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: 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: 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

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,

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: 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: 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

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

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

2013-06-19 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: 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 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: ~/.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

Re: ~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-13 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Lars, On 06/13/2013 10:25 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: I read that the help document on environment variables [1] points to ~/.pam_environment and /etc/environment as where to change variables. I notice that ~/.pam_environment is not present in Lubuntu (saucy) and that changes to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Ubuntu Wiki - FromUSBStick

2013-06-10 Thread Jonathan Marsden
to be on the Lubuntu ISO? 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

RAM on Chromebooks (was: Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies )

2013-06-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/01/2013 01:49 AM, Yorvyk wrote: A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and RAM Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. Yes and no... I run a full Ubuntu 12,04 + LXDE installation (using the crouton script) in a chroot within ChromeOS on my

Re: an iso for 'all' intel/amd computers

2013-05-25 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 05/25/2013 08:59 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: I suggest that we try to make a Lubuntu iso file, that can boot in 'all' computers with intel/amd CPUs. Let's avoid copying threads to every imaginable Lubuntu mailing list... pick the one list that is appropriate for your topic. The closest thing I

Re: an iso for 'all' intel/amd computers

2013-05-25 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 05/25/2013 12:07 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: I think it is good to have a portable live or persistent live system on a USB pendrive. You need not carry a computer, only the pendrive, and you can borrow almost any computer to run it. There are some alternatives to be considered: (1) For

Re: upgrading 12.10 to 13.04

2013-05-24 Thread Jonathan Marsden
should do the trick. 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

Wiki conversion (was: Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu )

2013-05-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 05/13/2013 11:13 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Do you know if there is a tool to make off-line manuals from the wiki pages (or from the moinmoin source code)? Or the other way around? I'm asking because I'm maintaining 'Lubuntu-fake-PAE' and need both the wiki pages and some kind of off-line

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-05-13 Thread Jonathan Marsden
-manual.org/; , then I'd suggesting using the document source format and tools from that site, for ease of re-using and editing their existing content. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: 13.04 video problems

2013-05-13 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 05/13/2013 09:08 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 05/13/2013 07:51 PM, Lee Gold wrote: Just installed 13.04 and then mediabuntu. I have a video rendering problem. ... 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) The problem you describe with the flash videos

Re: Problems Updating Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 on Slow Machines

2013-05-05 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 05/05/2013 08:36 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: I've seen it fail on a 1.7 gigahertz (1 Gig RAM) machine two times running Unity desktop environment, and once on the Ubuntu Gnome-Remix system. Then you can open a new Launchpad bug about that incident, which is running a fast-enough, RAM-enough

Re: End Of Life..

2013-03-30 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 03/30/2013 06:23 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: What's the record of security updates? Does anybody know the percentage affecting the specific Lubuntu software (LXDE etc)? 1% or 10% of the total number or total risk? Or much less than 1%? Is it more important to keep the web browser protected

Re: grub configuration - corrections

2013-03-23 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 03/23/2013 08:29 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: er what i mean is to change what boots by default I need to do stuff from the command line / text editor is this correct or is there a tool somewhere to simply allow me to select the OS and then hit set to default and have this set my selection to

Re: How to disable gnome-keyring-daemon for SSH?

2013-03-09 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 03/08/2013 04:57 PM, Peter Matulis wrote: i'm running Lubuntu 12.10 and i would like to disable gnome keyring daemon for SSH. I am not sure how to prevent it from starting, but I find if I do killall gnome-keyring-daemon unset GNOME_KEYRING_PID GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL

Re: What version of Boost is installed ? Where is boost/geometry ?

2013-02-22 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 02/21/2013 08:57 AM, Paul Blampspied wrote: I can't make out which Boost libraries are installed. Synaptic clearly shows libboost-all-dev is installed and the indicated version is 1.48.0.2. Precise has packages for libboost 1.4.6 and 1.48. I think libboost-all-dev pulls in the default

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-09 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 02/09/2013 07:45 AM, John Hupp wrote: Regarding my last question below, I now see that Synaptic uses dpkg, so it seems very likely that despite the language of some of the documentation, there is probably only one package database shared by all the relevant tools. Enlighten me if

Re: Uploading .deb packages

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 02/08/2013 05:01 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: I have discovered a very nice gui program, that lets you create deb packages. It is named Debreate, and it is *very good*. http://debreate.sourceforge.net So I created my first .deb package, but I can't upload it to a launchpad ppa I have,

Re: [Lubuntu] Sed substitution with partially duplicate results

2012-12-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 12/20/2012 07:23 AM, John Hupp wrote: I also tried sed -e 's/DEVICE$/DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551/' And that had no effect whatsoever. The result was still DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551 Lubuntu1:3551. That makes no sense to me at all, if the file originally had a line containing only DEVICE (you