[ubuntu-uk] External Monitor Questions
Morning All, My work Laptop dual boots Intrepid WinXP. I do most of my work in Ubuntu, and have recently started plugging in an external monitor, as we had a couple of spares knocking around the office! The laptop is a Lenovo 3000 N200, Graphics chipset is reported by lshw as a GM965. 1) The resolution on the external monitor has a maximum of 1024x768 in Ubuntu, but 1280x1024 in windows. I also tried a widescreen external monitor, but in ubuntu could still only get a maximum of 1024x768 (which is also the wrong ratio). Resolution is fine on the laptop integrated monitor (1280x800 16:9). Any ideas why this would be? 2) Since plugging in the monitor, my wallpaper has disappeared! I use compiz, but have tried enabling and disabling the wallpaper option in there but all that greets me is a blank white screen. Interestingly, my gnome-panels are set to transparent, and I can see the wallpaper on them! Thanks in Advance, Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support
Hi all, I'm running a dual-head Nvidia 7600 GS on Jaunty with the proprietary Nvidia driver. Does anyone know if the driver supports 2048x1152? In particular (probably not a common combination) does anyone happen to know if it will support this resolution together with an existing 1920x1200 panel? The card and driver have been excellent and very flexible so far. They've been perfectly happy runnning TwinView across initially a 1680x1050 and 1280x1024 pair, and currently 1920x1200 and 1280x1024. Cheers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] GNOME panel set /not/ to always be on top
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: If folks will forgive me posting a question here that I'm also asking on the Support list... I can't find a way to reproduce with the GNOME panel(s) the Windows taskbar setting I need, which is quite simple: to have the GNOME panel set up so that other windows can cover it. The problem with autohide is that it keeps popping up in front of my foreground application. The problem with enabling the hide buttons and manually hiding it is that the hide button stays visible on top of my foreground app. What I want is a normal panel, /not/ hidden or autohidden, but just *not* set to be always-on-top. I've Googled but all I've established is that other people seem to want the same thing can't find a way. Anyone got any ideas at all on this? I'm desperate here! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] GNOME panel set /not/ to always be on top
KDE4? (sorry if that's not much help and the intention isn't to start a DE war, but it may be an option) -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Liam Proven Sent: 17 September 2009 14:13 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] GNOME panel set /not/ to always be on top On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: If folks will forgive me posting a question here that I'm also asking on the Support list... I can't find a way to reproduce with the GNOME panel(s) the Windows taskbar setting I need, which is quite simple: to have the GNOME panel set up so that other windows can cover it. The problem with autohide is that it keeps popping up in front of my foreground application. The problem with enabling the hide buttons and manually hiding it is that the hide button stays visible on top of my foreground app. What I want is a normal panel, /not/ hidden or autohidden, but just *not* set to be always-on-top. I've Googled but all I've established is that other people seem to want the same thing can't find a way. Anyone got any ideas at all on this? I'm desperate here! -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884 * Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven * LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com * ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banking Code section 12.9 - Open Letter to Banking Code Standards Board
Andy Smith wrote: They are just trying to help as many people as possible without getting bogged down in technical details. It's a one line suggestion. Do you really expect a banking leaflet to go into the pros and cons of secure computing? Yes I certainly do, I do expect a formal banking code to offer well informed and well worded, competent advice. The Code will be argued against a ubuntu using victim who has used ubuntu without any 'anti virus' software (m'lud) and has had their bank account compromised. Why accept incompetence in a Code of Practice? It is not in any way difficult to reword to be appropriate. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Organising, searching and emailing
Our Volunteer Co-ordinator has returned to Uni, so I'm lumbered again. Except now we have quite a few volunteers to deal with. I want to be able to: * keep their contact details, availability, and skills list * search the list for availability and skills * email those who meet the search requirements (I plan to do mass emails of general news for all volunteers through the website, so I only want to email certain volunteers when necessary) I've been looking at options, but my main problem is that if I get lucky and find another sucker :) to take it over, they'll probably be using Windows so I need something that lets me export the data from Ubuntu if necessary. A spreadsheet would let me keep a list, as I've heard that OO Base doesn't export well to Access, and I'm not very good with Base anyway. I could use Evolution contacts and categories, but would this export to anything? And would this mean a lot of fiddling about pasting from the spreadsheet to Evolution, which is where mistakes would happen. Or should I just use the website? (I'm using Joomla! to create a replacement website.) Though I haven't found an extension that exactly fits the bill, I've found one that seems to be near enough. Any suggestions? TIA, Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising, searching and emailing
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 21:03 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote: * keep their contact details, availability, and skills list * search the list for availability and skills * email those who meet the search requirements (I plan to do mass emails of general news for all volunteers through the website, so I only want to email certain volunteers when necessary) Forgot to say I'd also like to be able to create teams and rotas. Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising, searching and emailing
On 17 Sep 2009 at 21:03, Dianne Reuby wrote: A spreadsheet would let me keep a list, as I've heard that OO Base doesn't export well to Access, and I'm not very good with Base anyway. I could use Evolution contacts and categories, but would this export to anything? Don't forget that OpenOffice.org is available for Windows as well, so you would not have to use Access instead of Base (and the version of Office that includes Access is expensive). All OOo files are the same, across all operating systems, so there are no compatability/export issues. I also think that there is a Windows version of Evolution. Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising, searching and emailing
2009/9/17 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Our Volunteer Co-ordinator has returned to Uni, so I'm lumbered again. Except now we have quite a few volunteers to deal with. I want to be able to: * keep their contact details, availability, and skills list * search the list for availability and skills * email those who meet the search requirements (I plan to do mass emails of general news for all volunteers through the website, so I only want to email certain volunteers when necessary) I've been looking at options, but my main problem is that if I get lucky and find another sucker :) to take it over, they'll probably be using Windows so I need something that lets me export the data from Ubuntu if necessary. How about using Google Docs? Then as long as they have a browser, it does not matter much what OS the eventual incumbent uses. Also, you can share docs, so multiple people can get involved :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
