?! > Message-ID: <d278bb40-4828-9d32-6c99-503e50f7f...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On Tuesday, October 09, 2018 12:17 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > > > I still have this problem/bug: > > > > On Fri 2018-06-15 (08:19), Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >> On Fri 2018-06-15 (08:11), Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >> > >>>> Alt+F1 switches to the tty console 1 > >>>> > >>>> In the past I have had to press Control+Alt+Fn to switch the console. > >>> > >>> Another PC now has the same bug, AFTER an "apt-get upgrade"! > >> > >> After reboot (because of new kernel) the old standard behaviour with > >> Control+Alt+Fn is back again. > > > > A reboot is not necessary, restarting the X server is sufficient to bring > > back the default [Alt] [Fn] behaviour. > > > > But some time (minutes... hours...) later my keyboard layout is again > > redefined. > > > > Still, the question is: who/what is reconfiguring my X11 keyboard?! > > See if this helps > > /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian > > Regards, > -- st > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 09:29:53 +0200 > From: Piotr Kacprzak <sp6...@gmail.com> > To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Beta Testing > Message-ID: <bfe9ac0a-e746-9e34-ab84-8804787fd...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 25/09/18 06:25, flocculant wrote: > >> At some point during today we should see images arrive at the tracker > >> [1] for the Cosmic Beta. > >> > >> Please help to test this milestone - everyone should be able to do > >> something to test this for us all. > >> > >> Links to the Beta section on the iso tracker will be posted to this > >> thread as soon as someone sees them. > >> > >> thanks all > >> > >> Kev > >> > >> > >> > > Unsurprsingly - we're getting respins shortly so will need to at > > least smoketest the images again. > > > > Though if people haven't tested yet - and intended to - please do what > > you already intended to do > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > > > ------------------------------ > > End of xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 141, Issue 3 > ********************************************* > -- *IT beheer met raad en daad ...* Gasthuisstraat 25, 3200 Aarschot Gsm: +32/(0)475/53.92.86 Tel.: +32/(0)16/57.05.40 Skype ID: yvo.brasseur (Pls send SMS or mail before using Skype to have it activated.)
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