Re: Another Raspberry Pi data point

2021-02-11 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, at 15:21, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:34:17PM -0600, Jonathan Marsden wrote: >> Just knowing that is useful info! I wasn't sure if it was "supposed" to >> work. >> I have not found a list of which aarch64 SBC boards Gui

Re: Another Raspberry Pi data point

2021-02-10 Thread Jonathan Marsden
in that "issue")? Many thanks, I am encouraged to see others interested in getting Guix System working on the Raspberry Pi! Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden

Status of Guix System on Raspberry Pi?

2021-02-08 Thread Jonathan Marsden
pi") (comment "Raspberry Pi") (group "users") ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group ;; makes it a sudoer. Adding it to "audio" ;; and "video" allows the user to play sound ;; and access the webcam. (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "audio" "video" "lp" "netdev" "input" "cdrom"))) %base-user-accounts)) ) -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm

[Bug 1308853] Re: Battery info returns: sh: 0: -c requires an argument

2014-05-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
(1) Lack of the link URL is not caused by these error messages in hardinfo's output. Neither pastebinit nor clipit care what text you provide them as input. See whether something as simple as date |pastebinit |clipit -c works for you. (2) The bug generating the unwanted output sh: 0: -c

Re: [Lxde-list] Looking for someone interested in security for a potential lxde project

2013-10-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/30/2013 07:39 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote: I'm looking for someone who would be interested in implementing a gui around key generation and management around pgp. Gtk or Qt both fine. Mor active details to follow but please email me directly if you are curious about this. Plenty of such

[Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Lubuntu Manual status (was: Re: keymapping (was Re: Evince image viewer cannot view PNG))

2013-09-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/28/2013 08:55 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Pierre, I've not caught up with Jonathan lately (been busy iso testing and chasing a nasty bug up). It is planned to have a lubuntu manual out for 14.04, with me now concentrating more on wiki / docs I'll be along for the ride this time :)

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Lubuntu Manual status

2013-09-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/28/2013 03:14 PM, Sergio Meneses wrote: There is a Lubuntu Manual Team or something?... maybe we can do a preview for the next cycle. Teams seem to generate a lot of talk and politics, but do not always result in actual work being done. The original idea was that we would do a 13.10

Lubuntu Manual status (was: Re: keymapping (was Re: Evince image viewer cannot view PNG))

2013-09-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/28/2013 08:55 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Pierre, I've not caught up with Jonathan lately (been busy iso testing and chasing a nasty bug up). It is planned to have a lubuntu manual out for 14.04, with me now concentrating more on wiki / docs I'll be along for the ride this time :)

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Lubuntu Manual status

2013-09-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/28/2013 03:46 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: if we put down 13.10 to experience (the methods of having such a manual set up etc.) I do not think it was wasted exercise. IMHO, I'd have hated to start on this project at the start of 14.04 without us and the manual team having met, discussed

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Lubuntu Manual status

2013-09-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/28/2013 06:22 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: 13.10 manual is a not going to happen. What you have done, as I pointed out in a previous email, is set up the structure for a manual. Right; so the existing team could if they so choose create a manual for it, after the fact. It won't be

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu 13.10 beta - zram and hardware

2013-09-22 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/22/2013 01:13 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 09/22/2013 08:51 PM, JM wrote: It should be registering an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU. I'm not up on hardware enough to know whether that is dual core or dual cpu. But either way, both should be the same. Looking at /proc/cpuinfo shows that both

Re: Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

2013-09-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/20/2013 10:19 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: it is a matter of not confusing people... Would a new comer to lubuntu know what gpicview was? Or, indeed, would they care? That it is called Image Viewer does make it clear what it does. But, then we have the entry mtpaint Graphic Editor... does

Re: Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

2013-09-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/20/2013 08:30 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: by the same argument, does a new comer want to see Use this for documents and use this for spreadsheets... a new comer will look at the menu and look for What it does. I do believe this discussion should be taken further as we are expecting

Re: Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions

2013-09-07 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/07/2013 08:50 AM, John Hupp wrote: On 9/6/2013 10:29 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: MY SUMMARY: Someone is building a new commercial trojan for Linux, which doesn't actually work yet, and there is no known way to infect anyone with it anyway, except persuading users to run it themselves

Re: Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions

2013-09-06 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/06/2013 11:26 AM, John Hupp wrote: I understand that with a standard Ubuntu/Lubuntu installation not running Wine, it is believed that there are no active threats that would responsibly require resident anti-virus protection. That may still be true today, but perhaps it won't be for

Re: [Lxde-list] ALT-Tab won't work (LXDE in Lubuntu 12.04.2)

2013-09-02 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 09/02/2013 08:55 AM, Wolfgang Stief wrote: My problem is: ... On my notebook (with the old $HOME configs), switching apps with ALT-Tab didn't work at all from the beginning. (1) Boot this machine from Lubuntu LiveCD and verify Alt-Tab works as designed that way, just to confirm it isn't

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] Lubuntu scores 3 out of 5 in evaluation of five Ubuntu derivatives

2013-08-08 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 08/05/2013 09:25 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: TechRadar has Ubuntu derivatives: 5 of the best Ubuntu-based distros where Lubuntu is evaluated. It gets a total score of 3 out of 5:

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Prepping for the last upgrade test (32bit virtualization)

2013-07-25 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/25/2013 08:05 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: it is to ensure there are no 64 bit instructions in the 32 bit version. To err is human, to mess things up completely requires a computer :) Whilst this may seem like over kill, it is a 100% sure fire way to ensure that should the unthinkable

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Prepping for the last upgrade test

2013-07-24 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Lance, On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Lance wrote: So, I need to figure out if it's the kernel or X ... that could take a while. Boot and install Ubuntu Server. If that works, the kernel is OK :) You could also use the mini.iso if you prefer. Jonathan -- Jonathan

Re: urgent help required on lubuntu livecd (CUSTOMIZED livecd)

2013-07-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/20/2013 04:45 PM, Sunita Barve wrote: The livecd was basically configured using uck. For creating livecd ubuntu 64 bit installation was used to create base iso and then small edits required were done on laptop with 8 GB RAM and 1 TB disk space and CD was finalised. OK. So this

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1133794] Re: Printer not detected by system-config-printer 1.3.11 in Lubuntu 13.04

2013-07-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Solution #25 (hack the config file) will not detect network printers out there on your LAN automatically, of course, which solution #23 (adding avahi-daemon) will, if they speak the avahi/bonjour protocol. Best is always subjective. My thinking is that adding avahi-daemon is the most

[Bug 1133794] Re: Printer not detected by system-config-printer 1.3.11 in Lubuntu 13.04

2013-07-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Solution #25 (hack the config file) will not detect network printers out there on your LAN automatically, of course, which solution #23 (adding avahi-daemon) will, if they speak the avahi/bonjour protocol. Best is always subjective. My thinking is that adding avahi-daemon is the most

Re: editing with nano

2013-07-07 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/07/2013 11:07 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: 2013/7/6 Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm I am guessing you used nano, and it word wrapped for you. ... No, I edited with leafpad... OK, I guessed wrong! Leafpad has a wordwrap option, but it should be turned off by default, so

Re: LxKeymap - Make Changes defintive

2013-07-07 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/07/2013 09:36 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: I would like to know, if there is anything I can set, to make the apply behavior of lxkeymap permanent on log in and log out? Put @lxkeymap --autostart in your autostart file? Is that what you mean? Jonathan -- Lubuntu-users mailing list

Re: editing with nano

2013-07-07 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/07/2013 09:41 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: That file was generated by the script, right? maybe this -e came from that... I searched for the other autostart files on the existing profiles, the line: @/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 -e has no -e parameter,

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Packaging new software

2013-07-07 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/06/2013 04:07 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote on ubuntu-motu: Five months ago, I asked on developer.ubuntu.com to add the Dutch translation of The Ubuntu Manual Getting started with Ubuntu to the Software Center. ... I am currently trying to learn how to package, create a PPA and upload to

editing with nano (was: Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script)

2013-07-06 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/06/2013 11:34 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: I edited /etc/xdg/lxsession/lubuntu-osx ; it was like this... @/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 -e @compton -cC -r 16 -l -24 -t -12 Then I moved this -e, and now loads great... I am guessing you used nano, and it

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Bazaar under Windows 8

2013-07-06 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/06/2013 08:58 AM, Mehmet Kani wrote: With a lot of work I think I have worked it out except for the above. It might be less work to install VirtualBox on Windows 8, and run Ubuntu in a virtual machine? Then you can just use the pkgs/ubuntu-manual-dev.sh script to install everything you

Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script

2013-07-05 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013, at 03:44 PM, Mr Wislr wrote: it should simply be two options Why? Who are you to say how many options other people will want to create, or will want to have available? If they are good, and can be added to Lubuntu without using too much disk space or RAM or effort from

Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script (was removed)

2013-07-05 Thread Jonathan Marsden
files, rename the script to create-alternate-session.sh.txt and upload that, and document the need to rename it after downloading it in the wiki. But that really should not be necessary! Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users

Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script

2013-07-05 Thread Jonathan Marsden
or less dangerous than any other. Treat it as you would any other script found online -- read it first, only run it if you understand it. It is suitable for experimenters, not the general public, at this stage. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Lubuntu-users mailing list

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] The Sensitivity of Touch Pad

2013-07-04 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/04/2013 02:51 PM, nio wiklund wrote: Then let us wait for a reply from someone who knows how to set the sensitivity :-) Huh? Start - Preferences - Keyboard and Mouse That lets you set both Acceleration and Sensitivity. These settings are stored in the file

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] The Sensitivity of Touch Pad

2013-07-04 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Ali, On 07/04/2013 02:01 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Can we, *_by default_*, reduce the sensitivity of the Touch Pad for a Laptop? Honestly, the Touch Pad do things even before I touch it. Whenever I use Lubutnu, I can NOT use it without a mouse. Using Lubuntu on any Laptop is a huge

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] The Sensitivity of Touch Pad

2013-07-04 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 07/04/2013 02:51 PM, nio wiklund wrote: Then let us wait for a reply from someone who knows how to set the sensitivity :-) Huh? Start - Preferences - Keyboard and Mouse That lets you set both Acceleration and Sensitivity. These settings are stored in the file

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] The Sensitivity of Touch Pad

2013-07-04 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Ali, I wrote: Can you be sure this is Lubuntu-specific? On 07/04/2013 03:39 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Yes. As you know, I've been using Lubuntu for years. ... But then you say: I can't remember when was the last time I've used Ubuntu :D since Unity, I'm keeping myself away. So, not

[Bug 1193716] Re: Monitor turns off after 10 minutes of inactivity despite the fact that XScreensave has been removed from Suacy Build

2013-06-30 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Please provide the output of the command: xset q You might also want to try: xset s off which is the way I usually disable the screensaver. Jonathan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-manual] Glossary issue (was: Re: Installation of TexLive on Saucy alpha 1 )

2013-06-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/28/2013 07:22 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: The glossaries package has a bug in it that prevents the manual from compiling. I've written some code to work around the bug (but apparently haven't uploaded it from my laptop—I'll do this soon). I got the same result from my Saucy install, I

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Glossary issue

2013-06-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/29/2013 10:33 AM, Kevin Godby wrote: I'm biased towards continuing to allow package use, since it is what we told our Lubuntu folks to do, as well as my personal preference in general for software management on Debian/Ubuntu machines. I would prefer to use the Ubuntu packages, too. It

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Glossary issue

2013-06-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/29/2013 10:51 AM, Kevin Godby wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm wrote: Is it worth our emailing the package maintainers and letting them know of our preference for using their work and our needs, so they are encouraged to roll out a new

[Lubuntu-comms] DE customization (was: Re: [Start Ubuntu]Need to create different kind of sessions on LightDM to reach more users )

2013-06-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
# Author: Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm SUFFIX=${1:-toppanel} # So session will be named is Lubuntu-toppanel by default, Lubuntu-$1 if $1 supplied # Creat new xsession .desktop file sed -e s/\([Ll]\)ubuntu/\1ubuntu-$SUFFIX/g /usr/share/xsessions/Lubuntu.desktop |sudo tee /usr/share

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] DE customization

2013-06-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/29/2013 04:39 PM, Federico Leoni wrote: When I wrote ... nor I can get autostart file to work I meant the autostart file (located in /home/effe/.config/lxsession/LubuntuCMP/autostart) doesn't start programs inserted with @ like on the other file on Lubuntu folder. In fact, this is

Re: ssh: Received disconnect from 127.0.0.1: 2: Too many authentication failures for XXXX

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
would never come across this issue in real usage. I suspect that is true for most users :) Anyway, if you can test on Ubuntu 13.04 and report whether the bug exists there, as well as in Lubuntu, that would help. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Lubuntu-users mailing list

Re: ssh: Received disconnect from 127.0.0.1: 2: Too many authentication failures for XXXX

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Lars, On Fri, Jun 28, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/28/2013 09:19 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: Is there an existing Launchpad bug report for this issue? If not, and the issue can be confirmed, let's get one opened. Which package should it be filed against? Either gnome

[Lubuntu-qa] QEMU for ARM and PPC (was: Re: Upcoming Virtualbox IRC classroom session (has a wiki page) )

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
to be related to specific hardware (video cards, sound cards, NICs) on older Apple machines. Do you think it would really be useful to do ISO install testing of Lubuntu PPC on a QEMU PPC emulated machine? Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upcoming Virtualbox IRC classroom session (has a wiki page)

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
of QEMU, ARM or PPC. Am I missing something? Where is this fabled QEMU classroom session? Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Alpha 1 upgrade tests

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/28/2013 05:44 PM, Erick Brunzell wrote: I think it's very possible but much testing is required :^) Is the upgrade testing a suitable candidate for automation, so the much testing doesn't need much human tester time to accomplish? Jonathan -- Mailing list:

Re: [Bug 1029212] Re: System Profiler and Benchmark 2 blank gui boxes closing the small one results in the system info to be displayed.

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1029212 Title: System Profiler and Benchmark 2 blank gui boxes closing

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Installation of TexLive on Saucy alpha 1

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/28/2013 05:15 PM, Jim Connett wrote: Has anyone attempted to install TexLive on 13.10 Alpha1? ... There seems to be a problem. The last line of the install-pkgs.log file reads: cannot setup TLPDB in /home/jonathan/texmf at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 5300 I'll play with getting that script

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Installation of TexLive on Saucy alpha 1

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/28/2013 06:56 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:15 PM, Jim Connett wrote: Has anyone attempted to install TexLive on 13.10 Alpha1? ... There seems to be a problem. The last line of the install-pkgs.log file reads: cannot setup TLPDB in /home/jonathan/texmf at /usr/bin

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Installation of TexLive on Saucy alpha 1

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Kevin, On 06/28/2013 08:12 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: Version: 2013.20130530-1 On May 30, 2013, though, the upstream TeX Live was still 2012. So that doesn't really clarify things much. What does pdflatex --version print? pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian) kpathsea

[Lubuntu-qa] Upcoming Virtualbox IRC classroom session (has a wiki page)

2013-06-27 Thread Jonathan Marsden
. If you can make it, see you on IRC in less than two hours :) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom/Saucy Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [sword-devel] eBible.org OSIS files regenerated again

2013-06-26 Thread Jonathan Marsden
? Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page

Re: [Pkg-crosswire-devel] BibleTime 2.9.2

2013-06-26 Thread Jonathan Marsden
not for a few days at least, though. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm ___ Pkg-crosswire-devel mailing list Pkg-crosswire-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-crosswire-devel

[Lubuntu-qa] Installer bugs and ubiquity vs debian-installer

2013-06-24 Thread Jonathan Marsden
-installer instead, because that is what Alternate CD images use. I'd guess the same holds for the netboot (mini.iso) installer, too. So the Install_Bugs page is probably in need of an update. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] My zRAM Testing Reports - FULL List

2013-06-23 Thread Jonathan Marsden
I wrote: I wish we had better luck at 256MB on real hardware with the desktop image. I'm not really sure why it works so well down even below 224MB on VirtualBox, but apparently not on real machines. On 06/23/2013 01:46 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Well, when carefully prepared, the desktop

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Saucy Daily Build for 6/21 hangs on Plymouth Text Screen

2013-06-23 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Keith and James, On 06/23/2013 05:12 AM, ke...@refaceplace.net wrote: Don't worry about dragging the team down. As far as I can tell, the PPC testing team is very small. All help is appreciated. +1 (or +100)! Anyone with a PPC machine who is willing to help test Lubuntu on it is *very*

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] My zRAM Testing Reports - FULL List

2013-06-23 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/23/2013 01:21 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: So to have a high success rate you recommend 1. Wipe the target drive before starting the installation. 2. Boot from CD 3. Try Lubuntu from the desktop iso 4. Install Lubuntu from the alternate iso or the mini iso. Well, sort of. In practice I

[Lubuntu-qa] Windows XP support period (was: Re: [Lubuntu-comms] [Lubuntu Official] Good news people :) I'm glad to tell you: )

2013-06-23 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Ali, On 06/23/2013 03:31 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: For how many years now, a Windows XP Users has been using XP? Potentially since 2002 (technically, since 31 Dec 2001). So up to 10.5 years. Do they really update it? Yes, usually automatically via Windows Update. You can use Windows

[Lubuntu-comms] Windows XP support period (was: Re: [Lubuntu Official] Good news people :) I'm glad to tell you: )

2013-06-23 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Ali, On 06/23/2013 03:31 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: For how many years now, a Windows XP Users has been using XP? Potentially since 2002 (technically, since 31 Dec 2001). So up to 10.5 years. Do they really update it? Yes, usually automatically via Windows Update. You can use Windows

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] My zRAM Testing Reports - FULL List

2013-06-22 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/22/2013 02:43 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-06-22 15:37, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: I think Phase 1 of testing is done. ... So, what is next? Testing zRAM on Alternate installs, once it is enabled in them :) I added some testing today for compatibility. I think it is similar to

Re: R statistics

2013-06-21 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/21/2013 01:15 PM, Wilbert Heeringa wrote: Why is still R version 2.15.2 in the repositories? It isn't, for the current development release 3.0.1-3 is in the repositories now. Today version 3.0.1 is available and I tried to download and install it from http://cran.rstudio.com/ . Why?

Re: R statistics (correction)

2013-06-21 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/21/2013 08:28 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: R 3.0.1 will be available for Lubuntu 13.01 when it is released in October 2013. In case it is unclear: I introduced a typo in the Lubunbu version number, 13.10 was intended! So that should have said: R 3.0.1 will be available for Lubuntu

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Low RAM Testing wiki page

2013-06-21 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/21/2013 03:08 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: 1- Add a link of from where to download the daily build. If you don't know that, you are not a regular QA tester :) I can add a link, but I hope everyone on lubuntu-qa knows where the ISOs are by now! 2- I see some contents on the table that

Minimal Install (really netboot install) documentation (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
than the command-based approaches currently described. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
, etc... we document them, but on the wiki only and not in the main documentation path we expect newcomers to use. So that people who don't need those details don't have to read them anyway and be put off Lubuntu by them. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Minimal Install (really netboot install) documentation

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
tend to remove lubuntu-users from the cc list :) Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Lubuntu-qa] Low RAM Testing wiki page

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
I just created a wiki page at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/LowRamTesting for documenting the results of low RAM Lubuntu installation tests. Please read it and then add your results to the table! Thanks, Jonathan -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to :

[Ubuntu-manual] Choosing software tools (was : Re: A wine application for editing tex files. )

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/19/2013 04:21 AM, Patrick Dickey wrote: In a couple of threads, people were discussing GUI-based editors for tex files. If you've got Wine installed, you can install Notepad ++ and it supports LaTeX highlighting. The only issue you might run into is whether it uses the same carriage

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/19/2013 03:05 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Results with 'grub-n-iso-n-swap' and Pentium M indicate that using the default installation (starting from a blank drive or overwriting it) is maybe slightly smoother than a complicated manual partitioning at the 'Something else' page. Good :)

Re: Fwd: Shutdown and Reboot buttons do nothing

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/19/2013 03:46 PM, John Kim wrote: This one too. Can somebody help? Thanks. There is a bug report about this, so it will be or is being addressed. Please do note that Saucy is in Alpha test, so bugs should be expected and fully reported using Launchpad. If you can't deal with that, you

Re: Fwd: Shutdown and Reboot buttons do nothing

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/19/2013 09:13 PM, Iberê Fernandes wrote: Just be carefull because I reported on a bug that sudo shutdown now on Lubuntu 13.10 daily 20130618 was leading to land at root@lubuntu user. I'm not sure about sudo shutdown -r now... need to test. But be carefull with what you do on your root

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] My Mac Mini stats for the Testing Page on the Wiki

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/18/2013 02:44 PM, James King wrote: I just realized I hadn't sent any info about my computer. I had to install pastebinit and clipit, and I considered editing the wiki myself, but I have this irrational fear of doing something hideously destructive and setting off some NORAD-style chain

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Test Report 2] Minimum RAM required to install 'saucy-desktop-i386.iso' from LiveCD

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/18/2013 05:59 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: I'd much prefer a test using the default install type. ... With all due respect, this will make no difference whatsoever, IMHO. What this has to do with RAM Usage and zRAM and stuff like that? It is possible that one path through the

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/19/2013 03:05 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Results with 'grub-n-iso-n-swap' and Pentium M indicate that using the default installation (starting from a blank drive or overwriting it) is maybe slightly smoother than a complicated manual partitioning at the 'Something else' page. Good :)

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] [Lubuntu-qa] [Test Report 2] Minimum RAM required to install 'saucy-desktop-i386.iso' from LiveCD

2013-06-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
wherever possible. Having said that, the result was really encouraging! I don't *think* this would have affected the result... but it would be good to *know*. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs Post to : lubuntu

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] [Lubuntu-qa] [Test Report 2] Minimum RAM required to install 'saucy-desktop-i386.iso' from LiveCD

2013-06-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Ali, On Tue, Jun 18, 2013, at 05:31 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Jonathan Marsden I'd much prefer a test using the default install type. ... With all due respect, this will make no difference whatsoever, IMHO. What this has to do with RAM Usage and zRAM

[Lubuntu-qa] Maintaining a collection of daily ISO images (was: Re: zRAM has been removed from Lubuntu 13.10 daily build of 17-Jun )

2013-06-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
this correctly, the same way every time. So let your PC do this for you! Save your time and effort for the things that need a human... like testing these images :) Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm isodate.sh Description: application/shellscript -- Mailing list: https

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] About 'gnome-disk-utility' as a default app

2013-06-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
the packager of it labels it in their .desktop file, I think. So it's not something Lubuntu is likely to change, you would need to persuade the packagers of gnome-disk- utility about this. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Test Report 2] Minimum RAM required to install 'saucy-desktop-i386.iso' from LiveCD

2013-06-18 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Ali, On Tue, Jun 18, 2013, at 05:31 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Jonathan Marsden I'd much prefer a test using the default install type. ... With all due respect, this will make no difference whatsoever, IMHO. What this has to do with RAM Usage and zRAM

Re: Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/17/2013 04:48 AM, Yorvyk wrote: On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: 1. Has the GUI installer of Saucy improved a lot compared to Raring? Doesn't look like it. I had my trained monkey run the following test:- Compaq Deskpro as previous with 512 MiB RAM. Single FAT32 partition on

Re: Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/17/2013 04:53 AM, Leszek Lesner wrote: Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013, 12:48:27 schrieb Yorvyk: On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: 2. Or was I doing something seriously wrong? Probably :D We need to run Saucy installs on as much hardware as possible as I believe there is more to

Re: Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/17/2013 07:28 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Live CD is classic but not standard nowadays, Ali ;-) But the low-RAM machines we are testing are not nowadays machines! Please, focus on the test as requested, let's not start testing USB boot of older PCs mixed in with the minimum RAM testing, that

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Minimum Requirement for Lubuntu - RAM

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 05:48 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Shall I do my tests for both 13.10 and the previous releases? or just 13.10? I'd say test 13.10 first. If you get all tests done and documented at all memory sizes of interest on 13.10, and have more testing time left over, then it's fine to

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Minimum Requirement for Lubuntu - RAM

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 07:46 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Just to double check (already know the answer :D), my main focus should be on the LiveCD, right? Start with the Desktop CD. One thing we need is to decide the RAM size at (below) which we recommend people use the Alternate CD instead. So I

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Minimum Requirement for Lubuntu - RAM

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 08:00 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com mailto:phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: VM's should be fine for testing minimal memory requirements. Please test both installing from the LiveCD and also the standard

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/15/2013 10:40 PM, Iberê Fernandes wrote: This desktop has been turned off for 2 years ... Although it has 1GB RAM, lubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso crashes when on slideshow. ... Any ideas what else should I do to install Lubuntu on this AMD desktop? Sounds like a hardware issue to

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 06:40 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: One thing I'd like to add is I don't mess with the 64bit installers - there is nothing wrong with installing a 32bit Lubuntu on a 64bit machine and (for me) makes it easier going forward. Can you explain why? What is the issue with the 64bit

Ease of 32bit vs 64bit installation (was: Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes )

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 09:15 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: On 06/16/2013 08:39 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/16/2013 06:40 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: One thing I'd like to add is I don't mess with the 64bit installers - there is nothing wrong with installing a 32bit Lubuntu on a 64bit machine

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Scripted installation of backported texlive packages in 12.04 (works now)

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/15/2013 10:01 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm wrote: The script could use one more fix/enhancement that I know of, which is that if you re-run it after a failure, it exits at the bzr branch command saying that lubuntu

[Ubuntu-manual] Lubuntu cover artwork wanted (Re: Lubuntu Manual )

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 12:01 PM, Yorvyk wrote: On 16/06/13 19:22, 神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) wrote: What can I do there? I mean, I checked it out and the Manual seems to need some screenshots and not many more. If you need me to draw something, please, tell me and I'll do it (bullets, diagrams, etc). We

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Lubuntu Manual PDF can now be built

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 05:37 PM, Jason Odoom wrote: Thank you so much for your help. I was able to successfully build the manual on Lubuntu. The process of grabbing missing packages was what messed me up on the first run. After a couple of hours it was done grabbing the packages and I was ready to

[Lubuntu-wiki-docs] GetLubuntu and Alternate ISOs

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Phillw, I just noticed that https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu/JasonOdoom does not mention the Alternate CDs at all. If the Lubuntu Manual will suggest people with 512MB or less use them, and that manual points people to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu

[Bug 1191070] Re: Compaq Ipaq install lubuntu 12.04 problems

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Why is this issue reported against lxkeymap ? That does not seem correct. On PCs with less that about 768MB RAM, please use the Alternate CD image to install from. It uses less RAM than the LiveCD during installation. On PCs with less than 512MB RAM, you can try using the Netboot ISO

[Ubuntu-manual] Obtaining Lubuntu (was: Re: Scripted installation of backported texlive packages in 12.04 )

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/14/2013 08:33 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: For the manual, use https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu as that area is updated as per the ubuntu release team. That's what I already did in my first pass, but I didn't want to be making solo decisions about it, so I decided to

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Gummi

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/15/2013 11:27 AM, Yorvyk wrote: I notice that in the dim and distant past there was a blueprint item [1] to see if gummi could be made to work with UMP. I take it this went no where. If this is the case, are there any programmers who'd like to prod it to see if it could be made to work.

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Obtaining Lubuntu

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/15/2013 11:49 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: indeed. Who ever is wiki lead (JasonO) and myself prep the new pages up before each release, so in theory you can pull from those. Not 100% sure on when docs cut off is for the manual. For example, the current 'GetLubuntu' was

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Obtaining Lubuntu

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/15/2013 12:19 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Ali is one of drivers as to 'how low can we go' with RAM, as ZRam only landed into the pre-alphas a couple of days ago it is still a work in progress as to what the new specifications will be. OK. I hope he will be doing some well documented and

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Scripted installation of backported texlive packages in 12.04 (works now)

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/14/2013 12:06 PM, Yorvyk wrote: On 14/06/13 19:18, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, at 07:21 AM, Yorvyk wrote: On 14/06/13 05:24, Jonathan Marsden wrote: Hmmm, this means I could enhance my setup script to add that PPA and grab the backported packages, if it is run

[Ubuntu-manual] Improvements to install-pkgs.sh script

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Marsden
I just pushed an improved install-pkgs.sh script to the Lubuntu branch. Changes include: * Use set -e to exit when an error occurs. * Add notice that installing packages may take a long time. * Sort and remove duplicates from package list. * Display package list before downloading

Re: ~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Jonathan Marsden wrote: no instead of relationship between them. I don't understand why you think there is. /etc/environment (and ~/.pam_environment) will be used (via PAM) whether or not .profile exists

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